EA makes $1.3 billion a year off of extra content, according to chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen.

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Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference , Jorgensen detailed the success of the extra content category, which includes things like season passes, map packs, and other microtransactions."The extra content business is a billion-three [$1.3 billion] a year," Jorgensen said. "Half of that is roughly our Ultimate Team business."Ultimate Team, the largest contributor to the earnings of the extra content category, is key to the FIFA, Madden The reason for Ultimate Team’s monetary success is due to human nature, according to Jorgensen.Citing people's desires to collect and trade, Jorgenson said players will "typically pay money to beat their friends."The other categories for digital revenue include mobile ($650 million), subscription services ($300-400 million) and digital downloads, which account for 25 percent of game copies sold overall.The $1.3 billion figure for extra content is essential to EA’s digital revenue, which was responsible for over half of the company’s overall net revenue in Q4 of EA’s last fiscal year. In that same period extra content saw earnings of $265 million.

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