Bad times for EA?

Yeah, not good for EA. I was reading that they haven't recorded a profit in two years... kinda surprising for a company like EA, but then again, they haven't seemed to really be focusing on quality as of late (Spore immediately comes to mind.)
 
the recession has not affect the gaming industry much as a whole.
EA is in the hole because of bad quality and spore's drm scandal.
myself, i can't remember the last game i played from them.
 
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Ive always wondered they charge $60 bucks for a game but how much does it honestly cost them to make one.....what is the profit on each game sold.
 
Wait for sims 3 to come out and i would have thought that their profits after that would be massive
 
Aastii said:
Wait for sims 3 to come out and i would have thought that their profits after that would be massive
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True. Sims 3 was a top hit at one point for IGN (and this was weeks before it came out). The game will make alot of profit and help regain strength for EA.
 
Yeah, EA's been heading down this road for a while. They've been cramming so much crap down the pipe lately trying to get people to buy anything. They'll probably be going through a bit of internal investigation and restructuring especially with the smaller developer companies that they've got contracts with. Although, this isn't the first publisher of this magnitude that's gone down, anybody remember Interplay? :) They were like a top 3 publisher and within a few short years they went down in a big ball of flaming death. In fact, I believe that it was when they finally grew to that magnitude that caused a lot of the damage.
 
good, wonder how this would have happened differently, if they hadn't insisted on putting securom on quite a few games they make, i can understand pirates are a pain in the ass, but they crack the drm's anyway, and the drm's make it an even larger pain in the ass for the people that actually pay for the game, like i said, i hope they do go bankrupt, and if they do, they should at least patch games to remove the stupid install limit(they also killed the command and conquer series if you ask me :()
 
I think DRM wastes more money than the loss from piracy that it prevents.

Yeah, that's what pisses me off, EA bought up the C&C series; RA3 and C&C3 have been total garbage. I liked Generals but EA is too ignorant to expand on it with a new version. They've totally slaughtered that and put a bad taste in everyone's mouth. I wish Blizzard would've bought up C&C, highly unlikely but Blizzard does a very good job. And no, I don't play WoW.

Number one, EA seems to have some bad research. And bad research is causing games to be a little distasteful. Number two, EA is slapping things together and patching code from previous games. Look at NFS: Undercover, that's the same engine from NFS: Underground and it lags on my system. I've updated my drivers and patched the game. It's a bunch of heavy graphics piled onto an engine that was not meant to deal with such heavy resource usage.
 
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I don't like that at all... I would rather Apple buy that stupid WMG. I hate WMG, they whine about YouTube so much...

I hope Steve Jobs has a say in this, Steve would say, "No, let's do it from scratch and original thought with no EA involved!"
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Apple buys EA, then has exclusive downloaded content to the iphone and ipod touch putting it as a competitor to the PSP and DS. The ITMS sells so much crap and is already successful and there is already a market for games on the iPhone/iPod touch

In fact I just downloaded MGS4 on my iPhone last night. I mean it was kind of cool and kind of repetitive but I can see maybe them having a market for it.

The market will soon shift to all download-able content. The best thing about steam is, if I buy a game off of steam I never need CDs. I can just install it over the web via steam. If I can buy a game I want on Steam i buy it that way from now on.
 
If Steam wasnt such a pain in the a** on my computer, i would use it for all my games. lately, i've been using other ways like newegg or gamestop to get my games.
 
In my opinion, EA's late games are crappy, and they only work on high hardware. Only if they would make games that support older hardware, they would get much more profit.

This problem is not just EA's, many companies face this problem. Not everyone has that much money to buy new hardware every month to be updated.

My PC is 3 years old, and 3 years ago it was one of the most powerful on the market. Now it's old, no new games work on it any more. The only upgrade was a stick of 1GB of RAM in addition to the 512MB it had about 1 year ago.
 
With all the purchases of studios and software companies it doesn't surprise me. Granted, there wasn't a bit deal in 2008 like in 2007 with Bioware/Pandemic, but constantly gobbling up companies has to add to costs, and without big titles to even out each acquisition they will eventually post a loss, as they have done.

I know nothing of economics, but it just made sense to me that if they kept buying up companies, costs would rise and they would have to have some killer games to balance that.
 
(GREED) companies dont want 50% profit they want 500% and more,to get thier profits up they cut down on other things.GREED-GREED-GREED.
 
Geez could you imagine Apple owning it? "Mac only titles" and "subscriptions"...they will fail harder then EA I bet.


Then again they might actually listen to the fans and rock too who knows.
 
Twist86 said:
Geez could you imagine Apple owning it? "Mac only titles" and "subscriptions"...they will fail harder then EA I bet.


Then again they might actually listen to the fans and rock too who knows.
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Nope, they wouldn't hold Mac titles. But Mac would get more games and they'd run better too. Leopard uses less resources Vista.

Actually at one time, Steve Jobs was going to license Mac OS to clone makers but the cloners got mad about it. They were told to 'pound sand', so don't think Apple to be so proprietary without thinking about the clone manufacturers. I don't think Apple will make EA title games for Mac OS.
 
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