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Post by monkeylungs on Feb 25, 2019 17:33:38 GMT
given the launch window for the game had 3 other major titles released (all of which were franchise games) within the same week I'm more amazed anthem generated that number of sales in the first place... the fact there comparing to d2 which released in sep 2017 rather than something else is also rather more telling in that there desperate to trash anthem (and EA in general) never mind that one of the flagship games for the ps4 was always bound to have a massive ps4 playerbase… odd that they didnt compare it to say metro exodus, crackdown 3 or farcry new dawn and compare numbers... but that would have generated different results and anthem would seem to be selling too well.. or mayhaps they could have compared it to something else but again that wouldn't have generated the click bait titles based around sales for a game thats been out for 3 days.... so anthem has a quarter of the d2 sales figures for the first week of the game going live and its been less than a week since it went live... why not wait until the end of the first week and make the article for an eggs to eggs comparison???? becasue if sales keep going d2 will look like a slouch... I don't think what you are saying is even remotely on point.
Destiny 2 was the best selling game of 2017. Destiny 2 a slouch? Wow
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Feb 25, 2019 17:37:10 GMT
given the launch window for the game had 3 other major titles released (all of which were franchise games) within the same week I'm more amazed anthem generated that number of sales in the first place... the fact there comparing to d2 which released in sep 2017 rather than something else is also rather more telling in that there desperate to trash anthem (and EA in general) never mind that one of the flagship games for the ps4 was always bound to have a massive ps4 playerbase… odd that they didnt compare it to say metro exodus, crackdown 3 or farcry new dawn and compare numbers... but that would have generated different results and anthem would seem to be selling too well.. or mayhaps they could have compared it to something else but again that wouldn't have generated the click bait titles based around sales for a game thats been out for 3 days.... so anthem has a quarter of the d2 sales figures for the first week of the game going live and its been less than a week since it went live... why not wait until the end of the first week and make the article for an eggs to eggs comparison???? becasue if sales keep going d2 will look like a slouch... I don't think what you are saying is even remotely on point.
Destiny 2 was the best selling game of 2017. Destiny 2 a slouch? Wow
I think they are saying that the writer purposefully compared it to Destiny 2's sales to make Anthem look bad. As for the slouch bit, they are saying if Anthem sold this well so far then when the sales peak at this rate it will be better than Destiny 2, making the latter look like a slouch.
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Post by monkeylungs on Feb 25, 2019 17:42:47 GMT
It isn't going to be close to Destiny 2 that's MY point. Bioware will not even approach the success Destiny 2 had, with Anthem.
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Post by Silversmurf on Feb 25, 2019 17:43:04 GMT
I will be a sad panda if support for this game - and I mean actual dev support with frequent patch fixes and big meaningful content additions - gets completely kiboshed before the year’s end. So far I am enjoying myself thoroughly and, even with a few niggling doubts, I can picture myself playing continuously for a few months until these Cataclysms come out. However Andromeda losing post-launch development two years ago was honestly heartbreaking. I don’t want to have that happen again. Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. Dropping support after 1 year is the trend since DAI sadly I just want to add, Neill Blomkamp is a genius. If you haven't watched his short film yet, go seek it out. Should have built the game around his story and went from there with him directing. I realise that would have been a huge task but oh man it would have been worth it.
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Post by samhain444 on Feb 25, 2019 17:43:28 GMT
Just for further context:
Amazon Digital Game Bestsellers:
PS4 - Anthem Standard Edition #1, Legion of Dawn Edition #2
XBox One - Anthem Standard Edition #2, Legion of Dawn Edition #3 (Behind "Sea of Thieves" at $29.99)
PC - Anthem #2
Seems to be doing alright so far...we'll see how it goes from here
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Post by Pounce de León on Feb 25, 2019 17:48:25 GMT
Not seeing this in this in the thread so just thought I'd throw it out there: ME:A - released on a Tuesday Anthem - released on a Friday Seemed like an obvious thing to point out I kinda miss the obvious part. Tuesday was the classic release day for physical copies. Now with not having to ferry all the boxes anymore you can release pretty easily any day.
