interesting that bf3 had the most success
Yikes. Well by these numbers how much you want to bet the next battlefield will be a modern shooter?
We can’t know if that estimate is correct or not.
Those numbers wont make EA want to invest in future content for this game.
Yeah that’s inaccurate. BF1 sold more than the combined sales of BF4 and BFH in the first month if I’m not mistaken. And I highly doubt BF3 sold more than BF1.
This data is probably physical copies only. Back when BF3 released more sales were physical, now they’re mostly digital. Kind of explains the trend in the data you’re providing.
That’s what you get ,when you release an unfinished product.
Go woke! !
I mean, the game is half off right now, it didn’t deliver through black friday, many market analysts said the preorders were low, and also that it didn’t do good during black friday.
It’s clear whatever the number is, they are not happy with it.
I think its still salvageable. The game isn’t a bad game but it does require work.
I agree, but I still don’t trust some site that puts out an “estimate” of the sales when there is no accounting for how they arrived at this estimate.
Still a top 5 purchase on xbox store. All games physical selling copies are down. Why buy physical on console when u can buy digital and share it. That’s what my wife and I do so only have to buy 1 copy.
Haven’t bought a physical copy of any game in over 5 years.
Now I’m not saying that bfv was a major hit but I doubt it’s as terrible as people claim.
I’m finding hundreds of full cq servers every day and even last night when it was early morning in NA there were still 50 full servers to choose from.
13 cq servers EU yesterday night
Not here in US. Well over a hundred till about 2 am PST. I was playing till 6am and still have 50 full servers.
New years eve?
I don’t know maybe because not everybody have access to fast/stable internet, maybe because there are countries and internet providers that do impose monthly bandwidth caps, maybe because not everybody live in big cities?
There is plenty of reasons why retail games are not gonna disappear anytime soon
I think the majority expected this anyway, everyone I have spoken to about this game ranks it worse than Hardline.
This was never going to be a popular game.
I never said it’s going to disappear. Just cant bring myself to buy physical anymore due to the benefits from it.
I’m just saying physical copies are down in due part to this but not entirely from this.
It’s the case with every othe game as well.
Some of the most popular games are download only.
Yeah, I’d wager these are physical copies, but I’d highly doubt these estimates anyways.
- These numbers don’t include Origin PC sales which have increased considerably since its release in 2011
- BFV had to contend with the release of RDR2 and you see a similar drop in sales when GTAV released in 2013
- Doesn’t count the effect of Origin Premier sales as EA tries to transition into more of a service based company on PC
It’s also important to consider that BFV is banking on a lot of potential sales from microtransactions which as Fortnite has proven can be very lucrative. Much of BFV’s ultimate success may be determined by how well it can get microtransactions to work. Due to the nature of the game and the audience I would certainly not expect any where near the level of success with this strategy as Fortnite as expression is not as paramount in this theme as it is in something like Fortnite.
Having said all that there’s no doubt that the senseless over-representation of women (along with their inept and flippant handling of the justified criticism) combined with the lackluster trailer along with major issues like CC stoppages at lvl 50 and a practice range that doesn’t let you practice with your upgraded weapons and is missing vehicles has significantly hurt sales. BFV was up against some stiff competition this year and it also had to compete not only with COD but also with its past releases (now numbering 3 on contemporary consoles) which still have active player bases. It needed to be dialed in. They screwed up what has to be the easiest theme to push home: WW2 and they didn’t have their digital currency ready to go on launch.
I predict BFV will have a No Man’s Sky type trajectory where it suffers in the introductory period but eventually gets its act straight and becomes well regarded. I think it will do this much quicker though than No Mans because the fundamentals are there and mechanically this is the best BF to date.
Business wise though, just repairing the reputation isn’t enough. They’ve also got to get people to spend on cosmetics and that is ultra tricky for a couple of reasons. First being the theme itself limits what you can do. The core audience has already shown outright hostility towards more exotic customizations so they don’t want a repeat of that. Having said that WW2 has a huge built in fanbase and there’s no shortage of authentic items that can be added that enthusiasts can go gaga over.
The second issue is that EA has quite possibly the worst reputation when it comes to micro-transactions thanks to debacles like with SWBF2.
I think they’ll be okay if they can add a steady stream of maps and get the cosmetic currency thing churning. I think they’ll do even better if they can introduce revenue from new sources like theme appropriate voice and body expression packs.
We shall see…
I know I’m in the few for saying this but I never thought Hardline was that bad. Yeah it was more COD than BF but I don’t think it should get all the hate it does.
Come March when Firestorm/battle royale is out we will have a better idea of BFV player numbers.
The price of BFV could be as low as $5 by then.
If the population doesn’t increase with the current 50% off or battle royale in March at $5 to $15 then I can’t see how it will recover or why EA would support a live service model game with low population and low retail price.
Just my opinion and speculating.