EA as a whole may have been having a rough time of it lately, but EA Sports are doing just fine, as evidenced by the number of online matches the brand has played host to in 2009.
https://kotaku.com/ea-cutting-1500-jobs-to-reduce-costs-5400728
Speaking with the Nightly Business Report, EA CEO John Riccitiello revealed that in this calendar year alone, “we’ve hosted over a billion online games, a billion online games. That’s a staggering number.”
Damn straight that’s a staggering number.