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SWTOR and the EA stock plummet

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SWTOR and the EA stock plummet

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mrarnold
06.21.2012 , 07:16 PM | #91
If you knew anything about the EA's stock you would see that it is at it's every October/November, and at its lowest typically in March. It is strange that it is still falling, but all of EA's power titles come out in the fall. I suspect their stock will go back to $20 at that point.
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Vitas
06.21.2012 , 07:19 PM | #92
The industry as a whole is suffereing and not every company is safe, but this is nothing new. We've seen worse in the past but the industry has been able to rise back up from it. All MMOs have had an unsteady launch and SWTOR is no different. I'd expect to see the game slowly grow again as 1.3 comes out which includes most of the stuff people have been annoying BioWare for.
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kevlarto
06.21.2012 , 07:23 PM | #93
Quote: Originally Posted by OmegaMayhem View Post
Stocks go up, stocks go down.

Oh, and I don't care. I am playing a GAME I have fun with.

And if you read the WHOLE article, the entire game industry is suffering.

Don't fret, chicken little, the sky is not falling.
yep
blizzard's stock pretty much crashed a while back, they had lay off's all the same stuff, these things cycle, will level out and be ok.. not time to put your toys back in the box yet..
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Kelilareyn
06.21.2012 , 07:27 PM | #94
Quote: Originally Posted by Ashlian View Post
And those people would have left any new game once they reached endgame and got bored. They're the same people who sat here in the forums or in general chat talking about how great D3 and G2 were going to be, then got bored with D3 after one runthrough, made it through a couple of beta weekends of G2 and started whining, and are now talking about.....Elder Scrolls Online. Since it's always best to overinflate your expectations for a game you can't yet play, then you can talk out your butt all you want about all the cool features it will have that NO OTHER GAME WILL EVER MATCH. Just like they did with SWTOR, then were disappointed that it wasn't the best MMO ever in the history of the world. They are never happy with any game for long, because no game can ever match the expectations they have in their head for said game.

I have some friends who follow this pattern, and I just play with them when they're enjoying the high of a new game, and say sayonara when they get bored. They're almost always back for new content patches, despite how "boring" said game is. Because they go through games like disposable tissues, and therefore are always looking for something else to blow their figurative noses on, or wipe their figurative....well, you get the picture.

Everyting they're saying with regards to BW was said at one time or another re Sony and EQ1 and EQ2, well before P2P ever came on the scene. Considering how long Warcraft has been kept on life support without P2P, and the dislike LA has for the concept, I think a full P2P scenario is a lot further in the future than the doomsayers would prefer. They so like to make those in six months, six weeks, heck, six days predictions.
I noticed how those people thought the game would be pvp focused guess they were wrong lol

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kidatwood
06.21.2012 , 07:29 PM | #95
This wouldn't have anything to do with the stock market having its second largest drop of the year. Unemployment up ect ect.

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Wonkadude
06.21.2012 , 07:38 PM | #96
Quote: Originally Posted by Galbatorrix View Post
Me either. Ever hear the expression, "Drive that mutha****a till the wheels fall off"? Well, that's were I stand with this game.
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Grayseven
06.21.2012 , 08:05 PM | #97
In case you haven't noticed, a large number of stocks have lost a large percentage of their value. With the economy as it is, especially in Europe where fears of economic turmoil drive down US stocks daily, a gaming company losing value isn't a big deal.

You especially can't tie the loss to any one thing, and to try to pin EA's price drop to a single game is foolish. Stocks in the entertainment industry are extremely susceptible to economic downturns because the first thing to be given up when people start to tighten their belts budget-wise is luxuries and entertainment.

Smart people would look at the EA stock as undervalued and start picking up a few shares while it is cheap.
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Tiek
06.21.2012 , 08:32 PM | #98
somewhere during that time EA was voted crappiest company on the planet.. or something like that. which may have as much or probably more to do with EA's problems than swtor does.

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Arkerus
06.21.2012 , 08:37 PM | #99
You would have to be totally ignorant to think this isn't related to the second largest drop this year. It's not because of tor.
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jarjarloves
06.21.2012 , 09:06 PM | #100
Quote: Originally Posted by Tiek View Post
somewhere during that time EA was voted crappiest company on the planet.. or something like that. which may have as much or probably more to do with EA's problems than swtor does.
yeah that's nerd rage for you. Some people actually think EA is worse then Bank of America, BP, or even Haliburten.

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