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Are you implying people with gamepass are using their ea pass thing to play this on a subscription?
No Im implaying I want to know how much its sold
Europe, its really popular in Spain, France and Germany as well
Nothing to do with that, it's down to the game and it has zero competition.When they realised 'EA' was the brand people are attached to and not 'FIFA'
probably one of the worst and most corrupted president and a massive dumbass
Where they play football with feet
Well until they post their financials in 12months to show that isn't the impact of spending 10x their yearly marketing budget - because they had an extra 150M to spend from not paying Fifa - we can't even call it as a zero sum game for them.EA FC is proving to be even more popular than FIFA ever was
11.3M, most probably sales no doubt in a single week is absolutely crazy.
Microsoft about to buy FIFA and launch FIFA 25 Xbox exclusive.
you have shares in FIFA? sell them now
It has superior product competition in eFootball(PES) by Konami, but has no marketing competition, given EA sponsor the officials' outfits in the Premier league and are still cross branding off the old Fifa marketing deal.
Wasn't the split in UK 70% on Playstation?
gianni Infantino
This is just a small part of the market for this sport franchise, but we have Spain's first week sales from installbase:
In the short-term I'm cheering for Fifa, so I can eventually cheer-on a footy game development revival that includes EA.FIFA must be fuming!
I can't believe I'm cheering for EA here
Efootball is trash. They destroyed Pro Evo about a decade ago now.
What we need is FIFA to link up with 2K sports. This is the dream scenario.
Considering EA will save the licensing costs (which was what $300 million or something every year?), I think they will happily take the loss of ~5-7 fewer million copies sold.
It isn't trash. It is a GaaS, and that element of gaming is trash, I agree, but just like GT7 is great, eFootball is great too, when you ignore the GaaS presentation.
You aren't being realistic if think the official FIFA name on any game in a shop or digital market place doesn't have major sway in casual sales in the much wider market that don't following gaming, even if it slapped on a 20year old Sensible soccer clone.
Has Dring shown if sales were down first week vs Fifa 23? He usually does that for sequels. Would be a shame if he decided not to when it would be interesting to know if sales have declined due to the name change or not.
PES has always been a superior football game, and in the years I've encountered friends with footy mad kids that like to play Fifa, none of them, kids or parents have even heard of PES.
"X can make a football sim with FIFA branding" is one of the dumbest things I have heard in this forum. Its like saying just any publisher can chugg up anyy sports sim. It took so long for MS to find a studio that can make a new flight sim. This is why it took a while for 2K to polish up WWE without Yuke's.
I still wish for Sega to buy the eFootball team if Konami gave up.
Club football, which is probably the origins of today's Fifa codebase took less than 2years to get to first release IIRC, and it would still pass muster with a brand , today IMO. UE has made the task infinitely easier, although UE1 was probably the source of ISS 98, assuming UE1 was also used for MGS1.
That was 2003. Games are way harder to develop now. And EA owns Codemasters too.
I'd fear for the franchise in Microsoft's hands..would be a dark day..very dark.Microsoft about to buy FIFA and launch FIFA 25 Xbox exclusive.
Well Fifa still plays no better than club football with a bit of polish, and if that's what Codemasters could achieve back then with no 3D Blender to sub for £1500 3D studio max licenses, and no free use of UE until you make x revenue or x sales, if anything the bar has got lower. If Hello games decided to make a footy game tomorrow and using contract artists to hit player modelling numbers, they would have a game good enough within 2years, of that I'm confident, and so would many other footy mad game developers in the UK or across Europe.
"X can make a football sim with FIFA branding" is one of the dumbest things I have heard in this forum. Its like saying just any publisher can chugg up anyy sports sim. It took so long for MS to find a studio that can make a new flight sim. This is why it took a while for 2K to polish up WWE without Yuke's.
Right now theres no way FIFA can pay some random studio to make a football sim and people will buy it over EA. The only other company that can make a decent football sim is actually Konami.
As I have said it before
I still wish for Sega to buy the eFootball team if Konami gave up.
Some of these are worth a revisit.
Opinion - News - Take-Two boss remains coy on potential FIFA deal following EA split (VGC)
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/take-two-boss-remains-coy-on-potential-fifa-deal-following-ea-split/ Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has talked up the FIFA brand while refusing to be drawn on whether the publisher is interested in partnering with football’s world governing body following...www.neogaf.com
Cringe - Sorry EA. If it isn’t named FIFA, it's garbage. FIFA itself tells us.
FIFA has said it will “launch new football video games developed with third-party studios and publishers”, with the governing body’s president, Gianni Infantino, vowing in a statement that these titles would be “THE BEST”. “I can assure you that the only authentic, real game that has the FIFA...EA FIFA divorce looking like a done deal
Considering how many chumps buy into FUT, they could easily rebrand it to ”Pro Evolution Sucker 2X” and still make bank.
Opinion - Game Dev - Andrew Wilson tells staff it’s been ‘impeded’ by the FIFA brand: ‘It’s four letters on a box’
This is a mistake, people want to play as big known teams and players, people wanna be mbappe in game, if they lose the rights it will be overWith the Fifa licence up for grabs.... who's got the money to pay for it (1 billion)?
I think the only players that would dip their name in the hat are Take Two and MS. Activision could afford it as well but it's not a great fit. MS seems like they want to dump whatever money will get them a competitive edge. Keep in mind, EA will still release a soccer game with the same...For fun: What company would you like to handle the new FIFA licence?
I'm liking FromSoftware... If at first you don't succeed, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot...News - FIFA says it never liked EA anyway, will see other publishers now
"FIFA is bullish and optimistic about its long-term future in gaming and esports following a comprehensive and strategic assessment of the gaming and interactive entertainment market," reads FIFA's statement, before getting in a quick dig at former partner EA: "it is clear that this needs to be...
They are Swiss, you do not get more privileged than that.
