EA Conference Call touches on MEA's reception & future ME movie.

Its says $53 million from the premium edition will be put into next quarter, the game has made more than that.  There must be something in the premium edition that hasn't been released yet, so they can't recognize the revenue until it is.  Say you bought a season pass that included four DLCs, the company can't recognize revenue until the DLCs are released.  Just like if you pre-ordered the game they couldn't recognize the revenue until March 21st.

$53 million would be terrible, really terrible.  They were counting on three million sales in the first few days, @60 each that would be 180 million gross sales, minus costs, which was what 40 Million I think I read somewhere.  They would ave been counting on 140 million in the first week.

Either way, I don't think the sales were what they expected. 

If the movie adaptation isn't directed by Takashi Miike I'll be very disappointed.

www.gamespot.com/articles/ea-responds-to-mass-effect-andromedas-mixed-reacti/1100-6449917/

EA Translation: Andromeda made money, we will be making a sequel.

Glad to finally hear from EA and that they are not allowing internet trolling to make them lose sight of the bigger picture. They aren't going to make everyone happy. They will continue to make efforts to improve it but they aren't freaking out either.

YES YES YES

They aren't going to be able to pull off the OT as a movie. They just can't.

Do First Contact War, and some of the stuff that happened pre-game. They could even cover Shepards early career.

Original story, rich area for exploration, and a chance the grow the franchise.

I haven’t seen any evidence of a new Dragon Age game coming out soon and I don’t even know what direction the game would take.

Bioware seem to be lost at the moment and don’t seem to know what direction to take.

Wouldn't $53 million be pretty good if that was just premium edition sales?

Impossible to say without knowing the ratio of deluxe/standard editions. 

Main reason I say the sales weren't what they expected is because they didn;t mention it at all while mentioning several other games on the call.  I've listened to and even been on earnings conference calls at my company and if we had a new version of our software, or a new module released and it wasn't mentioned, it was because it didn't make budget.  These calls are for the public, so a lot of it is spin, so not getting a it was a very successful launch, or sales were solid, or anything.  That's just not a good sign.  I doubt it tanked, but if it had lived up to the three million in the first few days (which was too aggressive to begin with), we would have heard about.  It would have been the most successful launch for an ME game or Bioware game period.  Had it sold two million in the first week it would have beaten ME:3 and been the most successful launch for an ME game.

Also, even though the CEO said Mass Effect Andromeda's reception had nothing to do with pushing the new IP back, it had to.  Putting ME:A out in the shape it was in obviously hit them in a way they didn't like and they don't want that to happen again.  Which is a good thing.  Had they suffered no penalty for pushing out an unfinished product who knows what we'd get in the next DA, ME:A game or the new IP.

Sounds reasonable. I always figure that deluxe editions are a small fraction, but that's probably just projection.

In the patch notes it says that deluxe edition players are getting two free Nomad skins, a new casual outfit, and something else.  Which would be the things that hadn't been given to the players yet, and why they had to push the sales into this quarter.  But I doubt they would make that giveaway if only a small percentage had gotten the deluxe edition.  It was only ten bucks more I think.  So that and/or, they're about to start selling an upgrade for to deluxe for like ten of fifteen dollars and they wanted to make it enticing.  Who knows.

Personally I'd rather there be an animated series than a movie. I just have a seriously bad feeling about this.