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EA to Release Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Results on May 7, 2012

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EA to Release Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Results on May 7, 2012

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Drakkip
04.23.2012 , 07:09 PM | #31
Quote: Originally Posted by Jett-Rinn View Post
Activision/Blizzard stock prices are 12.36 it's called a bad economy

OMGZORZ WoW she is a doomed!!!!!!!
The bad economy has been going on for a while, the stock price has plumetted since November when it was at a high. Activision has dropped from just over $13 a share to just over $12 a share. EA stock has almost halved in the same time period. My point is only strengthed by you. If I was an AE shareholder I'd be pissed at hit of almost 50% when other game companies over the same period are taking around a 10% hit. That's not just a bad economy.

That's some pretty basic math there, the price per share is less important than the change in share price, but yeah focus on snapshot share price because that is what matters <rolls eyes>

Let me break it down for you even further. If you had $10,000 in both companies in November 2011 your EA would be worth ~$5,900 and your Activision would be worth ~$8,873

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure who took the bigger hit in stock value over the last 6 months, but yeah clearly you failed at simple math.

So then look at the overall picture, I dunno say the last 10 years. Acrtivision stock has it's ups and downs, including the crash in 2008, however, the overall trend is a steady increase in value of the 10 years. EA on the other hand had a spike from 2003 to 2008 then fell off a cliff from which stock prices have never recovered.

Let me break this down for you even more. Say in 2001 you had invested 10k in both companies EA stock would be worth around $5600 versus Activision being worth around $38,000

But yeah I guess ultimate price is the key indicator in your snapshot world right?

http://investor.activision.com/stockquote.cfm

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Jett-Rinn
04.23.2012 , 07:12 PM | #32
Quote: Originally Posted by Drakkip View Post
The bad economy has been going on for a while, the stock price has plumetted since November when it was at a high. Activision has dropped from just over $13 a share to just over $12 a share. EA stock has almost halved in the same time period. My point is only strengthed by you. If I was an AE shareholder I'd be pissed at hit of almost 50% when other game companies over the same period are taking around a 10% hit. That's not just a bad economy.

That's some pretty basic math there, the price per share is less important than the change in share price, but yeah focus on snapshot share price because that is what matters <rolls eyes>

Let me break it down for you even further. If you had $10,000 in both companies in November 2011 your EA would be worth ~$5,900 and your Activision would be worth ~$8,873

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure who took the bigger hit in stock value over the last 6 months, but yeah clearly you failed at simple math.

So then look at the overall picture, I dunno say the last 10 years. Acrtivision stock has it's ups and downs, including the crash in 2008, however, the overall trend is a steady increase in value of the 10 years. EA on the other hand had a spike from 2003 to 2008 then fell off a cliff from which stock prices have never recovered.

Let me break this down for you even more. Say in 2001 you had invested 10k in both companies EA stock would be worth around $5600 versus Activision being worth around $38,000

But yeah I guess ultimate price is the key indicator in your snapshot world right?

http://investor.activision.com/stockquote.cfm
It's also doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out an over inflated stock price coming back down to earth.
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samht
04.23.2012 , 07:15 PM | #33
1.2-1.5 million subs.

Its not GW2 people should be worried about its MoP and Diablo 3.
What's up with the no LFG and LFR

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Teabaker
04.23.2012 , 07:20 PM | #34
MoP for PvE-Players, GW2 for PvP-Players.

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Jett-Rinn
04.23.2012 , 07:21 PM | #35
Quote: Originally Posted by samht View Post
1.2-1.5 million subs.

Its not GW2 people should be worried about its MoP and Diablo 3.
Nope I think that folks who left WoW for TOR won't be back...no matter what Mikey says...I'm in the beta and seriousley can't play for more than ten minuets without wanting to stab my eyes out. I could never go back to World of Hipster after TOR.

I'm a huge D3 fan, but I will play that along with TOR rather than instead of.

Oh and As I pointed out back on the first page Daniel Erickson said just today that subs haven't dropped, so they are still 1.7 mil.
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Ensquire
04.23.2012 , 07:23 PM | #36
Quote: Originally Posted by samht View Post
1.2-1.5 million subs.

Its not GW2 people should be worried about its MoP and Diablo 3.

MoP, GW2 and terra will be heavily dependent on the Asian markets where as TOR and EA really haven't penetrated that market as much as they wanted to

But if things go like you say they will EA will be begging Valve to put their games back on their store, A kodak moment in gaming industry history

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Jett-Rinn
04.23.2012 , 07:35 PM | #37
Quote: Originally Posted by Ensquire View Post
MoP, GW2 and terra will be heavily dependent on the Asian markets where as TOR and EA really haven't penetrated that market as much as they wanted to

But if things go like you say they will EA will be begging Valve to put their games back on their store, A kodak moment in gaming industry history
Will never happen.

But I do agree with you GW2's main sub base will be in Asia and Germany.
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Darka
04.23.2012 , 07:37 PM | #38
Heh few weeks ago GW2 was " OMG it cant com fast enough" now its already failed?
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Jett-Rinn
04.23.2012 , 07:40 PM | #39
Quote: Originally Posted by Darka View Post
Heh few weeks ago GW2 was " OMG it cant com fast enough" now its already failed?
Of course not...it's just that beta has brought many people back to earth..they now know it isn't the messiah, like I said they will have about a half mil in sales that isn't too shabby I also expect the sales to grow slowly just like GW1 did.
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Ensquire
04.23.2012 , 07:52 PM | #40
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Will never happen.

But I do agree with you GW2's main sub base will be in Asia and Germany.
If there numbers fall and subscription drop off the map i expect TOR not to be Origins exclusive anymore, if you could grab just fifteen percent of steam concurrent users that puts you in the ball park of six hundred thousand purchases, after steam takes its cut i think that equals around 24mil in profit but wait there more, after sub's come in you've now brought that number up to hundred and twenty mill a year minimum believe me you can't say no to that. But before any of that happens people who's vision was to make this game exclusive to origins will be fired