Good. Serves them right. Mismanage your company, your company should fail
I hope they crash down to penny stock
Tried: EQ2 - AC - EU - HZ - TR - MxO - TTO - WURM - SL - VG:SoH - PotBS - PS - AoC - WAR - DDO - SWTOR Played: UO - EQ1 - AO - DAoC - NC - CoH/CoV - SWG - WoW - EVE - AA - LotRO - DFO - STO - FE - MO - RIFT Playing: Skyrim Following: The Repopulation I want a Virtual World, not just a Game. ITS TOO HARD! - Matt Firor (ZeniMax)
No it's not just SWTOR causing this although SWTOR costed A LOT to create and Lucas is getting a fat chunk out of that.
EA are simply putting out junk games now, the NHL and Madden series are pretty much toast now with crappy noob features and how long did it take EA to add the Winnipeg Jets jerseys in NHL 12? I'm a huge SimCity fan and SimCity 5 is supposed to come out next year, yeah I don't have good feelings about it and in the meantime I'm playing a bit of Cities XL and SimCity 4.
Mot just SWTOR - agree. If SWTOR was responsible for the upward blip however then the 'failure' of SWTOR will be responsible for the equivalent downward adjustment.
EA is going to fail! Bioware is going to fail! Death to TOR! I really can't wait to see all of those people laid off and eating from trash cans! Hazaaa! The day is ours!!!!!
I spent 60$ on that damn game and it ruined my entire life by not living up to standards. This is the greatest day of my life. They should pay for not making me entirely happy!
Couldn't have happend to a more deserving pack of @$$holes. Maybe this will teach them to do more than just recycle the same tired game titles over and over, but I doubt it.
"Gypsies, tramps, and thieves, we were called by the Admin of the site . . . "
follows the x-fire trend for swtor pretty much on the money heh
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
Use the slider (not scrollbar) to display 2005 to current. tell us now this picture shows you how the OP is trying to play games here.
from wiki:
It was revealed in February 2008 that Electronic Arts had made a takeover bid for rival game company Take-Two Interactive. After its initial offer of US$25 per share, all cash stock transaction offer was rejected by the Take-Two board, EA revised it to US$26 per share, a 64% premium over the previous day's closing price and made the offer known to the public.[32] Rumours had been floating around the Internet prior to the offer about Take-Two possibly being bought over by a bigger company, albeit with Viacom as the potential bidder.[33][34] In May 2008, EA announced that it will purchase the assets of Hands-On Mobile Korea, a South Korean mobile game developer and publisher. The company will become EA Mobile Korea.[35] In September 2008, EA dropped its buyout offer of Take-Two. No reason was given.[36]
As of Nov 6, 2008 it was confirmed that Electronic Arts is closing their Casual Label & merging it with their Hasbro partnership with The Sims Label.[37] EA also confirmed the departure of Kathy Vrabeck, who was given the position as former president of the EA Casual Division in May 2007. EA made this statement about the merger: "We've learned a lot about casual entertainment in the past two years, and found that casual gaming defies a single genre and demographic. With the retirement and departure of Kathy Vrabeck, EA is reorganizing to integrate casual games—development and marketing—into other divisions of our business. We are merging our Casual Studios, Hasbro partnership, and Casual marketing organization with The Sims Label to be a new Sims and Casual Label, where there is a deep compatibility in the product design, marketing and demographics. [...] In the days and weeks ahead, we will make further announcements on the reporting structure for the other businesses in the Casual Label including EA Mobile, Pogo, Media Sales and Online Casual Initiatives. Those businesses remain growth priorities for EA and deserve strong support in a group that will compliment their objectives."[38] This statement comes a week after EA announced it was laying off 6% about 600 of their staff positions & had a US$310 million net loss for the quarter.[39]
Due to the 2008 Economic Crisis, Electronic Arts had a poorer than expected 2008 holiday season, moving it in February 2009 to cut approximately 1100 jobs, which it said represented about 11% of its workforce. It will also close 12 facilities, yet to be identified. Riccitiello, in a conference call with reporters, stated that their poor performance in the fourth quarter was not due entirely to the poor economy, but also to the fact that they did not release any blockbuster titles in the quarter. In the quarter ending December 31, 2008, the company lost US$641 million. As of early May 2009, the subsidiary studio EA Redwood Shores was known as Visceral Games.[40][41] On June 24, 2009, EA announced it will merge two of its development studios, BioWare and Mythic into one single role-playing video game and MMO development powerhouse. The move will actually place Mythic under control of BioWare as Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will be in direct control of the new entity. The actual impact of this merger remains to be seen.[42]
