It's unbelievable that 5 million copies sold is considered a mega flop
>>736345264Looked really good before downgrades.
a mega flop?
>>736345264AAAA production costs are fucking insane.Like, every title has to get near Rockstar levels of success to break even.
Is this the secret Marathon thread?
>>736345264I remember from this old ass Jim sterling video something tellinghttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GtldHv-D-Rk&pp=ygUXSmltIHN0ZXJsaW5nIGRlYWQgc3BhZmU%3DHe had said that dead space 3 was considered a commercial failure by EA because it only sold like 3m copies and they shut down visceral I think after battlefield hardline
>>736345597You mean "she" said. Pronouns matter.
>>736345264All sales are not equal. Anthem was discounted to $1 VERY soon after launch. Those sales didn't result in profit.
>>736345635*"It said"Don't anthropomorphize the bong
>>736345264You don't understand. It's not enough to make a profit. You must make more of a profit than before. Think of the shareholders. If your profits aren't increasing fast enough, you must make massive cuts to the workforce to recoup your losses.
>marketing manager>leak unpublished info of a prior employer on jobseeker pageI didn't know we did public NEET vows now, but alrighty
>>736345354>Looked really good before downgrades.It's not downgrades. It's FAKE gameplay. Learn the difference.
>>736345264wasn't it like a 10 year project that got scrapped once or twice? not to mention EA wanted to GAAS it up so they probably expected it to make hundreds of millions over a couple years
>>736345635I had made a joke one time cause I hadn't watched Jim in a while that I don't know what the fuck he identifies as these days and it probably wasn't they/them so I just typed * as the pronounsThe person i said that too said that actually goes kinda hard you just pause in the middle of the sentence and stare blankly
>>736345716Also I remember seeing angry joes reviews around this time period and a recurring joke was they had subscriptions like ea ubisoft and Gamepass so they would say things like "I want a refund for my month of Gamepass" or "I'm really glad I didn't buy anthem I got it free with EA access"
>>736345264>5 million copiesI do not believe this for one second. The people playing in launch week couldn't find any team mates in servers to start to the game. Maybe they meant 5 million dollars in sales
>>736345716This. I remember playing Anthem and I don't think I actually ever bought it. Somehow got to play it on EAs store for peanuts, think it was like a $2.99 subscription fee that let me play.
>>736346465Another old jim video for history https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UgifZjKd6-ABasically it was in pre development forever, they got a working demo showed it to Patrick ea guy without flying cause that wasnt 100% sure going to be in the gamePatrick said this sucks So they took the same demo put flying back in and he said oh yeah this is good now do thatManagement kept quitting so they got this dude from dragon age who did the whole bioware magic thing he had them crunch until people were being diagnosed with "stress casualties" and had to take extended leave off workAnd then after all that the flying didn't really work because the game wasn't designed around flying and all the weapons looked the same cause nobody could develop anything since the game didn't work until it was nearly out the door so the devs themselves couldn't play ithttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUopKcRLNGA
Marathon is just fine…
