EA Vows Not To Make Another Star Wars Battlefront II 'Mistake' (Jim Sterling)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vahXVj3lK4k
More accurately "please buy our shit again we cant afford to lose our shareholders anymore"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4
I'm going to post this every time a large corporation says "sorry" and begs for their customers to come back.
And consumers should vow not to make another EA Game-related purchasing mistake. I don't know how EA's given so many second chances with such a track record. They obviously never learn their lesson.
We'll see.
Now only if Konami could vow to actually release good games and not fucking Metal Gear Pachinko.
thats what they said with the first battlefront when the game had fuck all content at launch
thats what they said with the first battlefront when the game had fuck all content
ftfy
EA can keep shitting out games with terrible practices because people will still keep buying them.
Well yeah
We, as consumers, let the change from Expansion packs to DLC happen.
And then we, as consumers, let them fuck us once again by downgrading from DLC to microtransactions
And then, for the final fuckery we just said 'yeah, who cares if it's a 60 dollar game, with a pre-purchase on-disk DLC, with 3 season passes already confirmed and micro transactions, let's all throw our money at it!!'
I hate where the game industry is at right now.
Expansion Packs are great ways to get more quality content for a reasonable production/retail cost, and it's a very welcome model. Paid Multiplayer Map Packs and Lootboxes aren't at all.
Yeah, I loved expansion packs too. I played the shit out of the BF2 + 1942 expansion packs back in the day. They were also super cheap when they came out.
Now it seems like publishers are charging 10x the price for 10x less content
It just seems that you are so fixated on the ugly side, all free and justly-priced additional content are overlooked and thus the industry is fucked.
Yep.
While they lost the long term revenue at a pretty hefty chunk, they only took like a 9% hit on the initial TTG which frankly given all the press and bullshit and topical traffic is nothing, this SKU was still batshit successful.
Also while they gutted two studios, you'll notice the producers and marketing branch that concocted this miasma of blatant customer fuckery and greed are still very much in charge of their respective sections and still quite gainfully employed.
And customers will come back at slightest jingle of treats in the bag, just like they did to Ubi$haft, [battered wife]all smiles and "omg they're doing so good right now gais!!! so good!!!!"[/battered wife]
Marketing already knows they have enough people conditioned that the customers complaining loudly will be the same customers making rimjob noises at slightest hint of just a decent, not even great, product from the same company in the same vein.
Apple fucks up left and right and literally defrauds people and pays jack shit in taxes or fiduciary responsibility and they are still the current defacto zeitgeist gadget company, EA is much the same with interactive entertainment. Very few people actually say no and mean it, and are all too willing to say yes at the merest smell of table scraps pushed into a neat little pile.
Well yeah because Disney drug their ass through boardrooms and conference calls threatening their exclusivity deals. So they're going to be very careful to not fuck up like that again. They'll still fuck up but it will be different next time.
Can't wait for that mistake done a hundredfold in Titanfall 3.
Make a vow to suck my dick EA
Every single person that thinks EA can or will change is literally deluded
Considering that EA has been like this for 20+, they're not going to change unless somehow all of the higher ups magically get replaced with people who give a shit.
Pretty much yeah
it's like expecting a pathological liar and con artist to suddenly turn sides because he said he won't do it
Only an idiot wouldn't be able to see the clear pattern of behavior that everyone knows about
Next time EA is gonna wait before implementing microtransactions so they can scam as many current players as possible. Pisses me off knowing these greedy scum bags own the rights to so many fantastic properties.
Nope. BF2 was the final straw for me, and I didn't even have to buy it to feel it's failures.
There were legitimately charming things about BF1 to enjoy, but it was bogged down by some clearly poor decisions. Those decisions were boldfaced, allcaps'd, underlined, and fucking highlighted to be fixed in a sequel that I was willing to give a chance.
Battlefront 2 was the time to demonstrate that they've learned their lesson, and instead they made gaming's arguably worst example of microtransactions in a AAA developed title.
I will watch now in joy as EA squirms to beg the fans they've treated so poorly as they desperately shit out another sloppy assembly line turd to prove to the Mouse that they shouldn't pull the Star Wars franchise contract out from under them early.
Disney is downright scary when it comes to protecting their brands. As their efforts go on to build Star Wars as a cornerstone of their brand, they have not taken a blind eye to EA's failures, nor how a Star Wars title will forever bear the mark of gaming's most negative connotations.
I bet that if it weren't for EA's shitty sports games and the people who buy them no matter what, this company would've gone bankrupt a long time ago.
A very skeptical perspective. It is true, if our memory serves us right, the average expansion pack of bygone era are usually of greater value than today's average DLC. But it is not all ill news, a more frequent stream of content and stronger community retention offsets that. I personally am more accepting of that, than developers going cold for years before announcing a single large add-on, at the cost of gaming becoming more expensive. It doesn't excuse the shitty practices, of course, but I don't dismiss those who've done it right.
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