During EA’s earnings call yesterday, CEO Andrew Wilson revealed that BioWare’s new action IP, which is “built around a live service,” has been delayed into Fiscal Year 2019 (April 2018 to March 2019). According to Wilson, the delay is because they’ve decided to add more to the disruptive new social designs:
Looking forward, we will continue our aggressive pace of innovation through experiences that capitalize on our technology, network and creativity. We are very pleased with the progress of our new action IP from BioWare. The design is stunning, gameplay mechanics are excellent, and the action will be exhilarating. This game is built around a live service, and through our creative process, we’ve decided to add more to the disruptive new social designs for our players. To accommodate that, we are moving the launch date for this project into Fiscal Year 2019. Later in the call, CFO Blake Jorgensen briefly talked about BioWare’s IP. “We’re very excited about this opportunity for a new franchise and we want to further develop the live service component,” he said.
In the Q&A portion of the call, Wilson said the overall “aggregate review scores [for Mass Effect Andromeda] were lower than we would have liked,” but over 100 reviewers did score it at 80 or higher.
Wilson added that EA has strong expectations for the Mass Effect franchise, and the reception of Andromeda didn’t have anything to d...