well, something crappy had to come from them. i guess afer being for so long bad, they are having a hard time to find there way back for being good. but just maybe.
EA Plans Free-To-Play For Every Major Franchise
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Come on is anyone really surprised by a dick move by EA at this point?
In any case its all in the implementation isn't it? I mean if this was Valve we would all be saying "Yes that's an interesting marketing strategy. Have to see how that turns out". Because (largely at least) people TRUST Valve and DON'T trust EA.
I mean a game like TF2 has been F2P for some time now - the micro-transactions are all for hats and weapons (and mostly you can get them from random drops and/or crafting.
F2P doesn't HAVE to be bad news. But when this kind of news comes from EA . . . . I don't like to prejudge but yeah . . . it's not gonna be good is it?
In any case its all in the implementation isn't it? I mean if this was Valve we would all be saying "Yes that's an interesting marketing strategy. Have to see how that turns out". Because (largely at least) people TRUST Valve and DON'T trust EA.
I mean a game like TF2 has been F2P for some time now - the micro-transactions are all for hats and weapons (and mostly you can get them from random drops and/or crafting.
F2P doesn't HAVE to be bad news. But when this kind of news comes from EA . . . . I don't like to prejudge but yeah . . . it's not gonna be good is it?
Actually it makes perfect sense when you consider they attempted to sell SimCity as an MMO. EA says a lot of bizarre, stupid things, but even so, my thought is that it's a lot less about the "Free-to-Play" and much more the "we don't make offline games anymore." They don't care about whether it's single-player, multiplayer, free to play or pay to win. They just want an excuse to make all games have a constant connection so they can enforce DRM. At least that's my take on it.Noelveiga said:
A filthy casual. You filthy casual.DoubleAgent74 said:
*Feebly shakes fist at you "Angrily".*
OT: It's amazing that EA is so distrusted that when they say, "We want to make a lot of our franchises have free games in them," they get nothing but scorn and hate. A sad, but earned title.
Where do they get these execs to run the company? Who are the morons on the board of directors that put them in charge?
If I want something always-online, I'll play an MMO. For everything else, I'm happier with my offline, single-player experiences, thank you very much. EA have been...well, EA for a long time now and I'm not expecting changes any time soon. But every major decision they've made (excepting getting rid of Ricitello) has been the wrong one. Origin exlucisivity for example, means I don't buy their games any more, period. Put them back on Steam and at least I'll have the option again; I'm not using another DDP.
Anyway, EA don't make games for me anymore. Dragon Age, Mass Effect and other BioWare things maybe, but the rest...homogenised 3rd person action/adventure/shooter bollocks, no thanks. They make console games for 18 year olds and good luck to them.
If I want something always-online, I'll play an MMO. For everything else, I'm happier with my offline, single-player experiences, thank you very much. EA have been...well, EA for a long time now and I'm not expecting changes any time soon. But every major decision they've made (excepting getting rid of Ricitello) has been the wrong one. Origin exlucisivity for example, means I don't buy their games any more, period. Put them back on Steam and at least I'll have the option again; I'm not using another DDP.
Anyway, EA don't make games for me anymore. Dragon Age, Mass Effect and other BioWare things maybe, but the rest...homogenised 3rd person action/adventure/shooter bollocks, no thanks. They make console games for 18 year olds and good luck to them.
So in EA-moonspeak, "F2P" is equal to "RMT", regardless of whether a game was actually free to begin with. The amount of fail here is mind-boggling.
If they mean free to play as in the likes of battlefield online, battlefield heroes and Spartacus legends, where the game is essentially free, but the upgrades can be purchased for lazy types (or marginally richer, lazy types) that dont like grinding the game normally...then that is fine.
If however, they mean a full game that costs extra on top of the game price to get all those nice, shiny multiplayer goodies to bling up their game, thus negating the word 'free' to some weird ironic universe...then they can go screw monkey puzzle trees.