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Post by nanotm on Feb 25, 2019 17:59:02 GMT
Not seeing this in this in the thread so just thought I'd throw it out there: ME:A - released on a Tuesday Anthem - released on a Friday Seemed like an obvious thing to point out I kinda miss the obvious part. Tuesday was the classic release day for physical copies. Now with not having to ferry all the boxes anymore you can release pretty easily any day. Friday is a better day to release on as the people going home from work will grab a copy along wiht a few beers at the shop.. which means incidental sales increase especially for parents that want to occupy the teenager for a few hours of "alone time" whilst they unwind
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Post by nanotm on Feb 25, 2019 18:03:20 GMT
I will be a sad panda if support for this game - and I mean actual dev support with frequent patch fixes and big meaningful content additions - gets completely kiboshed before the year’s end. So far I am enjoying myself thoroughly and, even with a few niggling doubts, I can picture myself playing continuously for a few months until these Cataclysms come out. However Andromeda losing post-launch development two years ago was honestly heartbreaking. I don’t want to have that happen again. Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. Dropping support after 1 year is the trend since DAI sadly I just want to add, Neill Blomkamp is a genius. If you haven't watched his short film yet, go seek it out. Should have built the game around his story and went from there with him directing. I realise that would have been a huge task but oh man it would have been worth it. in ME:A they dropped expansion work after the first quarter and the quarrian ark storyline never materialised... hopefully anthem will sell enough to the loot box crew and make enough money to keep support for the next few years, rumours abound that there are up to 9 expansions planned which will open up the world around other forts and even the homeland alongside specific story arcs in new zones all to get added over the coming 18 months, if they start dropping those expansions early then we can get worried the games loosing money and or support early /
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Post by Sartoz on Feb 25, 2019 18:04:57 GMT
How much of this do you think is also due to it being a new IP? Bugs and problems aside for a moment I noticed in the article it compared it to destiny 2. Thay had a fanbase established so that may also be a contributing factor.
Originally, Bio / EA mentioned they were going after "new blood" from the gaming echo system. ... the younger looter-shooter crowd, if you will.... have they succeeded? Not that I can tell.
Plus, selling vanity items is key to satisfy EA's demand for continuous online revenue stream. That means it's a numbers game.
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Post by midnight tea on Feb 25, 2019 18:17:56 GMT
I will be a sad panda if support for this game - and I mean actual dev support with frequent patch fixes and big meaningful content additions - gets completely kiboshed before the year’s end. So far I am enjoying myself thoroughly and, even with a few niggling doubts, I can picture myself playing continuously for a few months until these Cataclysms come out. However Andromeda losing post-launch development two years ago was honestly heartbreaking. I don’t want to have that happen again. Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. Dropping support after 1 year is the trend since DAI sadly I just want to add, Neill Blomkamp is a genius. If you haven't watched his short film yet, go seek it out. Should have built the game around his story and went from there with him directing. I realise that would have been a huge task but oh man it would have been worth it. Around a year of support is about what typical games get. Andromeda had a fairly typical support window planned. Anthem is different tho. Also - physical sales will just keep dropping overall, especially with EA games, methinks. In case people didn't notice they're making a push to promote their digital distribution, services and EA Access and so long as enough people bought even a month of their Premier sub to try Anthem they should be pleased as punch nonetheless. I believe it's more a way of the exclusive on consoles than a typical game release. And exclusives don't have to have good physical sales - their goal is to bring more people to invest in the platform. Subscription services work differently than platforms with separate systems, surely - and everybody at EA, Bioware included, would likely very much prefer to see game fare well at the start. But so long as they make Anthem an attractive title to keep returning to, they'll be making money, not necessarily from vanity MTX, but people who drop in for a month of a sub to play all the content they've added in the meantime.
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Post by cypherj on Feb 25, 2019 18:22:25 GMT
I want to know who is setting the expectation at EA.
They expected Andromeda to sell 6 - 10 million. They expect Anthem, a new IP and something Bioware has never done before to sell 6 million early on. They can't count on Bioware's existing SP game base to come out in full force to support this type of game. They pretty much have to take the market share.
Even with positive receptions I think these expectations were overly aggressive.
