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TheRagebeard
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1 year ago

Re: Anyone seen the numbers in terms of sales and player numbers?

@TigerAlen410 Yes & no, regarding that chart I think it's important to consider a lot of that peak in sales was unsustainable. Covid keeping people inside and the DTS boom certainly played a big part in the massive jump in sales of 2020. Comparing F1 24 to 2019 the numbers are still not good, but not nearly as dire.

Also worth noting that microtransactions were not in the game in 2019 and there was not a "champions edition" available to purchase. I don't know what the numbers are but depending on how much people have spent on MTX there's a path to making more money from fewer game sales. 

While most of us here on the forums are not pleased with the direction the franchise is headed, I'm sure EA has crunched the numbers enough to know what's profitable.

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  • SDGMatt's avatar
    SDGMatt
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago
    @TheRagebeard I can’t imagine the MXT sales would be that high… there’s nothing to spend your pit coin on….
    Players are BEGGING for more helmets and liveries, and yet the store is empty!
  • TheRagebeard's avatar
    TheRagebeard
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    1 year ago

    @SDGMattYour probably right, and I wasn't trying to say that they broke even, sales are clearly down. But even just buying the Champions edition is equivalent to paying for a game and half from the 2010's, so they aren't bleeding money that fast...

    I'm sure they were expecting sales to be better than they've been (as Grumps pointed out that's probably why there have been so many discounts) but using 1M+ sales as the benchmark for copies sold isn't realistic. Things were always going to drop off at some point when the pandemic settled down and the F1 popularity bubble burst.

  • SDGMatt's avatar
    SDGMatt
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago

    That’s been the biggest slap in the face for me, especially as someone who has pre-ordered every single game since F1 2010, is that I put my faith in them and paid £89.99 for the Champions Edition, only to find that I got nothing for my extra money! 

    I got 3 days early access to a broken game that needed to be heavily patched. 
    18,000 pit coin but the store was empty! I still have all 18,000 of it to this day!

    I got 3 liveries only to use in Time Trial on last year’s game that I’m not going to play… 

    Not only was that extra £20 a waste of money, the game was 40% off after just 3 weeks, punishing every single player that trusted them enough to pre-order and pay full price! 

    That has completely broken my trust and put me off ever pre-ordering again… 

    I should have saved my money and bought it at 60% of the price a month later. Lesson learned..

    That’s really poor from EA. They need to understand the impact that this game has had on the player base. 

  • AEF251's avatar
    AEF251
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago

    I have to echo SDGMatt’s sentiments. Next year they’ll have to prove to me the game is worth the money. I have better things to spend my money on then a rerun of this game. 

  • IanM282's avatar
    IanM282
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago

    I achieved my first ban last week too. I guess the truth hurts!

    Bottom line is, F124 has been a calamity, to which I along with others spent £90 on it.

    It's abundantly clear that they do not care anymore and are prepared to just rush out a game that has gone backwards over the past couple of years, with zero implementation of the wishes of their loyal customer base.

  • EA_Groguet's avatar
    EA_Groguet
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    1 year ago
    Hey there,
     
    We have realised that multiple threads have been created lately sharing players' sentiment towards F1® 24. It is important to us to gather all your feedback to share with our Game Team, but it can be hard to track everything when duplicate threads are being opened. To resolve this, we have created a Feedback Thread where players can post these types of comments and share their experiences.
     
    We understand that some of you are frustrated with aspects of the game and though we encourage you to share that frustration we remind you to be mindful to our Rules & Guidelines when posting.
     
    The thread linked above will be the main thread where we will gather player sentiment and feedback to bring back to the game team. As a result, this one now will be closed.
     
    We hope this helps to streamline the communication between you the players and the Game Team.
     
    -Groguet

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