“Dragon Age: Veiled Wardens” has 1.5 million players in the first two months, EA expects 3 million

EA announced today that it is revising its outlook for the current fiscal year after global soccer net booking growth slowed and Dragon Age: Veiled Defenders missed the company's internal goals by nearly 50%.

In the press release, The company said it cut its forecast for the fiscal year ending in March 2025 from mid-single-digit growth to a mid-single-digit decline. The biggest culprit, EA said, was Global Football (aka EA Sports FC), which said business growth slowed in the third quarter last year after two consecutive fiscal years of double-digit net bookings growth. . In a press release, EA CEO Andrew Wilson singled out EA Sports FC 25 for its poor performance.

But beyond global football, EA also mentioned that Dragon Age “attracted” 1.5 million players during the quarter, down nearly 50% from the company's forecast. It's worth noting that EA didn't say 1.5 million copies was a unit sales figure – Dragon Age: Veiled Keeper is also available as part of EA's Play Pro subscription service. Additionally, it's unclear whether EA is counting the 1.5 million free trials of the game available through the cheaper EA Play subscription.

Dragon Age: Veiled Keep releases on October 31, 2024, and EA's report only covers the last quarter of the year through the end of December, meaning these engagement totals cover the first two months of the game's availability. It's worth noting that 1.5 million (or thereabouts) isn't a terrible sales number, the company's overestimated sales target is Nothing new. in its Three days before listingVeiled Keeper debuted at No. 6 on Circana's U.S. best-selling games list, not including Steam digital sales. However, a Analysts we spoke to in November It hints that Veilguard has a difficult road ahead:

Circana's Mat Piscatella said: “Just looking at day one sales and initial engagement through Circana's player engagement tracker shows that this was a good launch, but not Good.” “Dragon Age: Veiled Wardens' launch-week sales aren't at the level of Final Fantasy VII Reborn or Dragon's Dogma II, and it's going to be an uphill battle to reach Inquisition's lifetime sales. ”

There's some smoke and mirrors in Dragon Age: Veiled Keeper's struggles, such as the Huge discounts just one month after launch Cyber ​​Monday, and its director Corinne Busche left BioWare last week. we have Some of the game's development challenges have been documentedinclude layoffs and leave of Multiple project leaders at different stages.

We also Thought Dragon Age: Veiled Keeper was greatcalling it “breathes new life into this legendary series with enjoyable action combat, a stellar cast of companions, and touching characterization.”

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