On November 9, 2009, EA announced its acquisition of social casual games developer Playfish for US$275 million.[43] On the same day, the company announced layoffs of 1500 employees, representing 17% of its workforce, across a number of studios including EA Tiburon, Visceral Games, Mythic and EA Black Box. Also affected were "projects and support activities" that, according to Chief Financial Officer Eric Brown "don't make economic sense",[44] resulting in the shutdown of popular communities such as Battlefield News and the EA Community Team. These layoffs also led to the complete shutdown of Pandemic Studios.[45]
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
Originally posted by waynejr2 I feel like the OP is trying to trick us.https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:EAUse the slider (not scrollbar) to display 2005 to current. tell us now this picture shows you how the OP is trying to play games here.
That just means that EA's stocks went a bit up today. But look at the bigger picture, and you'll see that EA is failing/falling.
Use the slider (not scrollbar) to display 2005 to current. tell us now this picture shows you how the OP is trying to play games here.
That just means that EA's stocks went a bit up today. But look at the bigger picture, and you'll see that EA is failing/falling.
You didn't even slide the slider did you? Just just clicked the link and saw today. Slide the slider back to 2005 so that is shows 2005 to current. You will see the BS. It's been low for four years.
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
This post is awesome, because it mentions NOTHING about SWTOR and yet in hop all of the SWTOR fanboys asking how this all relates to SWTOR. It's not even in the swtor forums. Priceless.
Maybe they will sell maxis to someone with a soul. /holds breath
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity. I am, usually on the sandbox .. more "hardcore" side of things, but I also do just want to have fun. So lighten up already
In any case, there are no good reasons to buy EA stock atm, unless it's cheap and this is the season they come out with sport games, quick buy now, quick sell after the sports games come out and maybe profit?
you read my mind. after i read the thread title i thought, damn. Madden comes out in a few months. Now would be the perfecct time to buy.
I just saw the charts again, so brutal. It's like they did everything wrong since 05 lol
Considering some of the wrongs EA has done over the years, it's just right. I can only wish they go kaput, and take Activision with them.
While we're on the subject of EA, a repost of an apt video describing them.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
This thread is a joke. The majority of video game companies' stocks are on a down slope. One of the few exceptions is Activision Blizzard. Nintendo and Sony are just starting to come out of a slump. Take Two interactive is still in the hole. Zenimax Bethesda is a private company, but I don't think they would have turned the Elder Scrolls series into an MMO if they weren't trying to cash in because they needed to.
EA also absorbed Mythic, Bioware, plus the social game companies Playfish and PopCap Games. (Zenimax Bethesda acquired id Software, Arkane Studios, and Tango Gameworks). With acquisitions like that they're going to be wading around in the low stock end for a little bit before they build momentum. If they can...
This thread is a joke. The majority of video game companies' stocks are on a down slope. One of the few exceptions is Activision Blizzard. Nintendo and Sony are just starting to come out of a slump. Take Two interactive is still in the hole. Zenimax Bethesda is a private company, but I don't think they would have turned the Elder Scrolls series into an MMO if they weren't trying to cash in because they needed to.
EA also absorbed Mythic, Bioware, plus the social game companies Playfish and PopCap Games. (Zenimax Bethesda acquired id Software, Arkane Studios, and Tango Gameworks). With acquisitions like that they're going to be wading around in the low stock end for a little bit before they build momentum. If they can...
