BioWare Montreal is being merged into EA Motive

Someone cited 4.15 million in sales in the general forum, and EA was not the direct source. That's the highest I've seen mentioned (I have no idea if it's accurate). That would be below the 5 million target (again, not sure where that was taken from).

What I'm taking about specifically here is interpreting the statements made quarterly call. Suggesting that they represent MEA as selling well is, frankly, baseless. That's not what they said, and it's hard to draw any conclusions regarding MEA from the info they provided.

Mirror's edge (which was not a hit) plants vs zombies 2, and a ufc game (by far the smallest in the EA Sports stable). So yeah, not the highest bar to set for year on year growth.

Yeah, that's not good. And I believe FIFA is one of their cash cows.

I wonder if they've issued their 10-Q yet. That might have better info.

Linkage? #cantseemtofinditmyself

I looked through EA's 10-K. FIFA 17 accounted for 11% of EA's net revenue for the entire fiscal year. So it's not looking like MEA provided the lion's share of that modest 10% bump.



The annual report talks about FIFA a lot throughout and doesn't even mention MEA.

So one thing to keep in mind is that as a publicly traded company, EA has to be careful what they say.

If they say on an investor call that MEA contributed to their financial success then it means exactly what they said.

(And no you're never going to get the actual numbers unless you have access to EA's detailed financial records, which you don't, so shut up about it.)

Unless you would like to assert that EA is lying about stuff to investors. Which is possible, and does sometimes happen (Enron blah blah blah) but -- if you assume bad faith and lies, you have taken the first step on the road of destructive skepticism, and we may as well cut to the chase and just assert we can never know anything about anything and give up.

Yeah, maybe an actual accountant can correct me, but so far all this talk about Andromeda being a financial success is based on statements about revenue and sales, rather than profit.

So EA aren't lying if they say revenue is up YoY with Andromeda being "a significant contributor", but that doesn't preclude that they could be close to breakeven or even lost money with it.

Someone more versed in Kremlinology tealeaf reading outright witchcraft financial reporting could look at past calls every time EA has said "significant contributor" and then try to look for financial around those products and see what it means.

Or... fuck it not even I am bored enough to do this.