EA turns in bummer fiscal report: “We’re disappointed in our underperformance”

EA's latest quarterly fiscal report included a stark admission: Battlefield V's sales fell way below expectations. This, combined with a severe drop in mobile-gaming revenue, led EA's executives to admit that they were "disappointed in our underperfomance" in fiscal Q3 2019.

[chrisx]

sweet music to my ears.

[raWfodog]

You know what this means...more loot box microtransactions!

[UltraNova]

This means more mobile games, more MTs, less SP and more GaaS, like a lot more.

I'm wondering, where do the good old quality games fit in there ^^^?

[fiveby9]

Reminds me of the saying, 'The beatings will continue till morale improves'.

[indysurfn]

Yeah instead of EA realizing that many companies have went down because of bad customer sentiment, they decide to do even more of want gives the the bad will reputation. Each company is amazing how they do this. Look at Circuit city.

They only went down because of this not the internet. They had better prices than best buy but best buy and other did not go down. No one thought Circuit city was going down before best buy (at the time). Now they are only part of another company on the internet.

[GTgamer]

Omg gamers finally spoke with their wallets 😭 it's so beautiful, EA ruined some of my most favorite franchises so screw them.

[ZeroX9876]

As much as I love some of those dev teams, recent years showed that EA is all about making profit at the expense of their company's image.

Battlefield 2 is still up to this day my most favorite BF title of all time, close to Bad company 2.
Battlefield 3 was nice, but afterwards it went downhill for the franchise.

And that's just one franchise which they screwed over, there's many more of it! :(

High Corporate members are obviously not communicating enough with their Devs.

[MajorLazer]

I utterly, utterly loved BF:BC1. I was really hoping they'd keep it like that rather than make it like CoD

[CorndogBurglar]

"Jorgensen didn't mince words: he blamed the drop in the series' uptake on the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans in time for the game's launch." 

So they totally missed the point. Never mind what everyone was already complaining about before BR was even mentioned. Never mind all the unwanted SJW stuff and the historical inaccuracies that everyone was pissed off about as soon as the first teaser was released.

I won't pretend that a BR mode wouldn't have helped. It probably would have. But removing a Single Player mode to have BR also probably would have hurt.

At the end of the day, EA can take hits like this forever but it won't matter a single bit if they refuse to acknowledge what the majority of complaints were really about. I mean, most people had already written this game off after the first teaser, as soon as they saw the woman with the prosthetic arm running around on the front lines. At that point BR wasn't even expected for the game. So they need to open their eyes and realize that there's a certain level of historical accuracy that is expected in BF games, and the SJW stuff in a wargame is just so out of place that it should never be considered.

[-Foxtrot]

The guy is so in denial

He knows why it didn’t sell he’s just spinning it

[rainslacker]

I just kind of find it funny that they said the devs focused on a SP campaign. If that's what they consider focus, then wow. Plus, it pretty much says that they aren't going to bother with SP campaigns in the games in the future.

The reason this game didn't do as expected is because the dev couldn't respect the players. Because they spent too much time pandering to a group of people who don't give a shit about games, like EA is known to do itself. DICE is all that EA is. They act the same, and DICE does EA's bidding. They are just as bad, because it wasn't DICE who screwed up last years SW:BF, it was EA, who were just as bad towards the community, and that game didn't have a SP campaign, was a Star Wars game, and still didn't live up to expectations. So what was their excuse then?

Lesson learned, don't tell your customers that have criticism not to buy the game if they don't like it, and just accept some damn accountability that people are not that keen on your idea of how to milk money out of them. When all the whales go to fortnite because it's the next big thing, you're screwed if you don't diversify your portfolio. Same thing many have said for years. Put all your eggs in one basket, and eventually, that basket is going to break.

[Omegasyde]

Owed Bf 1942 and Bf2, on pc
Bf3 and bad company 2 on ps3.
On Ps4 I had Bf4 and Bf1 (both season passes too).

After placating to put a check in every box for BF Ww2 with more emphasis on “diversity” and less on gameplay - I completely skipped it and glad I did as the game launch was missing features.

[indysurfn]

@UnHoly_One yes you do...You just dont realize it. If EA does not fall do to these practices it makes other companies have to do the same to compete or get bought out.

Most kids understand and say the same I cant believe you feel this way.

