EA: BF1 hits 23.5M players, Madden UT up 25% (50% players played campaign), Sims 4 MAUs 40% up

[Nirolak]

And here's the game information from EA's press release. We might get more in the call later.

It seems the sports singleplayer modes are hitting it off a lot... and maybe helping drive Ultimate Team (the microtransaction mode) adoption? Hard to tell if the last part is related.

• More than 50% of Madden NFL 18 players engaged in the "Longshot" story mode through Q2 and Madden Ultimate Team™ players are up 25% year-over-year.
• FIFA Mobile unique player base grew to more than 113 million.
• The BattlefieldTM 1 community grew to more than 23.5 million players worldwide.
• Monthly active players for The SimsTM 4 on PC increased more than 40% year-over-year.

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• Source: http://news.ea.com/press-release/company-news/electronic-arts-reports-q2-fy18-financial-results

 

[ZhugeEX]

Made a thread at the same time as you, haha.

We'll use yours.

Here are the slides: http://files.shareholder.com/downlo...8B454AA63/Q2_FY18_Earnings_Slides_-_Final.pdf

No change to current lineup.
Weaker quarter than expected imo. Then again there wasn't much to talk about other than sports.

 

[Nirolak]

Yeah, I'm hoping for something more interesting out of the conference call, though the growth in digital to make up most of EA's business is a pretty big shift for one year.

 

[rokero]

When is the Q&A ? Hopefully someone ask about Switch support

 

[ZhugeEX]

Yeah, I'm hoping for something more interesting out of the conference call, though the growth in digital to make up most of EA's business is a pretty big shift for one year.

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Indeed. When looking at Net Revenue it's now 72% of the total.

Which is interesting considering that EA's mobile division isn't that big a part of total Rev.

You can see it reflected here in the large increase across live services and full game downloads in the TTM chart.

 

[Shatty McKracken]

I'm interested in finding out if FIFA bombed on the Switch. I get the feeling that it has.

 

[noomi]

Hmm but those BF1 players aren't on PC :*(

 

[KingOfDyslexics]

Streaming is the reason for that Sims4 Spike is my guess.

 

[AegonSnake]

Out of those 23 million players, only 50k are online and they dont play DLC operations.

 

[Falchion]

I like hearing the positive reception for the story modes, I know I play them once those games hit the vault.

 

[Nacho Papi]

23 million? Did I miss that BF1 suddenly went F2P or something?

 

[Acorn]

Not played since the 1st month, I had over 1000 hours on BF4. Vehicles are horrible aka battlefield's usp.

 

[MauroNL]

Any % info on platform splits? They used to show these I remember. Interested in console splits, mainly XB1/PS4

 

[Deleted member 42]

50% actually seems pretty good? Apparently the Madden campaign was great too. I'd be happy to buy EA sports games if they start going in on those like they did with FIFA, because I love that kind of thing

 

[Nirolak]

Any % info on platform splits? They used to show these I remember. Interested in console splits, mainly XB1/PS4

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They do this these days:

 

[Atolm]

23 million? Did I miss that BF1 suddenly went F2P or something?

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Maybe they count users from a free weekend or something? I dunno.

 

[EnglandPrevails]

23 million? Did I miss that BF1 suddenly went F2P or something?

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This is confusing me too. What kind of magical number BS is this? It looks like they havent sold more than 12 million units across all platforms. I feel like with concurrent players being a popular marketing pitch for PUBG and now Fortnite, we are going to see a lot more of this type of noise. At least those numbers seem backed up by reality.