And being able to easily (if tediously) farm your way to maximum power is conducive to a good horror game....How?
Dead Space 3 Resource Exploit "Not a Glitch", Says EA
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It seems the only people who are saying "IT'S A LIE I KNOW IT I JUST KNOW IT" are people who haven't played the game, while people who have played it disagree.
It's not a problem to just ignore the optional micro-transaction thing, is it? Your not forced to use it and understandably an feature could be disposed of if it's hardly used.
Then again, you are so smarter then I.
Then again, you are so smarter then I.
On one hand, at least they're not insisting that players pay for said resources with real money. This is very non-EA of them. This makes me suspicious and leads me to the other hand, where I conclude that EA is lying so hard that even a politician would be shocked.
You got it 100% right. Play any game in the ps2 and before era and you have unlockable costumes, cheat codes, and much more goodies inside games. Now it is considered an "optional" luxury and we should be grateful to have the option of paying for something that until this generation has always been included.Adam Jensen said:
Let me get this straight.
Some people are willing to pay EA so that they don't need to play the game that they bought from them in the first place. This is where I ask myself how long before they start splicing chunks of deliberately shitty gameplay into the main game that you must either have to play or pay your way through.
Some people are willing to pay EA so that they don't need to play the game that they bought from them in the first place. This is where I ask myself how long before they start splicing chunks of deliberately shitty gameplay into the main game that you must either have to play or pay your way through.
As soon as we let them. Really that is all there is too it. The second we sit there and say these practices arn't so bad and I don't mind it, it will become mandatory.Paradoxrifts said:
I personally have seen this through the years. Publishers constantly try and push the bounds and see where we lash back. If we don't then it becomes a standard and they push the next boundary so on and so forth.
Look at DLC if you need evidence for how they could take a good idea and abuse it. When DLC was first introduced everyone was excited for it because people thought developers would extend gameplay on top of the actual game. However, what we got was they took pieces of the game out in order to resell it to us after we already bought the game. Now I admit there are some DLC that does it right but around a good 9/10 DLC's I see are pure cash grabs.
i cant believe people are finding an excuse to get mad at them about this. if you have read any of my posts about EA youd know im boycotting them but i can fault them here. who cares if they're lying about them desiging it this way to save face, every company you like does. fact of the matter is they arent changing it any time soon. that is something we should actually praise them for here
it does kind of make me a little bit ashamed to be an EA hater because im still going to be lumped in with the rest of the people who are complaining for the sake of complaining
it does kind of make me a little bit ashamed to be an EA hater because im still going to be lumped in with the rest of the people who are complaining for the sake of complaining
As much as I'm not sure whether or not they're being totally honest here, it's silly to assume they're lying just because this "circumvents" their microtransactions. It circumvents nothing! Smart developers don't try to oppose these kinds of things, because it wouldn't lose them any money anyway unless it was severely broken. The money option is there for people who have no problem paying a small amount to save time, not to give players something they couldn't otherwise have. That's why you have games like TF2 on one end of the spectrum, where unnecessary cosmetic hats are expensive as balls and maps/weapons/gamemodes are free, and on the other end of the spectrum you have games like Civ V and CoD where whole expansions and maps are paid and you end up with community fragmentation when person X can't play with persons Y and Z because they haven't paid for a race or a map the host has. Intuitively the latter offers better "value" but it has worse consequences on the game as a whole, but the audience they're appealing to generally comes down to two options, "willing to spend more money" and "can't be bothered to get out credit card". Whether your DLC cost $2 or $5 barely matters since it only appeals to a small niche that is willing to spend more money on their game for some benefit.
tl;dr I genuinely don't think EA's worried about this affecting their DLC money. I also genuinely don't know if they're just bluffing about a development mistake, but don't blame this on money.
tl;dr I genuinely don't think EA's worried about this affecting their DLC money. I also genuinely don't know if they're just bluffing about a development mistake, but don't blame this on money.
Wow. EA is really turning things around. *snicker, snicker* Maybe I'll give them another HMPFF. Another cha---
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Hm, interesting. Yeah, that definitely doesn't sound too bad or too far off.Kopikatsu said:
Never mind the fact that I generally don't think you should pay additional money for a shortcut like that, it really sounds very pointless to even have microtransactions then.
Which is good!
While you make a valid point but dead space is not really trying to be a full on horror game. Then again the game also has chapter select so even if this didnt exist you could just farm earlier parts of the game.aegix drakan said:
The previous two games basically had the exact same thing as thing where there was easy to farm respawning resources. Although this farming method is actually kind of silly for most because its slower then just playing through the game.
I understand why people would assume EA is full of it after all the shit they've pulled over the years, but I really do believe them on this one. Dead Space 3's micro transactions seem to be nothing more then short cuts for impatient players, and I doubt EA would overlook how easily you can get resources with a couple of simple exploits.
Either way, this one is good for DS3 players so just chill out guys.
Either way, this one is good for DS3 players so just chill out guys.