Nothing is going to change in the gaming community unless people stop buying these kinds of games. I am on my way to sell COD:WWII as I type this comment as the multiplayer maps are so monotonous and yet they expect me to pay the price of the game again to unlock all the other maps in the next few months (season pass). I’ll probably never buy another COD game after this.
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#32I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA. It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."
Everything is like this, just earlier today there was a "Air Travelers Resisting the ‘Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat’" thread[1] here where if the comments are to be believed a huge number of people simply don't travel anymore because the seats are so horrible. Surely nobody would want to fly anymore!
Meanwhile the airline industry has been growing consistently for decades.
Similarly, surely nobody would ever pay $80 for some in-game feature in an EA game. If you aren't selling EA stock now in anticipation of their inevitable demise you're a fool!
Stated preferences are very different from revealed preferences.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Wow that's some incredible brigading. Is it really brigading? The entire gaming community hates those practices. Nobody is manipulating people to downvote this comment. It's genuine hate and digust. Paying the price of a game to unlock one single character is a joke. EA's reply is also very bad. "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes." I fail to see…
I mean "brigading" in the technical sense of people passing around the link and getting more people to pile on than would organically occur, not necessarily the astroturf connotation. Because for most users, comments under a certain threshold (-50) are hidden (but can be revealed manually). The entire r/Battlefront userbase is just 91K users.
"I mean "brigading" in the technical sense of people passing around the link and getting more people to pile on than would organically occur,"
When you are passing the link to other people, that is wholly organic. When you use a bot, it is not. Plain and simple. You can't rely upon a subscriber number for real numbers of players. Bet plenty of other people from forums saw this as well.
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#34I don't understand the rage here. EA is a busyness, kindly explaining the reasoning behind their product decisions in the open. We should be thankful, not angry.
The beatings will continue until morale improves
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#35Nothing is going to change in the gaming community unless people stop buying these kinds of games. I am on my way to sell COD:WWII as I type this comment as the multiplayer maps are so monotonous and yet they expect me to pay the price of the game again to unlock all the other maps in the next few months (season pass). I’ll probably never buy another COD game after this.
So, nothing will change then? "Vote with your wallet" doesn't work, and never has.
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#36Wow, modern gaming is serious business. I wish we devoted this much energy into more, ahem, important things. I'm not sure even movies, books, TV series or other kinds of entertainment would produce such a reaction from people.
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#37I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA. It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."
Gamers aren't known for their resolve. I remember when Modern Warfare 2 came out (eight years ago) without the option to run private servers, which resulted in this rather famous image:
http://i.imgur.com/MLZ0bMu.png
That being said, 40 hours doesn't seem like an awful amount of time to sink into a game to unlock a character. Heck, I'm ashamed to talk about how many hours I've put into CS:GO, and it's only triple digits.
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#38If people hate EA so much, why do they keep buying their games? It's not like Time Warner, with a monopoly you can't avoid.
Every copyright is a monopoly on a very specific niche. People arent looking for just some game, they want "that experience they loved from the first game, set in their favorite science fantasy universe" or whatever. They can't get it elsewhere, and thus the publisher can do some pretty abusive things to extract money from the fans. In this case, trying to push people gambling addictions they can exploit for profit.
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#39Nothing is going to change in the gaming community unless people stop buying these kinds of games. I am on my way to sell COD:WWII as I type this comment as the multiplayer maps are so monotonous and yet they expect me to pay the price of the game again to unlock all the other maps in the next few months (season pass). I’ll probably never buy another COD game after this.
Selling your copy of the game isn’t doing anything to stop people from buying these types of games.
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#40I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA. It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."
Exactly the same with me. I never buy games at launch and I tend to stay away from F2P games entirely. There's way too many games coming out compared to the free time I have available to play them, so I've accepted that I'm never going to play the vast majority of releases. Others need to come to that same realization -- it's perfectly fine to skip a game if the company's practices suck.
As for what I have been playing, I'm really putting a lot of time into Factorio at the moment. It's an indie game that costs $20 for the entire experience and is an amazing value (I'm at hour 70 with no sign of slowing down yet).