This Will Happen if We Let EA Win

Gamerekon:

Fellow gamers, we’re at a critical moment in gaming right now. EA’s horrible practices are being shined upon and other companies who want to use the same system are witnessing what their future could be like.

[CyberSentinel]

So let me get this straight....

Battlefront is bad, but GTA5 and Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm and Madden and Player Unknown Battle Ground and Call of Duty WW2 and Destiny 2 and possibly Red Dead Redemption 2 are good?

Hypocrites.

[electricbanshi]

Battlefront got the rise out of everyone, it was the point gamers couldnt take it anymore. People were complaining about GTA and Shark Cards but not loud enough I guess. Maybe also cause it's rockstar....

[_-EDMIX-_]

Lol no

People are not going to be complaining about GTA anywhere near the same extent because of many reasons.

One of the biggest reasons is actually because Grand Theft Autos popularity along with Rockstar. Another thing to take into consideration is Grand Theft Auto primarily is a single player base the game any of the content being released through microtransactions in regards to what's online is completely optional.

[N2]

TRUTH

[AspiringProGenji]

Ahh please EA investor... This isn’t about any of those companies. Look at how EA had NFS, BF2, now UFC with the same P2W BS. They were confident gamer would eat eveything up and NO! That isn’t going to happen

I can only speak for Overwatch and that game doesnt have P2W loot boxes. I am still not a fan of the grind amd Epic drop rates, but at least it is not p2w like EA been trying to do

[Profchaos]

GTA is ptw to some extent but you need to grind up to a certain level to use the equipment you pay for but if you choose not to pay everything is achievable within a decent timeframe.

Bf2 UFC and NFS however you can buy and use the best gear before you even open the tutorial plus the people who don't pay need to grind rediculas amounts of hours to get a fraction of the ptw content

[_-EDMIX-_]

The way I see it I'm not sure it even matters even if Electronic Arts comes out with loot boxes that are exactly what OverWatch does you would still actually see multiple communities still complaining about this company for god sakes we saw people on this very site spreading misinformation of stuff that they read online. Was actually untrue.

I mean buddy I'm playing the damn game and I've read people on this very site trying to tell me it's going to take 40 hours to unlock a hero and I'm playing the game and letting them know that is completely false untrue and not what the current game is like.

So what this means is so much misinformation is spread about this game that I'm not even sure releasing the loot boxes with just customizable items with matter especially if you consider they're just going to call it microtransactions get angry and spread more clickbait articles.

I mean consider this when the original Star Wars Battlefront released in 2015 did you not have multiple articles complaining about the lack of content? So how many articles are you reading about how much content is inside Battlefront now that it has more modes more maps more weapons More Heroes in free downloadable content?

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So that was so damn bad in the original Battlefront but suddenly when all of those things are addressed you don't want to talk about them? At the end of the day communities like this mainly want to focus on the negative they could care less about what is actually really being corrected.

All this actually proves is that the people dislike this publisher always disliked this publisher and it is actually difficult to tell if these people are actually communicating this because they really want a change in the community or simply because they dislike the publisher because I don't see most of you people talking about this on every single last Grand Theft Auto V article on this website.

So some of you prepared to boycott Red Dead Redemption 2 and write a series of articles for that as well?

[Agheil]

They all need to stop apply this GAAS system in the end.

[Nitrowolf2]

People have complained about all those games

Shark cards are constantly being complained about, especially with take two recent microtransaction announcement for future games.

Destiny 2 is getting attacked by its community over the whole xp purposely lowered

Rdr2 already has complaints.

Battlefront just happened to be a far larger property because it didn't sit well not only with just gamers, but star wars fans in general, even those who don't play ganes

[Liqu1d]

GTA isn't good. They've been making new content more and more expensive to encourage players to buy shark cards.

I don't like Overwatch's loot box system but at least it's only cosmetic.

PUBG isn't finished so it shouldn't have loot boxes.

COD encourages people to spectate others gambling with loot boxes.

People were pretty upset at Destiny 2 limiting XP gain.

Can't say I'm familiar with the other games, but if RDR2 does the same thing as GTA then it won't be a good thing either.

[Profchaos]

I think GTA not primarily being focused on PvP helps I am like level 30 in that game but I feel I can take someone one on one even if they have paid content and I don't

[Rachel_Alucard]

Heroes of the storm gives the player more value then BF2 ever will even after being F2P. GTA5 has complaints everywhere but the amount of people buying shark cards and not caring heavily outweighs those. Overwatch doesn't even make as much money off MTs as people think. PUBG is an example of chinese corporate crap. CoD WW2 was also shat on repeatedly. Destiny 2 you find a massive list from their forum of everything wrong with it. Finally, Red dead 2 already has red flags on it from 2Ks statement about monetization and given how poorly built GTA:O was you can bet they'll do it again.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I actually agree with you and this is exactly what I mean when I tell these people that you guys need to stop going so hard Edge on disliking the company and actually specifically Target The Practice.

If some of you are going to be so eager to attack this company as well as attacking fellow Gamers simply for buying games, are you ready to now do this with all the other games that are going to release?

Didn't this community to the exact same thing with Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed Unity with all of its glitches only to ignore the numerous crap that was going on with the Witcher 3?

This community had entire clickbait articles talking about the downgrade with watch dogs only to not know how to feel about the downgrade to The Witcher 3.

This is one of those situations where yes you definitely must talk about the practice being wrong if it was done purposefully in with malice but understand if you're ready to apply this to a publisher you need to be ready to apply it to all publishers.

That's like me picketing McDonald's for something only to eat at another fast food establishment that's actually doing the same thing.

So help me understand this are you guys upset at the practice or you guys upset at Electronic Arts?

