demosthenes
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I feel sorry for children and younger people that this is their opening to the video game world. They'll grow up thinking that they have to pay to win games. We had a good run guys.
I have yet to play a game that offers microtransactions, and I hope it stays that way.
Does three wins make EA a "dynasty"?
By the way, we should follow Kyle Bosman's initiative and, from now on, call micro-transactions "Mattricks".
While I'm certainly mixed on this, the loss of lawnmowers is not like them locking out gameplay modes or anything.
As for the "bribes"? Companies have been doing that since social media was invented. Complaining that you need to use social media to get something you were never gonna use in the first place (or can get by simply putting up with making a post) is lame. You don't need to do it.
Holy shit, EA. Absolutely pathetic.
They might as well name (Worst Company of the Year Award) the EA award. Have them retired from winning it from now on....but have their current CEO come out every year to present it to future winners.probably a lifetime achievement award so that they don't win every year.
It's a shame that the medium budget experiences are pretty scarce now. It feels to me like most of the games being released are either mobile shovelware or AAA experiences. Neither of which really suit my tastes....
How could EA do this to an incredible game series? Makes me sick.
Is this real? This isn't real. Wait. Is it real?!
100,000 @ £20.99 - 1:4764
150,000 @ £27.99 - 1:5359
200.000 @ £34.99 - 1:5715
450,000 @ £92.08 - 1:4887 (listed as "Best Deal")
Surely there is a law against openly lying to your customers.
A more apt comparison would be paying for a continue in a rogue/like, and even that's taking it much further.
(this is not a shop, this is the actual iTunes icon. Truth in advertising!)
Did you forget Command & Conquer? It's a cycle that always repeats.
Wow. That's lame.
Are they ever going to bring it to anything other than mobile? I swear they said they were going to, but it had limited time exclusivity on iOS.
And that's pretty much why I've come to the conclusion that all their claims of wanting to keep from becoming the worst company AGAIN, is merely lip service, if you can milk your customer base and make absurd amounts of money in the process, whats some negative award in the grand scheme of things?
They're just giving back (poo) to the community.EA's decided to stop the "we're not the worst company in America" statement and just take ownership of the votes they receive.
Incorrect, and I think you know that you're pushing it.Terrible comparison. PvZ is a strategy game, and part of strategy games is coming up with a new strategy once an old strategy has failed, but a failed strategy should not cost you money. The original PvZ games featured very effective (probably too effective, borderline broken) strategies that involved intentionally losing a lawn mower or two. PvZ2 took these strategies away, making it so that losing a lawnmower was a fail state for many of the levels. Fine, so it's harder and the cost of failure is restarting a level. Now you can lose the lawnmowers again, but you have to pay to get them back. The cost of failure is now tied to real money. Players have fewer and fewer options to play a strategy game without paying for the privilege. It's not a sensible decision to keep changing the rules of a strategy game when it's so easy to just uninstall.
One day you guys will learn to stop supporting this trash company. That means ALL of their products, not just mobile shit.
At this point I'd feel that my money was better spent by funding a terrorist organization of some sort. Or the NRA. Those aren't the same thing, right?I don't understand how people can keep giving their money to these cretins. I'm convinced it must be some sort of Stockholm syndrome by now.
Remember when Peter Moore was all "we listened to customers, online passes were the wrong way, we continue to look for ways to monetize our products without insulting our fans."
Welcome to phase 2 guys!
I'm with you, friend.But how will I know the next Dragon Age will suck? I have to know so I can let you all know in here! Nah, I'm kidding. I'm done with them. Heck, Mass Effect 3 was really me just not being able to let go, because I love the first one and I had to see it through, but before that I was pretty much done with EA.
Looking at what they are doing now it is just repulsive: Sim City, PvZ, this... they are not getting $1 from me ever again. I know people will bend over and get Titanfall and will give them another chance with Battlefield because it is so fun!, and will get FIFA because PES just sucks now, and will get Madden too because there's no other NFL game! and will get Mirror's Edge 2 because they loved the first one (so just this once they'll make and exception), and will continue playing Simpsons Tapped Out because "it's not this bad, I swear!", and will continue playing PvZ 2 but they won't be buying coins, so just for free! and will get Star Wars Battlefront, because it is a good Star Wars game again guys, if it was anything else they'd pass, but it is Star Wars!
Me, I'm fucking done.
Incorrect, and I think you know that you're pushing it.
A failed strategy does not cost you money. You are not charged when you fail a level in PvZ2.
Yes, use sarcasm when logic fails.You're right the cost of failure now is 2000 coins, acquired by either:
1) Grinding out a bunch of levels you've already beaten to re-earn
or
2) Annoying your Facebook friends about a mobile game you've played
or
3) Paying cash
Much better!
Engage..engage i said engage! It's like spaceballs going to ludicrous speed.
There are tons of great indie games out there. I recommend Rogue Legacy -- such a fantastic game.
I don't know if it's been mentioned, but it also costs coins to restart a level, or at least it does on the Party Pinata levels. I liked to restart levels a lot and try out new combos to start out a level, but now that's not possible. I was flabbergasted when I saw that.
So, they released the game, patched it to make the enemies much harder and basically require coin spending, and patched it again to make players spend coins on ridiculous things. Sadly, EA will make insane amounts of cash from this game. I guess if you can get rich being shady as hell, more power to you.
Yes, use sarcasm when logic fails.
This is more fanboy rage than anything else.
Remember when Peter Moore was all "we listened to customers, online passes were the wrong way, we continue to look for ways to monetize our products without insulting our fans."
Welcome to phase 2 guys!
I'm grateful we'll always have the original PvZ, unsullied by EA's bullshit.
Remember when Peter Moore was all "we listened to customers, online passes were the wrong way, we continue to look for ways to monetize our products without insulting our fans."
Welcome to phase 2 guys!
Nothing Dead Space 3 did wrong had anything to do with micro-transactions, I had more loot than I knew what to do with in that game.This isn't the first time EA has destroyed a perfectly great thing with microtransactions. Look at what they did to Dead Space.
Also, by locking people out of their games with online passes that only cost a one-time fee of $5-$10, they were preventing people from accessing their microtransaction mills.
It is remarkable that no one at EA seems to know what to do with PvZ or what made it great in the first place.