Nature is healing
I’m sure the C Suite feels a great sense of Pride and Accomplishment.
EA lost $6 billion in market value, following FC 25 & Dragon Age underperformance news
Submitted 6 days ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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cybervseas@lemmy.world 6 days ago
lumpybag@reddthat.com 6 days ago
They’ve been running the same money sucking schemes for the last decade. The gravy train is over
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
With FC, I figured they had that audience by the balls.
Mereo@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
I think without the Fifa branding, the series lost its lister.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I cant really find any empathy or sympathy for them, at all
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Oh no. Won’t someone think of the shareholders.
Well, at least they were pioneers in the art of enshittification.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Hot damn did they ever screw up badly with DAV.
If they just released what people were expecting (and wanting): Dreadwolf, a true Dragon Age sequel - then it would’ve sold by the figurative truckload and they’d be riding the money boat right now.
But no. The reality-disconnected decision makers decreed that it had to be ultra sanitised, corporate, Disney-esque slop. Not an awful game, sure, but absolutely not a Dragon Age game.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
I have been talking a lot with a friend of mine about DAV and Dreadwolf.
I really think that even if they released the Dreadwolf, the version from the artbook, they probably won’t made a profit, the game could sell well like Inquisition but not like a Cyberpunk/The Witcher 3/BG3 and for the amount of time and resource they used sales like inquisition is not enough. They blew their chances with the 10 years of delays, the IP was not in a good place.
Only a miracle, a game on the same level as BG3 for Bioware to make a profit again.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think Bioware’s future is now entirely riding on Mass Effect 4. Which…does not inspire confidence.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
It is my first dragon age game. I have only played a couple hours. While I enjoy it while playing, I feel like I have to force myself to play.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
You should play the original if you can, it really is the best Dragon Age game. Steam has a guide to get it up and running on modern machines.
Also, were you able to follow the story of Veilguard? I haven’t played it yet (and honestly I might never) but I got the impression that it was pretty tied to the story of Inquisition.
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Dragon Age Veilguard was a bastardization of Dragon Age. Of course it was going to fail. You failed your core audience, you idiots.
If you wanted to make a Marvel version of a dark fantasy game, you could’ve made a new IP, instead of leeching off the brand.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It was so, so bad.
warmaster@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Deserved. Fuck them. For all they do.
daddy32@lemmy.world 5 days ago
EA lost $6 billion in market value
And yet, nothing of value was lost. What a paradox!
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
That’s what they get for torching Westwood
Shard@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Where was Gondor when the Westwood fell?
Merlwyb673@lemm.ee 5 days ago
EA stopped innovating years ago and became a games monetization shop. You reap what you sow.
tomi000@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Is this c/upliftingnews?
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Afee losing some sports licenses or the Star Wars license… EA doesn’t really have much going for it anymore.
I guess we’ll see if DICE can salvage Battlefield up next.
ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Good
mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Baldurs gate 3 ruined it for the large AAA developers/publishers. People are now excepting good games like that.
Look. I don’t care about the political content in a game as long as the game is good!
The issue is, these large game companies have been trying to change the mindset of gamers to accept games with less content because at the end of the day the only thing these companies want is to sell horse armour.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Good, keep going that way.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Normally these articles are slightly alarmist making it sound like a company will fall over becuase of one bad game release and when you look at the share price over time it is still up. but this one is interesting. EA are down 15% over the past 12 months because of this one drop.
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simple@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Yeah most game news websites don’t understand stocks but in this case, DA Vanguard was a massive failure. In the press release, the game was played by 1.5 million people. Not copies sold, just played. This probably includes people that just bought a month of EA Play to check it out.
The newest fifa game (EA sports FC now) also under-performed but they didn’t say much about it beyond that. A few more flops and it sounds like EA could be following Ubisoft into crashing hard.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
I wouldn’t miss them. I’m still mad at EA about what they did with Westwood. And they haven’t stopped being shit.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Schreier’s added context to this is that FC is far more responsible for the financial underperformance than Dragon Age.
30p87@feddit.org 6 days ago
Positively though, in the case of EA.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Another way to see that 15% drop is hinted at in the article:
Loot boxes made EA $800M last year. It’s easy to see why EA and other publishers demand MTX in games. Can we amend “Don’t preorder” with “and ignore micro transactions”?
projectmoon@forum.agnos.is 6 days ago
@chicosuave@lemmy.world Pretty sure that ignoring micro-transactions has always been "a thing" to take a stand against. But of course, when it comes to the general public, no one ever does.