EA posts $381 million loss

WAAAIIT wait wait wait wait.  Did I hear that correctly, you corporate ass clown?  The "industry" is currently in an unsettled period??No.EA is making the stupidest decisions of its hopefully-soon-to-end-existence.  And by the look of things, all their money-grubbing isn't really grubbing up much money.  Let's hope it stays that way, and all the creative minds and great developers they're holding hostage will be released back to us.And maybe we won't get any more Madden games as a bonus prize.  Who all wants to see the rebirth of NFL Blitz? :-D 

This is what happens when you make a complete failure of an MMO and fail to support it well, and have failure customer service (talking about Star Wars: The Old Republic for those that don't know).

That game has been the biggest expenditure since WoW and couldn't hold a million subs for more than 2 months.  Game is completely dead.

But yes, please continue to blame smaller titles that didn't have hundreds of millions poured into it like Medal of Honor.

Activision, EA, AMD, Microsoft, Nokia. These corporations have a neoliberal flavor of management and business. It was the most wicked set of global policy ever. They should fall because it is karma. =)

EA Ripped me off with BF3 Limited Edition.. I guess this is karma EA. Don't mess with other people's hard earned money!

i think i hear a really tiny violin playing in the distance

Every once in awhile I like to come back to this story...  just to read that delightful headline.

Meanwhile, Activision/Blizzard (love them or hate them) were able to turn a healthy profit margin in their latest earnings report. So quit blaming the "state of the industry" for your own shortcomings, EA.

from an investing site....Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) Q2 beat offset by lowered FY guidance that reflects the disappointing Medal of Honor: Warfighter sales. Revenue was $1.08 billion, vs. our estimate of $1.09 billion, consensus of $1.07 billion,....

That BILLION people. Hate as much as you want.

Come everybody, put a smile on your face, I know the creator of Minecraft has.

By the way, Jess sooooo fit!

Shouldnt spend so much on marketing and ramming shit products down gamers throats.

Here is a hint:  The critical reception for Dead Space 3 isn't going to be so great either if you make it more like the 2nd and less like the first.  The first Dead Space was GREAT.  The 2nd, well, the 2nd was ok.  I mean, it wasn't bad.  It wasn't really good either. 

I don't believe in my entire life that this Dreaded Draconian company is going to bankrupt anytime soon. They just post annual losses so that games would pity them and buy their games, I said FUCK EA, let them burn and made the CEO step down so that game developers would break off that cycle of repetition. Dragon Age Origin, C&C 3 & TFD and Battlefield 2 and 3 was the only game I owned, and the latter was because I love the hype series, but I'm sick of them telling us on a game website that they loss money and beg us for buying thier premium DLC, Medal of Honor Beard and Battlefield Clone instead of sitting down and ask, what's wrong with us?

Remember C&C4 and the new "General" rather than ratified themselves, they pushed product too quickly and made too much advertising that gamer already knew what to expect, all hype and no juice!

Can EA just stop this BullShitting? If they loss money is their own problem! Stop giving shit about EA made losses, what good games we are getting nowadays from EA, I admitted Most Wanted looks promising...... but fuck EA that is nothing but a pioneer in creating news of annual losses, so you pity them and buy their games, enough with that!

EA has nobody to blame but themselves.  They got overly greedy, and this is just the beginning of their punishment.

Hope EA lose more money bunch of @$$holes!

EA needs to quit blaming others for their problems.

EA's titles are just a bunch of over-milked franchises, infected with Origin DRM and spawning countless over-priced DLCs.

People who play video games casually ruin this business.  It's grown way too big.  That's why they make the same game over and over and so many people buy it.  Casual console gamers ruined consoles, and the console's influence ruined PC gaming.  There are still a few great games here and there but they've grown so few in number.  Everyone refuses to make smaller, niche games that can still make profits, but just not "enough."

It's PC gamers fault too, because so many of them steal games.  They say it's because of DRM, but Witcher 2 had ZERO DRM and was stolen 4 times to every 1 copy legitimately sold.  That's disgusting.

Dragon Age Origins game was the last large budget old school style RPG I think we'll ever see.  Bethesda's the only new RPG dev that is actually trying to evolve the genre as opposed to EA, which has tried to water it down.  Blizzard is making old school games, except their problem is that they release the IDENTICAL game except with modernized graphics.  Make something new already.