Do you guys get upset that there's microtransactions or are you upset at the Fashion that microtransactions are releasing in?

Are you guys upset at downloadable content or simply the kind of downloadable content that's being released?

Because you cannot go out of your way to be crying and complaining about optional Micro transactions while also going to praise expansions like The Witcher 3.

I mean it's starting to sound like the majority of the gaming community makes these decisions in articles out of pure bias for a company and not really based on practices.

If you want to be taken seriously you guys need to actually unbiasedly need to actually be calling out all Publishers that do such practice is not just the ones you happen to not like.

Because I thought it was pretty damn funny on this website and many other communities when CD projekt Red had their own season pass and suddenly no one really knew what to say about paying for extra content. 🐸☕

Funny.

[LandoCalrissiano]

Thank you!

[Rachel_Alucard]

How many articles do you love bringing up Witcher 3? You seem sick in the head.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@rach- ok...that's nice.

[EatCrow]

Nope. Seems you don't have it straight at all. In order to be a hypocrite you have to be contradictory. I don't think anyone ever said MTs in this games were good.

[firelens]

The gaming community is hitting hard on EA, we're letting them know they can't keep doing this!

[electricbanshi]

EA is still pushing this garbage in their other games, I dont know how soon theyre going to learn...

[Agheil]

Yea...

[TheOttomatic91]

with their wallets

[Agheil]

Depends on how hard the hit is and how consistent it is.

[electricbanshi]

If that future comes to fruition, its dark time ahead for gamers....

[Agheil]

This needs to be clear to gamers that support these practices!

[Platinum_Fan]

The sad fact is that backroom deals have already been made between all the major western publishers they know that if they all push this there is no way anyone can avoid it.

[WilliamSheridan]

This will be the next big video game market crash. It will cause purple to abandon video games. Remember, it's a hobby. Not a way of life. Purple don't NEED games. And the greed these companies are feeling will be their downfall.

At one point, all of these companies consisted of people who just ENJOYED making and playing video games...

[arkard]

The companies still do.... The developers/artists/coders all love video games I'm willing to bet. It's the big wig decision makers that have fallen out of touch with the fan base.

[WilliamSheridan]

I agree, but the developers need to stop letting publishers dictate their games. Big developers should have way more say than that. Don't assume they are so innocent...

You think Bungle doesn't have a say? You think Rockstar had no say? Those guys are too big to argue with.

[Chaos_Order]

Yup. Seems some gamers act as if we gamers have a duty to support the industry at any cost. But really, if tomorrow I decided to stop buying games completely and invest the money elsewhere, would I be "to blame" if the industry shrinks?
For example, I'm a staunch buyer of physical games. If gaming went all digital I'd probably just buy myself some older systems and buy all the games I missed out on. Should I be shamed for simply buying things I want and not buying things I don't want? There are a million and one things I don't buy but I've never been shamed for those things, don't see why gaming should be any different.

[chris235]

many gamers and bloggers seem to be completely delusional by thinking they are somehow forcing ea or some other company into doing something they don‘t like.
there is only 1 way to tell companies what to do and this 1 way is not going to happen because all gamers do is create a storm in a teacup by going to forums and rant about the way of the world. and then they go out to pay money for the next ripoff title because they are bored or mother bought it for them. and ka-ching another false signal given. companies like ea will always be there because of the way people are.

[PsychoWarrior83]

Personally I'm ready to just go old school and play NES, SNES, Sega ect... I don't need 4k graphics today's games ain't all the fun to play anyways !

[MunchMiller00]

So long as the majority of people on this planet continue to be stupid meat puppets to these companies, the rest of us are stuck going along for the ride.

Let's be honest here, the saying "the world is full of stupid people" is well known for a reason.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Trust me you're not going to get anyone to support what this is by trying to attack The Gamers that play games

the way I see it is if you're just going to be calling the people who buy these games "stupid" how on Earth are you ever going to have them support getting rid of microtransactions if you're already dismissing them in the first place?

I mean ironically I would say the people who would even be buying Battlefront 2 are the community that would be voicing the most concern for a game that they enjoy to play for it to remain fair and balanced.

You need to understand that if you really want someone to listen to you you cannot start off by calling them stupid and they get angry when they're not understanding your point of view.

This attack is specifically on the practice of microtransactions regarding an advantage in a multiplayer game.

Has nothing to do with trying to attack other gamers.

Look at it this way if you were really campaigning for some big policy change that would get these type of advantages out of gaming in some sort of fashion the easiest opening is a simply say "hey look I know you love playing Battlefront 2 and I understand it's one of your favorite games so that also means you wanted to be fair and honest can you please sign this petition to have microtransactions removed so you could have a better game that's fair in the future?"

That's it. Not only do you get a dialogue open but you're also not approaching the person combatively in your also directly speaking to the people that are even buying these games.

[xenz]

And you are so much better? Give me a break

[Rebel_Scum]

pffft, here we go, the video game MT & loot box version of McCarthyism. You know how good this year has been for video games? A couple of bad games doesn't spoil the rest.

[Agheil]

Of course this year has been good but doesn’t mean that other companies won’t try to implement a GAAS system if they see all the profit.

[Rebel_Scum]

So what if they do? The number of companies that don't and likely won't vastly out numbers the one's that do. GAAS and MT & lootboxes aren't issues I've had to deal with in any game I've ever played and it won't be in the future because I don't play bad games...sorry.

[Cy]

Oh. My. God.

Grow up.

[uth11]

I dont think EA is driving this. It's the industry analysts telling them where the market is going. EA isn't the only company implementing this stuff, they are just the scapegoat this year instead of ubisoft or activision or konami