Like I said earlier: "I can only wish they go kaput, and take Activision with them."
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
This thread is a joke. The majority of video game companies' stocks are on a down slope. One of the few exceptions is Activision Blizzard. Nintendo and Sony are just starting to come out of a slump. Take Two interactive is still in the hole. Zenimax Bethesda is a private company, but I don't think they would have turned the Elder Scrolls series into an MMO if they weren't trying to cash in because they needed to.
EA also absorbed Mythic, Bioware, plus the social game companies Playfish and PopCap Games. (Zenimax Bethesda acquired id Software, Arkane Studios, and Tango Gameworks). With acquisitions like that they're going to be wading around in the low stock end for a little bit before they build momentum. If they can...
This is true. But I still would very much like EA to go die in a fire already. What they did with Mass Effect 3 was unforgiveable to me. My favourite franchise ruined by EA's unresonable development time frames, sigh. Yet another one to throw in the bin.
Use the slider (not scrollbar) to display 2005 to current. tell us now this picture shows you how the OP is trying to play games here.
from wiki:
It was revealed in February 2008 that Electronic Arts had made a takeover bid for rival game company Take-Two Interactive. After its initial offer of US$25 per share, all cash stock transaction offer was rejected by the Take-Two board, EA revised it to US$26 per share, a 64% premium over the previous day's closing price and made the offer known to the public.[32] Rumours had been floating around the Internet prior to the offer about Take-Two possibly being bought over by a bigger company, albeit with Viacom as the potential bidder.[33][34] In May 2008, EA announced that it will purchase the assets of Hands-On Mobile Korea, a South Korean mobile game developer and publisher. The company will become EA Mobile Korea.[35] In September 2008, EA dropped its buyout offer of Take-Two. No reason was given.[36]
As of Nov 6, 2008 it was confirmed that Electronic Arts is closing their Casual Label & merging it with their Hasbro partnership with The Sims Label.[37] EA also confirmed the departure of Kathy Vrabeck, who was given the position as former president of the EA Casual Division in May 2007. EA made this statement about the merger: "We've learned a lot about casual entertainment in the past two years, and found that casual gaming defies a single genre and demographic. With the retirement and departure of Kathy Vrabeck, EA is reorganizing to integrate casual games—development and marketing—into other divisions of our business. We are merging our Casual Studios, Hasbro partnership, and Casual marketing organization with The Sims Label to be a new Sims and Casual Label, where there is a deep compatibility in the product design, marketing and demographics. [...] In the days and weeks ahead, we will make further announcements on the reporting structure for the other businesses in the Casual Label including EA Mobile, Pogo, Media Sales and Online Casual Initiatives. Those businesses remain growth priorities for EA and deserve strong support in a group that will compliment their objectives."[38] This statement comes a week after EA announced it was laying off 6% about 600 of their staff positions & had a US$310 million net loss for the quarter.[39]
Due to the 2008 Economic Crisis, Electronic Arts had a poorer than expected 2008 holiday season, moving it in February 2009 to cut approximately 1100 jobs, which it said represented about 11% of its workforce. It will also close 12 facilities, yet to be identified. Riccitiello, in a conference call with reporters, stated that their poor performance in the fourth quarter was not due entirely to the poor economy, but also to the fact that they did not release any blockbuster titles in the quarter. In the quarter ending December 31, 2008, the company lost US$641 million. As of early May 2009, the subsidiary studio EA Redwood Shores was known as Visceral Games.[40][41] On June 24, 2009, EA announced it will merge two of its development studios, BioWare and Mythic into one single role-playing video game and MMO development powerhouse. The move will actually place Mythic under control of BioWare as Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will be in direct control of the new entity. The actual impact of this merger remains to be seen.[42]
On November 9, 2009, EA announced its acquisition of social casual games developer Playfish for US$275 million.[43] On the same day, the company announced layoffs of 1500 employees, representing 17% of its workforce, across a number of studios including EA Tiburon, Visceral Games, Mythic and EA Black Box. Also affected were "projects and support activities" that, according to Chief Financial Officer Eric Brown "don't make economic sense",[44] resulting in the shutdown of popular communities such as Battlefield News and the EA Community Team. These layoffs also led to the complete shutdown of Pandemic Studios.[45]
I feel like trying to read your wall of text gave me a headache.
