Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed to meet EA’s revenue expectations

Electronic Arts recently shared its preliminary Q3 FY2025 earnings report, which revealed that Dragon Age: The Veilguard and EA Sports FC24 failed to meet the expected revenue. Due to that, the company revised its revenue projections made previously.

“During Q3, we continued to deliver high-quality games and experiences across our portfolio; however, Dragon Age and EA SPORTS FC 25 underperformed our net bookings expectations. This month, our teams delivered a comprehensive gameplay refresh in addition to our annual Team of the Year update in FC 25; positive player feedback and early results are encouraging,” said Andrew Wilson, in his statement.

Despite being an anticipated release that would have continued the Dragon Age franchise, the game was met with a mixed reaction. This was due to the host of issues the game had with storytelling and gameplay. The story wasn’t up to par with older and felt incomplete with much less freedom, while the company got boring fairly quickly.

On the other side, EA Sports FC has always seen complaints regularly but the franchise usually bounces back. 2024 also saw the return of EA Sports College Football last year which may have had an effect, but we can’t say for sure.

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EA sticking to their long-term strategy

As a result of these two games underperforming EA has adjusted its expected net bookings to $7-$7.15 billion. Previously, the company put these numbers between $7.5 to $7.8 billion. The revenue expectation for the quarter itself is $2.2 billion. This is a significant change in numbers.

Despite that, Wilson believes the upcoming year to see growth and the company is striking to the plan. “We remain confident in our long-term strategy and expect a return to growth in FY26, as we execute against our pipeline,” he added.