EA stock prices plummet ahead of Battlefield V and FIFA 19 releases Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts saw stock prices drop 11.9% at the end of August, shortly after the announcement that Battlefield V\u2019s release date would be moved back into November. We previously reported that EA shares dropped almost 8% immediately after Battlefield V\u2019s release delay, but the damage was worse than initially estimates predicted. On August 30 EA announced Battlefield V would be released on November 20, more than a month after the original release date of October 19. This delay might not be that big a deal if EA weren\u2019t going up against some of their biggest competitors. Activision\u2019s Call of Duty Black Ops 4 is scheduled to come out on October 12 and Rockstar Game\u2019s Red Dead Redemption 2 is set for an October 26 release. Moving Battlefield V\u2019s release date back almost a month behind two of the most anticipated games of the year shows EA isn\u2019t confident in the game quite yet \u2013 and the preorder numbers show fans are taking notice. According to Cowen\u2019s Doug Creutz, there have been 85% less preorders of Battlefield V then there have been for Black Ops 4. Call of Duty preorders have usually been higher than Battlefield\u2019s in the past, Creutz said, but nowhere near the 85% this time around. Call of Duty\u2019s new Blackout battle royale mode started it\u2019s private beta this week and has been a hit in the community. If we compare that to the lackluster response Battlefield V\u2019s beta received, things just don\u2019t look good for EA\u2019s flagship FPS franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EA stock prices plummet ahead of Battlefield V and FIFA 19 releases Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts saw stock prices drop 11.9% at the end of August, shortly after the announcement that Battlefield V\u2019s release date would be moved back into November. We previously reported that EA shares dropped almost 8% immediately after Battlefield V\u2019s release delay, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}