EA response is typical

[sXeth]

Surely in the years that DICE have been operating for they would've learned something about game balance and not just give every weapon arbitrary damage values and figure it all out once all the idiots have shelled out their cash on it.

That is exactly why they do it, I think. They are already known and can get those initial sales.
Then they start from a position of always making the game "better" and "better"..
Those previously dubious or skeptic buyers will see things "improving" and pony up the cash for their own copy.
They probably call it "Future Employment Insurance" or something.

Funnily enough, that seems to be the strategy thats currently biting Destiny 2 in the backside. Destiny 1 got better enough that trying to foist off Destiny 2 (the endgame anyhow, the campaign + side missions is pretty good really) to the same base has resulted in a lot of backlash.


In a bit of a sidenote, EA may not be wholly to blame for the money-grabbing on this one. Its certainly their systems (previously used in PvZ Garden Warfares). But there's been more then a few leaks of Disney being pretty aggressive with demanding big cuts from theaters and so on for The Last Jedi. Since EA did have to renegotiate rights (Battlefront 1 wasn't allowed to use the new trilogy characters), they may have been bent over the table a little themselves for their own part.