EA reveals FIFA19 card pack odds. .001% chance to receive highest tier. - Sensationalist Headlines

https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/09/30/fifa-19-ultimate-team-card-pack-odds-revealed/ I actually know a coworker who's kid plays madden and actually spends all his money he saves on card packs trying to get the best players. Like $100+ every month to card packs.

How to Not Learn From Mistakes 101

Gambling addicts learn how badly they're getting screwed. Let's see how this affects Fifa's bottom line.

EA are not idiots. If that shit is repeated every year, it means it's bringing money.

AAA full price sports game worse micro transactions then asian f2p games or mobile games.

Then all progress lost when EA releases the roster update, aka the next one in the series comes out.

They won't learn.

For Fifa this shit totally works, people who play fifa are pretty much removed from the general video games audience and its often the only game they'll play. Fifa has been doing this shit for years and getting away with it.

As well as shutting services for the game you spent a thousand dollars on in just a few years

But hey, because you get SOMETHING 99.9% of the time its not exploitative by their standards. The icing on the cake is that that .001% chance is even worse as odds are someone wants a particular player/card/whatever as opposed to just whatever high tier it spits out.

man that Andrew Wilson really doesn't give a fuck

The odds are bad, but it's not a 99.9% chance of getting nothing, read the article.

And the usual suspects will continue to eat this shit up. Jesus fucking Christ EA disgusts me to my core. There should be a special circle of hell reserved for scummy publishers.

Don't forget how career mode is LITERALLY unchanged for like.. 3 years now. The mode that made the series what it is has been neglected to shit.

Shameless and revolting.

And very profitable.

People keep brainlessly buying into it. Can we really fault EA at this point at people's unwillingness to stop buying into this?

You literally have better odds with scratch offs than this. I wish the gambling commission would step in here in the states, hell I'm surprised none of the states have gone after this predatory system

Guess they're trying to squeeze out as much as they can before governments legislate against it.

The average sport gamer is 22 and still lives with their parents; half of that 2 billion a year is spent by people using other people's money and the former half is spent by VERY SMART PEOPLE who will spend it every year until they are forced not to, usually by someone armed with common sense and a vagina. People spent the equivalent on pokemon, people spent the equivalent on pogs, people spent the same on magic and foil covered comic books. If you're stupid enough to spend 12000 dollars on a game that almost exactly trhe same game you spent 18000 on last year. someone is going to take your money, the problem is just as much you as it is the developer and publisher.

It appeals to like the male fantasy.

As bad as the odds are, EA should really be applauded for openly dropping the odds on cards without trying to fudge them (or as far as we know). I am the one person who doesn't mind lootboxes, but it'd be nice if the rarity chance was openly dropped from a consumer rights perspective.

You shouldn't conflate physical goods and digital goods. Physical goods can be resold whereever and whenever you want, and will still exist when the manufacturer discontinues it, or ceases to be. Digital goods have none of these features, with the extra drawback of your access to said digital goods being conditional. That being said, if gambling addicts are fueling EAs profits, it probably means they should be regulated and taxed like anything else that makes money on addiction, no?

The paradigm is this a thing that is not going to go away via handwringing or sage advice. The tree largest electronic publishers have been gouging customers without empathy for decades. Whether you've thrown away your money on permanent or 'intangible' goods, that money is still gone and will still continue to be spent until the behavior is curbed and companies that act in predation on it are checked head on.

you are the one person who is also one of the problems in this industry then. thanks dude.

yeah haha you're right, EA should slap themselves in the face for disclosing odds publicly. What a dumb move, I mean I really don't want any other game publishers to follow suite, and I certainly don't want this to be a common thing expected out of every game with a lootbox! Seriously though, are you saying they shouldn't? The fact that they are disclosing the super-super slim odds on some of these digital cards brings credence to the idea that they're actually giving legit numbers rather then floating the boat by claiming impossibly rare cards are more common then they actually are in an attempt to get people to buy even more packs - You know, maybe you're just unlucky and not getting the rare cards, right?

i was referring to you being fine with lootboxes, genius. how the fuck did you think i meant disclosing the odds is bad lmao

By telling me that I'm the one person who is also the problem with the game industry. No, I don't have a problem with these dopamine boxes. I have a degree of self control and will quit out a game if it's nothing more then a thinly veiled skinner box. I don't have a problem with gambling, and I really don't care if someone is spending their fortunes on worthless E-Trinkets. Truth be told, my waistline and amount of unplayed games in my steam library really makes me one to talk here.

all eyes on Washington (state) and Hawaii

You know, I'd call the title sensationalist, because there's no direct evidence in the article that the actual percentage is 0.001%. But this is an EA game, so I totally believe it.