12253f No.13712605
Even the mainstream are now predicting the death of EA
So recently some normalfags i know were talking about how "EA is in a real bad way nowadays" and that was fucking odd. Then a few days later i see some websites talking about "EA might be actually ready to splinter or collapse" and i was directed to a segment from the Giant Bomb podcast where Jeff and Brad are talking about "EA lost its identity and its new higher ups dont have an idea if where they wanted to go beyond every studio had to come up with a star wars pitch to stay afloat"
When even the mainstream is saying "i dont know what form EA takes a year from now" you have to wonder who its audience is anymore. From what i have seen the 'always online lockbox service' idea is not even taking off with the normalfag crowd in the numbers they need and other areas Japan in particular are really getting their shit together in terms of single player games.
If the games as a service meme isn't going to take off whats the state of EA? back to movie license and sport games meme hell? their ten year madden contracts up for renewal soon and there's strong rumour Madden is being wined and wined by Activision this time around.
Is people calling EA's collapse the first sign of a crash? we always joke about it but i never expected it to happen.
656a8c No.13712618
I'll eat a fork if EA falls.
4e1903 No.13712619
>no source
OP why must you show everyone your craving for cocks?
12253f No.13712633
>>13712619
This isn't cuckle-me-fuckle chan homeslice. The spoonfeed meme is dead.
845ae7 No.13712634
>>13712618
If the price for EAs fall is anon eating a fork then it is worth it. So shall it be.
06914b No.13712720
FIFA and NBA will keep them alive.
I'm fucking old and Electronic Arts predates even me.
970875 No.13712728
I think sport games will carry them, but sooner or later they might be forced to sacrifice more and more studios.
>>13712618
If you lose, just go to a bakery and have them make you a fork-shaped cake/cookie/whatever.
5f7700 No.13712731
>>13712605
pretty easy bandwagon to jump on these days to be honest
49ebba No.13712734
Predictive programming designed to collapse the the company in the most controlled way possible.
e32ae7 No.13712753
>>13712605
Idk, but a few times in my life I've thought about how wasted the name of "Electronic Arts" is under what is now a money production machine. I wish they would go back to being a video game company for once.
5eb8b0 No.13712755
>>13712605
>not a single video game mentioned
Posting a new thread should require an IQ test captcha.
e8b968 No.13712756
EA and Activision are never going to die. Too big too fail and EA has the sportsfags buying out all their games.
0223eb No.13712757
Fifa nets those kikes 800 million a year, that means they could make 40 Andromeda tier dumpster fires a year and still come up even.
I want EA to die as much as the next anon, but it will be a long road. This "games as a service" meme will be the true test of their resilience. There are cracks forming already but itll take time to see the effects.
ef8def No.13712907
>>13712755
>Posting a new thread should require an IQ test captcha.
And, watch as /leftypol/ disappears and regular /pol/ attempts a coup.
350d96 No.13712916
>>13712633
>Giving out a news source is spoonfeeding
Back to >>>/cuckchan/ with your clickbait OP
e32ae7 No.13712918
>>13712755
>>13712907
Careful, you'll get a lot of furries and /tg/ although basically the same thing.
26ea5c No.13712924
I think we've hit critical mass in terms of companies being nickle-and-diming kikes and normalfags are finally getting tired of it.
137fd2 No.13712926
>>13712605
>Cites one podcast.
>Acts like it's "the mainstream".
Drop some more ev-ee-dance, a lot more, or go back to flopping yourself against your shower walls full of suction cup dildos.
bdb9f9 No.13712928
>>13712633
Give a damn source, at least for the madden contract bits you lazy fuck
e86259 No.13712934
>>13712728
Nigga what? I want to see this nigger die eating a fork.
Faggot.
e86259 No.13712938
>>13712756
>IBM is too big to fail
>East India trading company is too big to fail
>Rome is too big to fail
>Babylon is too big to fail
fe02d6 No.13712958
>>13712938
>Implying IBM doesn't still make assloads of money peddling the same fucking mainframes to shitty banks that they did in the 80s
t. actual software developer
working with this fucking ancient monstrosity is hell
629b36 No.13712973
>>13712605
No
They just need to release a single sport game and they'll be in the clear, probably fifa or something
2933c3 No.13713034
Not even the sport games will keep them up. Sport Royalities are still good damn high.
8f4b19 No.13713065
is there a way to haste they death?
f3b494 No.13713068
>>13713065
Don't buy their games I guess
6e3e79 No.13713073
>>13712605
Kek, let it happen.
afc78a No.13713095
>>13712958
Every company falls anon. Some just take longer than others.
c6e019 No.13713130
>>13712605
They have a few cash cows that will keep them afloat at least for the near future:
>Sports games.
>Star Wars.
>Battlefield.
>Probably something else, but I can't think of much off the top of my head.
Titanfall isn't going anywhere.
BioWare is a shell of its former self, and I doubt they'll ever make a hit again.
If you're right about Activision poaching the NFL's deal, that would fuck EA over, hard.
Does anyone know when the Star Wars deal ends?
a88277 No.13713146
>>13713130
Looks like the star wars shit is already in danger since they barely did anything with it and the shit they actually pushed out didnt do so well. Disney probably isnt too happy with it
207f21 No.13713173
Unfortunately, you can't hate EA to death.
c6e019 No.13713174
>>13712924
Maybe. I've seen a surprising number of sites and people complaining angrily about gaming turning into gambling. Specifically loot boxes. Not sure why they chose now to suddenly care.