Electronic Arts' stock continues to see a downfall. It's been steadily declining since December of 2011, and a recent comparison chart shows that not only are core gamers highly dissatisfied with the way the corporation is being ran but investors aren't too pleased, either.
GameIndustry.biz International has up a very interesting read comparing the market ebb and flow for a few gaming studios, namely EA, Take-Two and Activision-Blizzard. The chart is very unflattering for EA, as it shows that while Activision-Blizzard has a nominal standard alongside the NASDAQ index, Take-Two and EA are still sliding, sliding and sliding some more. In the case of EA, they've gone from $23 in December, 2011 down to $12.02 as of the publishing of this article.
For Take-Two it makes sense, they released Max Payne 3 (a niche shooter title) in May to 400,000 copies, according to NPD results, and they have Spec Ops: The Line dropping on June 26th, another niche military shooter. It's not an excuse, but rather an explanation on why Take-Two wouldn't be brimming with interest in the broader market. Everyone already knows that they will see moderate climbs with releases such as Borderlands 2 later this year, BioShock Infinite next year, and the granddaddy of them all, Grand Theft Auto V presumably arriving spring of 2013.
Even still, the general consensus in the gaming community is rather positive of Take-Two and there is a lot of buzz amongst core gamers for titles like BioShock and Borderlands. What's more is that there is a lot of mainstream buzz for Grand Theft Auto, and this game alone will skyrocket Take-Two's stock, much in the same way that Call of Duty each and every year boosts up Activision-Blizzard's stock.
The thing about the charts, however, is that EA isn't quite in that position. Buzz surrounding Medal of Honor: Warfighter is mediocre at best, it's not definitive enough in one area or another to make it standout as a must-have military shooter (one amongst many). Need for Speed: Most Wanted is garnering mixed reactions, some people like the new Burnout Paradise approach while others feel it strays too much from what makes the Need for Speed fun. It still amazes me how EA hasn't figured out that people would willing (including myself) dump $60 to $70 bucks into a well-made Need for Speed: Underground 3.
Nevertheless, EA's fall line-up -- the line-up that houses the muscle-bound powerhouses of the top tier publishers -- isn't all that impressive. It will be facing off against the likes of Assassin's Creed III, Resident Evil 6, Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Couple in sequels with a poor reputation amongst the gaming community and things aren't looking especially rainbow bright for Electronic Arts.
The general consensus is that EA needs to do something to boost investor confidence. It's amazing because just last year investors felt that EA was in a decent position but Activision was not. Then again, this was before the Mass Effect 3 ending fiasco, the day-one DLC uproar, the Dead Space 3 co-op fallout, anything Origin, EA winning Worst Company in America and the somewhat mass exodus of players from Star Wars: The Old Republic. You could argue these things played a small or non-significant part in EA's stock decline and that Take-Two's stock is also falling, but again, Take-Two's stock hasn't dropped quite as bad as EA's and it's not like they're plastered in negative press all over the web.
In the case of EA, this sort of negative press can affect sales, and sales directly correlate to investor confidence, which directly affects EA's stock.
Is there hope for a rebound? Well, there's always hope. But EA really needs to get away from trying to make "smart" business decisions in a creative market driven by creativity. The major issue is that they're alienating the fanbase that keeps them alive in hopes of trying to hit the massive but unpredictable casual market. But their marketing keywords of "broadly appealing" and turning anyone who can swipe their finger across the screen "into a gamer" just really needs to go away.
They're completely missing a big piece of the puzzle though: you need good games to get core gamers to buy and support them, and you need core gamers to spread the word so casual gamers can latch on (i.e,. Call of Duty, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed, Batman, etc.,) and until EA figures out where they're going wrong and how they're doing the gaming base a disservice with a lot of anti-consumerist measures, it's unlikely to see them grow out of the slump.
