Electronic Arts Swings to a $58M Loss

hope the bleeding continues, then we wil be rid of this p.o.s. company.

Let's not jump the gun. I like Madden, but their racing titles have sucked for awhile.

uhhh ... $58 million? that's lunch money to EA. they have over $2.5 billion (that's billion with a B) in cash reserves. if they never sold another game, they could keep operating until the middle of the century.

Clearly the idea of making quality software hasn't occured to anyone there yet. How's it go again? Um, "you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." As the gaming software industry moves thru time, it should be interesting to see if having the licensing for top tier sports and using them to continually serve up shit to the masses, as EA do (with race sims at least), will be enough to survive in the business. <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > hope the bleeding continues, then we wil be rid of this p.o.s. > company.

The sim market is so small in comparison to other gaming areas that it means little to nothing to anyone. EA just uses it to market other games. I'm sure they are well aware it is a money loser on its own. "Byron Forbes" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:42e8c1b7$0$29835$[email hidden]...

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> Clearly the idea of making quality software hasn't occured to anyone > there yet. > > How's it go again? Um, "you can fool some of the people some of the > time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." > > As the gaming software industry moves thru time, it should be > interesting to see if having the licensing for top tier sports and using > them to continually serve up shit to the masses, as EA do (with race sims > at least), will be enough to survive in the business. > > > > <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... >> hope the bleeding continues, then we wil be rid of this p.o.s. >> company. > >

"Byron Forbes" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:42e8c1b7$0$29835$[email hidden] .au:

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> Clearly the idea of making quality software hasn't occured to > anyone > there yet. > > How's it go again? Um, "you can fool some of the people some of > the > time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." > > As the gaming software industry moves thru time, it should be > interesting to see if having the licensing for top tier sports and > using them to continually serve up shit to the masses, as EA do (with > race sims at least), will be enough to survive in the business. > >

When rFactor arrives, you may clearly see what a big company like EA can bring to a title vs. an independant effort. I'm not talking code specifically, but some of the items we have taken for granted may not be there. dave henrie

They just forgot to include the unlockable Porn in their tittles... Hehehee Dave Henrie enlightened us with:

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> "Byron Forbes" <[email hidden]> wrote in > news:42e8c1b7$0$29835$[email hidden] > .au: > >> Clearly the idea of making quality software hasn't occured to >> anyone >> there yet. >> >> How's it go again? Um, "you can fool some of the people some of >> the >> time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." >> >> As the gaming software industry moves thru time, it should be >> interesting to see if having the licensing for top tier sports and >> using them to continually serve up shit to the masses, as EA do (with >> race sims at least), will be enough to survive in the business. >> >> > > When rFactor arrives, you may clearly see what a big company like > EA can bring to a title vs. an independant effort. I'm not talking > code specifically, but some of the items we have taken for granted > may not be there. > > dave henrie

"Byron Forbes" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:42e8c1b7$0$29835$[email hidden]... > Clearly the idea of making quality software hasn't occured to anyone > there yet. >This probably only means that they lost 58 million compared to last year, not that they actually lost that much. That's why all these numbers (including baseball organization numbers) mean nothing. Alanb