I have a theory that, regarding vidya, normalfags do eventually come around to the right answer, it just takes them about five years to catch up to /v/. Still, I doubt there will be enough consumer pushback to actually change things.
>>13713146
What makes you think it's in danger?
It is true that EA doesn't do nearly as much with Star Wars as they could, though. Since TOR we've had…what? NuBattlefront, and a bunch of shovelware games. And just when they were having Visceral branch out to do something interesting with it, they shitcan that project, close the studio, and tell everyone it's going to be yet another multiplayer game.
5a1ba7 No.13713191
>>13712633
>>13712605
Where is the evidence?
21e2c6 No.13713216
>>13712605
You should actually learn proper grammar before posting
5c9023 No.13713239
>>13712605
EA isn't going to die, at least as long as they have their sports licensing deal.
That said, they are becoming irrelevant in the same way IBM became irrelevant when Microsoft and Apple entered the scene, and it will soon find itself in a similar situation as IBM is now, kept afloat by a single market through sheer human inertia.
f21ef5 No.13713265
>>13712728
Sports are losing their popularity pretty fast and since the sport-games became card-collector-games instead, they have been losing annual buyers of their franchises, it's basically just niggers and shitskins keeping them afloat at the moment. All the white guys i know buy one soccer game for that generation and just update the roster if they want to.
5f6e08 No.13713391
>>13712755
>(((IQ tests)))
No.
5f6e08 No.13713395
>>13712757
800M in profits or 800M total?
e8d58b No.13713397
>>13713239
>sports licensing deal
Except ESPN is talking about dropping the NFL entirely. What happens when EA releases a new version of Madden where the players kneel? BOOM, it’s all gone.
5d824e No.13713416
>>13713397
>ESPN is talking about dropping the NFL entirely.
What. Why? It's like free money. Practically every American man over 40 watches the NFL religiously.
90e873 No.13713420
EA makes a lot of money from things other than generic AAA games. Enough to make lots of shitty games. It's like they are doing it on purpose for the lolz.
I'm not buying any of their Battlefronts, and Battlefront 2's campaign doesn't appeal to me.
For EA, the only solution is the final solution.
c1fdcc No.13713427
>>13712605
It's too soon to proclaim them dying though they are on a great decline, Visceral is nothing special in the long run, when big name studios like Bioware and Dice close down is when they start dying. Once Bioware and Dice are gone they will be left with only sports titles, EA Sports will be the only part of the company left that's of worth and that's when the downsizing happens. By that point the company is relying on sport games and is nearly dead, we will only have to wait as they bleed out all of their IPs.
5d824e No.13713431
>>13713427
BioWare is dead in everything but name.
Losing DICE would be a big deal, though.
d9b8fd No.13713497
Video games are so shit nowadays even normans hate them.
My consolefag cousin told me he couldn't find a "game" that interested him in his ps4, and this is coming from a guy who liked "games" such as halo, gears of war, post-underground2 nfs and gta4.
d9b8fd No.13713511
>>13712757
Even if EA falls they're too big to collapse.
Take VIA for instance, it took them almost 10 years to stop making CPUs after they went bankrupt and their non-cpu divisions are still putting out products.
49ebba No.13713548
>>13712934
>tfw she will never molest your prostate with a sunflower while plucking your ball hair
a76b03 No.13713557
I think EA is too big to truly go bankrupt or anything, they'll just make changes when their practices can't continue profitably.
I can speak to normalfags waking up though, it's mostly financial. EA has gone so jewish with their shekel-mining that they've actually struck bedrock, there's nothing left to be milked except from the most stupid of society. Like, actual retards. Normals love to blow money on stupid shit for a self-esteem boost, but loot boxes and similar trash aren't new and exciting anymore, and normalfags are realizing they get literally nothing for their money. At least if they spend the money on alcohol they can have social fun, or if they spend it on status symbol baubles then they can show themselves off in public.
0b6bd7 No.13713590
>>13713557
What was the last EA release that was actually profitable? Besides sport licensed shit I mean. Hell, when was the last time EA made a noteworthy game? Back when they went insane for a few months and greenlit Dead Space and Mirror's Edge?
594af7 No.13713684
>>13713416
You been living in a cave or something? Niggerball got infected by BLM and the nigger players started protesting the national anthem. Their ratings dropped, then plummeted, then went into freefall. The NFL is dying.
5d824e No.13713713
>>13713684
Bullshit. Some old fucks and /pol/yps complaining about their football for a few months isn't going to tank the NFL, and more importantly, it's not going to drain the NFL's profitability, even if there's a slight slump. Unless you have a source that shows that Americans suddenly stopped watching football, I don't believe that for a second. They're too glued to their couches and TVs. Football is America's religion.
be06a2 No.13713732
>>13712618
just remember to keep your promise, Anon-kun
e8b968 No.13713741
>>13713497
Many of the AAA games out are garbage and many of the good games out or coming out are niche AA titles that only weebs care about.
3cf756 No.13713745
>>13713713 (checked)
believe whatever you wanna believe man
I just saw on one of my campus TVs earlier today in the cafe that the Papa John's CEO was complaining on some channel that the NFL protests were driving down profits for him
Think about how this must be affecting the NFL itself if some tangential fucking advertiser for them is getting hit by this this hard
http://archive.is/rA5Ff
631bf1 No.13713746
>>13712605
>EA dies
>Assets bought up by another cancerous publisher
>Nothing changes
997d6f No.13713794
>>13713713
>/pol/yps
Get the fuck out faggot, you're lucky the mods won't ban political derailers like yourself
5d824e No.13713806
>>13713794
I'm not derailing.
997d6f No.13713813
>>13713806
Yeah, you're just participating in it
5d824e No.13713815
>>13713813
I'm talking about football, you mongoloid, which is intimately tied to EA. Drink bleach.
5cacda No.13713821
>>13713130
Battlefront 2 is getting some shit for pay-to-win microtransactions you literally need to buy if you want to be good at the game.
72f84d No.13713845
I hate EA for all the shit they've done over tge years, but they're second place in my book next to Activision. Patenting microtransactional-focused matchmaking is fucking appalling.
b35dbe No.13713915
What are you niggers going on about? EA is doing incredibly well. Just a few years ago when /v/ was predicting the imminent death of EA they were around $10/share, now they're up 1000%.
5bfc89 No.13713923
>>13713915
>TFW I could be a rich motherfucker if I invested in them in college
Honestly pondering if I could be a shareholder in shitty AAA game companies. If they succeed, I get more money. If they fail, I get to laugh at their failure.
9d075f No.13713945
>>13713915
How do I read this graph? They have occasional downspikes?
73d9a6 No.13713952
>>13712618
you really dont want to eat a fork, anon
5d824e No.13713965
>>13713923
>If they fail, I get to laugh
If they fail, you lose money.
e86259 No.13713991
>>13713915
Over the last 2 years almost every company has had their shares increase due to improved interest rates.
8a1f91 No.13713996
>>13713945
Look at the trend the past years. The red number on the top is only for daily or weekly changes.
eac651 No.13714006
>>13712756
> EA has the sportsfags buying out all their games.
Haven't you heard? Niggerball is failing too.
d0486b No.13714041
>>13713497
Perfectly natural. Before games catered to your normalfag cousin, but nowadays they're oddly enough catering to SJWs. To make matters worse, because many of the devs are SJWs themselves and most of the time diversity hires, they lack the talent to make a mechanically sound game that's fun to play. So the game comes out buggy, unfun, and entirely politically driven. It's like the devs forgot they were selling a luxury item and need to appeal to their market, especially during the recession.
760f40 No.13714044
>>13712618
INSHALLAH, IT WILL BE SO
4948af No.13714057
>>13714041
Because they managed to get through life appeasing their Marxist professors, but the market doesn't play the same game, so they fail. As anything driven by Marxism inevitably does when it runs out of other people's money. Publishers for the industry, and their parents' 401k for the SJWs.
e8b968 No.13714074
9d075f No.13714077
>>13713996
Well thats gay as fuck, butt have they ever had flops like this before? I mean those can just be consistent things, has it had massive lack of interest before?
f9f1ac No.13714092
>>13713965
>pic related
Obviously you don't invest too much into any single industry.
5d824e No.13714112
>>13714092
Nigger, I know that, I have a degree in finance. That guy wasn't talking about a diversified portfolio, he was talking about going whole hog on EA.
629b36 No.13714121
>>13713174
>What makes you think it's in danger?
It's scuttlebutt, nothing solid, that Disney is pissed that EA has managed to do nothing with the Star Wars license
cb4dd3 No.13714129
>>13712618
That would be extremely painful.
345a03 No.13714139
>>13712618
>Not eating your own load instead
51437a No.13714152
>>13712605
>>13712633
>zero evidence
>300 replies guaranteed
5d824e No.13714161
8a7937 No.13714187
What if we got the official Madden accounts to state they support the anthem protests? Should damage a big cash cow.
e8d58b No.13714214
>>13713416
>free money
They lost 15,000 subscribers PER DAY in October and the NFL is bleeding billions on its own.
e8d58b No.13714220
>>13713713
Also reported for being a leftist shill.
In before >HURR DURR BUT U ON V LOL
You’re obviously a reddit piece of shit.
e8d58b No.13714222
>>13713815
Drown yourself in semen. You know nothing about what is happening in sports and think your shitposting will be taken seriously. If the Madden team supports the kneeling, EA is dead.
5d824e No.13714236
afc78a No.13714248
>>13714236
Anon, please stop posting.
You've basically outed yourself as a shill at this point, enough is enough.
5d824e No.13714256
>>13714248
What the fuck are you talking about? The fact that I don't believe that Americans have stopped watching football makes me a shill? You're insane.
afc78a No.13714265
>>13714256
>the fact that I tried to call someone a newfag for no real reason besides responding to my posts and showing that I'm wrong makes me a shill?
Don't try to act innocent faggot. A different anon posted a counter to you with a source earlier in the thread
>>13713745
And you just ignored them to continue shitposting, derailing and blackpilling, along with some unrelated whining about /pol/ thrown in the mix.
e8b968 No.13714266
>>13714256
Football is never going to die, that's for sure.
5d824e No.13714276
>>13714265
The "source" was about Papa Johns having a sales slump, which you would know if you'd actually followed the link. I am not shilling for EA or football; I've been shitting on them, in fact. Read the thread, then kill yourself.
fa8eb9 No.13714295
>>13712633
>I listen to the Giant Bomb podcast
>>>/cuckchan/
3cf756 No.13714304
>>13714276
>Papa John's having a sales slump
>One of the NFL's closest advertisers and partners
>Blaming the NFL for screwing them over
Okay fag, if you needed to be bashed over the head some more, here you go
http://archive.is/dkxju
Now please feel free to kill yourself, you're a gigantic fucking retard
5d824e No.13714317
>>13714304
>Finally provides a source.
