Screen Rant

  • EA CEO Andrew Wilson conducted the company's Q4 2019 financial results conference yesterday. 1 / 7

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  • Wilson acknowledged that Anthem had underperformed, and that EA was learning from it. 2 / 7

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  • According to Wilson, one of the main takeaways was that the old way of doing game launches won't work anymore. 3 / 7

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  • The amount of hours fans expect from Anthem and other live-service games necessitates a new approach. 4 / 7

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  • To that end, Wilson suggested consumers should expect more soft launches in EA's future... 5 / 7

  • ...roughly similar to the way that mobile games soft launch their features currently. 6 / 7

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  • Hopefully there's more to it than that, but EA's acknowledgement of the issue is at least a step in the right direction. 7 / 7