EA Abandoning BF 2042
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These are the Best news in gaming community this year. At last as it seems EA Completely Disowns Battlefield 2042 During Their Investor Call..this company that tottally ruined Battlefie...
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It's true, not a single mention of Battlefield in EA's 2023 Q1 earnings call transcript.
https://ir.ea.com/financial-information/quarterly-results/default.aspx
@OskooI_007 wrote:It's true, not a single mention of Battlefield in EA's 2023 Q1 earnings call transcript.
https://ir.ea.com/financial-information/quarterly-results/default.aspx
Because EA Execs are trying to swipe the BF2042 disaster in under the carpet!
At our last quarterly investor call, when we questioned the disastrous BF2042 launch and meltdown of the player population that evaporated faster than anything we have ever seen in the AAA-game world, then the EA Execs tried to downplay the Battlefield franchise importance by claiming it represented less than 10% of total revenue.
Well that is absolutely true that BF is currently less than 10%, but exactly because of the total failure and disaster of the BF2042 game!
We should have seen BF represent up to 30% of total revenue as a minimum, definitely here in a new BF version launch year and ideally also in the subsequent year with all the planned 4 seasonal updates also being released with additional player fees to be recuperated from these! (from the vast majority of players who just bought the std version and not GOLD or ULTIMATE). And next to this all the microtransactional revenues on top.
But all this is totally obsolete now as the game is dead as the vast majority of players have all moved on to something else and no new players arriving.
There are no meaningful business relevant numbers to present coming from BF2042 in any positive way...
@CyberDyme wrote:
@OskooI_007 wrote:It's true, not a single mention of Battlefield in EA's 2023 Q1 earnings call transcript.
https://ir.ea.com/financial-information/quarterly-results/default.aspx
Because EA Execs are trying to swipe the BF2042 disaster in under the carpet!
At our last quarterly investor call, when we questioned the disastrous BF2042 launch and meltdown of the player population that evaporated faster than anything we have ever seen in the AAA-game world, then the EA Execs tried to downplay the Battlefield franchise importance by claiming it represented less than 10% of total revenue.
Well that is absolutely true that BF is currently less than 10%, but exactly because of the total failure and disaster of the BF2042 game!
We should have seen BF represent up to 30% of total revenue as a minimum, definitely here in a new BF version launch year and ideally also in the subsequent year with all the planned 4 seasonal updates also being released with additional player fees to be recuperated from these! (from the vast majority of players who just bought the std version and not GOLD or ULTIMATE). And next to this all the microtransactional revenues on top.
But all this is totally obsolete now as the game is dead as the vast majority of players have all moved on to something else and no new players arriving.
There are no meaningful business relevant numbers to present coming from BF2042 in any positive way...
i think this is the end for dice. maybe not battlefield but i can see dice getting the westwood treatment. this is 100% on management and the leads who decide the direction of the game
