EA Q1 2018 Results (MEA 'significant contributor')

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No one even asked about ME lol.

It is and it isn't.

The only game mentioned that realistically has any similarity to MEA's format (in the sense of what form the DLC could take) was DS3, the other two were FPS, and generally FPS DLC is multiplayer focused (and therefore comes with a different economic model). It's pretty rare these days to get single player FPS DLC.

Of course, you're right that Awakened was in dev before the sales problems of DS3 were known. 

I think the basic takeaway is that EA are generally keen on DLC but I suspect they take the dev studio's experience with DLC and how well the title sold into account. Bioware are arguarbly the most experienced studio in the business when it comes to single player DLC and at the very least, we can assume that MEA didn't sell badly.

I'm sure we'll see at least ONE DLC. Even Dead Space 3 which did not sell very well got single player DLC.

I posted this on another thread, but it seems relevant here, as well.

So for anyone saying that MEA was a failure or that EA is "padding" it's results by lumping it in with other games, look at this EA earnings call from February, 2017 about Titanfall 2. They used very specific language when talking about the disappointing sales of Titanfall 2.

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"Yes. So clearly, we saw a very large gross margin improvement in the quarter. That's a combination of higher digital as we just discussed, both in
terms of full game downloads, and higher extra content, in the form of Ultimate Team. It also is, as you called out, we sold less Titanfall 2 than we expected, and we sold more Battlefield 1 than we expected. And Battlefield 1 is a higher margin product for us. And so, that acted as a way of
improving the margin."

Here, again.

"Net sales for the quarter were $2.07 billion, a new record for the Company. The outperformance versus our expectation was driven by Battlefield
1 and FIFA 17, offset by Titanfall 2." Notice how they specifically say that Titanfall 2 under-performed.

So why would they not have "padded" the statistics for Titanfall 2 as they supposedly have for MEA? The evidence is clear, people.

Why would they? BioWare games aren't huge sellers, I am pretty sure if you go back and look at older transcripts you would find they don't ask about BioWare games, especially the quarter after it was released.

Yeah, it really baffles me. Mass Effect franchise is not that popular as much as many fans think it is.
Mass Effect isn't Star Wars of gaming, that would be Halo.

In fact with numbers we're gotten from EA recently, it's safe to assume ME:A sold as much as ME3 did( plus ME2, when counting late PS3 version release). If not even more.
So status of Mass Effect franchise for EA hasn't changed. It is a respectable AAA title, but still very far from being a massive hit like Battlefield and EA Sports games.

Thanks for digging that up, I had the wikipedia list of EA games up and sorted to 2016 but couldn't be bothered to look for exact dates for each title. But quite a few people in this thread could do with reading up on what year-on-year means in this context. Plants Vs Zombies seems to have been quite successful, but UFC is probably the smallest of the EA Sports franchises and Mirror's Edge genuinely bombed. To improve on that quarter's worth of releases with an established, popular franchise in the following matching fiscal quarter is to be expected.

And before the pouf-brigade sets on me: I quite like Andromeda in its current form, release version was underwhelming and I want DLC.

Mike Laidlaw stated reason why they abandoned Exalted March DLC is to fully focus on developing DA:I on Frostbite engine.

First of all, you don't get to call people lowlifes and pathetic because they have divergent opinions on the quality of games.

Second, you don't get to decide who is a real fan.

Third, if I met you in real life, I would give you that bird, then laugh in your face for as long as it took you to run away. You describe yourself every time you try to take down those you disagree with - fucking pathetic.

At the very least, this seems to indicate MEA did not do poorly. I would expect them to tout it more had it been a smash hit, so it seems safe to say MEA sold "good enough".

Still, if what we've heard about development is true EA could be rethinking how they want to handle the franchise's future. Of course, they could just decide to leave it in Casey Hudson's hands given his history with the franchise and return to the company.

And they mentioned that it was a significant contributor to their revenue. That's not saying less.