And when will these devs realize that if you want to be World of Warcraft, you can't make World of Warcraft again?  I wish everyone I spent time arguing with before the release of SWTOR had to pay me money for how wrong they were about what that game was gonna be.  OF COURSE it was gonna be a WoW clone.

I hate that I like playing good video games so much, because it means I have to wade through all the bad ones.

maybe if they concentrated on making better base games rather than concentrating on retailer specific preorders and day-one followed by extensive followup DLC, they might not have lost so much money. CHANGE YOUR WAYS.

Battlefield 3 is awesome why they thought they could milk another military shooter between battlefield titles is beyond me. If it was made with as much effort a battlefield game this would be a different story but this sounds awful like activisionish cod style bs to me. Start pumping out good games instead of crappy ones, to make the quick buck,problems solved.

The easy thing here would be to harp on EA. My second thought was to merely cite a horrible economy. None of those sound good so I will just generalize and say that you can't make money off of garbage games, and given the sensibility of gamers anymore, that is quite a sad and significant statement.

Maybe stop being the least popular company in the US, maybe that would help?

Maybe develop Burnout instead of Nfs? BF 2143 instead of Medal of Honor Beard Edition? Maybe make a new interesting IP?

Good. Loss is free-market way of saying your products are sh*t and not valued. 

Hooray! The only game from EA that i ever acquired

was C&C 3. I was really happy with it for about 1 day and a half and then i realized what happened. Well, that was it.

Although not even close enough to dent EA, its nice that more and more people are being careful with their money. Seriously, rehashed sports games, BF3 getting a premium edition when a person who bought the vanilla game for 60 bucks coughs up an extra 50, release of a game of the same genre (MOH:WF), and of course that dreadful online pass JUST to play online. I also just read about Sony losing money, no doubt from dwindling post release sales of the vita and such.

I'm torn on this.  While I'm no fan of these large evil empire publishers that are creating bad practices within the industry who else is going to finance innovation in next gen gaming?  Games these days cost exorbitant amounts of money and hundreds of thousands of man hours to create.  While I feel this loss is no death sentence for the industry, if large companies start going tits up your next gen gaming will be confined to smartphones and tablets to appeal to the casual gamer.  It also kills economic confidence for anyone willing to take risk.  Very slippery slope but something to think about before you truly cheer the death of EA.

That's what happens when you can NBA Live. lol!! Just kidding, as NBA Live would even be part of this quarter posting. Still, the fact that they cancelled NBA Live just before the season was about to start still isn't a good thing. EA is losing money because they are producing mostly average games and sales are just way down due to the economy.

Moral of the story: Don't release two shooters that you both own within proximity of one another when one of them clearly has substantially more than the other. Stick to Battlefield, EA. Quit f**king around with Medal of Honor when it doesn't have anything over its compatriot.

Warifghter blew me away, in a bad way. Just sad. I was so hyped for it. The SP and MP just sucked soooooo much. The only good things about the game was, that it used FB2 and the buddy system.

Im probably a minority, but I just finishd Warfighter and I actually liked it. To me, it was well worth it. Might actualy play the last one since Warfighter and the last one are connected.

But ya... EA needs to go. They clearly dont know how to do anything and they are destroying the idustry with their greed and their acquisitions. If you ask me, they deserve it.

The one good thing that EA does is bring gamers together in our collective hatred for them. Reading the comments below its amazing to see everyone in almost universal agreement 

HA HA HA what that knocking on your door EA its call karma you greedy fools and don't blame the industry the blame goes to you guys for be so greedy and selfish with online passes and releasing half azz games which it shouldn't happen to begin withand us gamers should have the full game instead of  half of game for 60 dollars most of us gamers don't want spend 60 dollars on half of  game then have pay the other half of the game online which in reality you're ripping us gamers off and need to stop trying buy game companies cause they make better games then you and need to stop rehash games and make some new IP

haha EA

"... the critical reception for MOHW fell below our expectations."

It was crap, but we thought people wouldn't notice because it has explosions.

"EA will continue to push the game during the holiday season through marketing and other sales execution strategies."

Because marketing and stupid consumers who don't know any better solve all our problems! Yay!