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EA's stock price nearing record high again
- Thread starter Nirolak
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This is becoming Groundhog Day with some of you guys. Anthem is going to sell really well and EA stock next year will be higher than it is now.
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$122.79. This year their stock is higher than ever before, so it's just the top of the 52 week range.
With Battlefront 2, they tanked down to the high 90s as investors were worried how it would sell and if the loss of the microtransaction revenue would be a big deal.
The final verdict will come at the end of January with their fiscal call though.
Considering what EA and Bioware gave in Andromeda and the fact that many more people are aware of their MTX tendencies and so on, I don't know if it's going to sell as well as you think. It's a new IP, not an established one that Andromeda had. While it is Bioware, I don't think they've come out with a truly great game since ME3 (even with the ending issues, the game was fantastic). If anything, I think ME:A and DA:I really hurt Bioware over the past few years and if the trend keeps going, Anthem may not do that well either.
Of course. Battlefront 2 will sell well and EA will continue to keep the license.
Wasn't it #2 for December?
Wasn't it #2 for December?
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Anthem is an interesting one since it's not actually targeted the people who bought games like Dragon Age or Mass Effect, but rather the people who buy games like Destiny, The Division, and Borderlands.
It's a total audience shift for them. I do think it's up in the air whether it pans out, but I don't think I would judge its sales potential based on their previous games, in the same way I wouldn't have judged The Division's sales potential based on Ground Control and World in Conflict.
It's almost as if no one cares about loot boxes in video games besides the vocal minority on the internet.
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I mean, they kind of are voting with their wallets, just in the other direction.
If you think that video games are going to play a large part in the future of entertainment, it's just a really common sense buy.
Even if lootboxes were to go away, which they won't (largely because the people who actually play games with them generally like them, either for being fun or unobtrusive), EA still has the top talent to come up with the next successful monetization scheme.
Even if lootboxes were to go away, which they won't (largely because the people who actually play games with them generally like them, either for being fun or unobtrusive), EA still has the top talent to come up with the next successful monetization scheme.
I trashed the latest ME as much as the next guy but Andromeda was a financial success. Battlefront 2 will end up selling more than 99% of games and the only time thier stock dipped was because the removal of lootboxes, not the addition or gamer backlash. Dragon Age Inquisition was GOTY and was the most successful Bioware game ever at the time...lol.
I'm fully on board with saying Bioware is a shadow of what they used to be, but it's just not accurate to say their games aren't "doing well" and to think Anthem will sell badly is horribly bad bet based on emotion and not reality. Just wait, the closer we get to Anthem the more the hype train will start, and the more gamer amnesia will kick in and people will forget they hate EA until the next time. It's been hapoening for years, and that won't change any time soon.
I don't get it. All of this EA backlash and just the other day we had a thread glorifying the top performing mobile games, like it's something to be happy about.
Nothing, just accept you, me and most ERA people's tastes are more like an annomaly in the industry than the norm.
Buy the stock during the next dip. If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em
Technically you don't have a choice when it comes to American football games and who knows much longer PES is gonna stick around
The Ultimate Team effect
it'll crash once some of the bigger western governments crack down on their shady loot boxes
it'll crash once some of the bigger western governments crack down on their shady loot boxes
The very sort of people who play certain EA games would be 'core gamers'.
See Battlefield community....
This. The current stock price simply means that investors are confident in EA being able to meet their expectations. If this doesn't happen though, stock will fall down again.
Like, BF2 tanked compared to expectations, but people did not boycott all of EA because of that fiasco.
They only boycotted BF2.
I bet half of the people who buy FIFA yearly don't even know EA makes the game at this point anyways. Compared to everything else, FIFA and Madden are pretty much "the casual's games on PS4" right now.
They only boycotted BF2.
I bet half of the people who buy FIFA yearly don't even know EA makes the game at this point anyways. Compared to everything else, FIFA and Madden are pretty much "the casual's games on PS4" right now.
You guys aren't honestly surprised, are you? EA always bounces back after a little drama. The average gamer doesn't care or comprehend what the big publishers do wrong.
It's a bull market right now so you can't keep a company like that down. My ATVI is flying and I recently bought some shares of Tencent (obviously quite a diverse company) and have made about $10 per share in the last few weeks. NTDOY is doing well also but I think it has a lot of room to grow.
No. We are too small a minority to matter. Don't fool yourself, licenses matter more than gamers.
people said the same when microsoft wanted to sell us an only online console with no used games.
This is the future you chose gamers, enjoy it. Honestly though, the average gamer probably has absolutely zero idea about any EA controversies and loves lootboxes. I've made my peace. The only thing I can do is continue to not buy EA games and instead support publishers who at least pretend to actually care about video games.
I will bet that whilst BF2 is under expectations that it's nowhere near 'tanked'. First one sold what ~14M. And I'm sure expectations were around that point given Star Wars hype was highest around the release of the first game.
Bet BF2 isn't a million miles away. Under. But not way off.
