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Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by sebtoast »

celdon25 wrote: post #111
darklajid wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just bought a AAA title - Destiny 2. Humble Bundle seemed like a decent store, right? I made so many purchases with them in the past. 60 dollars later I had a key that Blizzard wouldn't accept. My Battle.Net account (years old, ooooold) was created in Germany. I lived in different countries since then and currently live in SG, the key that I purchased was locked to the US/Asia Pacific region. Now .. I certainly can…

Speak for yourself. I had my EA account stolen once. You know what they did? Nothing. I was able to trace the culprit's real name, his e-mail address, country of origin, and ISP via an IP address (which was not provided by EA, by the way ;-)). I did not even get a response from EA's customer service, except some drone sending me a password reset, which I did not need by then. At least Blizzard puts some effort into i…

I had the opposite happen to me with my EA account.

It was stolen and I was getting emails in Russian (I think) but I didn't care (mostly because of things they do like this post) until last year when I wanted to play BF2:BC so I contacted EA's customer service thinking there's no way I could get the account back, especially after 4-5 years. They asked a couple of questions and got my account back in about 15 minutes.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by ant6n »

bjt2n3904 wrote: post #37
bunderbunder wrote: post #19

I'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 dig…

> which resulted in this rather famous image

What am I looking at?

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by falcolas »

jy1 wrote: post #104
fixermark wrote: post #76

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... at which point a person can calculate their 40 hours of play * what the time is worth to them, and decide if $80 to just buy the thing is worth it.

It's 40 hours after you buy the game ($80).

Indeed. Plus, that's 40 hours per hero, not including improvements and gear for the base classes.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by deadmetheny »

fleitz wrote: post #109
simias wrote: post #101

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I can't think of any way out honestly. You can say anything you want about EA but I'm sure they act very rationally. If despite the heavy backlash over the years they keep doing what they're doing then it must be working for them. That's the problem with these lootboxes, given how fast they spread to every AAA games these days (including single player games where they hardly make sense in the first place) it's obviou…

How annoying UX affects the bottom line was one of the most important lessons I learned working on apps. Take for example removing the Cancel button from the sign up screen, 5-10% bump in sign ups, etc. (Eventually Apple made us 'fix' this) Generally, the only time a minorly annoying UX affects you negatively is when the platform penalizes it, like the notifications prompt on iOS, if they don't agree the first time y…

I hope you're proud of yourself for actively making software user hostile.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

danso wrote: post #97
bunderbunder wrote: post #19

I'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."

For better or worse, EA owns a lot of the big studios and brands. They have an exclusive agreement with Disney on producing the realistic Star Wars games, so it's not as if diehard SW fans have a choice. Though looking at their Wikipedia page [0], I think I overestimated how much of gaming they own. Personally, I don't play any of their franchises (some of that due to being a Mac user, and how few of EA's games are p…

> ... so it's not as if diehard SW fans have a choice.

Why not boycott? I mean it would suck for the diehards for sure, but how long would they realistically have to wait? If EA misses 1 quarter's revenue goal, they'll be singing another tune.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by sydd »

ant6n wrote: post #122
bjt2n3904 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 dig…

> which resulted in this rather famous image What am I looking at?

60% of the "boycott Modern Warfare 2" Steam group plays Modern Warfare 2 when the screenshot was taken.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by hyperpape »

Nursie wrote: post #83
avar wrote: post #32

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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…

In the case of the seat, the revealed preference is "I still need to get from A to B, so you can abuse me all you like". Like airline food, there's no effective way to reveal that you might prefer to pay a little more for something a little better, and your choice is usually limited to paying a lot more.

There are a number of airlines that have made their name on being more pleasant than others. Virgin was one. Largely the financial results seem to have borne out the status quo.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by always_good »

runeks wrote: post #78

Can anyone explain what this is about, for non-gamers like myself? Am I understanding it right, in that he paid $80 for a game in which he needs to pay even more to get access to the Darth Vader character? Is there a price list somewhere for what it costs to purchase various in-game things?

I think people have an issue with the fact that you can skip the lootbox grind if you pay money.

Else it would also be 'unfair' for a game to make you beat levels 1-99 before you can play that sweet level 100 boss battle. "I paid $40 for this game, I want to play level 100 without the grind" would be fairly weak criticism.

This issue is just a stone's throw from reeking of the hot air of entitlement. Mixed in with the anger that people can pay money to skip the grind are lamer abstract arguments like "a Star Wars game should let me play with the main characters on day one!"

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by tarboreus »

smallnamespace wrote: post #90
nulagrithom wrote: post #72

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I wish I could make people play Factorio as some kind of training. My son (9), who showed me the game, spent the longest time building parts manually. I kept showing him how to automate, but it didn't really "click" until I was pumping out solid lines of green potions in front of him, then he understood the magic of automation. It felt oddly similar to interactions with various business departments. "Look, we're neve…

I mean, expecting a 9-year-old to grasp a production process completely, then conceive of automating it seems a bit optimistic.

Disagree.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Post by asdgkknio »

Pigo wrote: post #20

If 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.

Because some of their games are actually good. I hate their business practices, but I still want to play Battlefront 2.

And they ARE a monopoly. They own the rights to a lot of my favorite franchises. If I want a Star Wars game (which I definitely do), it's EA or nothing.

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