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xHezz90 wrote...
SSV Auckland Reporting In.
Hey guys. Guess nothing has happened in the last 12 hours? no? nah didn't think so.
SO what it's a day till PAX now eh? any word on the LiveStream they were wroking on?
Holding the Line!
Modifié par frypan, 05 avril 2012 - 04:06 .
Lord Costantino wrote...
I just did 3 edits on my post above...the Epilgoue is nothing but to help explain crappy plot holes and space Magic...still something though
Nope, twitch.tv is focusing on something else at PAX, we're hoping that folk who go along to PAX take their video camera's, especially those who have steady cam technology.xHezz90 wrote...
SO what it's a day till PAX now eh? any word on the LiveStream they were wroking on?
Holding the Line!
frypan wrote...
CitizenSnips28 wrote...
frypan wrote...
Yeah strange coincidences here too - moved here a few years ago and only just met up with some gamers, all of whom were pretty disgusted by the ending to ME3 by the way. Gave us something to talk about though when breaking the ice, so some good came of this.
Lots of Australia is like Idaho - huge amounts of space with small towns. Tassie is a bit different because the terrain can be pretty rugged and wild- they filmed Walking With Dinosaurs in parts of the state where the landscape is so bizarre looking. Might have to get off the xbox and go take a look while waiting for a fix to ME3 (said hopefully)
frypan wrote...
SSV Hobart to SSV Auckland, glad to see the Southern flank is strong, was just asking if there were any others on this part of the line.
TamiBx wrote...
Lord Costantino wrote...
I just did 3 edits on my post above...the Epilgoue is nothing but to help explain crappy plot holes and space Magic...still something though
Your reaction?
http://gifr.org/wp-c...-flip-fde43.gif
P.S. I hate the old man's face.
DJBare wrote...
Nope, twitch.tv is focusing on something else at PAX, we're hoping that folk who go along to PAX take their video camera's, especially those who have steady cam technology.
frypan wrote...
SSV Hobart to SSV Auckland, glad to see the Southern flank is strong, was just asking if there were any others on this part of the line.
evisneffo wrote...
And I saw that article with the Jennifer Hale interview. Baaaaargh Jennifer Hale being sad makes me sad
Great info - I had not seen that claim regarding GameStop. Yes, their claim that they have to adopt new revenue models because those nasty game pirates make it impossible to maintain revenue levels is just so much horse-hockey. Even bloated ol' IBM is able to turn a 14% net profit off a 51% gross margin, yet EA has a negative net off a 60% gross margin? That's not a problem with how much is coming in, it's a problem with what gets done with it after it gets there!Computim wrote...
SkaldFish wrote...
Posted this over on the "New Forbes Article" thread; thought folks here might find the information interesting:
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There is one thing, though, that sets EA apart from competitors like Activision but hasn't been mentioned in the context of "worst company" (OK, let's say "bad company"). These other companies manage to turn a profit. EA, on the other hand, does NOT, and insists that rampant piracy has hit it so hard that it has been forced to investigate new revenue streams like Day One DLC and micro-transaction schemes.
I'm skeptical and here's why: If I go peruse EA's financials, I see these numbers:
2011 FY Gross Profit Margin: 59.8%
2011 FY Net Profit Margin: -4.5% (yep, you read that right - negative 4.5%)
Revenue per Employee: $505,659
Average Revenue per Employee, Industry Sector: $15,015,580
Cost of acquisitions, last 5 years: $1,067,000 (10% of gross profit)
So... Can we agree that, while this is certainly the profile of a company with a problem, the problem is NOT with its revenue stream?
It's incredible, really. Last year, EA couldn't manage to eke out a dime of net profit off a whopping gross margin of 60%. (For comparison, IBM's was 51%.) In fact, EA hasn't been profitable since 2007. It lost $276 million last year, $677 million in 2010, and $1.1 billion in 2009. Its revenue per employee is one third of the average across its industry peers, indicating far too large a workforce. It spent a full 10% of its gross profit over the last 5 years on game company acquisitions, with no visible benefit at all to its miserable bottom line.
Can anybody legitimately claim that what this company needs is new revenue streams? I'd contend it much more desperately needs new management.
The worst? I don't know. But, even from a basic accounting perspective, much, much worse than its peers.