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Post by Andrew Lucas on Feb 25, 2019 18:29:55 GMT
How much of this do you think is also due to it being a new IP? Bugs and problems aside for a moment I noticed in the article it compared it to destiny 2. Thay had a fanbase established so that may also be a contributing factor. It's mostly due to the fact that the game is bad and people want to stay away from it.
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Post by ahglock on Feb 25, 2019 18:54:24 GMT
I want to know who is setting the expectation at EA. They expected Andromeda to sell 6 - 10 million. They expect Anthem, a new IP and something Bioware has never done before to sell 6 million early on. They can't count on Bioware's existing SP game base to come out in full force to support this type of game. They pretty much have to take the market share. Even with positive receptions I think these expectations were overly aggressive. I don’t know. What is 6 million sales for a AAA game. Is that a great launch, good, above average ? I mean if it’s a great launch yeah they might be expecting too much. If it’s a fairly average launch probably not.
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Post by linksocarina on Feb 25, 2019 19:00:22 GMT
I want to know who is setting the expectation at EA. They expected Andromeda to sell 6 - 10 million. They expect Anthem, a new IP and something Bioware has never done before to sell 6 million early on. They can't count on Bioware's existing SP game base to come out in full force to support this type of game. They pretty much have to take the market share. Even with positive receptions I think these expectations were overly aggressive. I don’t know. What is 6 million sales for a AAA game. Is that a great launch, good, above average ? I mean if it’s a great launch yeah they might be expecting too much. If it’s a fairly average launch probably not. Depends on the budget of the game. For a project like this I suspect 6 million is close to break even. It really does depend.
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Post by samhain444 on Feb 25, 2019 19:14:40 GMT
I don’t know. What is 6 million sales for a AAA game. Is that a great launch, good, above average ? I mean if it’s a great launch yeah they might be expecting too much. If it’s a fairly average launch probably not. Depends on the budget of the game. For a project like this I suspect 6 million is close to break even. It really does depend. Just in terms of sales, 6 million copies at between $60 to $80 per unit...let's call it $70...$420,000,000. So, was the cost to develop this game, including marketing, near $400,000,000? SWTOR was $200 million, ME:A was $80 mil What would you peg the development costs?
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Post by SofaJockey on Feb 25, 2019 19:27:16 GMT
Anyone have a guess at how much of that 50% is just the normal progression of physical copies dwindling out, and how much is a genuinely bad response to Anthem? Physical sales drop continues downwards. EA's push to promote Origin Premier will also have pushed many away from purchase.
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Post by General Mahad on Feb 25, 2019 19:32:54 GMT
How much of this do you think is also due to it being a new IP? Bugs and problems aside for a moment I noticed in the article it compared it to destiny 2. Thay had a fanbase established so that may also be a contributing factor. It's mostly due to the fact that the game is bad and people want to stay away from it.
There's no rocket science here, the game is just awful at worst and incredibly disappointing at best.
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Post by Superhik on Feb 25, 2019 19:36:37 GMT
I want to know who is setting the expectation at EA. They expected Andromeda to sell 6 - 10 million. They expect Anthem, a new IP and something Bioware has never done before to sell 6 million early on. They can't count on Bioware's existing SP game base to come out in full force to support this type of game. They pretty much have to take the market share. Even with positive receptions I think these expectations were overly aggressive. I don’t know. What is 6 million sales for a AAA game. Is that a great launch, good, above average ? I mean if it’s a great launch yeah they might be expecting too much. If it’s a fairly average launch probably not. For a game like this? Pretty damn low, EA killed Dead Space 3 for the same number and that's action horror title. I guess they're expecting a lot more gain from MTX. In any case, this is not a good indication: bad reviews, very mixed public reception, low views on Twitch, and upcoming Division 2 ( which seems to have far more content in comparison).
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Post by ahglock on Feb 25, 2019 19:38:39 GMT
Depends on the budget of the game. For a project like this I suspect 6 million is close to break even. It really does depend. Just in terms of sales, 6 million copies at between $60 to $80 per unit...let's call it $70...$420,000,000. So, was the cost to develop this game, including marketing, near $400,000,000? SWTOR was $200 million, ME:A was $80 mil What would you peg the development costs? That’s not how it works. Every step takes a cut. Origin direct sales sure mostly, though I expect a lot would just buy premier for 1 month to test it first. but physical copies or digital purchases through another store they don’t take $70.