This thread is a joke. The majority of video game companies' stocks are on a down slope. One of the few exceptions is Activision Blizzard. Nintendo and Sony are just starting to come out of a slump. Take Two interactive is still in the hole. Zenimax Bethesda is a private company, but I don't think they would have turned the Elder Scrolls series into an MMO if they weren't trying to cash in because they needed to.
EA also absorbed Mythic, Bioware, plus the social game companies Playfish and PopCap Games. (Zenimax Bethesda acquired id Software, Arkane Studios, and Tango Gameworks). With acquisitions like that they're going to be wading around in the low stock end for a little bit before they build momentum. If they can...
Yeah, most companies have been going bad since the last few years, that is not EAs fault.
But I still feel like EA and Activisions lack of innovation will bite them in the back later. Few games either company makes feel fresh and fun anymore.
I personally feel that the corporate thing isn´t so good for computer games. The best games have been made by players for players but corps like EA don´t care about what products they make, just money. And yes, all companies want money but most smaller companies are also interested in making something thy themselves like. Activisons CEOs idea of "taking the fun out of making games" is bad, real bad.
I miss the gaming market from the 80s when both EA and Activision were smaller companies that both actually made great games. Now they can make something decent once in a while but it is more an exception.
I hope Minecraft inspires people to start smaller indie companies and not sell them to a corp the moment they start making money (Valve already tried with mojang, they weren´t interested).
They're completely missing a big piece of the puzzle though: you need good games to get core gamers to buy and support them, and you need core gamers to spread the word so casual gamers can latch on (i.e,. Call of Duty, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed, Batman, etc.,) and until EA figures out where they're going wrong and how they're doing the gaming base a disservice with a lot of anti-consumerist measures, it's unlikely to see them grow out of the slump.
Au contraire, mon capitan! I really hope they do keep on doing what they're doing, and keep doing gaming a disservice. Maybe, just maybe, if we're all lucky, EA goes the way of the Dodo. Then we'd have only 1 of the old Total Douchebag Game Companies left (Activision).
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
They're completely missing a big piece of the puzzle though: you need good games to get core gamers to buy and support them, and you need core gamers to spread the word so casual gamers can latch on (i.e,. Call of Duty, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed, Batman, etc.,) and until EA figures out where they're going wrong and how they're doing the gaming base a disservice with a lot of anti-consumerist measures, it's unlikely to see them grow out of the slump.
Au contraire, mon capitan! I really hope they do keep on doing what they're doing, and keep doing gaming a disservice. Maybe, just maybe, if we're all lucky, EA goes the way of the Dodo. Then we'd have only 1 of the old Total Douchebag Game Companies left (Activision).
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Good. Serves them right. Mismanage your company, your company should fail
I hope they crash down to penny stock
Tried: EQ2 - AC - EU - HZ - TR - MxO - TTO - WURM - SL - VG:SoH - PotBS - PS - AoC - WAR - DDO - SWTOR
Played: UO - EQ1 - AO - DAoC - NC - CoH/CoV - SWG - WoW - EVE - AA - LotRO - DFO - STO - FE - MO - RIFT
Playing: Skyrim
Following: The Repopulation
I want a Virtual World, not just a Game.
ITS TOO HARD! - Matt Firor (ZeniMax)
No it's not just SWTOR causing this although SWTOR costed A LOT to create and Lucas is getting a fat chunk out of that.
EA are simply putting out junk games now, the NHL and Madden series are pretty much toast now with crappy noob features and how long did it take EA to add the Winnipeg Jets jerseys in NHL 12? I'm a huge SimCity fan and SimCity 5 is supposed to come out next year, yeah I don't have good feelings about it and in the meantime I'm playing a bit of Cities XL and SimCity 4.