[-Foxtrot]

“Don’t like it, don’t buy it”

[badz149]

Square Enix, Sega and now EA having big drops in mobile-gaming revenues...music to my ear!

that's what you get for sacrificing console games for mobile revenue

[CodeNameTBW2]

Next time keep your politics outta battlefield and you wouldn't have this problem

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Beautiful melody

[FalconofLucis98]

interesting

[solideagle]

"Jorgensen didn't mince words: he blamed the drop in the series' uptake on the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans in time for the game's launch."

more micro-transactions incoming. they are blaming single player rather stupidity of the devs speaking against gamers. I am not with SJW but they handled the situation poorly.

[anonymousfan]

To be fair in this digital age why don't they sell their SPs and MPs as separate games? How many MP gamers care about SP and vice versa?

[NarutoFox]

Anthem next LMAO

[UnHoly_One]

Well, Anthem is freaking spectacular, so I'd say it should probably do ok.

[DVAcme]

Oh, ok, you're one of those.

[bloop]

Did you actually play the demo Unholy_One?? Bullet sponge enemies with no A.I., visuals nowhere near what the reveal was like with possibly the worst gui I've ever witnessed leading to complete disorientation during gun fights, atrocious frame rate, bugs causing the game to freeze for half a second when objective items pop up on screen, enemies disappearing into thin air and all audio glitching and dropping out? I certainly didn't find it spectacular. And keep in mind that was a demo, indicative of the final product, not a beta.

[TKCMuzzer]

What? did you have access to a different demo? .........loading.............. ...loading................loadi ng.............
Its Destiny but amazingly not as good (i don't like Destiny)
Poor frame rate, stupid AI, constant loading. You are paying for an unfinished product.

[UnHoly_One]

Sorry I had a drastically different experience than what you guys had. I played both weekends of the demo. Probably put about 40 hours into it, honestly. lol

I loved it. Yeah there were some bugs, but I have no reason to doubt that they will be fixed in the final product.

The demo was pulled out and put together like 2 months ago, there have been a ton of changes to the real game since then.

If you don't like it, you don't like it, and I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise, but I thought the game was spectacular and can't wait to get it. I'm subscribing to EA Access for a month so I can play it a week early, too. lol

[RememberThe357]

Honestly I'm glad you had a good time, but it seems to me that they are pushing this game out way too soon. This game looks like it needs new consoles to achieve it's vision. Instead, they have to please their clueless investors who'd rather see new product launches rather than quality product launches.

[rainslacker]

But it has a SP campaign, so either the SP campaign sucks, or the game will under perform. They expect what, 5 million in sales in the first month?

According to EA, SP campaigns are a bane to their success. It couldn't be that people just aren't that into EA anymore, or there are competitors offering more interesting products for the consumer.

[fiveby9]

I played both weekends of the Anthem demo. Based on that it will not be a day 1 purchase for me. Maybe later in the future but not right away. Too many unknowns. I want Bioware to be successful but sure wish they could be separate from EA.

[Notellin]

Man I'm glad someone enjoyed it because I don't think I've ever been more disappointed in my life. Felt like a poor man's sci-fi Division. Except the enemy AI was boring and rarely put up a challenge.

I hope people like it enough that EA doesn't shutter BioWare but I'm definitely not interested.

[lociefer]

Great news, apparently the fans they made fun off with bf5 didnt actually buy it, and their greed with mobile/fully priced games with Mts finally bit them in the ass, it's too bad we can't give em another golden poo trophy, not that it mattered to them anyways

[Concertoine]

No one’s battlefield.

They actually blamed the single player campaign? How about your terrible marketing and grandstanding?

Im frankly shocked that its sold 7 million and that they only missed their mark by 1 million.

[Daishi]

I would love to know how many of those sold were after cutting the price.

[rainslacker]

What's more amazing is that they consider 7 million a poor number, and just expect everyone to buy it without question. Better to shoot low, and win big, than come up dissapointed with the investors. Makes investors less prone to invest if they don't get their expected return.

EA's been knocked around quite a bit the past couple years. Sadly, it doesn't appear they're looking at it from the stand point of them doing things wrong, and trying to maybe do things right, but instead, in true EA fashion, blaming anything that doesn't hold them accountable.

Hopefully next, their SJW pandering goes out the window, and they start going back to the gamers who actually buy their games. We're more likely to buy their crappy MT than the SJW who don't even buy their games are.

