Well if idiots want to waste their money on that rubbish then who am I to stop them?
It's just a shame gaming has come to this is all.
It's just a shame gaming has come to this is all.
Electronic Arts Defends "Freemium" Games
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
- Start date
As I'm sure has been said before: of course?Andy Chalk said:
Free to play can work wonders. But it definitely is no magic bullet, and free-to-play is very different from microtransactions.
Because there is a big difference between micro-transactions in a $100 NZD title and a Free to Play one. With EA claiming that since we like to play extra to get a meat topping on a cheap-ass pizza, we should also pay extra for our steak dinner to have actual steak despite its already exorbitant price tag.Frostbite3789 said:
Microtranactions in Free to Play = Good!
Microtranactions in $100 NZD game = Get Bent!
EA attempting to pass off the two as the same thing = Screw that!
Well then, don't come here. We're not forcing you to walk in here and make a case about how you don't like people talking smack on EA...on a board where EA is tremendously unpopular. I'm sure that you (and certainly we) would feel alot better if you saved your blood pressure and took the day off. This is not the board to go to for good-time feels on a commpany that even non-customers hate. That nay is said with a vengeance and too-often proven to be justifiable. If you had a real opinion worth expressing, rather than angst, I would have been glad to discuss the matter, but I have your health in mind and would advise against being here now.Frostbite3789 said:
By gamers they mean anyone who has downloaded a free mobile game? Like my Dad who has a racing phone game, yet he rage quit an fps because he found it too hard to walk around.
EA wants to be careful when they brand people because 90% of their mobile "gamers", don't actually know video games.
EA wants to be careful when they brand people because 90% of their mobile "gamers", don't actually know video games.
Well, of course the market likes free-to-play games when they're done properly, who doesn't?
The thing is, EA don't make free-to-play games. They put micro-transactions in retail games.
They are using the success of free to play games to justify their micro-transaction business model despite the fact the two things are completely different beasts.
EA couldn't have missed the point of the uproar harder and it appears they also fail logic by committing false equivocation.
The thing is, EA don't make free-to-play games. They put micro-transactions in retail games.
They are using the success of free to play games to justify their micro-transaction business model despite the fact the two things are completely different beasts.
EA couldn't have missed the point of the uproar harder and it appears they also fail logic by committing false equivocation.
the market spoke some time ago on "expensive as you want" / "free to play" /freemium games when LOL took over as the most played game worldwide i would say.
thing is valve did it right with TF2 and now dota2, riot did it right with LOL, EA fuck the pooch repeatedly, look at the mess they made of swtor , dead space .. its not free to play when you charge full price for the box, a season pass for the dlc an online pass for the MP and then add micro transactions to , that my dear EA is taking the piss.
the one big problem is they will get away with it with cod because the people that buy that are a bit special.
free to play, the old buy the box method they all can work different designs fit different games, theres just right and wrong ways to implement any of them.
thing is valve did it right with TF2 and now dota2, riot did it right with LOL, EA fuck the pooch repeatedly, look at the mess they made of swtor , dead space .. its not free to play when you charge full price for the box, a season pass for the dlc an online pass for the MP and then add micro transactions to , that my dear EA is taking the piss.
the one big problem is they will get away with it with cod because the people that buy that are a bit special.
free to play, the old buy the box method they all can work different designs fit different games, theres just right and wrong ways to implement any of them.
I read that as "We at EA recognize that there are throngs of idiots out there that are stupid enough to spend hundreds of dollars on disposable virtual items, and we choose to specifically cater to that market."
The saddest thing is, I actually have to side with EA on this one. They found a way capitalize stupidity.
The saddest thing is, I actually have to side with EA on this one. They found a way capitalize stupidity.