Well this is taken from Reddit so you may be right.
I'm a Producer at a AAA Studio
(I'm more than happy to provide proof to subreddit mods)
This is pretty clear what they're doing to anyone who works in the industry. They want to maximize their initial sales numbers to show to investors. Once the trade off is worth it
(Probably 1-2 months in), they will enable the gamble boxes again because:
- Everyone who was on the fence will have bought the game by now
- You can't refund the game at this point
- The news will have died down, and if new articles do come out, it won't be as relevant
- They will already have good numbers to show investors
EA is going to royally fuck over the average gamer who doesn't have a clue how the industry works on this. This is about as deceptive as it gets. I hope that clarifies things