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Battlefield 5's Poor Sales Numbers Have Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts (seekingalpha.com)
dryriver writes: Electronic Arts has mismanaged the Battlefield franchise in the past -- BF3 and BF4 were not great from a gameplay perspective -- but with Battlefield 5, Electronic Arts is facing a real disaster that has sent its stock plummeting on the stock exchanges. First came the fierce cultural internet backlash from gamers to the Battlefield 5 reveal trailer -- EA tried to inject so much 21st Century gender diversity and Hollywood action-movie style fighting into what was supposed to be a reasonably historically accurate WWII shooter trailer, that many gamers felt the game would be "a seriously inauthentic portrayal of what WW2 warfare really was like." Then the game sold very poorly after a delayed launch date -- far less than the mildly successful WW1 shooter Battlefield 1 for example -- and is currently discounted by 33% to 50% at all major game retailers to try desperately to push sales numbers up. This was also a disaster for Nvidia, as Battlefield 5 was the tentpole title supposed to entice gamers into buying expensive new realtime ray-tracing Nvidia 2080 RTX GPUs.
Electronic Arts had to revise its earnings estimates for 2019, some hedge funds sold off their EA stock, fearing low sales and stiff competition from popular Battle Royal games like Fortnite and PUBG, and EA stock is currently 45% down from its peak value in July 2018. EA had already become seriously unpopular with gamers because of annoying Battlefield franchise in-game mechanisms such as heaving to buy decent-aiming-accuracy weapons with additional cash, having to constantly pay for additional DLC content and game maps, and the very poor multiplayer gameplay of its two Star Wars: Battlefront titles (essentially Battlefield with laser blasters set in the Star Wars Universe). It seems that with Battlefield 5, EA -- not a company known for listening to its customers -- finally hit a brick wall, in the form of many Battlefield fans simply not buying or playing Battlefield 5.
Electronic Arts had to revise its earnings estimates for 2019, some hedge funds sold off their EA stock, fearing low sales and stiff competition from popular Battle Royal games like Fortnite and PUBG, and EA stock is currently 45% down from its peak value in July 2018. EA had already become seriously unpopular with gamers because of annoying Battlefield franchise in-game mechanisms such as heaving to buy decent-aiming-accuracy weapons with additional cash, having to constantly pay for additional DLC content and game maps, and the very poor multiplayer gameplay of its two Star Wars: Battlefront titles (essentially Battlefield with laser blasters set in the Star Wars Universe). It seems that with Battlefield 5, EA -- not a company known for listening to its customers -- finally hit a brick wall, in the form of many Battlefield fans simply not buying or playing Battlefield 5.
The right wing reducing complex problems to the most simplistic?
"Be a dear, wipe your face, wash your hands and set the table for dinner."
Well done for being part of the problem. Let's hope you're not too bent out of shape by the orange man performing yet another tantrum.
Only a limited minority took part in the armed battles.
Allow me to give you a math lesson. "Limited minority" is non zero. It means rare, and not non-existent.
EA chose to make a trailer that included one of these "limited minority" women (who your own quote notes did, in fact, exist), and morons such as yourself are losing their shit.
I have no "social justice ideology". I only have historical truths. You'd have an argument if EA's trailer included only women -- but they show one. That is hardly historically inaccurate for WWII. Rare -- yes. Inaccurate, no.
Yaz
Social Justice Warrior in action. You could have quoted Italy, Greece, Yugoslav and Soviet women, who actually were fighting in large numbers. Instead, being properly deranged by social justice ideology and made utterly ignorant of reality by it, you literally quoted the one resistance force that had but a token amount of women combatants.
So what you're saying is the GP's point is absolutely 100% correct it's just that he got the country wrong. Apparently that maked him some sort of deranged SJW?
And you wonder why no one takes you seriously.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
It may not be a good game because of catering to the perpetually offended. There is one fact I know: If you cater to the people that arent your customers at the expense of your customers, then you will absolutely lose customers, and the people you catered to will move on to fuck with something else.
Thanks for `splainin that. I hope your legs were the maximum distance apart as you typed that.
Who are the perpetually offended ones here? The ones who got upset because the trailer had a woman in it and on that basis decided the game was shit before even playing it?
Surely if it's a fun game the fact that you are able to select a woman as your avatar is irrelevant. For people who claim not to care and only want good games that's a rather strange complaint. It's not even historically inaccurate, plenty of women fought in WW2.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Rather than speculate why not look at the actual game and what reviewers are saying about it?
The biggest issues are the DLC and the fact that buying the game gets you a shell that you have to pour more money into. Generic gameplay, lack of interesting multiplayer modes in a fairly saturated market... Nothing to do with the fact that you can have a female avatar.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
They put in a spam filter that stops people whining about white guys being oppressed all the fucking time, that's all. They can't win, if they allow it no-one wants to play their game because if they choose a non-white-male character they get bombarded by anti-sjw trolls, and if they do it the anti-sjw-trolls go batshit.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
It's an online multiplayer game where you respawn when you die, where vehicles materialize out of thin air periodically, and where the objectives have nothing to do with actual historical events. Offering a variety of avatars for this fantasy war doesn't seem like a game-break flaw.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Because allowing people who want to play as a character without an X chromosone completely ruins a game, but balancing weapons by making them entirely unrealistic is making a playable game. There might be a few snowflakes out there who genuinely can't handle the idea of female characters in a multiplayer game, but I hope I'm not being naively optimistic in believing that the majority of the population couldn't care less. I did laugh when I saw the box and knew immediately that an entire portion of the internet would be raging and crying into their cornflakes about it.
No one called you a "alt-right russian bot nazi". I called you a snowflake because you get upset over trivial stuff and imagined victimhood.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
No one called you a "alt-right russian bot nazi".
They probably should have added 'incel' in there, because that's just the go-to responses from progressives that aren't gamers. It's also a favorite of sites like Polygon and Kotaku to label anyone who's outside of their clique, and sites like Mic, Vox, and The Root. Along with the various game journo's and progressive writers that belong to the same circle of drain circling "journalism" and I use that in the loosest possible sense.
I called you a snowflake because you get upset over trivial stuff and imagined victimhood.
Well if someone is pissing around in their hobby, aren't involved, and are ruining it. That's not imagined victimhood.
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