I used to defend EA as they published a lot of great games over the years, but they're really started to take the piss now. Aside from all the micro-transaction bollocks, they've let great developers go down the toilet and have really bodged up quite a few series (notably Mass Effect and Dead Space; the sports games are just the same crap churned out year-on-year).EA have really dropped a bollock with Battlefront 2. They've agreed to change the purchase system for the heroes, but there's a huge amount of people who wont buy the game now. The game costs £55, but the majority of characters are locked behind a paywall that can be unlocked by either 40 hours of gameplay, or through microtransactions.
It's now been changed to roughly 5 hours of gameplay to unlock a hero, but this is the final straw. The EACommunity team did a post on reddit defending the microtransactions and the grind to get there but it's become the most downvoted comment in reddit history.
EA are everything thats wrong with gaming. They suck the life out of potentially great games and continually ask players to cough up more money or be left behind.
Really hope this is a forward shift into actually making games about the players and not about lining their pockets with even more money.
EA have really dropped a bollock with Battlefront 2. They've agreed to change the purchase system for the heroes, but there's a huge amount of people who wont buy the game now. The game costs £55, but the majority of characters are locked behind a paywall that can be unlocked by either 40 hours of gameplay, or through microtransactions.
It's now been changed to roughly 5 hours of gameplay to unlock a hero, but this is the final straw. The EACommunity team did a post on reddit defending the microtransactions and the grind to get there but it's become the most downvoted comment in reddit history.
EA are everything thats wrong with gaming. They suck the life out of potentially great games and continually ask players to cough up more money or be left behind.
Really hope this is a forward shift into actually making games about the players and not about lining their pockets with even more money.
Microtransactions will be banned from games in the future.
China have already banned loot boxes, and the UK is looking to do the same.
EA sucks the devils cock when it comes to in game purchases, FIFA Ultimate Team alone probably rakes in thousands, if not millions annually.
But in all truth Japan are the worse for it, because of gambling laws in Japan they instead use games to work their way around it.
Microtransactions will be banned from games in the future.
China have already banned loot boxes, and the UK is looking to do the same.
EA sucks the devils cock when it comes to in game purchases, FIFA Ultimate Team alone probably rakes in thousands, if not millions annually.
But in all truth Japan are the worse for it, because of gambling laws in Japan they instead use games to work their way around it.
I couldn't get into it at all, I couldn't figure out what exactly I was meant to be doing, I planted seeds grew stuff, mined a bit and just got bored by the monotony of it.Fallen into the Minecraft trap. Im afraid I may never get out.....
No they havent. No they wont.
All they have done is make dev reveal the item drop rates on loot boxes in China.
See here (google can translate).
http://www.mcprc.gov.cn/whzx/bnsjdt/whscs/201612/t20161205_464422.html
What it basically says is :-
2.6 ...Online game publishers shall promptly publicly announce information about the name, property, content, quantity, and draw/forge probability of all virtual items and services that can be drawn/forge on the official website or a dedicated draw probability webpage of the game. The information on draw probability shall be true and effective.
2.7 Online game publishers shall publicly announce the random draw results by customers on notable places of official website or in game, and keep record for government inquiry. The record must be kept for more than 90 days. When publishing the random draw results, some measures should be taken place to protect user privacy.
The UK government have said they dont see it as gambling and so wont get involved.
EA announced they had made $3.4 BILLION from in-game purchases last year. BILLION!!!! They arent going away unfortunately, no matter how much we protest. People will keep bloody buying them!
Really looking forward to getting skyrim on the switch this Friday, I own it already on the PS3 and played the shit out of it, then got the Xbox one version last Christmas, but my shift at work changed to include nights in January and wasn't able to give it a good go at all, so the switch version is perfect for me as I can bring it with me everywhere I go. Little bit annoyed at the lack of mods or creation club, but whatever. Anyone else getting it for the switch.
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