SWTOR and the EA stock plummet

Until the global economy bounces back full and more people can actually find work 'luxury item' companys that sell video games/DVDs/CDs and so on will find their stock getting lower

The only thing that they could do at the moment is to start to target a wider asian audience as they seem to be the only countries that have a greater financial stability

when the Euro crisis ends and when more people in the US are getting back to work then companies like EA will start to see significant market improvement

This is how I feel. If we could somehow keep SWTOR and still watch EA burn...

cmon guys , how can a stock of a whole enourmous company be affected by just one of their games.

ea needs to build a positive reputation with us (their customers).

superimposing origin on all their titles, selling them on that platform more expensive than in stores even though they save packaging shipping and handling AND what the stores earn. then ontop of that including spyware into origin. yeah that does not contribute towards a positive reputation for a company.

and here on the forums everyone believes if something goes wrong with swtor it was the suits @ ea, not bioware nono they can do no wrong.

in the end they make money from us buying their stuff and I am so fed up with ea, that I even wont buy games that interest me because I really don't want to give them my money anymore.

I dunno what the leadership of ea is thinking, first they threaten the creatives with loss of their job and wonder why they stop being creative (referring to all the companies they destroyed, like westwood, origin systems, bullfrog etc etc) now they state to have learned from their mistakes only to make new ones like all too obvious and greedy customer exploitation (instead of what they did before) and think they get away with it.

I am glad that they don't and I seriously hope that ea goes down for good this time.

I dont have enough money to buy enough share to even care, so for me the could do loop de loop for 5 days and then go sky high for all the difference it will make to me.

If you go back a few more months the Stock price was almost $25, so EA's stock was going down before SWTOR came out. This has more to do with the world economy then just one game....

BTW, Activison does a LOT of movie tie in with games, such X-Men, Spiderman, MIB, Battleship, Ice Age, Transformers, etc.. and they also have the Nascar franchise and lots of other games, so they don't just make Blizzard and Call of Duty games... Activision is a close 2nd to EA in the amount of games they put out... And they both have similar stock prices..

World economy has a major impact, yes. Every company is taking a hit thanks to EU mess and Greece.

In other news Vivendi is planning to sell part or all of its share in Activision Blizzard.

$25 was it's peek. The problem with EA stock is SWTOR, as soon as I saw there was no end game I knew it was not going to be a winner for EA and pulled my money out. 6 months in and still no real end game, doesn't matter much now tho the damage is done. Anyone who looks at an investment is going to look at the product and when SWTOR was released it was obvious that the player base was going to rapidly dwindle, and that's not a good thing when investing. SWTOR is a bad investment at this point, and will be until EA get a team who can craft a MMO better than BW has in the door.

I also stay away from china stocks because they run their businesses by censoring any negativity, and these forums is why I would never invest in EA again, and company that squashes free speech like this place does is a company that will do anything to look good on the outside while rotting within. Any company that makes something like that a policy will always be a bad buy.

This is the perfect time to purchase EA stock.

The world economy comes into play a bit, but there is much more to it.

SWTOR was a big hype machine that did not live up to itself. With this came a great deal of animosity directed at EA and Origin.

I find that stocks run in emotional waves. $25 was obviously inflated and there was a correction. It will stabilize at some point and begin to grow again. If anyone bought stock at +$18 because of one title in EA's portfolio they deserve to have lost their butts in the market. Just like the people that paid +$30 for facebook.