EA stock is sliding after a rough earnings report, but Q4 titles Anthem and Apex Legends have their own issues when it comes to potential revenue, even if the quality is there.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
Most of this new article is out of date. Dated for wednesday. Already at 10+ million users. And growing, and number 1 game on twitch with no stop in sight.
Well it'd be ironic if it was Apex considering EA supposedly had nothing to do with it's development. Regardless though, the last 16 months should have hopefully humbled EA a fair bit, I guess that's what they get for years of anti consumer practices.. nobody trusts them anymore.
Apex deserves to be a success, not to pull out ea from under their rock but to finally give respawn a time to shine after being robbed by their own publisher last time.
if anything Legends will. solid game
I don't think that anthem will be the revival for each that EA seems to think it will be after playing the beta the gameplay feels dated it feels like we already played the game before and the story or dialogue was not you to bioware standards in my opinion.
Plus the Reval was so much better than what was delivered the Reval showed this seemles intergattion into an open world but the demo gave us load screens and launch pads not like the reveal which showed the protagonist jumping off the marketplace platform into a level with zero load time it was already based in the level