Evaluating only Nordeus’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Competition as the #1 likely cause. That’s exactly how it died.
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Documented cause
Nordeus became the first Serbian tech unicorn on the back of Top Eleven, a football management mobile game that peaked at 60 million users. The company tried for years to launch a second hit but three major projects were cancelled in development. By 2020 Top Eleven user numbers had halved as FIFA Mobile and Dream League Soccer dominated. Electronic Arts acquired Nordeus in 2021 for an undisclosed sum well below peak valuation, primarily for the Top Eleven IP and the talented Belgrade engineering team.
Lesson
“Single-product gaming companies must diversify before the peak IP cycle ends, not after.”