Electronic Arts Reports Strong Q1 FY25 Results, Revenue Down, Income Up YoY

[evernessince]

It's truly amazing that people continue to buy EA Sports games and fall for their micro-transactions, despite the games being hot garbage for a long long time.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I was wondering if some places in Sweden make you feel like you are in a Dice game...So I googled modern Swedish architecture... and Yes

shipping containers everywhere?

 

[natr0n]

shipping containers everywhere?

modern Swedish architecture=images at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

I remember reading the interview with the 2 BioWare co-founders that retired in 2012 and they said that EA didn't meddle in Mass Effect 2 but I just couldn't buy it. I question whether they got a sweet retirement package to make nice about their experience working for EA. The truly good talent started to bail out as well. It's just a pattern that repeats with Developers bought by EA. They are the Grim Reaper of gaming.

It was revealed by employees at bioware, after the anthem fiasco, that it was only after andromeda bombed hard that EA began to pay attention. Up through 2016 BioWare was allowed to do basically whatever they wanted.

@TheinsanegamerN
BioWare has been underperforming for years. One thing that kept them alive was that SWTOR, after switching to a F2P model, was surprisingly profitable and was doing good numbers. But it wasn’t really BioWare itself who ran it and now that it’s been given to Broadsword they don’t have that to hide behind anymore.
The company itself is basically just a shell with a name at this point, virtually everyone who made old Bio what it was is either gone or dead. I absolutely wouldn’t be surprised if after Veilguard inevitably flops (and I feel it will) EA will finally put a bullet in their head. Honestly, probably deserved at this point since they have basically nothing to show for more than a decade and ME5 (or whatever it’s called) can be either cancelled or transferred to another studio.

Most likely. They've been a shambling zombie for over half a decade now. Even ME3 was very unlike bioware, a warning of things to come.

It's truly amazing that people continue to buy EA Sports games and fall for their micro-transactions, despite the games being hot garbage for a long long time.

Consooooomers gotta consooooom. IME, these kinds of people have just 0 agency, even when they acknowledge that the games have a horrible track record and generally suck, they will still dump cash on every entry and justify it, and look at you like some kind of alien when you suggest they just.....shouldnt. The same type of people that endlessly buy overpriced cars, houses, subscribe to every service imagineable, ece. It takes a massive impact, like losing their job and house, for them to JUST. STOP. BUYING. SLOP.

 

[64K]

It's truly amazing that people continue to buy EA Sports games and fall for their micro-transactions, despite the games being hot garbage for a long long time.

I've never bought any sports games but from what I hear it's pretty much the same game over and over year after year with mostly just a different roster for full price. I could see a large expansion yearly for a lot less money but what EA offers seems like a ripoff to me. It's no wonder they make a killing every year with fans like that.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Whats the hold up? W1zzard not paying you enough to attend?

I will not be in Sweden on that day.

shipping containers everywhere?

Well, of sorts.

Just don't ask how much it costs to live there, nor how it went for the company that built them.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I've never bought any sports games but from what I hear it's pretty much the same game over and over year after year with mostly just a different roster for full price. I could see a large expansion yearly for a lot less money but what EA offers seems like a ripoff to me. It's no wonder they make a killing every year with fans like that.

When the word got around that Battlefield V had completely flopped. EA had an investors meeting to talk about the goings on and breaking down all their finances to date. One of the investors did say something like "But what about Battlefield V??" Obviously the guy knows it was a complete forest fire. But the EA Rep shut down that topic down so fast like a wrestler doing the dankest Moonsault flip off a turnbuckle ever seen in WWE. Didnt want anyone talking about it and deflected with a "Well, would you look at that. All that money we made off Fifa, like OMG..." Basically. They had made enough F.U. money off FiFa games not to even care about the millions they had lost from BF:V failing. FiFa to EA is like what CoD was to Activision.

Brushed it off like it was nothing.

 

[sethmatrix7]

I've never bought any sports games but from what I hear it's pretty much the same game over and over year after year with mostly just a different roster for full price. I could see a large expansion yearly for a lot less money but what EA offers seems like a ripoff to me. It's no wonder they make a killing every year with fans like that.

On Madden your description is entirely accurate. Each year it's the same game on the same dogshit engine, with the only real changes being a roster update (which can be brought in via custom roster anyway). In Madden 25 they did try to reinvent the wheel by changing the controls, and it's absolutely terrible. I only ever played the franchise mode where you could build a team over years and years, and that mode is the same as it was in Madden 18.

The real money is made on "Ultimate Team" where the player buys packs to have better players. It's entirely centered around micro transactions.