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EA's stock posts biggest daily percentage drop since 2008

nowhat

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TheChumpNation said:
boring characters, repetitive, boring combat, bad character designs and truly trash tier writing, combined with a colour scheme that seemed custom-made to annoy fans of the series' well established visual style, a sidelining of the most interesting character, and an extra large heaping of rather shameless woke messaging.

Edit: Oh and a lack of meaningful story/dialogue choices.
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Completely agreed. I'd argue the whole "hey I'm non-binary, let me be the main character" bit was just a distraction. It was bad, all around. Well TBH the soundtrack was nice. Some of the environments and lighting. Great hair tech. But not enough positives to change the verdict.

It just wasn't Dragon Age, and that's what stings me the most.
 
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TheKratos

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Generic said:
And when you look at the all-time data it's still high and much higher than 2008.

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That's great, ima use my time machine to go back to fucking 2008.
 
Drake

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I wonder if this it for the Bioware Edmonton office. They have shown they are completely incapable of making a game that sells, or that players actually want to play. I think Bioware Austin gets a shot at Mass Effect and then if that bombs EA might just close the studio.
 
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Madserb2023

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I think the next Battlefield is going to make or break EA going forward. If it fails, Mass Effect 4 is going to be the least woke game ever made. Watch them all throw the ideology under the bus when their jobs are at risk.
 
FeralEcho

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Hudo said:
I mean, EA aren't doing anything with their IP anyway. So if they go bust, they wouldn't be missed.
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Pretty much how i feel,for the IPs they own they already killed the countless studios that were creating them out of passion,exception being Respawn I suppose but other than that. EA can die and nothing of value would be lost. Studios like Dice or Bioware are mere shadows of their former selves after EA neutered them.

Karma is a long time coming for EA after all the studios they bought and closed throughout the years.
 
Hudo

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FeralEcho said:
Pretty much how i feel,for the IPs they own they already killed the countless studios that were creating them out of passion,exception being Respawn I suppose but other than that. EA can die and nothing of value would be lost. Studios like Dice or Bioware are mere shadows of their former selves after EA neutered them.

Karma is a long time coming for EA after all the studios they bought and closed throughout the years.
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I am still not over it...
 
MayauMiao

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Jaybe said:
Just watched this video. It’s pretty much a perfect point by point takedown of corporate stupidity for incorporating divisive modern issues and the embrace of ideology by gaming sites to the determinant of what little credibility they have left. Recommend actually watching this one.
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His take was translated to Chinese now so now they are paying attention to this DEI disaster.

 
Jinzo Prime

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Hudo said:
I mean, EA aren't doing anything with their IP anyway. So if they go bust, they wouldn't be missed.
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They need to spin off some of thier IP and studios to "unlock shareholder value" as companies like to say it. Ubisoft and EA are the biggest squatters in the gaming industry right now.
 
Hudo

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Jinzo Prime said:
They need to spin off some of thier IP and studios to "unlock shareholder value" as companies like to say it. Ubisoft and EA are the biggest squatters in the gaming industry right now.
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I am still astonished that, despite the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection having sold well (as verified by Jim Vessella himself), they didn't do anything else with the IP.

And what about Ultima? This could've been their Elder Scrolls in terms of popularity and size.

Fuck it, I would even be really excited about Titanfall 3... And that's like a really low-hanging fruit. Come on. The studio is still alive and well. The people are still there. Like what the fuck, EA?
 
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DonkeyPunchJr

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GHG said:
Certainly not. The tumble isn't close to being finished.
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Who knows. They’re a massive $31 billion company. Yesterday they were worth over $37 billion. That is an absolute shitload of value that just disappeared.

Maybe they’ll announce the closure of BioWare and the stock will bounce back.
 
Kerotan

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Generic said:
And when you look at the all-time data it's still high and much higher than 2008.

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True that's very true but so is Ubisofts now even after it plummeted 90%. Trying telling everyone who invested in the last few years that this drop is okay. I hope it drops some more because EA have some very questionable approaches to the industry.
 
GHG

GHG

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DonkeyPunchJr said:
Who knows. They’re a massive $31 billion company. Yesterday they were worth over $37 billion. That is an absolute shitload of value that just disappeared.

Maybe they’ll announce the closure of BioWare and the stock will bounce back.
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Their earnings are due on the 4th Feb. We will know more then but it's not looking good.
 
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Jinzo Prime

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a'la mode said:
That's not the point at all, though. The actual main reason for it was unexpectedly poor performance for EA FC 25.
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Yep, but the big problem with EA FC not making the kind of money the shareholders expectis that they start looking at the rest of the portfolio and start asking hard questions.

Like: "why did a game you spent eight years and 100s of millions of dollars on, sell like shit?"

Or: "Why are so many of your dozens of intellectual properties lying fallow when other gaming companies are investing in their back-catalog to great success?"
 
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EN250

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Danny Dudekisser said:
FC is definitely a much bigger concern in terms of forward guidance and the like; doubly so because they don't really have an answer for why this is happening right now. I fully agree with you.

Look, guys. I'm just trying to dance on Dragon Age's grave here.
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Would be insane if somehow people who religiously buy the games were attached to the FIFA brand and for some weird reason believe FC is an "inferior product" or something, then again, they keep buying the same game every year with marginal upgrades, so idk what's going on
 
bighugeguns

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Sounds like "surprise mechanics" days are numbered, not confident if EA would survive without their casinos marketed at children.

That drop could be politicians & friends in the know dipping tf out.
 
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Saber

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I find funny that internet usually tries to downplay this by saying "they still earn millions", as if this the type of brainrot excuse an executive would say during the board meeting.
 
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