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Re:The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history by jasode on Monday November 13, 2017 @11:13AM (#15687498)
The "new fools" theory sounds plausible but then I see that EA releases new games far faster than the replacement birthrate for gullible teens. E.g. I count 13 games from 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Electronic_Arts_games

Therefore, there has to be a significant quantity of repeat buyers who were already burned by EA. (E.g. EA can't wait ~20 years to fool the Millenials after milking the GenX buyers.)

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Re:The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history by kbenson on Monday November 13, 2017 @11:20AM (#15687555)
> I count 13 games from 2016

Well, there are a lot of market segments to exploit, and some might not overlap that much. Also, there's 6 games listed for 2017, but each is targeted at multiple platforms so shows up 2-6 times. Finally, with the sports titles, in some cases if you want to play with a roster of real players you don't have a choice but to go with EA.

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