Anyhow, im sure they like to market towards their overspoilt, male kids...from what it seems so far. The daughters can have ponies while the sons can be let loose in the board meetings for their own game ideas. A narrow minded vision i know, but am in a very small room right now
Im still bitter from EA and ubisoft doing the whole 1 use multiplayer activation code to combat that treacherous used games market. What happened to paying for a whole game, and actually getting that whole game? (not that i miss multiplayer much in most games other than BF3, where it actually hurts most of my organs to play the single player campaign)
If however, they mean a full game that costs extra on top of the game price to get all those nice, shiny multiplayer goodies to bling up their game, thus negating the word 'free' to some weird ironic universe...then they can go screw monkey puzzle trees.
Anyhow, im sure they like to market towards their overspoilt, male kids...from what it seems so far. The daughters can have ponies while the sons can be let loose in the board meetings for their own game ideas. A narrow minded vision i know, but am in a very small room right now
Im still bitter from EA and ubisoft doing the whole 1 use multiplayer activation code to combat that treacherous used games market. What happened to paying for a whole game, and actually getting that whole game? (not that i miss multiplayer much in most games other than BF3, where it actually hurts most of my organs to play the single player campaign)
I enjoyed ME3 multiplayer, but there was absolutely no reason why the single player couldn't have been offline, the only thing I noticed that happened when you went offline was all your War Assests & Galactic Readiness disappeared why couldn't these have been stored locally?
What the...
Seriously EA doesn't do Free to Play it does Pay to Win! There is no question about it that they will monetize the hell out of their "free" games. Their right after all they develop it but knowing EA it will not be done very smooth. Highly Probably you can play one of their free to play games for free yes BUT listen for a minute for a mere $15 you get a 3rd rank mech and you have 1 month of 10x XP bonus. Also you get preferred access to quicker servers. Actually there are not enough servers so guess what you get to play while the freeloaders stare at a "All servers are full try again later" screen.
But lets not be outdone with mere that also you can buy the $10 a month, yes month, triple XP bonus subscription. Why play for weeks if you can play for days to get leveled up.
Oh that shiny mech there? Well sorry there is NO way to earn that in game. It is part of the Shiny Mech pack that you can buy for a mere $25. You get allot more of course oh so much more 5x XP for 3 months. Can you belief the value of this package? At last there is a nice way for you to buy new mechs with in game credits, you can buy those for real money.. hooray.
Look that is EA to the booth and sadly that is kinda the way how to monetize online games. Yes the free version works but so much isn't there that the payed for version gets. Most lovely part is the xp bonus boost. Oh yes... why play for 80 hours if you can play for just 8 and get up to level 10. Hooray!
And yet even in good games this kinda is the way it goes. Few F2P games won't give you restrictions like that.
Seriously EA doesn't do Free to Play it does Pay to Win! There is no question about it that they will monetize the hell out of their "free" games. Their right after all they develop it but knowing EA it will not be done very smooth. Highly Probably you can play one of their free to play games for free yes BUT listen for a minute for a mere $15 you get a 3rd rank mech and you have 1 month of 10x XP bonus. Also you get preferred access to quicker servers. Actually there are not enough servers so guess what you get to play while the freeloaders stare at a "All servers are full try again later" screen.
But lets not be outdone with mere that also you can buy the $10 a month, yes month, triple XP bonus subscription. Why play for weeks if you can play for days to get leveled up.
Oh that shiny mech there? Well sorry there is NO way to earn that in game. It is part of the Shiny Mech pack that you can buy for a mere $25. You get allot more of course oh so much more 5x XP for 3 months. Can you belief the value of this package? At last there is a nice way for you to buy new mechs with in game credits, you can buy those for real money.. hooray.
Look that is EA to the booth and sadly that is kinda the way how to monetize online games. Yes the free version works but so much isn't there that the payed for version gets. Most lovely part is the xp bonus boost. Oh yes... why play for 80 hours if you can play for just 8 and get up to level 10. Hooray!
And yet even in good games this kinda is the way it goes. Few F2P games won't give you restrictions like that.
Thank you, EA. My gaming backlog of GOOD single player games I wanted to play but didn't have a chance to because I was too busy playing newer ones was getting way too big. Now I know I don't have to bother playing anything you're going to release in the near future, which should give me some breathing room to work on those older games I've been meaning to get to.
Get back to me when you have something I want to play and maybe I'll be interested.
Get back to me when you have something I want to play and maybe I'll be interested.