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Well their biggest beef is Gamestop.. 15% of their revenue last year according to their 10-Q.. which means that the company who is their biggest customer is also their biggest competitor through the Used Games market and Gamestop's Impulse sales platform which directly competes with Origin.
It's part of why they're pushing Origin so much, they want to get to the point where they control the distribution to end user market so they can set the prices and control the DRM/Used sales, and not have to worry about competition... and we thought they couldn't get more 'evil' by internet standards lol... I guarantee if EA thought they could afford it they'd lock used games out entirely and you would only be able to buy through Origin.. but they can't and they'd lose too much money doing that.
So for now we have an uneasy calm.. We're gonna wake up one day and realize the rEApers have taken over though.
xHezz90 wrote...
DJBare wrote...
Nope, twitch.tv is focusing on something else at PAX, we're hoping that folk who go along to PAX take their video camera's, especially those who have steady cam technology.
Bummer, well definitely hope we get some video camera footage then....or someone is going to have to use their phones to let us know what's going on lol.
Computim wrote...
TamiBx wrote...
Did you guys see this? (apologies if you've seen it)
It's like an unofficial epilogue slide (fan made)
http://shannon.users...net/masseffect/
That was awesome
Bioware could have avoided ALL of this if they had taken the time to just give us this sort of epilogue... honestly... and it really makes me hope that if this IS what they give us, that I can accept it and let go of the upset that I've had the last month... it's almost like a bad breakup, I don't want to forgive, but it's not like Bioware cares if I do or don't and I need to for my own sanity and mental health.
@john73693926 We will be reporting much of the PAX happenings, we haven't announced how that will be delivered yet.
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Modifié par TamiBx, 05 avril 2012 - 04:19 .
TamiBx wrote...
See, even though I think that the fan made epilogue was awesome, it does not fix the ending, explain plotholes or help us get over it anymore than the game itslef did. <_<
I definitely do not want them to "address the ending problem" by releasing an epilogue like this. It won't fix anything; it will just tell us what happened after the whole Space Magic
Lord Costantino wrote...
TamiBx wrote...
See, even though I think that the fan made epilogue was awesome, it does not fix the ending, explain plotholes or help us get over it anymore than the game itslef did. <_<
I definitely do not want them to "address the ending problem" by releasing an epilogue like this. It won't fix anything; it will just tell us what happened after the whole Space Magic
Exactly...I dont understand why they just wont use the Indoc theory, it fits canon and then when Shepard wakes p they can continue the game to give us our REAL endings
infinitekilan wrote...
Hopefully they understand exactly how tight of a rope they are walking right now, and proceed accordingly. If they truly care about their work, or their fans, they will do the right thing.
On a side note, after doing some research into EA's business practices, I am fully convinced that they are to blame for how bad the endings were. Impossible deadlines and inhuman amounts of hours put into each work week can destroy even the simplest of projects.
evisneffo wrote...
frypan wrote...
SSV Hobart to SSV Auckland, glad to see the Southern flank is strong, was just asking if there were any others on this part of the line.
Hey a Hobartian! (not sure what you guys call yourselves, that's just what came to mind hahaha) Hello from a rogue Sydneysider!
Soooooooo I've been lurking for a little while, didn't manage to stay away completely until PAX but not going to hang around too much or else I'll get into more petty arguments in other threads. <_<
But, good to see everyone going strong. And I saw that article with the Jennifer Hale interview. Baaaaargh Jennifer Hale being sad makes me sad
TamiBx wrote...
See, even though I think that the fan made epilogue was awesome, it does not fix the ending, explain plotholes or help us get over it anymore than the game itslef did. <_<
I definitely do not want them to "address the ending problem" by releasing an epilogue like this. It won't fix anything; it will just tell us what happened after the whole Space Magic
Nharia1 wrote...
@ Mr Bond
Ever thought about maybe including FanFics that rewrite the endings on your epic list of links?
Little Miss Angel wrote...
Nharia1 wrote...
@ Mr Bond
Ever thought about maybe including FanFics that rewrite the endings on your epic list of links?
Oh dear, there would be too many to sort through. There must be hundreds by now. I know I've read dozens, and those were ones that fit my Shepard closest.
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