Better late than never.
Anyway, this is good. Football is shit, and so is cable TV. I hope they both die.
e8d58b No.13714334
>>13714236
Thanks for asserting something that no one questioned. Commit suicide, you braindead sack of shit.
e8d58b No.13714336
>>13714256
>WAAAAA I DON’T BELIEVE THAT MEANS IT’S NOT TRUUUUUUUUE
>>>/reddit/
>>>/tumblr/
>>>/leftypol/
>>>/suicide/
TRUTH IS NOT A MATTER OF OPINION. MORAL RELATIVISM IS FALSE.
5d824e No.13714338
>>13714334
>I-I posted three times in a row, responding to the same post every time, for no particular reason.
Sure thing. You need to go back.
5d824e No.13714343
>>13714336
>I DON’T BELIEVE THAT MEANS IT’S NOT TRUUUUUUUUE
Yeah, nothing I said indicated that. I just don't believe things without evidence. Interesting that you're such a big fan of Listen and Believe(TM).
e8d58b No.13714357
>>13714338
>responding to the same post every time
Reported. Kill yourself.
>>13714343
>nothing I said indicated that
See: >>13714256
>The fact that I don’t believe that Americans have stopped watching football
Thanks for outing yourself, shill.
6ad154 No.13714389
5d824e No.13714404
>>13714357
Alright, you're clearly not mentally stable. I hope making up other people's motivations and imagining other people to be your enemies is rewarding for you. Filtered.
e8d58b No.13714406
>>13714404
>took him nine minutes to stop crying enough to be able to see the screen to make his reply
>has no actual reply whatsoever
>HURRRRRRRR U MENTALLY UNSTABLE I SAY SO IT TRUE I WIN NOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Reported for lying about the NFL. Reported for being innumerate. Reported for being illiterate.
7fc069 No.13714407
EA's death is going to be very long and very slow. They'll slowly start losing smaller studios, until all they are left with is sports.
They've been going down that road for a very long time. But as others mentioned, they've done very well with sports. But, like with NFL, it's easy for sports to fall out of favor. I highly doubt real football will ever lose popularity, but I could easily see EA as a publisher that just makes FIFA in 10 years.
6ad154 No.13714408
>>13714256
>>13714248
>>13714222
Reported and filtered all you faggots. Get the fuck off my board.
e8d58b No.13714411
>>13714408
Cry more. We want EA dead as much as you.
98263e No.13714413
>>13714406
>>13714408
>hurr report u
When did these triggered 4cucks come out of the woodwork?
e8b968 No.13714423
>>13714407
EA at best will just downsize.
2c08c1 No.13714436
Sadly by now there are other monsters ready to take EA's place. Bethesda and the other sjw publishers spreading their cancerous shit.
3cf756 No.13714442
>>13714436
>Bethesda
>after their monumental failure with Wolfenstein: The Jew Collossus
Come on now anon
2c08c1 No.13714445
>>13714442
Tell me more about this monumental failure.
0b6bd7 No.13714450
>>13714445
Their new blockbuster Wolfenstein game barely sold more copies than ELEX on the PC, and everyone is saying it's a complete flop.
3cf756 No.13714454
>>13714445
Anon there were literally a dozen threads in the last 4 days. Go find 'em yourself
cf1d0a No.13714459
>>13712618
Well, this is gonna be fun. Now you gave me even more of a reason to push EA over the edge of the abyss.
Please let those rumors be true that EA will fall soon. It ill be the best timeline
508876 No.13714489
>>13712605
They won't be falling anytime soon. They've still got sports games and Sims. Sure, they're feeling the heat from failure after failure of games, and they really need their not-Destiny game to work to keep being relevant.. but they won't fall anytime soon within 3 years. Downsize maybe, but not fall.
5d824e No.13714490
Now that middle market studios are pretty rare, EA doesn't even have that many options for acquiring and destroying developers anymore.
>>13714436
Bethesda are bad, but they aren't big enough (yet) to reach EA levels of villainy.
d3851c No.13714523
>literal cash cows like battlefield fifa and madden
>somehow collapsing
Fuck off, this is so stupidly unbelievable, EA would just cut out the fat, the studios like Bioware that don't make them as much money as they would like, but EA would still maintain the rights to all those IPs that they vault, and it's not even shit like games no-one fucking played like Star Tropics or Shining Force, it's shit like Command and Conquer, Dungeon Keeper, Populous, Sim City, Wing Commander and Ultima, major titles that had a measurable impact on video game design.
0b6bd7 No.13714569
>>13714523
>it's shit like Command and Conquer, Dungeon Keeper, Populous, Sim City, Wing Commander and Ultima
And what have they done with those IPs, besides C&C, in the past decade?
d3851c No.13714596
>>13714569
I don't get your point, my point is that they are locked away in a Vault and EA aren't collapsing so you, and you personally Evan aren't seeing these games outside of a mobile cash in ever again.
5d824e No.13714605
>>13714569
They made a terrible, microtransaction-riddled Dungeon Keeper phone game.
d3851c No.13714611
>>13714605
They also released a new Sim city in 2013, it had a few neat ideas like being able to expand buildings but was overall a complete fucking joke.
59dc94 No.13714614
>>13712934
Little did you know, anon has been eating forks for years.
ddc94a No.13714643
>>13712720
NBA? isn't Live super unpopular compared to 2K?
e8b968 No.13714671
>>13714523
I wish a competent Japanese developer would but Ultima from EA. You know how Japs were crazy about Ultima, even though it's Western.
