Electronic Arts (EA) is trying to restore its reputation after the scandals with loot boxes in FIFA Ultimate Team. She decided to introduce content preview packs into games on an ongoing basis — Preview Packs. This system has already appeared in FIFA, but temporarily.

Electronic Arts has decided to partially revise the system of loot boxes in the FIFA series of games. To do this, the company temporarily gave players the opportunity to find out the contents of packs in the Ultimate Team mode before buying them. However, this promotion has a number of limitations.This is how the new packs look in the game (on the right you can see the timer with the remaining time until a new…

Despite all the scandals around loot boxes, the Ultimate Team mode in sports games like FIFA remains one of the main sources of income for Electronic Arts. The company itself noted that it makes up a “significant part” of its revenue. Over the past year alone, EA has earned over $1.5 billion on it, which is almost 30% of the publisher’s total revenue.The exact revenue of the Ultimate Team mode became known from the annual…

The International Football Federation (FIFA) has reported on finances for 2020. She earned $266.5 million. Most of the amount — $158.9 million — came as royalties for the use of the brand by third-party companies. Video games have become a key source of these revenues.

The publisher will remove the loot boxes from the Belgian version of FIFA.

The European top 10 sales of games from June 11 to 17 have been published. FIFA 18 remains in the first place for the third week.

The Union of Game Publishers of Europe published the top 50 sales of digital copies of games from May 28 to June 3. In the first place was the next part of the football simulator from EA.

Electronic Arts Corporation is thinking about transferring the largest FIFA and Madden NFL sports franchises from annual releases to a subscription system, and maybe even about transferring the games themselves to the cloud.

Journalists from PocketGamer decided to figure out what a paid game can count on in today’s mobile app market. Is there an opportunity to make money not on f2p and not on freemium when it comes to iOS and Android?