Contemplating FFXIVFollow

When SE does no marketing for their games and promotions, people complain because they are doing nothing to increase sales.

When SE markets a promotion, to increase sales and players, it's a scam.

I can't believe that SE might be motivated to get players to return to their game by offering a great deal and a thank you to players. How SHAMEFUL.

Oh but it seems like they do

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-06-21-stock-ticker-why-eas-market-valuation-has-crashed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=us-daily

Ever since SW:TOR release, EA stock has fallen 40%.

Yea you can dress it up all you like, who was it that tried to link SE stock price drop with FFXIV launch huh. Take Two and Activision are given in comparison in the article, doesn't change the fact of EA share price performance, nor why are they looking at F2P option for SW:TOR. Hey let's not forget Mass Effect 3 spectacular sales.

I didn't dress anything up and I didn't link SE's stock price drop. I posted in a thread about a shareholder who ragequit and sold all their shares because they lost faith that SE was a company who knew how to listen to their customers, which is pretty much what happened. I never said anything about SE going bankrupt over it so I'm not sure why you think that's even relevant here.



You can't just link an irrelevant article and try to change the statement I made. I said that what happened at Schilling's studio isn't representative of the industry. So TT, Activision and EA are listed in an article... what does that have to do with what happened at Studio 38?

You should also take some time to understand why the stock price dropped. This is the sort of thing that happens when you predict earnings of 4.5 billion and only end up bagging 4.3 billion. "ZOMG we only maked 4.3 bilyunz! Shutdown teh stewdeeoh!"


Edited, Jun 25th 2012 8:23am by FilthMcNasty

SE's stocks are down 30% of their share value since November. Not sure if you're aware, but that is also 'underperformance'. What the fu¢k is your point? Please don't answer that question because I fear that you'll just make yourself look even more ignorant. As if comparing EA to Studio 38 hadn't already cemented that for you...

Yea, let's start nitpicking to hide the fact that they are down at the bottom. And their 2011 Annual Report showed red bottom line. Conveniently, anyone at the bottom would be making lots of money. Woo. The bigger you are, the harder you fall. Lmao at TOR has double the sub base to maintain a profit, nope 500k sub base (what you're alluding at, and what most P2P MMO consider as) is for an MMORPG that cost 1/5 of what TOR cost to maintain a profit. RIFT is what they call profitability, even if its sub base is much lower they also cost a lot less than TOR.

Let me repeat this again so it can get through to you: EA fall is the worst in the industry. Period. Unless you want to compare to THQ, since it's really encouraging to compare to someone who is on the verge of dying to feel good. Speaking of THQ, they made similar mistakes for example with Homefront, a 2.3m sales brand new IP that ended up closing down the Studio developed it.



Big titles for Japan maybe, they don't have much presence in the West. Much less the attempt to compete with something called Activision (let's pretend for a second there that BF3 aint competing with MW3, nor TOR trying to compete with WoW at all) and end up being *cough* at the bottom while your no.1 competitor in your homeground (namely Activision) is at the very top. That is just pure promising.

Even if you consider those titles as big launch for SE, then it just means SE performed hella better than EA because they fell 33% less than EA (30% vs 40%, hello~)

And while you people continue to defend EA, their stock price continue to fall.

Edited, Jun 26th 2012 1:25am by Khornette

Edited, Jun 26th 2012 1:26am by Khornette

Khornette, you're like a clown that keeps taking a pie in the face. It's funny when other people are throwing the pie, but with the amount of nonsense you've spewed here you're slamming pies in your own face and it's just not entertaining anymore. Thanks for ruining it.