Electronic Arts explains in fact that BioWare’s latest game, released on October 31, 2024 at the end of prolonged development marked by changes in creative direction (EA initially wanted to create a game-service) and numerous important departures, saw pass 1.5 million players by the end of 2024. Unfortunately, we learn that this is around 50% below the expectations of the company, which had therefore counted on a little more 2.2 million players. As a reminder, the director of Dragon Age : The VeilguardCorinne Busche, recently announced her departure after more than 18 years at Electronic Arts.
And Dragon Age therefore did not record as many sales as expected, the drop in Electronic Arts’ forecasts is primarily due to its family of football games, and in particular to FC 25, whose start-up generated less more money than expected, so it is expected to record a single-digit revenue decline in the year-end results. A setback for the franchise which had experienced two consecutive years of growth. Electronic Arts has not clarified whether its disappointment stems from the number of copies sold or the expenses involved (or a mixture of the two).
Note that FC 25 has yet achieved a historic record in the United Kingdom by approaching 3 million copies sold in 2024. As journalist Christopher Dring notes, the game however seems to have done a little less well throughout Europe, when well even it remains the best-selling game of the year on the Old Continent. “ EA Sports FC 25 remained extremely popular, but suffered a decline in a hostile video game market. GSD data for Europe (a key territory for this license) revealed a 5% decline in unit sales compared to FC 24. Separately, Ampere reports a decrease of 1.8 million monthly active users ( MAUs) and a 2% drop in engagement “, he explains.
-Electronic Arts now forecasts net bookings (the equivalent of revenue) of $2.215 billion for the third fiscal quarter (October-December 2024) and a revised range of between $7 billion and $7.15 billion for the fiscal year tax (April 2024-March 2025).
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