During its conference call for the fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2019, Electronic Arts revealed that Anthem’s launch did not meet its expectations. This shouldn’t obviously surprise us, however this is the first time the publisher comments on the game’s sales.
According to EA, players have spent over 150 million hours in Anthem since launch and its development team is currently focused on content /fixes for it.
$EA Conference Call:
– Launch of Anthem did not meet expectations for EA
– Players have spent over 150 million hours in game since launch
– Team is focused on content /fixes for it.
– Battlefield Firestorm battle royale became the biggest Battlefield live service event ever.— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) May 7, 2019
On the other hand, Battlefield 5’s battle royale mode was a success and the publisher declared it as biggest Battlefield live service event ever.
In other news, there are more than 100 million players across FIFA PC F2P and Mobile F2P, Apex Legends is the fastest growing new game from EA (featuring over 50 million players), and the publisher will look to create more F2P games over time (though it will still ship “traditional” premium games).
$EA Conference Call:
– More than 100m players across FIFA PC F2P and Mobile F2P
– More than half a billion minutes watched across FIFA competitive events
– Madden Bowl tournament broadcast to ESPN2. 7x more peak concurrent users than last years event.— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) May 7, 2019
$EA Conference Call:
– Apex Legends is the fastest growing new game from EA (Over 50m players)
– 30% of Apex players are new to EA
– Focused on delivering new content, with long term service. New legends etc…
– Plan to release on more platforms / new markets.— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) May 7, 2019
$EA Conference Call:
– Apex Legends met with universal praise.
– Respawn is learning from the huge launch which led to many challenges.
– F2P business model a success, will look to create more F2P games over time.
– Will still have premium $60 titles.— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) May 7, 2019
$EA Conference Call:
– Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order is forecasted to ship 6-8m units in FY20
– Approx 4m units for Need for Speed
– Plants vs Zombies is expected to reach low single digit million units.
– Apex Legends expected to book $300m-$400m in FY20.— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) May 7, 2019
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Bioware shut down 2020.
As for anthem everyone is to blame EA and Bioware.
2019
bioware got shut down in 2009, what you see is EA using a valuable brand. they can’t and won’t shut down bioware because bioware does not exist, it’s just a brand.
That’s the truth. The old BioWare hasn’t existed for the last decade.
Good point
“Anthem did not meet EA’s expectations”
How could Anthem possibly have failed after EA Bioware Edmonton invited Anita Sarkeesian over for tea and a guided tour of the studio? /s
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why is it all those trash games with bugs and cringe story are made by milenials?
younger generations are lazy both physically and mentally. they demand money for little to no amount of work that they provide with its quality being disastrous and useless most of the time. it’s not just game industry.
its amazing me that people who grew up with all that good sht from the 80s and 90s cant make anything good, for the love of god, just ripoff the past. You useless milenials.
my dad owns a company, the other day he gave me a paper to take to one of the offices and when i went there i saw 5-6 guys talking to each other sipping on coffee doing fck all so i thought maybe they’re taking a break, i went back in an hour or so and i saw them all gathered around one desk checking internet purn or something and my dad was ok with it.
problem is that it is vastly believed that decentralization is best for business companies. some while ago i was complaining about lack of proper gore in modern games and some dude told me that most 3d artists are not comfortable with that and from what i’ve seen i believe him, if this was 30-40 years ago they’d get fired but now they do whatever the hell they want.
i’m not a seksist but female game designers are another big issue.
Shareholder and executive greed has also increased – and those adults are from the same gen. Just step into any corporate office and you’ll see them all in the high priced uniform of con artists: suits.
The worst are the finance pr*cks (hedge funds, investments, etc.), a field both my brother and I left behind in order to apply our STEM disciplines and work to something far more interesting: data science.
where do you live if you don’t mind me asking and do you have a degree?
Stay off my lawn!
Drinks boomer juice
“What if your lawn is mine now b*tch?”
Being a moron is your choice. Maybe stop making it.
Anthem has a lot of problems, but that was not one of them. Incels should not be allowed to post on non-incel forums.
imply the people who like Anita are not incels.
Also most “forums” nowadays are trash. So whoever should or shouldnt be allowed to post is irrelevant.
Ironic how a virgin calls the others “incels”. Lol.
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Hating Anita Sarkeesian doesn’t make you an incel. At her core she’s a professional victim and a snake. She went to the UN to try and censor the internet bc people said mean things to her. She builds her platform off grossly innaccurate claims and outrage culture that has grown so strong these past few years. She’s a leech and makes an insane amount of money from it. She’s also a hypocrite, in multiple different cons shes been known to harass people that call her out on lies or half truths even if those people are being completely calm and respectful, yet has the balls to turn around and scream “LOOK IM BEING HARASSED, WHITE MALES ARE THE WORST RIGHT?” Don’t ever stand up for that creature.
“Incels”
Off to reddit
People buy garbage games. That’s why developers make garbage games. These times aren’t like the old days when most developers cared about their reputation.
EA definitely took a hit.
you’ll be surprised how many imbeciles buy their lootboxes, their stock price has been stable for a while which is sad.
Apex was a raindrop in an ocean of Battle Royal and it barely blipped after all the effort EA had at marketing it with streamers and barely anyone gives a sh*t about Firestorm.
This is some really bad damage control
Shocked!
Anthem did not meet EA’s expectations? I love starting off my day with good news.
It met my expectations as a complete thrash online only crapfest that would do more damage to the name of the developer than anything. However, expectations were surpassed that in almost 2 months on, the studio is still actually open.
As was foretold by everyone with a brain 6+ months ago.
Games literally can’t meet EA’s expectations. It’s not physically possible. EA sets unrealistic sales expectations for ALL of their games. This is the same reason Dead Space got the axe, Visceral, BioWare Montreal, Andromeda, and every EA game for years except TF and Apex.
You can’t expect a game to sell 6 – 15 million just because you threw a dart at a bunch of numbers and it landed on the 15 million spot. IDK the actual number they expected I’m just saying, for Dead Space 3 they said 6 million and that was completely unrealistic because they knew the first 2 didn’t even sell that many each. They aren’t basing these numbers on empirical evidence. What did they think? Because Destiny exists and has x players, Anthem will have x players? No one even plays or likes Destiny.
No. Seriously. Did anyone NOT see this coming? Because verbatim we said this was going to happen on this site and other sites over and over again. I know for a fact I said “I’ll be coming back to this article when Anthem fails to meet expectations in 1 year and BioWare is next on the chopping block.” somewhere.
I have an idea. It’s crazy so bear with me. Maybe, just maybe, let a developer actually finish a game before pushing it onto the shelves when it’s utterly devoid of any content and hasn’t actually been playtested to see if it’s FUN?
Also, once again – if you allow people to subscribe for a fee and have unlimited access to brand new games for only $16 a month, the games aren’t going to have strong sales. No one with any common sense is going to buy a game they aren’t sure about if they can pay a quarter of the price and find out if it’s bad.
How is EA even still in business?