I just polished my grapple!
Channel: Mike B aka Fony
Date: 2019-02-09

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Apex Legends, Origin, and EA

Apex Legends continues to grow, reaching 10 million players in 72 hours
https://massivelyop.com/2019/02/08/apex-legends-continues-to-grow-reaching-10-million-players-in-72-hours/

"The world thinks we're making Titanfall 3 and we're not - this is what we're making."
"We're doing a free to play game, with essentially loot boxes, after we were bought by EA, and it's not Titanfall 3. It's the perfect recipe for a marketing plan to go awry, so why have that - let's just ship the game and let players play.”
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-04-respawn-explains-apex-legends-surprise-release-and-why-there-are-no-titans

EA Blames Subpar BFV Sales on Single Player, I mean lack of battle royale, I mean Red Dead Redemption..
https://twitter.com/inkogni/status/1093689161603862528/photo/1

“EA said BFV sold 7.3 million copies and that was a disappointment. That statement highlights the problem in the gaming world right now. Even millions of games sold is not enough to satisfy the greed of the shareholders.”

https://twitter.com/mbbrazen/status/1093177256866967553

EA is focusing on Anthem and Apex Legends following disappointing quarter
They expect Anthem to sell 5-6 million copies
“As a result the company is expecting revenues of ‘only’ $4.875 billion for the full year, instead of the previously forecast $5.2 billion.” lmao
https://massivelyop.com/2019/02/06/ea-is-focusing-on-anthem-and-apex-legends-following-disappointing-quarter/


Square Enix

Tomb Raider and Just Cause fail to offset wider declines at Square Enix
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-02-06-tomb-raider-and-just-cause-fail-to-offset-wider-declines-at-square-enix

They have a history of overestimating performance, but patience pays off..?
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-26-tomb-raider-has-sold-3-4-million-copies-failed-to-hit-expectations
https://www.pcgamer.com/tomb-raider-reboot-has-sold-85-million-copies/
https://gameranx.com/updates/id/129726/article/tomb-raider-has-sold-11-million-copies-half-of-the-sales-were-on-pc/



Creep News



Elvine arrested in child sex sting

Press release
https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2019-02-04/operation-interception-targets-those-seeking-sex-minor-21-arrested-five

Article
https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/nfl/superbowl/21-men-arrested-in-football-themed-child-sex-sting/85-c77ce5b0-f7e9-459b-885d-3fc57e8eff59

Initial tweet
https://twitter.com/WittyElf/status/1092565903298969601

Slasher reports
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1092586641712128000

Fallout
Sponsors taking to twitter to distance themselves, a modern-day press release
https://twitter.com/schisam/status/1092790209056522240
https://twitter.com/NZXT/status/1092641121669271552
https://twitter.com/SteelSeries/status/1092629426712522758
https://twitter.com/plumwd/status/1092659661080326145

Twitter page scrubbed, down 2 thousand followers
https://twitter.com/elvinelol
Twitch page removed 
https://www.twitch.tv/elvine
Justin Wong chimes in on Twitch page
https://twitter.com/JustinWong/status/1092893215621959681
.com suspended
http://elvinelol.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

Political shortsighted idiots
“Real people don’t care about your stupid imaginary video game world, we care about stopping the sexual predators that are using the platform to groom kids.”
https://twitter.com/iheartmindy/status/1093576758689853440


Vic Mignogna

Rooster Teeth cuts ties with anime voice actor Vic Mignogna amid harassment reports
https://roosterteeth.com/post/51982081
Videos have popped up summarizing the rise of bandwagoning second-hand-experiencers trying to further amplify the severity of the accusations (Trigger warning: corny presentation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDPM4djy_k



Machinima closes down with more than 80 jobs lost
“The parent company Otter Media confirmed to Deadline that the channel has ceased operations with 81 layoffs”
https://deadline.com/2019/02/machinima-closing-layoffs-warnermedia-otter-media-1202547949/

[Update] Method gets world second in mythic Jaina Kill
And world first
https://www.wowprogress.com/






SOULJA BOY WEEKLY UPDATE
Soulja Boy debuts new website - and a significantly cheaper console
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/soulja-boy-debuts-new-website-and-a-significantly-cheaper-console-329445

https://souljaelectronics.com/

Screenshots just in case this site disappears, too
https://i.imgur.com/DDcwHFW.png
https://i.imgur.com/GKi4Hxd.png
https://i.imgur.com/JCMLfrH.png