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Post by lennybusker on Feb 25, 2019 19:47:27 GMT
I don’t know. What is 6 million sales for a AAA game. Is that a great launch, good, above average ? I mean if it’s a great launch yeah they might be expecting too much. If it’s a fairly average launch probably not. Depends on the budget of the game. For a project like this I suspect 6 million is close to break even. It really does depend. Break even on production, or marketing as well? Anthem had a tremendous marketing push, it kinda sucks that the devs might be held to account for that as well when its out of their control.
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Post by theduke on Feb 25, 2019 19:49:26 GMT
I imagine the sales were good enough, considering how unfinished the game was. If you look at Anthem as an early access title its doing well.
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Post by cypherj on Feb 25, 2019 19:54:38 GMT
I don’t know. What is 6 million sales for a AAA game. Is that a great launch, good, above average ? I mean if it’s a great launch yeah they might be expecting too much. If it’s a fairly average launch probably not. Depends on the budget of the game. For a project like this I suspect 6 million is close to break even. It really does depend.
There's no way the development and marketing of Andromeda warranted 6-10 million copies to break even, or anything close to it. I think ME3 sold around 6 million. They thought they were going to increase sales up to 66% on what was essentially a new IP without Shepard?
Anthem, the 6 million wasn't even lifetime. I think they said they were going to sell that many by the first week of March or something like that. If this were Anthem II, and Anthem I had been a success, maybe.
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Post by samhain444 on Feb 25, 2019 19:56:21 GMT
Just in terms of sales, 6 million copies at between $60 to $80 per unit...let's call it $70...$420,000,000. So, was the cost to develop this game, including marketing, near $400,000,000? SWTOR was $200 million, ME:A was $80 mil What would you peg the development costs? That’s not how it works. Every step takes a cut. Origin direct sales sure mostly, though I expect a lot would just buy premier for 1 month to test it first. but physical copies or digital purchases through another store they don’t take $70. That's why I am putting it out there....this is good information. It reminded me of an blogpost from askagamedev: They estimated that, if development cost of the game was $120 mil using an original IP (not licenced like Star Wars for example), at $60 it would need to sell 4-5 million units to break even depending on if physical copy, digital copy and if it's through someplace like Origin. Edit: Not to mention that, if EA sold a bunch of $14.99 1 month EA Access Premier subscriptions through Origin to people interest in trying "Anthem" for a week, that's pure profit for EA, correct? What's the per unit profit cut on a physical copy sold through retailers like Gamestop/Bestbuy? $15-$20? Despite the 60 review scores, I'm not sure EA/BioWare are going to be losing money on "Anthem's"release.
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Post by samhain444 on Feb 25, 2019 20:00:06 GMT
Depends on the budget of the game. For a project like this I suspect 6 million is close to break even. It really does depend.
There's no way the development and marketing of Andromeda warranted 6-10 million copies to break even, or anything close to it. I think ME3 sold around 6 million. They thought they were going to increase sales up to 66% on what was essentially a new IP without Shepard?
Anthem, the 6 million wasn't even lifetime. I think they said they were going to sell that many by the first week of March or something like that. If this were Anthem II, and Anthem I had been a success, maybe.
"Prior to the release of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Blake Jorgensen projected that it would sell 3 million units before the end of March, and 6 to 9 million units during its lifetime. BioWare General Manager Aaryn Flynn predicted that it would sell at least 5 million copies worldwide. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter estimated that Mass Effect: Andromeda shipped at least 2.5 million physical units in its opening quarter, resulting in $110 million in revenue. The closest that EA has come to noting an exact figure was in their fourth quarter (Q4) of fiscal year 2017 (FY17) notes for investors, which stated that $53 million of the game's net sales related to its special editions were to be captured in Q1 FY18 instead of Q4 FY17 (the quarter of its release) for accounting purposes." 2.5 million physical units it's first quarter, not counting digital (SuperDeluxe Edition was Digitial Only at $100), the game likely sold 6 million units combined at least over the past ~2 years.
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Post by vonuber on Feb 25, 2019 20:04:13 GMT
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