Negatempest said:
But it is all bad. What they are doing IS NOT to benefit anyone at all. No one wins from this other than EA. What these "advantages" used to be were cheat codes available to make it fun or easier for the player. Now they are charging the foolish customers into believing that they are paying for convenience. You remember those? The cheat code list for all weapons, infinite ammo, faster walking, faster reloading, etc? They are literally going to make money off of the gullible and that in itself it a terrible thing to do. It's like watching the snake oil salesman sell your neighbors something and you do absolutely nothing to stop it.
What they are doing benfits them, a business, whom has to make a profit so that they can still make more games so that they can make more money to make more games to make more money to make more games to make more money. It's not a benefit or disadvantage to the common consummer, so to be angry at something that is optional, and is entirely up to the individual is stupid. Yeah, it basically is a cheat code that you pay for, but you know what, very few games have cheats anymore because of Achievments/Trophies. And when a game does have cheats, often times it does little to enhance the gaming experience. For example, when you finish Assassins Creed 3, you gain the option to unlock cheat codes (so long as you are connected online), but most of them are just aesthetic touches. Cheat codes are practically dead, and while it does dissapoint me, I'm not gonna sit here crying about how a company is making it available for me to craft a weapon without having to go and find things. It's not an infinite ammo micro-transaction, and it's not a give me all weapons micro-transaction either. What it IS is a simple, "Look, if you're struggling, but don't wanna drop the difficulty, give us 5 bucks, and we'll give you the equipment to give you a hand".
It's not an I win button, it's a help me out button. I REALLY don't see the problem with this, at most it's a co-op linear story with no competetive aspects. Hell, Valve lets you buy the best weapons in TF2 rather than having players play the game, gain the achievments, and thus slowly unlocking better equipment, AND TF2 IS A COMPETETIVE MULTIPLAYER. Valve even took it a step further, and made it so you can spend 8 dollars on a hat that has no benefits in gameplay at all and is just an aesthetic touch. EA is giving players the option to choose if a player would like to purchase something that will benefit them in the single player. It only effects the individual who purchases it, so WHY is this such a big deal when Valve is doing the same thing for Team Fortress 2, only much worse, and don't say because TF2 is now Free 2 Play, because it was doing this shit when it costed money.
STOP hating EA because they're EA. They're nowhere near as bad as some companies.