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DamnTheseVoices
7 years ago

Electronic Arts Stock Down Amidst Disappointing Apex Legends Season 2 Numbers

Electronic Arts Stock Down Amidst Disappointing Apex Legends Season 2 Numbers https://wccftech.com/electronic-arts-stock-down-amidst-disappointing-apex-legends-season-2-numbers/ Electronic Arts sli...
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Anlbrd
7 years ago

@Koochi-QNow that I've read the article it doesn't suggest to me that Apex is in trouble.

When financiers talk about 'disappointing' performance in this capacity it means "less than the incredibly hopeful returns for the investors" : they expected it to be the fortnite killer, and it isn't.

So?

Everyone in my friends list is still playing it.

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Koochi-Q
7 years ago
@Anlbrd Haven’t read the article so this may be uninformed but it’s as you stated. I wanted to make note of Nintendo stocks, but I was like ‘nahhh I’ll just leave my comment like this’. Investors are always disappointed it seems xD.

Every BR that gets ‘hyped’ is slated as a fortnite killer. It’s not gonna happen anytime soon tho. Investors have likely already seen dividens but they always just want more. They don’t care that it’s not a fortnite killer. They just want more bucks to come in and what better way for a BR to do that. Dethrone the king cause that means more exposure of their investment.
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    Anlbrd
    7 years ago

    @Koochi-QOnce you hear someone talk about the "x killer" - whatever x is cannot be killed. It means that in common parlance X has already become the benchmark. Which means it's going to be constantly picked up by newer players as a matter of course, re-evaluated by former players and it means that it comes with the investor confidence that the article spoke about almost by default.

    Where's that WoW killer people have been talking about for 15 years ? 😛

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    Koochi-Q
    7 years ago
    @Anlbrd True again THO it can be argued that X will not always be relevant and can be outclassed. Just look at Forza as a franchise. So far it sets the benchmark for the racing industry year after year after year. But there are people who state that the newest isn’t always the best tho, even if that one upped the stakes.

    The relevance thing also comes into play. WoW was synonymous with MMO when it was a few years old. Now people still know WoW, still play it, but it’s not in the limelight anymore tho. Twist that around and you got CoD... let’s take infinite Warfare. I really liked the story (give me a humanoid/android/anamatron/robot that’s witty/funny/‘emotional’ and I already like it... same with Titanfall 2) but the game ‘flopped’ due to people barely touching SP and didn’t like futuristic setting. People only bought that game to revisit the old call of duty that was remastered which was released 9/10 years before that one...

    So some stuff don’t need a killer, just a parasite slowly rising in strength

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