0b6bd7 No.13714683
>>13714596
>I don't get your point
That's because you're an idiot.
>my point is that they are locked away in a Vault
Yes.
>EA aren't collapsing
They have done nothing with any of the IPs they have, and they've driven away all the talent they had.
>>13714611
>it had a few neat ideas
You should try harder when you're shilling.
5d824e No.13714688
>>13714671
I only really know Ultima through Underworld, which is a type of game that I doubt Nips could do well.
I hope Underworld Ascendant is good, but I have absolutely no confidence in anything being good ever again.
5d824e No.13714693
>>13714683
There's no need to be so hostile.
d3851c No.13714698
>>13714671
No you're the idiot because you didn't get my point. and how the fuck is calling something a complete fucking joke shilling? can you be retarded elsewhere
0b6bd7 No.13714705
>>13714693
Do you want some estrogen to go with your vagina?
>>13714698
>No you're the idiot
Learn to link properly before criticizing other users, shill.
>you didn't get my point
What's your point? That EA won't go under because they have a shitload of IPs collecting dust and no competent developers to do anything with them? You're a real genius.
e8b968 No.13714707
>>13714688
I remember all the old Ultima games that were on PC. The Japanese were really huge Ultima fans and the series left an impact on Japanese vidya subculture while being a pioneering influence to JRPGs. Ultima is the Disney to their JRPG's anime.
5d824e No.13714722
>>13714707
I thought it was only Wizardry that the Nips got into. Do they like Might & Magic, too?
e73073 No.13714732
>>13713548
Ya wanna run that by me again?
d3851c No.13714741
>>13714705
No my point was that EA would just cut out the fat and optimized their development around the studios that do make the big money from titles like Battlefield, Fifa and Madden, and that because EA isn't collapsing you are never seeing meaningful releases in that list of dead IPs ever again. God you're fucking retarded.
0b6bd7 No.13714759
>>13714741
>EA would just cut out the fat and optimized their development
Considering they've kept BioWare alive for so long it's safe to assume they have no ability to balance their finances.
>and that because EA isn't collapsing you are never seeing meaningful releases in that list of dead IPs ever again
No, you complete idiot. They don't make shit other than Battlefield clones and sport shit because they can't. Do you think it's just mere incompetence they haven't made anything with the Star Wars IP besides two subpar Battlefront games and some mobile turd? They have no talent left to make games for them, they've chewed up and spit out all the developers they bought out, burned all the bridges they had and poisoned so many IPs and pissed off so many gamer demographics all they've got left is sports and DICE, and DICE is very busy shitting their own bed while FIFA and Madden seem more concerned with BLM shit and pushing gay rights.
e8b968 No.13714789
>>13714722
I don't know. All I know is that Ultima laid the foundations for JRPGs.
4ecfae No.13714809
as it stands, EA is a prison of intellectual properties and if there is a splintering, one could hope for selling off of these IPs as it haemorrhages
wishful thinking but what would /v/ buy in an EA bankruptcy sale? Neverwinter Nights would be my choice
e8b968 No.13714826
>>13714809
The Japs will call first dibs on Ultima. It sucks EA just doesn't sell the IPs they don't use anymore.
e73073 No.13714839
>>13714809
Battlefield just so I could prevent any new additions. Probably would get bulletstorm too because that damn game has serious potential as a money printer.
1d144a No.13714858
>>13714256
The kneeling incident has damaged the NFL and ESPN. i live in ausfailia and know this. The interesting thing is Disney owns ESPN, and much like EA and Marvel comics Disney is starting to get pissed off at subsidising failing products. The only agenda "the mouse" cares about is separating your money from your wallet.
>>13714445
I was the OP of the smug thread from yesterday. According to eurogamer W2 sales are down more than 50% compared to New order sales at release. The game is also a buggy mess on pc and has mixed (67%) reviews. The thread should still be up picture of Hugh Mungus should help you find it quicker.
fa8eb9 No.13714901
>>13714275
>no webm
>linking directly to your jewtube channel
>Stirner memes
I WANT CUCKCHAN TO LEAVE
>click on the link anyway
>see comment section
>meme arrows on jewtube
>ebin finnish pinochet lolbert pedobear
YOU SHALL BURN IN THE FIRES
98263e No.13714915
>>13714809
Give me star wars, you can have the rest
89e7ba No.13715040
>>13714809
Mercenaries, I want my absolutely designated romp through india, blowing up fucking everything I see.
b35dbe No.13715051
>>13714858
>The kneeling incident has damaged the NFL and ESPN
No it hasn't. Americans still watch niggerball but now with a little more Jewish poison leaking into their heads. They'll just keep slowly opening that floodgate until 10 years from now they're asking the crowd to join in a pledge to end white supremacy at the beginning of each game.
b8fd74 No.13715066
>>13715051
From what I've heard on the news more Americans are watching to spite their president, the NFL has had record high viewings and has been selling out tickets more than ever. /pol/ is trying to spin it to their advantage but the truth is that Americans don't care about jewish puppets since they already are puppets, I heard they are going to have tranny football players soon.
a95938 No.13715074
While I doubt EA will straight up die, or any big name publisher for that matter, I can see them downsizing and losing market share over time due stagnation, unprofitable ventures and just shitty business practices.
