I have zero confidence in EA at this point in time. No need to get hyped by any of their games, no matter the franchise. Even if they were to announce Battlefield: Bad Company 3, or a proper Mass Effect 4 game, I wouldn't even think about buying these, until after release, and I watch some gameplay or see some reviews. The quality from most large developers has been going down hard, especially since the Xbox One/PS4 generation launched.

hell yes they will. this outrage is just a storm in a teacup. people are saying one thing „sssssooo mad at them“ and doing another thing „deewd, a sale and battlefront 2 is discounted by 50%“. pathetic.

The answer is yes. Yes they will.

DLC should be limited to cosmetic items only.Pay To Win has to stop.
also whats got totally out of hand is loot box gambling(it shouldnt be allowed)

I pitty the gamers who almost soley have to rely on ea and the other rip off companies to get their supply of AAA. Nowadays i expect nothing worthwile from the likes of activision, ubisoft and ea but games which suck because of different reasons, mp lootbox gambling included. Ofcourse there are welcomed quality 3rd party AAA execptions but the gaming landscape is becoming more and more horrifying so i have to stick with the mostly great, yet not as profitable exclusives sony makes to attract gamers to their plattform while i let the sheeps spend fortunes on above mentioned ripoff games and therefore make possible the exclusives i love so much.

Anthem will have some form of microtransactions. We all know that.

But the BF2 fiasco blew up a lot more than they ever thought it could, and it significantly ate into their sales. On top of that, they pissed off Disney and put their Star Wars license at risk.

EA will not risk that again, especially with a new and unproven IP. I think we'll see microtransactions or loot crates, but likely something closer to COD WWII's system which has worked fine without crossing the line. That system makes money without being unfair or pissing off the fanbase.

Killing battlefront 2? Battlefront 2 is hardly "killed"

Of course they will.

The matchmaking system in BF1 pisses me off really hard. And it doesn't increase the involvement in me... it makes me quit playing...

Up to EA to choose to this game to be a very good graphical/Gameplay art/experience, straight focused in the gameplay or another shelved promisse.
Make the game worth buying , follow the example of Project RED , the Witcher Series, don´t take your customer for granted.

Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear do his business in the woods? Sky still blue? Anthem will be ruined by microtransactions guaranteed, they'll be just like how Bungie does them in Destiny 2, despite the controversy with Eververse, EA will do them exactly like that. That'll be a problem especially if Anthem really is going the route of MMO, a huge part of MMOs is collecting vanity cosmetic items, locking them away in loot crates like in Destiny 2, takes away from the experience.

Probably. Any excitement I had for anthem was immediately destroyed when I found out EA was behind it.

Yes. Next.

They will make all new mistakes

Right. They killed it so much that the servers are still full. I'm having a blast to be honest. Game is a bargain currently.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau