Waiting on EA financials (to be released at end of business today?) and found this?

A couple of interesting things I found on the subject. The First is an article from investing,com, AI generated apparently, the world we live in huh? It talks about EA acquiring TraCab. Could be very interesting.

Oppenheimer maintains EA stock Outperform rating, $140 target By Investing.com

And their website

https://tracab.com

Last one is old and relates more to dragon age but has statements made by BioWares general manager I hadn’t seen. They seem relative and potentially telling of more to come.

https://monstervine.com/2025/01/bioware-studio-update-mass-effect-5/

The biggest problem today is we will still be short a lot of information. Like battlefield and the contract with the NFL. Until those things change I’m not sure how they will reassure investors.

Bring back Fun in MUT but don’t mind me I’m just a Llama from Lisbon.

Another link about EA and TraCab  

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/electronic-arts-buys-tech-company-collecting-real-time-sports-data-661f9eb5

“TRACAB Technologies, whose real-time sports data is expected to help advance how the videogame developer creates life-like animations and simulates real-world actions.”

“TRACAB's data is also expected to help EA advance its player statistics, behaviors and team artificial-intelligence.”

“EA Sports App, allowing fans to create and share reimagined highlights, predictive simulations and alternative broadcasts”

Yep, still on it. Dog with a bone, man. What can I say?

‘Let’s build Battlefield together’: EA shares pre-alpha Battlefield gameplay alongside testing details | VGC

This is encouraging and additionally if anyone wants to listen to the earnings call Shacknews twitch channel is going to start streaming it at 5pm eastern.

Deep connections and ecosystems and churn. Love the phrasing EA. Anyone else feel like chum?

Sounds like they are focusing on the battlefield approach to calm people. Doesn’t sound like Madden is really on the radar for now. Too many fires or they are playing it down because of the contract status. Seem really hung up on people playing old versions of FC. Using your community to help generate ideas and bug fixes doesn’t replace testing. You’re using us to churn out the same underdeveloped unimaginative buggy games year after year instead of fixing the damn root cause. Fast paced and social gameplay?

Delays and desync question was a good one but really swept under the rug as not an issue. Clearly it’s an issue.

College football and Madden growth and ecosystem in 2026. He immediately answered this question by bringing up FC and other games. Blowing it off completely and trying to redirect the message. They expect to grow in 2026. Even if it’s just because the NCAA and NFL grow.

Didn’t miss the part about them pushing live services in both games to help them financially in 2026. What the actual hell? If that was supposed to be reassuring it wasn’t.

https://www.ea.com/news/electronic-arts-reports-q3-fy25-results

• American Football saw double-digit growth in weekly active users year-over-year in the third quarter, and remains on pace to surpass $1 billion in net bookings for fiscal year 2025.

Odog123 said:

Deep connections and ecosystems and churn. Love the phrasing EA. Anyone else feel like chum?

Sounds like they are focusing on the battlefield approach to calm people. Doesn’t sound like Madden is really on the radar for now. Too many fires or they are playing it down because of the contract status. Seem really hung up on people playing old versions of FC. Using your community to help generate ideas and bug fixes doesn’t replace testing. You’re using us to churn out the same underdeveloped unimaginative buggy games year after year instead of fixing the damn root cause. Fast paced and social gameplay?

Delays and desync question was a good one but really swept under the rug as not an issue. Clearly it’s an issue.

College football and Madden growth and ecosystem in 2026. He immediately answered this question by bringing up FC and other games. Blowing it off completely and trying to redirect the message. They expect to grow in 2026. Even if it’s just because the NCAA and NFL grow.

Didn’t miss the part about them pushing live services in both games to help them financially in 2026. What the actual hell? If that was supposed to be reassuring it wasn’t.

https://www.ea.com/news/electronic-arts-reports-q3-fy25-results

• American Football saw double-digit growth in weekly active users year-over-year in the third quarter, and remains on pace to surpass $1 billion in net bookings for fiscal year 2025.

So all they’re doing is going to continue to deliver trash content, bad game play, but still put in a “good offer” in the bundles

SosaChamberlain said:

So all they’re doing is going to continue to deliver trash content, bad game play, but still put in a “good offer” in the bundles

That sounds like the plan. Just slap some extra $$ on top next year. It sounds like things might get worse before they get better. Though the NFL could fix this entire problem.

Odog123 said:

That sounds like the plan. Just slap some extra $$ on top next year. It sounds like things might get worse before they get better. Though the NFL could fix this entire problem.

EA (i know theyre bigger and their sports titles alone will prevent bankruptcy) should wake up before its too late. Several big companies are getting decimated right now and may be past the point of saving. Ubisoft is a perfect example. Theyre done. Stick a fork in them. Activision isnt doing so great either. 

The days of sleepwalking through your overprivileged/over entitled "jobs" without consequence are ending in most industries. All while raising prices and delivering increasingly worse service and product. ESPECIALLY video game developing.