They'll stay afloat by the annual sports or generic shooter title, maybe purchase some dev here and there, with the end result being obvious. But, even if they simply are forced to become smaller so other groups can have a chance to flourish, that's a victory.
e8b968 No.13715092
>>13715066
Normalfags are meatbag NPCs afraid to change their habits, so I'm not surprised.
b2e82e No.13715260
>>13712605
They will never die, the eternal anglo will keep buying their shitty Fifa forever.
035bd5 No.13715284
>>13712618
have a two pronged one made from condensed bread, because you're going to eat that fork and I don't want you to suffer internal bleeding because that's horrible.
1d783b No.13715367
>>13712934
>space jin
Yeah, hopefully this anon's not busting our balls.
:^)
eb00ca No.13715423
>>13715066
You've heard wrong. The NFL has been on a decline, and the kneeling fiasco has only made things worse.
>>13715367
First one over the boarder carlos.
7a4199 No.13715509
>>13715066
>From what I've heard on the news more Americans are watching to spite their president
Careful what you believe from mainstream news.
d0a293 No.13715553
>>13715423
So you're throwing him overboard then?
afc78a No.13715601
>>13714901
Use hooktube anon
6b2c83 No.13715615
>>13715423
The fact that they somehow managed to fuck up sports of all things ought to be a sign that the American mass media establishment is completely decadent and in dire need of a full replacement.
37c7a1 No.13715702
If there's one thing these businesses are good at, it's prolonging their own demise. What needs to be done is you need to make them irrelevant and they will lose their influence, eclipse them and they will no longer matter.
c6e019 No.13715883
>>13712633
This is fullchan you fucking inbred nigger. The place where EVIDENCE MOTHERFUCKER is a hard and fast rule. Get the hell back to cuckchan if you think starting OPs with zero evidence and then whining that it's "spoonfeeding" to provide source is a proper way to do a fucking thread. You're lucky EA-bashing is popular or this thread would've been rolling in dubs and sages.
tl;dr: OP is faggot.
46dddd No.13715924
>>13712756
EA will probably keep existing, but you can look at SE to see the effects of having to reign your shit in due to fuckups.
SE tried initially with FF14 to try this pathetic bullshit of having outsourced Chinese coders/designers making maps and whatever. Which resulted in much of the game being a mess that had copy pasted sections all over the place. Entire zones were just a few sections copy pasted over and over and over.
It was such a fuckup that when they decided to revamp for 2.0 they scrapped most everything and started over. Somewhat notably they had initially spent tons of time and energy on graphics, while 2.0 downplayed the graphics aspect and focused on gamplay along with 'unique' designs to zones (rather than copy pasting).
Fuck ups like EA is going through will result in them pulling back and trying to consider what makes money versus what doesn't. I would imagine areas like Bioware which have fucked up repeatedly by trying to be like giant movies will get told to implement more fun things rather than story bullshit.
46dddd No.13715945
>>13715066
>From what I've heard on the news more Americans are watching to spite their president, the NFL has had record high viewings and has been selling out tickets more than ever
Yeah nah. Problem the NFL has is most of its fans are white people who don't expect to see this shit. Various sponsors of the NFL have been dealing with constant complaints. One beer company actually was noted as having to add a section on their complaints line specifically for the NFL.
Papa Johns even has made statements about how they hoped this shit was done with a year and half ago, and want this over with already.
The NFL and MSM expected the kneeling would be lauded or at least seen as a non-issue by most fans, when in reality it was one of the most divisive things they could have done. And it hurts the NFL all the more because white people, who hate the kneeling, are the ones that spend most of the money.
cc2966 No.13715964
>>13715066
>From what I've heard on the news more Americans are watching to spite their president, the NFL has had record high viewings and has been selling out tickets more than ever. /pol/ is trying to spin it to their advantage but the truth is that Americans don't care about jewish puppets since they already are puppets, I heard they are going to have tranny football players soon.
4485d9 No.13716041
>>13712618
>he didn't give a timeframe
hahaha holy shit anon it's only a matter of time now.
c6e019 No.13716099
>>13716041
He'll just eat a chocolate fork or something, if he feels like delivering.
afc78a No.13716332
>>13716099
Or if he actually wants to deliver without pussying out but not killing himself, he'll just eat small pieces of a plastic fork, maybe over a week or something
2bf760 No.13716354
>Madden is being wined and wined
e302b0 No.13716527
>>13715615
>multiple attacks of peace at various crowded areas
>ticket prices are ridiculous
>inserting politics, particularly when they were trying to side with people burning down their own neighborhoods
>the medical stuff, particularly with the NFL can't avoid this, though somehow MMA and boxing never get nearly as much shit
>incredibly high paid players, and a lot of them act like divas
Its surprising its lasted as long as it has.
126d6e No.13716683
>>13716332
>>13716099
Typing edible cutlery into a search engine gave me a designated product. The fork eater might live.
Products
Bakeys uses different types of flours to bake single-use edible spoons, forks and chopsticks which can be consumed after their intended use.[4][5] Since 2010, it has sold more than 1.5 million pieces of cutlery throughout India.[6] As of April 2016, the company only markets edible spoons, but has plans to expand its operations to begin distribution of forks and chopsticks with income from a Kickstarter funding campaign.[5] As of April 2016, the company only ships its products within India.[5]
The products are vegetarian, and are manufactured using with all-natural ingredients, (primarily) sorghum (jowar), and other types of flours such as wheat, rice, and millet.[4][6] The spoons have a shelf-life of 18 months and are so made that they will naturally decompose between 3 and 7 days after use if not consumed.[2] The spoons are manufactured in several flavors, such as cumin, mint-ginger, carrot-beetroot and sugar.[5][7]
dab895 No.13716771
51437a No.13716809
>>13714389
you know i'm right
b4d553 No.13717183
>>13712958
>working for IBM
>for a period of more than a year
how much hair do you have left?