Mot just SWTOR - agree. If SWTOR was responsible for the upward blip however then the 'failure' of SWTOR will be responsible for the equivalent downward adjustment.
EA is going to fail! Bioware is going to fail! Death to TOR! I really can't wait to see all of those people laid off and eating from trash cans! Hazaaa! The day is ours!!!!!
I spent 60$ on that damn game and it ruined my entire life by not living up to standards. This is the greatest day of my life. They should pay for not making me entirely happy!
/endsarcasm
Couldn't have happend to a more deserving pack of @$$holes. Maybe this will teach them to do more than just recycle the same tired game titles over and over, but I doubt it.
"Gypsies, tramps, and thieves, we were called by the Admin of the site . . . "
follows the x-fire trend for swtor pretty much on the money heh
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
I feel like the OP is trying to trick us.
https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:EA
Use the slider (not scrollbar) to display 2005 to current. tell us now this picture shows you how the OP is trying to play games here.
from wiki:
It was revealed in February 2008 that Electronic Arts had made a takeover bid for rival game company Take-Two Interactive. After its initial offer of US$25 per share, all cash stock transaction offer was rejected by the Take-Two board, EA revised it to US$26 per share, a 64% premium over the previous day's closing price and made the offer known to the public.[32] Rumours had been floating around the Internet prior to the offer about Take-Two possibly being bought over by a bigger company, albeit with Viacom as the potential bidder.[33][34] In May 2008, EA announced that it will purchase the assets of Hands-On Mobile Korea, a South Korean mobile game developer and publisher. The company will become EA Mobile Korea.[35] In September 2008, EA dropped its buyout offer of Take-Two. No reason was given.[36]
As of Nov 6, 2008 it was confirmed that Electronic Arts is closing their Casual Label & merging it with their Hasbro partnership with The Sims Label.[37] EA also confirmed the departure of Kathy Vrabeck, who was given the position as former president of the EA Casual Division in May 2007. EA made this statement about the merger: "We've learned a lot about casual entertainment in the past two years, and found that casual gaming defies a single genre and demographic. With the retirement and departure of Kathy Vrabeck, EA is reorganizing to integrate casual games—development and marketing—into other divisions of our business. We are merging our Casual Studios, Hasbro partnership, and Casual marketing organization with The Sims Label to be a new Sims and Casual Label, where there is a deep compatibility in the product design, marketing and demographics. [...] In the days and weeks ahead, we will make further announcements on the reporting structure for the other businesses in the Casual Label including EA Mobile, Pogo, Media Sales and Online Casual Initiatives. Those businesses remain growth priorities for EA and deserve strong support in a group that will compliment their objectives."[38] This statement comes a week after EA announced it was laying off 6% about 600 of their staff positions & had a US$310 million net loss for the quarter.[39]
Due to the 2008 Economic Crisis, Electronic Arts had a poorer than expected 2008 holiday season, moving it in February 2009 to cut approximately 1100 jobs, which it said represented about 11% of its workforce. It will also close 12 facilities, yet to be identified. Riccitiello, in a conference call with reporters, stated that their poor performance in the fourth quarter was not due entirely to the poor economy, but also to the fact that they did not release any blockbuster titles in the quarter. In the quarter ending December 31, 2008, the company lost US$641 million. As of early May 2009, the subsidiary studio EA Redwood Shores was known as Visceral Games.[40][41] On June 24, 2009, EA announced it will merge two of its development studios, BioWare and Mythic into one single role-playing video game and MMO development powerhouse. The move will actually place Mythic under control of BioWare as Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will be in direct control of the new entity. The actual impact of this merger remains to be seen.[42]
On November 9, 2009, EA announced its acquisition of social casual games developer Playfish for US$275 million.[43] On the same day, the company announced layoffs of 1500 employees, representing 17% of its workforce, across a number of studios including EA Tiburon, Visceral Games, Mythic and EA Black Box. Also affected were "projects and support activities" that, according to Chief Financial Officer Eric Brown "don't make economic sense",[44] resulting in the shutdown of popular communities such as Battlefield News and the EA Community Team. These layoffs also led to the complete shutdown of Pandemic Studios.[45]
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
That just means that EA's stocks went a bit up today. But look at the bigger picture, and you'll see that EA is failing/falling.