[fiveby9]

EA is MTx hyper-focused. As the saying goes, "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". I just have to stay away from EA titles. As a publisher, they are a terrible influence on the gaming market.

[blackblades]

So we have this and sega/square mobile adventure loss hmmmm ok.

[Relientk77]

This makes me so happy, get screwed EA lol

[PavelBHunter]

This is good news for us gamers

[JackBNimble]

No it's actually not but you guys have your agenda.

[AmUnRa]

No it is good news, microtransaction and all those other EA money greed things needs to stop and gamers have spoken with theyr wallet. So when EA loses money with theyr money greed that will be a warning for other developers. Screw EA .

[Bruneblomst]

jackb@thats a very weak argument,now please try again:)

[rainslacker]

People have always said people need to vote with their wallets. The problem though, was that there were never enough people doing that, so the companies doing things we found distasteful never had any reason to care what we have to say.

But, now, people voted with their wallets. They thought that those they told not to buy the game if they didn't like it would be insignificant, but it apparently wasn't.

That will have an actual effect.

In this case though, given the CEO's comments, it seems they're blaming the wrong thing, and he cites that it's because of the SP campaign, and lack of a BR mode. The lack of a BR mode might have some weight, due to fortnite really taking a large chunk of the MP market right now, but as far as I'm aware, COD hasn't had much of a problem.

So, the problem is still that EA upper management is really clueless, and really only tries to maximize profits, while looking at everything from a pure analytical numbers crunching viewpoint. They have no heart to make games, and don't care about having good will with the community. The CEO makes this apparent. Some of their devs may be more keen on such things, but a companies ethos comes from the top down, and the "if you don't like it, don't buy it", isn't something I would be surprised to hear from from the CEO of the company.

EA puts all its eggs in MT laiden titles, sports titles with MT, and MP games, while their SP games have been few and far between, and mostly lackluster in actual scope or execution. Gone are the days where EA was a force to reckon with, or even care about if you were a hardcore gamer. Now, they cater to the casual, and as Nintendo readily proved, the casual gamer is a fickle bunch.

[Hungryalpaca]

JackBNimble, JackNotQuick, Jack got caught sucking EAs D***

[PapaBop]

Now if only UT started taking a hit too.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

"If you don't like it, don't buy it."

It was at this moment he knew. He f*cked up.

[SegaGamer]

Is there ever a time when EA isn't disappointed? Here's a tip for you EA, stop being so ****.

[LoveSpuds]

Personally, I would love nothing more than for FIFA to decide to offer a license to multiple developers rather than giving EA exclusive rights. The FIFA games are so boring now, some competition is what's needed and it would really stick it to EA who have really abused their position in my opinion.

[jagermaster619]

Or NFL, I'm tired of Madden it gets worse and worse every year!

[rainslacker]

Biggest issue with offering up exclusive rights for a franchise like that is it will always go to the highest bidder, and since it monopolizes the actual franchise, there is no choice but to buy if you want to play games within it.

[Smokehouse]

Stop pandering to people that don’t buy games. Crazy idea, I know... but what do I know? I don’t have a degree in marketing making 6 figures a year.

[SprigganN4G]

RIP Activision and EA. Run Bioware RUN!

[bigmalky]

They already did. It's a bunch of woke, EA brainwashed ex-students mostly. The sane Bioware team left long ago.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

Better yet, RIP to the high ups at EA for blaming single player focused games for the reason sales are down for EA ,when RED D. 2 was the biggest selling game in 2018 !!

[Critic4l_Strik3]

Been looking forward to this so much.

[Gamist2dot0]

"This, combined with a severe drop in mobile-gaming revenue..."

Muhahahahaha...

[OffRoadKing]

You should be disappointed in your greediness, your pandering and your general lack of anything resembling consumer friendliness.

[tombfan]

Still BFV sold 7.1 million copies like... wtf... that's A LOT. Really Ea's just a whiny bit*h.

[elazz]

Well it is only half compared to Battlefield 1 in the same quarter and at a lower average price.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

Battlefield 1 had some good vibes leading into release . B5 did not . But 7 million copies sold ,to me is still very good

[rainslacker]

It's well below their expectations, and when you're talking to investors, you have to explain why that is. 7 million is a profitable game, but if investors were expecting 10+ million, that's a lot of revenue they're not getting, which drives the cost of the stocks down.

Same thing happened with SW:BF last year.

[2pacalypsenow]

Good

[ziggurcat]

Well, EA, perhaps if you stopped canceling quality games in favour of MP GaaS pieces of garbage, your bottom line would look better.

[patterson]

Good! Vote with your wallets. This is the only message that gets through to companies like EA.

[rainslacker]

Except, if you read the CEO's comments, apparently they didn't get the message, and blamed the SP game for it's lower than expected sales.

[Stanjara]

Vote with your wallets! Good news for us all.

[Dragonscale]

Karma.

[FallenAngel1984]

Go screw yourselves EA

[BigKev45]

Vote with your wallets!

[Max_Eckhardt]

Get ready for some more disappointment and once Antham launches.

[Amplitude]

"he blamed the drop in the series' uptake on the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans"

ok but BF5 campaign had literally no effort put into it lmao

[MrVux000]

Worry not, we all support you EA!

If you ever need more kerosene cans to fill that hole of mediocrity you dug yourself in...we will be there to pass them for you (they also come with free-matches).

It will fill us with pride and accomplishment.

[AfroGear]

EA is so tone deaf it boggles my mind:

"EA COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen didn't mince words: he blamed the drop in the series' uptake on the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans in time for the game's launch."

I bet more than anything EA is going to keep getting worse and worse, doubling down on aggressive monetization while trend following by pushing more to mobile and battle royale. I was hopeful that by voting with my wallet they would learn, but it seems they only hear what they want to hear. As far as I am concerned EA is beyond redemption and I would not shed one tear if they went out of business tomorrow. Let em burn.

[kalkano]

It seems to be the new corporate mindset everywhere: When you make a mistake that costs you a ton of money, instead of apologizing and changing, DOUBLE DOWN and continue doing what you were doing.

It makes no sense whatsoever, but I see it constantly happening. Why aren't the people making the decisions being fired!? It seems like the goal of these businesses is no longer to make money...

[rainslacker]

They've tried the apologizing route before. Said they were going to do better, and give the customer what they want. Now, we just watch EA get worse and worse.

I guess it's just too hard to just be better, and maybe do well. It's like they over think what needs to be done, and instead of just making quality games without trying to piss off the consumer at every turn, they try to think of things that the customer never asked for, or wanted, and actively detests very vocally on a regular basis.

[TheColbertinator]

I thought mobile was going to save the idiots at EA

[DillyDilly]

If Ea cared they bring in new management with a different outlook & vibe for this Company. Their practice to only make money is causing them to lose money

[rainslacker]

They've done that a few times over the past 20 years. All they do is bring in worse CEO's, who seem to try even harder to do things people dislike. It's like the powers that be feel that the only qualification to run the company is someone who can find ways to piss off the customer, and create games with as little quality as possible.

[DillyDilly]

Its kind of like an NFL Team & a QB they will find a decent one eventually. Or Gaming crashes again & I honestly would not mind this either

[kevnb]

looks like they dont get why, they need some leadership who actually have some passion for games.

[BadElf]

You guys are assholes...it happens EA

[Larrysweet]

Make good games idiot

[Larrysweet]

Sure ea ubi all of em make bad choices...but take away ea ubisoft activision wtf are ya left with? These companys make some best game framchises around even though they have horrid practices

[Hardiman]

Quite a lot actually!

[AsunaYuukiTheFlash]

All of those franchise you mentioned were mediocre at best maybe except for Assassins Creed.

[Mirdus]

Don't place Ubisoft in the same sentence with EA

[Hardiman]

Look I don't go out of my way to shit on those when they are down but EA deserves all of this! For those who say "get off the EA hate bandwagon " I've despised EA for a very , very long time! They became so big they gobbled up a ton of talented devs who delivered some great games in the 90's and early 00's but after EA acquired them they were ran into the ground and closed! There was a Bioware before EA and a Bioware after EA. Before they steadily improved and delivered some amazing games but after it has went the complete opposite!

I get it if you are young and all these shady practices seem normal big it's not. This is great because I never thought EA would stumble but something has to give. This is why so many gamers rally to the ones who put so much effort and capital into SP games.

[Kumakai]

we all knew it was coming after the Battlefront drama and the others. Guess what tho, EA - You have a new opportunity to win back some love w/ Anthem, so don't Battlefront it again.