985123 No.13717441
>>13715924
>outsourced chinese coders
Bro, they had some of their best people working on that shit, including a bunch of the people from FF11. This was actually a huge blow for the company to the point that it threatened to ruin the Final Fantasy brand because they had no easy excuses like "We had outsourced this" or "We let some other company work on this" or whatever, no, it was them, their main people in-house working on it.
There was a documentary made about it where they talked at length about what exactly happened, and it was basically just them throwing all their best talent onto a team and expecting magic to happen with no plan and no coordination. So the graphics artists made their best graphics, the story designers made good story shit, etc etc, but the problem was that absolutely none of it amalgamated together into a good game. Nobody asked questions like "Is this fun" or "Does this feel good", they took the attitude of "YES I AM A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND LOOK AT HOW PERFECT AND WONDERFUL THIS BARREL I MADE IS".
The gameplay was repetitive and boring, the system requirements were WAY TOO HIGH for the time, and the game only released on windows despite the majority of their potential userbase being on playstation 3 at the time. Add in the fact that they had grown complacent and hadn't even bothered to look at their competition (other MMOs) to see what kinds of market they were walking into, and it's easy to see how such an awful product marched out the door.
Here, if you wanna watch the documentary about that shit.
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0yQKI7Yw4
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoOI5R-6u8k
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONT6fxiu9cw
760f40 No.13717555
>>13714121
>pissed at EA for doing nothing with the Star Wars license
>as opposed to what Disney is doing what it, producing nothing but absolute shit.
Ok, reopening BF2 servers was pretty cool of them, so they get brownie points for that
56591d No.13717598
>>13717441
They actually did use some Chinese or whatever to do zone design. Ended up looking laughably awful.
2f89de No.13717663
What did Hitler do wrong?
16a470 No.13717680
>>13717555
>producing nothing but absolute shit.
Wow, anon. They might care more about sales than quality. Could that be? Are you an idiot?
18a39b No.13717693
bethesda/zenimax is worse than ea
prove me wrong
16a470 No.13717709
>>13715092
I don't think somebody that can be convinced off the exact opposite of the truth by a single 8chan post is in any position to look down on normalfag NPCs, since an NPC at least has some rudimentary AI swirling around his brain.
>>13715066
>>13715051
They are down 18-20% from what they were in 2015 and their public image is down the drain, you fucking degenerate retards.
e025b1 No.13717949
>>13713174
>I've seen a surprising number of sites and people complaining angrily about gaming turning into gambling. Specifically loot boxes. Not sure why they chose now to suddenly care.
It gets exposure because redditors love government regulation and the media loves the idea of broadly worded regulatory laws. Legislators have no fucking clue what a loot box is, or how to word a law to specifically target only dumbass Steam skins without loopholes. They certainly give zero fucks about ensuring the integrity of videogames from greedy publishers. By the time the law passes Gaben will be scamming these same idiots in different ways. The only reason this gets any mainstream attention is to again trumpet the narrative of the government as savior from greedy businessmen.
If anyone thinks I'm exaggerating then please find me an article that presents the solution as educating parents instead of calling for regulation, because that would give me some hope.
18a39b No.13717986
>>13715066
>Americans are watching to spite their president
You are retarded and probably like weeb garbo
5bfc89 No.13718125
>>13713965
I lose money, but at least get the smug pride in that company's failure, whether it be EA, Actiblizz, or whatever else.
8d44c5 No.13718653
>>13717555 (checked)
True they're producing garbage with diminishing returns (already dropping by 400 million between two movies with rumors the Hans Solo movie was completely reshot), but they're still getting returns.
At Disney you have to wonder if someone knows they're going to kill the Star Wars Licence within a decade. Yes Space Epics appear to be the next big thing after comic movies, but that doesn't bold well for Disney. Right now they make returns for being the only player on the field, but soon rival teams will be there. Like when Witcher 3 released and everyone started talking shit about Skyrim and Fallout.
Disney has 10 years to milk this franchise and when EA is screwing it up every step of the way you have to know that Disney will revoke the license from them sooner or later.
f21ef5 No.13718819
>>13714688
It looks amazing anon. I just hope it's fun and they bring in some good shekels so that they can finish making System Shock 3 aswell.
e8b968 No.13718894
>>13718653
Guardians of the Galaxy has been more or less been competing with Star Wars, but that's not a problem since Disney owns both.
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b51376 No.13719111
>>13714643
https://archive.is/551Xk
EA sports games sell like crack in 1983 New York.
b51376 No.13719121
>>13718894
>Disney owns both
Is there anything Disney doesn't own these days?
b51376 No.13719138
>>13714826
EA isn't stupid. Evil but not stupid.
If they sell the IP to someone who then in turn uses that license to make a great game that outsells anything EA makes…
db3eb1 No.13719139
>>13717949
Where it gets murkey is a clever person could probably argue (certainly to the layman) that these lootboxes are gambling. In an entertainment genre that is still said to be played by children, so ultimately you can sell the argument that it's unregulated gambling aimed at children.
096897 No.13719148
>>13719121
>Is there anything Disney doesn't own these days?
Warner Brothers\D.C., can't remember anything else right now.
c35ac2 No.13719169
>>13712918
So your saying /tg/ and furries are smarter then the average leftypol?
