SWTOR and the EA stock plummet

The cycle continues!

G4 Icons The Crash

the beta weekends did it... stuff leaked out and started the crash IMO.

what was it before transfers? im thinking.... LIGHT?

i transferred from vrook lamar to begeren colony


and lemme say i didnt expect to be doing a heroic 2 mission by myself on my bounty hunter(new char) and get bum rushed by 25 players...pretty much ruining my carefully planned strategy

It's a casino.

Don't suppose this was on ilum doing your dailies?
doc'holliday and lord primeaux constantly camp the imp base with their friends and gank people doing the dailies. However, ilum is a pvp world and its officially allowed.... so, shout out to some friends and fight back. Thats what we do.


On the stock prices... there is always more than 1 factor in a huge multi product corp that can cause it to have huge price changes. Hypothetical situation.. its Oct 2014 and SWTOR has 4 million subs... tons of content updates and tons of happy players.... but John Madden dies.... investors RUN for the exit on EA because that is exactly what the sheep do! Look at the absolute worst case scenario first and act like the sky is falling. Investor Sentiment at its finest

The stock market has always been ruled by two things. Fear and Greed.

The stock is falling! Profits weren't as predicted! Last quarter was down!! Sell! For the love of god, sell!

Wait... Wait... A slight uptick in the Asian market! A new expansion about to launch! Buy! Do want! Do want!!!

Lol, actually if John Madden died, I think the stock would rise significantly. It's like free advertisement having that in the news for a bit, along with all the memorial based versions that could be marketed.

But ya, stocks will rise and fall based on speculation and future expectations. Often times a new successfully released game will come out and that companies stock will plummet the next week because the success is already behind them and there is no where to go but down.

Right now EA is stuck in a rut with no new and innovating ideas in the near future and far to much uncertainty in how they plan to handle a changing market. Investors have nothing to base their faith off of and will sit and watch the stock fall until a change of plan is announced (that sounds promising, not stupid and gimmicky). Swtor can gain 200k subs this very day and the stock will still fall as long as EA continues to invest in freemium phone and facebook games that have shown very little success and profit so far.

Well if Dragon Age 3 is anything like DA2, it might just be the thing that kills EA then.

It will most likely kill Bioware, I expect DA3 to be the last Bioware game before EA decide to shut it down.