DeaconDC Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Uh... you do realize that the entire entertainment gaming industry is trading at about -25% year-on-year for March, right? That EA is not an outlier in its peer industry for earnings? That the downtick in stock trends with it's industry peers? Still higher price than its previous low pre-crash, once we see YE annual report we'll know more, but Q3 call suggests that profitability is already identified as a longer-term proposition for SWTOR for EA and baked into the price. I just find it bizarre that someone would actually try to make a "too late to short EA stock" prediction, when clearly going long makes much more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenjohnp Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I love these forums. Hours of entertainment guaranteed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anitayourtears Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Sentiment is all that matters. Everything else is book cooking. I really do feel like the golden age of video gaming is coming to an end though. Everquest, Diablo, and Doom lead the first wave of PC gaming, with Playstation and Xbox leading the consoles. WOW on the PC and Modern warfare 1st person shooters on the consoles felt like the gaming peak to me. Nothing "feels" revolutionary to me anymore and everything feels like an imitation cash cow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasherUK Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) Guess what? Diablo 3 isn't that great. Blizzard were giving it away free to anyone who paid for a year's sub on wow not long ago (then announced the next expansion once they suckered people in, glad I avoided that). Edited April 13, 2012 by NasherUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niconogood Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) LOL. Strong market. You mean in-game? There are no strong markets now. There is only behavior such as the title of your post suggests: dishonest, underhanded and ultimately, destructive to the entire globe. To spell it out... Nasdaq and most other leading indices have been soaring since newyears. EA has fallen. Not talking long, long term perspective here, but 4 months of bullmarket is a strong market indeed where i come from. And as some other guy were pointing out. YES, SWTOR is not EAs entire portefolio. BUT it is what is on the investors mind atm regarding the company. And that will affect the shareprice. Thats also why I ask if they have any new titles in the horizon that could change the current sentiment. Edited April 13, 2012 by Niconogood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilefunk Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 You guys obviously have no clue on how the stock market works. "A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niconogood Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) "A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim." +1 Quoted for truth Edited April 13, 2012 by Niconogood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathnasty Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) why dont you put up blizzard activisions share price up, ow i know why cos it aint worth as much as EA's, funny that. Now back to my pint. you know why? cause blizzards share pool is 3 times the size more active shares, more active shares, more trade, more trade more price flux i think activisons shares 15bn EA 5bn Edited April 13, 2012 by Deathnasty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BossJawa Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) Everquest, Diablo, and Doom lead the first wave of PC gaming, with Playstation and Xbox leading the consoles. WOW on the PC and Modern warfare 1st person shooters on the consoles felt like the gaming peak to me. Nothing "feels" revolutionary to me anymore and everything feels like an imitation cash cow. I think you will find UO trailblazed the way for major MMO titles, it was also the most revolutionary mmo there has been and still is compared to the crap rolled out over the past few years. Basically the industry must work on the current model - Sign a major licence Massive PR campaign on how great the game will be and give you everyting you ever wanted create 3 or 4 purchase options fluffed out with crap but add 100$ on Cover costs by initial launch sales Launch game sh$t hits the fan Start cutting staff and give lots of false promises to keep customer base subbing for 6 months to squeeze as much profit as possible Go F2P and cash in on micro transactions for the gullible Rinse and repeart with next project We are the ones ot blame for falling for it every time Edited April 13, 2012 by BossJawa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KivanSane Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 it would be foolish to short the stocks of a product that is making money and has 1.6 million users. I think you would lose money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalfear Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) They topped out on 25$ around november in anticipation of SWTOR but have declined steadily since then, it got a slight boost from 18$ to 19$ in february in response to the announcement of 1,7 million paying subscribers. There have not been any investor announcement since then. Stock is now hovering around 16$. I would suspect after the complete fail of patch 1.2, and with diablo 3 coming next month, and GW2 in the horizon the customer base is certain to fall dramatically. The stockprice however have fallen alot in an otherwise strong market, and is now on the same level as before the SWTOR hype. You believe the stock will fall even further or will it even out in anticipation of new titles? since SWTOR was its golden child and I dont care what the spin and fanbois say, empty servers (but listed as light and standard) are empty servers. Yeah EA stock will be free falling after this unless something drastic done. Plus add in the ME3 screw up and the DA2 screw ups They purchased Bioware because of its strong core audience and then they chased that core audience away by changing the designs of the games. And this is a problem? Buy low, sell high; right? In other words, let them drop some more then buy; they'll go up eventually. lol best of luck on that JeR Im not spending any money on their stock if its penny stock! Edited April 13, 2012 by Kalfear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirsri Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Sentiment is all that matters. Everything else is book cooking. I really do feel like the golden age of video gaming is coming to an end though. Everquest, Diablo, and Doom lead the first wave of PC gaming, with Playstation and Xbox leading the consoles. WOW on the PC and Modern warfare 1st person shooters on the consoles felt like the gaming peak to me. Nothing "feels" revolutionary to me anymore and everything feels like an imitation cash cow. That's because making games is bloody expensive and publishers are risk averse. When that plan stops making money, or when someone else innovates into more money they'll try something else. But lets face it, if you play for example skyrim, the core concept of first person 'shooter' walking around pretty much gives all the technology you need to tell the story you want. There are only so many ways to follow a character around, and they can all pretty much be done nowdays. If you want to do something that's more game than story there's still lots of innovation to be had (think minecraft) but from a technical standpoint it's rare that you have a problem that isn't solved by either a 2D or 3D space with stuff that players look at. Once we got to that point it's all been gravy. And has hard as the original battlezone tried, it never quite got there, right idea but not quite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irdc Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Eh, the market is headed for a major correction anyways unless there is additional easing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parali Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Greetings, Our goal with these forums is to provide a place for our community to discuss Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. Since this thread seems to focus more on the world of business, we are closing it. Thank you for understanding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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