80acd7 No.13719252
I honestly think that shitty sportsball games are enough to keep EA alive, though that said Madden probably is going to take a hit this year
80acd7 No.13719259
>>13712918
Not all /tg/ are furries, Dark Angel players don't like those fucking Space Furfags
80acd7 No.13719269
>>13719121
They don't own the real life Scrooge McDuck
eef3be No.13719420
>>13715066
>From what I've heard on the news
I heard on the news Hillary would win in a landslide. :^)
>the NFL has had record high viewings and has been selling out tickets more than ever
bullshit
Truth is even in my deep blue state most sports fans I know were pissed by it.
Sure, a lot of people did support the kneeling or were indifferent to it, but said people don't watch sports or support it in any way. The NFL appealing to these people cost them viewers and money while gaining nothing from their "supporters". If they gained viewers initially, it was only brief.
5e84aa No.13719476
>>13719121
Plenty considering they put themselves in a content noose.
Seems they forgot they only stole from the public domain to make their shit when they made copyright laws last for centuries. They gotta snatch up everything to not run totally dry.
a4274f No.13719515
>>13714041
>mfw SJWs are so shitty devs even the most plevian tasted normalfag don't wanna touch their crap with a ten foot pole
cb9be8 No.13719666
>>13713265
I think that the primary reason for sports games failing is the fact that they all ar the fucking same.
what is the fucking difference between fifa 16 and 17.
People get burned out.
The card collector f2p crap actually helps them as it milks money while making normalfags obsess over it.
But it is failing as i said, they are getting bored.
Even yearly games like CoD differ more than FIFA or madden
096897 No.13719681
>>13719666
Satan, would you accept >>13712618
self sacrifice and strike down EA.
e1aeb7 No.13719843
>>13717663
Leave Germany to die
edabb9 No.13719969
>>13717663
Attacked the Russians while dealing with Africa, the, the UK, and the Americans.
e6b34c No.13720106
>>13719969
It's not that he attacked Russia that fucked him over - a fight with Russia was gonna happen on Hitler's terms, or Stalin's terms, because Stalin was preparing for conquest - what ruined the campaign was Hitler having a Napoleon moment where he got very ill for a crucial portion of the thrust into Russia, and his generals ignored the plan of attack he had laid out. Hitler was more than a great speaker, he was a brilliant, and ambitious strategist; but a lot of good that is when you're unable to direct your military.
760f40 No.13720284
>>13718894
What's crazy is, Guardians is running laps around Star Wars in everything from visuals and world building to space battles and story. Re-watch Guardians 2, take note of all the throwaway aliens, and weird wildlife they pepper the movie with, without being a pretentious asshole like Star Wars usually is and drawing attention to it. The big "wow" thrill at discovering something new I used to get from Star Wars, I don't get it anymore. But I get it a lot from Guardians movies. They should let James Gunn direct Star Wars. But then they'd just micromanage him all to shit and the movie would still suck.
d3851c No.13720309
>>13714759
I said if they start losing money big they will cut out the shit like bioware, not that they are aiming to keep them arbitrarily.
It doesn't matter if you think that these games are shit because they still sell, and until they miraculously stop selling EA will still stand.
c6e019 No.13722729
>>13720309
They won't close BioWare yet. It still sells. It may be dovetailing, but they're not done milking it to death. There's at least a new dragon age game in the works. That brand isn't fully taint yet. Just mostly ruined, but EA is putting lipstick on a pig and getting marketers to sell it to a mass of turbocasuals, which is EA at its best. Now after that game BioWare might be fully kill, but for now it's still sorta around.
97d2ba No.13722762
>>13712633
Observe: a cuckchan newfag in its element. He shitposts and pretends to have been an oldfag who knows how shit goes around here, except he's clearly retarded and new to the board culture.
You always post sources on 8chan if you want to be taken seriously, 4kid. Lurk more or gtfo.
97e402 No.13723891
>>13713897
>EA literally can die.
ftfy u fuking ea shill
1d6f15 No.13723898
Fuck ea, i want activision to die.
0bb6e6 No.13728358
>>13715066
>From what I've heard on the news more Americans are watching to spite their president, the NFL has had record high viewings and has been selling out tickets more than ever.
Where are you hearing that tripe from, even (((Bloomberg))) can't spin that shit away.
https://archive.fo/7TntI
>TV networks are running out of excuses for the dwindling popularity of the National Football League.
>They blamed the election for ratings declines last year, and hurricanes for a soft week one in September. Protests during the national anthem, and President Donald Trump’s criticism of the league, have faded from the headlines.
>Advertisers are starting to believe a different explanation: the viewers aren’t coming back. Audiences are down an average 7 percent from a year ago through the first eight weeks of the season, excluding last Monday. That’s on top of a decrease of about 8 percent last season that spurred numerous changes in the broadcasts, from shorter commercials to better matchups earlier in the year.
>“There’s just not as many people watching TV the way they used to watch TV,” said Jeremy Carey, managing director of Optimum Sports, a sports marketing agency. “It’s going to be an issue for advertisers when they can’t reach a large-scale audience the way they have.”
4ef696 No.13728378
>>13712633
listen and believe
c33721 No.13738049
>>13712618
Big deal. If EA fails: I'll eat a spent fuel rod.
2adab6 No.13739107
>>13723898
I want EA, ACTIVISION, CAPCOM, NAUGHTY DOG and BIOWARE to die.
8a479a No.13739616
>>13712916
>pic
that gave me a good chuckle
>>13738049
but where will you get it