EA is buying out companies and trying to make them "better" but in the end they end up flopping. Is EA really thinking they are making the industry better?
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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EA has become more about their investors than gamers a long time ago. Their buying up licenses or developers has been more about limiting their competition, killing their competition and acquiring their tech like frostbite or renderware so that they gain an advantage. I stopped buying their games a long time ago. Giving them more money just allows them to continue to do what they are already doing.
Micro transactions and loot boxes,etc are just the tip of the iceberg for what they will do next. And just to screw over the gamer to get them to buy their nonsense,they purposely make you grind so that some become tempted to spend more money to just have those items now. Like mobile apps do. And more companies will just follow their lead.
And, some think EA Access is a good deal. All it is is to cut into used sales like they wanted to do from the beginning of this generation. Kill used games. When that failed, they turned to Access. Notice how it still is the only service offered on Xbox one. But Ubisoft, Activision etc have enough games to start a service too. Why just EA? And, it's just more revenue for them to keep buying up licenses like the NFL and the Star Wars license so that no one else can make a game.
They won't change. Because some don't care and think keeping their wallets closed is not possible when it is possible to do. Sad part is that gamers like me are just a drop in the bucket to the current gamers that just hit buy without the consequences or the bigger picture. Which is why EA have gotten this far.
EA should burn for all its sin that it ever committed
EA blows
I would have to hand it to them if it was worse
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