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“Know what they are doing” is a relative distinction.



They’ve figured out how to get golden geese like Madden and FIFA to keep laying eggs through annual releases and sales of in game currency.

The problem comes when they try to make everything else like those two and it doesn’t work. At that point they shoot the other product line to put it out of its misery and blame the fans for not buying it instead of themselves for trying to turn a cow into a goose.

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Its cnet

I don’t link outlets I hate unless it’s really unbelievable

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Roger that. I'll look and troll away.

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That’s actually pretty weak in an industry that’s growing ~10% per year.

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Revenue isn't growing as fast, but their earnings have increased substantially.

Just look at another big publicly traded company like Activision: their revenue in 2014 was 19.4 billion and grew to 28.3 billion in 2017, a 43.5% increase. On the other hand, their earnings in 2014 was 4.7 billion but decreased to 3.5 billion in 2017, a 25.3% decerase.

EA's revenue grew from 15.0 billion in 2014 to 20.0 billion in 2017, a much smaller 33.4% increase (rounded), yet their earnings went from 0.4 billion in 2014 to 4.3 billion in 2017, a 956.1% increase.

Overall both have done well if you look at the long term trends, much better than take-two software, which seems to rely on the release of Grand Theft Auto or other major game to generate get about a little profit for about a year, then right back in the negative for a year or two.

In fact, besides not having a dividend, EA us functioning like a value stock company, as much as one can be in gaming.

The number of girls that play would surprise you. I used to see it everyday when I got on discord and would hear a girl's voice playing a toon that I never would have guessed was a girl. I made friends with one of them and she hid the fact she was a girl so all the beta cucks would stop sending her DMs asking for pics, etc. It is a real issue with girl gamers, they get harrassed a lot.

I don't have a problem with a killer cyborg chick character. I, personally, am one of those douchebags dudes that likes playing girl characters and dressing them as scantilly as possible. I think it's sorta humorous. However, the problem is there were no girl cyborgs running around in WWII. There might have been a few female soldiers in SOME armies (like Finland) but they were very few. There certainly weren't many in the American, British, or German armies.

If battlefield is going for fantasy set in WWII, fine. But they're not - they are merely being SJW's. People are right to call them out just as people were right to call out that movie from a few years ago depicting black Greeks from the classical period.