2.3+CC bullshit. I refuse to reinstall AGAIN.
coconnor:
Let me tell you something. They are not doing this (pick one) a) for "us", b) for shits & giggles; or C) for any number of other reasons. They ARE making a profit, and one that they are trying to expand upon by 1) the EA store and the new strategy of selling the game and expansions at a higher price by bundling in so called "free" store points. This is (pure & simple) a marketing strategy.
They might not be making a big enough profit (in their eyes) but, they are, certainly, profiting. Otherwise, there would not be a Sims 3 game at all. Period. End of story. It's a company, and that's all there is at the end of the day.
saraswati:
Keep in mind that your brother in law works for Activision/Blizzard. When he thinks profits he's probably thinking WOW, which gets server fees every month and most games aren't like that.
He's wrong.. if the Sims wasn't a cash cow it wouldn't still be open. Sims 3 was one of the few things they made money on in the first half of this year apart from Dragon Age Origins. Sims 3 sold something like 3.7 million units of Sims 3 at the beginning of the year. EA has just finished cutting a massive chunk of it's worforce and cut them in places like Pandemic and the old Maxis studio which produces Spore.. the layoffs didn't happen in the Visceral Studios which makes Sims 3 these days. They would have if they weren't making money from the game. The reason for the lack of quality control is nothing to do with profit or lack of profit. It's to do with the fact that EA has always had crappy quality control and decisions made by marketing guys, and they're getting worse.
Drakron:
Even if their sports titles do sell keep in mind that they do not sell that well across the world ... Europeans take FIFA and not Madden for the obvious reason.
Also keep in mind EA releases their sports titles to about EVERY SINGLE CONSOLE EVER MADE (slight exaggeration but they still do PS2 versions) and they combine sales as you cannot compare then with The Sims that always been a PC game (despite EA attempts at console spin-off titles).
The Sims is EA cash cow in the sense its about just one platform and the investment-return is of a higher return that of their other titles.
Also you want to know Sims 3 total sales as of 5th August 2009? 3.7 million ... (Saraswati, the game was not even out in the start of the year)
saraswati:
Apologies Drakron, I was counting it in the first half of the year because it was released in June..
J. M. Pescado:
You could just do the math: If Drakron says they've sold 3.7M copies, for a price we know is ~$50, that's $185M, considerably more than a third of that listed 450M net revenue. That automatically makes it the leading cash cow because it occupies more than a third of the revenue pie while being only 1 out of the 4 items listed.
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