You didn't even slide the slider did you? Just just clicked the link and saw today. Slide the slider back to 2005 so that is shows 2005 to current. You will see the BS. It's been low for four years.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
This post is awesome, because it mentions NOTHING about SWTOR and yet in hop all of the SWTOR fanboys asking how this all relates to SWTOR. It's not even in the swtor forums. Priceless.
Maybe they will sell maxis to someone with a soul. /holds breath
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
I am, usually on the sandbox .. more "hardcore" side of things, but I also do just want to have fun. So lighten up already
This thread isn't funny. It's pathetic.
I wish I could make ignorant statements without actually knowing what I'm talking about.
I just saw the charts again, so brutal. It's like they did everything wrong since 05 lol
you read my mind. after i read the thread title i thought, damn. Madden comes out in a few months. Now would be the perfecct time to buy.
Considering some of the wrongs EA has done over the years, it's just right. I can only wish they go kaput, and take Activision with them.
While we're on the subject of EA, a repost of an apt video describing them.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
Acti-Blizz is supposely on the block for sale by Vivendi.
Although, the OP is hilariously wrong it does show investor confidence in the 'AAA' gaming space is not good.
This isn't news really, the only AAA gaming company that is 'neutral' is Acti-Blizz. Rest are all 'sell', THQ, EA, SquareEnix etc.
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
This thread is a joke. The majority of video game companies' stocks are on a down slope. One of the few exceptions is Activision Blizzard. Nintendo and Sony are just starting to come out of a slump. Take Two interactive is still in the hole. Zenimax Bethesda is a private company, but I don't think they would have turned the Elder Scrolls series into an MMO if they weren't trying to cash in because they needed to.
EA also absorbed Mythic, Bioware, plus the social game companies Playfish and PopCap Games. (Zenimax Bethesda acquired id Software, Arkane Studios, and Tango Gameworks). With acquisitions like that they're going to be wading around in the low stock end for a little bit before they build momentum. If they can...
Like I said earlier: "I can only wish they go kaput, and take Activision with them."
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
This is true. But I still would very much like EA to go die in a fire already. What they did with Mass Effect 3 was unforgiveable to me. My favourite franchise ruined by EA's unresonable development time frames, sigh. Yet another one to throw in the bin.
I feel like trying to read your wall of text gave me a headache.
Good post. +1
Yeah, most companies have been going bad since the last few years, that is not EAs fault.
But I still feel like EA and Activisions lack of innovation will bite them in the back later. Few games either company makes feel fresh and fun anymore.
I personally feel that the corporate thing isn´t so good for computer games. The best games have been made by players for players but corps like EA don´t care about what products they make, just money. And yes, all companies want money but most smaller companies are also interested in making something thy themselves like. Activisons CEOs idea of "taking the fun out of making games" is bad, real bad.
I miss the gaming market from the 80s when both EA and Activision were smaller companies that both actually made great games. Now they can make something decent once in a while but it is more an exception.
I hope Minecraft inspires people to start smaller indie companies and not sell them to a corp the moment they start making money (Valve already tried with mojang, they weren´t interested).
Au contraire, mon capitan! I really hope they do keep on doing what they're doing, and keep doing gaming a disservice. Maybe, just maybe, if we're all lucky, EA goes the way of the Dodo. Then we'd have only 1 of the old Total Douchebag Game Companies left (Activision).
I really do hope EA keeps doing what they do best with little regard to the gamers, and continue to spiral into the bottom of the sea.
I can only hope.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
There will be many new Douchebag Game Companies though.
Nexon, Zynga, gPotato, BigPoint....
Truth.
The companies that are taking over gaming are plain scary, but they are getting a pretty much free pass as gamers are distracted by EA etc hate.
EA stock has been on the decline since 2008.