[DillyDilly]

Based on Apex: Legends I think EA is gonna go down the crapper again & Im sure they will screw up that Star Wars game coming out this year somehow

[RememberThe357]

What's wrong with Apex?

[Nodoze]

We are disappointed in YOU. Destroying studios, cancelling key games. Micro transactions. ETC ETC. Inserting SJW politics into games. Sad really.

If you properly managed the Star Wars license and put the amount of attention required you would easily meet quarterly numbers.

[TacoTaco]

To be fair, it isn't the "SJW" stuff in itself. It's *how* they tend to do it by shoving it out in everyone's faces, sparking us-vs-them arguments and patting themselves on the back instead of just letting it speak for itself when the game releases.

Apex Legends has two black female characters. Respawn put them in there and made no fuss or special callout "Hey hey, look at what I did!" Because Respawn got it - there's no point to incite stupid political drums.

Overwatch doesn't yet - but when they do you can guarantee there'll be a comic, backstory, headlines, some tweets out from marketing, and the usual community back-and-forth on it. BFV was like "screw history" and slapped the fanbase with prosthetic limbs and stylized art of WW2 fighters that didn't exist in reality, then they doubled down on it.

[RememberThe357]

Very well said. I'm hoping Apex is the beginning of EA letting their devs do their damn jobs. Respawn had to make it clear EA wasn't involved, just to let fans know there wasn't any of the classic EA fkery.

[KickSpinFilter]

LOL ya thats what they did...sure

Two Apex Legends characters are LGBTQ, say EA and Respawn

[TacoTaco]

One they literally don't say (it's just they... And they are wearing a helmet), and the other just says "his boyfriend" in a story.

Polar vortex is bringing out the anti-SJW snowflakes.

[Mirdus]

SJW's don't help human rights and equal rights groups / movements, they do more harm than good for the good causes that so many rights groups do. With LGBT rights group I worked with, there were couple of these morons causing more issues, they were shunned and told to gtfo after attacking people in public who refused to listen to them.

SJW's make people believe that all rights activists are as moronic as SJW's.
Any sane person is anti-SJW, they are beyond logical thought and rational discussion. And become offended for the sake of being offended. If you are an SJW, shut the fuck up, you do more harm for LGBT and other human and equal rights fights, you can only help by seriously shutting the fuck up.

[Hardiman]

It boggles my mind how you could screw up the Star Wars IP so completely! There are so many devs and publishers who if given the opportunity would shine. Look how well Spider-Man turned out but EA isn't interested in that. They want games built around ways to continually take in cash. Battlefront II is a glaring example.

[BlaqMagiq1]

Good. Hopefully they'll continue to lose money.

[TacoTaco]

Square Enix, Sega, and EA all report underperformance of mobile. Oh sweet glory

[Evolve]

Well deserved, EA..... well deserved.

[Sherif129]

Today is a win for gamers everywhere

[DillyDilly]

Keep forcing narratives for games people dont want EA please keep doing it

[ziggurcat]

"Jorgensen didn't mince words: he blamed the drop in the series' uptake on the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans in time for the game's launch."

and this is why I've stopped supporting EA. they're literally blaming the devs' focus on single player for their failure...

[rainslacker]

Meanwhile, Sony is posting record sales numbers by focusing on SP games.

Think there were a lot of things that went wrong with BF, and the SP part was not the problem. The politics attached to that SP were, but people weren't upset it had a SP campaign, and it didn't cause sales to under-perform. Even if BF had a BR mode, it likely still would have been overshadowed by Fortnite, which is going strong.

[Profchaos]

It's a masterclass of what happens when you ignore your fans and throw insults at them.

But it's falling on deaf ears at EA as they blame the development of a single player campaign and the failure to launch with battle royal it's not even close

[Blu3_Berry]

Can we get a round of applause?

[Swiftfox]

Oh look at that. It's almost like fleecing your entire flock doesn't produce the same amount of wool when you do it every single day.

[StormSailor]

Die, die, die, motherfucker die

[william_cade]

That's what assholes say when the fuck up.

[EliteComments123]

Lmfao EA.....

[EliteComments123]

wonder why

[senorfartcushion]

"let's blame everybody but ourselves and double down on live services."

