Origin, the downloadplatform that Electronic Arts in 2011, launched, the publisher has a revenue of $ 100 million completed. The platform has over 9 million members. The mmog Star Wars: The Old Republic now has 1.7 million active users.
From the latest quarterly results from Electronic Arts shows that Origin, the platform that allows EA to compete with Steam wants to take on, successfully. According to EA has Origin now 9.3 million members, which in 2011 together accounted for a turnover of 100 million dollars. EA announced the platform during the E3 of 2011, after which the service in June, online. Steam, which launched in 2003, now has 40 million members, reported operator Valve last month. Valve made no sales figures are known.
In his quarterly report, EA is also that of the december-launched mmog Star Wars: The Old Republic now 2 million units have been sold, of which there are now 1.7 million are activated. In addition, the publisher announced that in 2011 of both Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12 more than 10 million copies sold.
Despite all the successes made by the publisher in the last three months of 2011, a loss of 205 million dollars. Did EA even better than a year earlier, when the loss of 322 million dollars was. The turnover was 1.06 billion dollars, almost equal to that of the last quarter of 2010.