Will EA leave the Triple A business?

MP! · Jan 16, 2019

the only thing we can hope fo ris that they make a terrible fifa game and even then it would sell 20 million copies...

Lowrys · Jan 17, 2019

rras1994 said:
The studio that made it had troubled development that meant they had to bring in senior devs from Austin and Edmonton which meant they had to delay Anthem, DA4 and change expansion plans for SWTOR. Making dlc would have delayed their other projects even further. Montreal was put into EA Motive to work on their new IP, I think they probably thought they weren't ready to lead their own project after the development troubles

Yes, it was a mess, resulted in a shit game, and that's why they did what they did. If it was a huge success, they wouldn't have done those things.

rras1994 · Jan 17, 2019

Lowrys said:
Yes, it was a mess, resulted in a shit game, and that's why they did what they did. If it was a huge success, they wouldn't have done those things.

It was one of the top selling games of 2017 and was mentioned favourably twice in two EA investor reports which they legally are not allowed to lie in, the game made money. You finding the game shit does not change that.

RestEerie · Jan 17, 2019

Secretofmateria said:
But outside of sports titles, alot of these larger titles seem to be losing money

citations needed.....

don't think battlefield v and battlefront 2 are commercial bombs...critical flops and disappoint entry in their franchise that generated negative news, yes....bombs there are not.

Braag · Jan 17, 2019

They're making way too much money off MTX and sports games to leave.

Frozenprince · Jan 17, 2019

vestan said:
Talk about an ERA bubble jesus christ

Seriously. I get it y'all hate sports but like.

Sports games are AAA titles and they print money.

stryke · Jan 17, 2019

vestan said:
Talk about an ERA bubble jesus christ

this is worse than a bubble. more like gauging your eyes out, bursting your eardrums, burying your head under the sand while living under a rock levels of ignorance.

Dragoon · Jan 17, 2019

vestan said:
Talk about an ERA bubble jesus christ

As embarrassing as OP's post was, this deserved to be the first reply. LMAO

Nightengale · Jan 17, 2019

This thread has reached its natural conclusion in terms of answer and discussion avenues, so I'll proceed to lock it.