[AK91]

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[deadfrag]

I just love how every major publishers are saying that the mobile segment is underperforming!!Sega,Enix,EA. ...they all jump on mobile thinking it was the new golden chicken....Im laughing so much,and Im going to love when all does developers that are also now jumping on GAAS and neglecting single player will get the real picture that GAAS will underperform too.To make a product/game and having that game perform has expected in terms of sales time is required,money is required and mostly you need to release that same game a complete product and when development is actually completed....and not a half asset product.Greedy publishers and developers have what is expected....im loving it!

[deadfrag]

I really think that the consumer and mostly gamers mentality is changing for better .....more people are actually starting to talk with there wallets its time to stop supporting MT,payed DLC that actually should be free and other crap moves that publishers implement because they are a bunch of greedy people...i really hope that unity among gamers and paying consumers will end in a better gaming environment...im in the mid 40 and i have seen a lot during plenty of gaming Generations and in the end all i can say to people new to gaming is this....we the people,consumers,gamers...we will always have the power to make this greedy publishers change for the better...they need us to buy there games and products...and we united have the power to stop them just by saying NO!Enough is Enough!

[RCslayer]

This is what happens when its rush rush rush, get it out the door and scam fools for every dollar, sooner or later those fools wake up.

[SlagWolf]

Christmas came early this year!

[Thundercat77]

Sweet judgement day!

[brando008]

Maybe stop screwing over your consumers EA

[on_line_forever]

Greet news for gaming endstry

Greedy company must die I will not buy anything from them

[titans9999]

EA - Then start listening to your fanbase (if you still have any of them left) and stop making crappy and shitty on line only games and ignoring the single offline players! Also, start telling the Madden developers to actually make a good football sim for once! Oh, and for the love of the almighty GOD, GET RID OF ALL MICROTRANSACTIONS!

[snoopgg]

They messed up by not making a bad company 3 modern warfare game

[mogwaii]

Well prepare for more with the release of anthem.

[zodiac909]

BURN MOTHERF**KERS! BURRRRRNN!!!!!! AND ACTIVISION ASWELL!!!

[Ethereal]

Huh, looks like all those mobile games are starting to dry up. Good news but hopefully they don't shove more of that crap into console games.

[ocelot07]

To be honest it means noting. They probably made loads of money from sales. Battlefield probably sold well but the investers are probably upset it didn't make all of the money so it "sold below expectation".

[Soy]

Stop buying developers and then promptly ignoring/firing the people who made those studios so goddamned successful. In fact, maybe promote them? Nah. That'd never work.

[BlackDoomAx]

Don't worry EA, people will still give you enough money with Apex.

[Artemidorus]

Underperformace of ripping people off.

[DigitallyAfflicted]

Gaming is probably only industry where wishes of customers being over and over ignored, hopefully that will chang!!!

[BrettAwesome]

Let them bleed out and rot

[CodeNameTBW2]

Next time keep politics outta battlefield wouldn't have this problem

[ghostrider32]

EA won't make a new Fight Night, they buried the Dead Space franchise, and the list goes on. EA can crash and burn.

[DJStotty]

EA will never be graced with any money on any game from my bank account anymore.

Much better developers out there creating great games that deserve the funding more.

[Mr_Writer85]

How EA can make money

A) bin off mobile.

B) bin off having game micro transactions in most of its games.

C) make an amazing Star Wars game that people love

D) make a full fat, no dlc needed, no pay to win Battlefront and Battlefield

E) stop making battlefield annually.

[VTKC]

Dont like it? Dont buy it. Best advice ever.

[syphon32]

You should be, go sit in the corner and choke yourself for all the stupid ish you've done

[metalgod88]

This is what happens when you create the same games every year, dip your feet in the mobile market, add digital gambling to a game that impacts game play/competition, and shut down company after company because they had one mediocre game...or didn't even get a chance to shine.

I loved what EA was in the early 2000's. I hate what it is now.

They have killed some of my favorite series. Here's just a few:
SKATE
MASS EFFECT
TITANFALL
BURNOUT
COMMAND AND CONQUER
MEDAL OF HONOR
FIGHT NIGHT/KNOCKOUT KINGS
DEADSPACE(3 was meh though...)
STARWARS
ARMY OF TWO
FIFA STREET
SSX

[Retroman]

Underperformance ??
Until Ea remove loot crates in every game it will continue Underperform.