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EA Says Single Player Games Are a ‘Really, Really Important’ Part Of Its Portfolio After Controversy

It looks like EA is still trying to fix jokes about single-player games, with CEO Andrew Wilson calling them “really, really important.”

On a recent earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson reassured investors that single-player games are still a major part of the company’s output, regardless of what they say on Twitter.

“When we think about single player games, we see them as a very important part of the overall portfolio we offer to fulfill these core motivations.”

EA recently came under fire after making a controversial tweet mocking its single-player games. The tweet itself was a lame response to the recent meme, but it soon had gamers and industry representatives wondering why EA posted it. Edition, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Sims 4 and many other critically acclaimed single-player games.

Now the company is clearly trying to downplay it.

“Our way of thinking about this is more about what motivations these games meet than what games really are,” Wilson said. “So we know our players have these core motivations: inspiration, escape, social connection, competition, self-improvement, creation. These things that bring us together, like building .

Worse than being ripped off on social media, EA was also criticized by its own employees for the joke. United States of America todayEA employees disliked the tweet, largely because the company’s social media is managed by a team outside the games industry.

“They’re all new, and to my knowledge, most of them aren’t really people in the games industry,” explained one of the USA Today sources. “I didn’t know the person who posted that tweet, and I didn’t have the proper support to prevent something like this from happening.”

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However, EA has made it clear that live service games are the dominant force when it comes to business.

“The first thing to always keep in mind when thinking about the impact on the model and its financial impact is that live services still cover more than 70% of our business. revenue stream, which will be the main driver of P&L (profit and loss) in the long term,” said sad EA CFO Chris Suh.

Ryan Leston is IGN’s entertainment journalist and film critic.you can follow him twitter.

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