So EA took a look at Zynga and said - money grubbing nah we can do way better then those guys .lets see you want a football to play with in the game ..well give us 5 bucks ..and 11 players ..well you get 6 for free ..rest 5 bucks ..and the goalkeeper ..twice that ...and look we are doing this as a favor to you guys oki so say thank you sir can i have some more ,,,or we will ban your account and all your games for life.
EA Plans Free-To-Play For Every Major Franchise
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And judging by the SimCity fiasco earlier this year you don't deliver online experiences either. [slowclap] Well done EA. Well done.[/slowclap]
They were doing ever so well recently that I was actually wondering if we would be seeing a new side of them, one that didn't fuck up whenever an exec spoke to the public. I now see that, like war, EA never changes.
Th-the vomit...it won't...it won't stop.
Mass Effect 3 multiplayer is not free to play. Can you get it separate from the disk/download where you don't have to pay a dime to obtain it? No? You -have- to pay for the game in order to play the multiplayer? Well then -it's not free to play-.
Anyway, back to vomiting.
Mass Effect 3 multiplayer is not free to play. Can you get it separate from the disk/download where you don't have to pay a dime to obtain it? No? You -have- to pay for the game in order to play the multiplayer? Well then -it's not free to play-.
Anyway, back to vomiting.
This is why the big publishers fail so much. They think "One size fits all" to everything. They try an approach, declare it's supposed to work for everything, watch it fail, come up with a new approach, and repeat the cycle. Their "magic bullet" only works in particular cases, the cases for which it is appropriate and applicable. However, for some reason, that critical property, appropriate and applicable, completely eludes the intelligence and perceptions of today's big game publisher CEO's and other top executives. Doing ANYTHING, if you want a good measure of success at it, is not a blind crank. You have to THINK at every step. There are no easy answers; there are no "magic bullets". There is no auto-magic, though magic can exist; the difference is that magic requires actual deliberate, concerted conscious effort on your part (in other words, it's something that comes from you). There is no singular "auto-magic" formula to make games.
And JUST when I thought EA was on a streak of doing sensible things. Literally 3 strikes, and now they're back to being good ol EA. Phew, thought something was suddenly changing. Although, the shitstorm that will follow from this decision will be glorious. Truly glorious.
Edit: Oh God I just remembered they're publishing the new Battlefront... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! And before you say Battlefront always had a multiplayer focus, I liked my bots.
Edit: Oh God I just remembered they're publishing the new Battlefront... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! And before you say Battlefront always had a multiplayer focus, I liked my bots.
While I don't agree with what EA is doing it also doesn't bother me all that much. I doubt EA is going force their developers to stop doing single player games altogether since Dragon Age: Inquisition is coming out next year. Sure, Mass Effect 3 has multiplayer in but I still got 45 hours out of the story mode and loved it.
It all depends on how well it is implemented. I thought the ME3 MP was pretty good. I only played it a few times but the times I did play it I liked it.
It all depends on how well it is implemented. I thought the ME3 MP was pretty good. I only played it a few times but the times I did play it I liked it.
Ugh, and that's the last I see of the EA games. I've been enjoying playing whatever titles they had left that weren't always online and such but I guess that's not going to be in the future. It's a shame they couldn't just budget properly and focus on being consumer friendly like all the good companies do.
But, EA has proven to be slippery indeed. Each time I think it can't get any worse and they have to die soon they not only keep on kicking but manage to make the situation even more dire.
But, EA has proven to be slippery indeed. Each time I think it can't get any worse and they have to die soon they not only keep on kicking but manage to make the situation even more dire.
Just as they seemed to be taking one step forward with the recent Origin changes they go and take five steps back.
Yes, the fact that they're looking more towards free to play isn't a death sentence in itself, but do you really expect EA to somehow make it not shit? Do you?
The only good things I expect to come out of this are A: EA tanking and forcing the games industry to maybe stop pestering everyone with microtransactions for a while, and B: An emergency Jimquisition. Not a very srs issue so probably not, but it would be nice to get a double dose.
Yes, the fact that they're looking more towards free to play isn't a death sentence in itself, but do you really expect EA to somehow make it not shit? Do you?
The only good things I expect to come out of this are A: EA tanking and forcing the games industry to maybe stop pestering everyone with microtransactions for a while, and B: An emergency Jimquisition. Not a very srs issue so probably not, but it would be nice to get a double dose.
Once more a major publisher sticks its figurative head up its not-so figurative butt, deciding that because a thing is popular in some places in most be done across the board, no exceptions.
Every game has to have multiplayer
Every game has to have DLC.
Every game has to be a franchise.
Every franchise has to have a tie-in mobile game.
Every franchise needs free-to-play and micro-transactions.
No really, this time we've got it all figured out. Trust us.
Wait, what do you mean blanket solutions are a bad idea? How can they be bad? The chart says...
Every game has to have multiplayer
Every game has to have DLC.
Every game has to be a franchise.
Every franchise has to have a tie-in mobile game.
Every franchise needs free-to-play and micro-transactions.
No really, this time we've got it all figured out. Trust us.
Wait, what do you mean blanket solutions are a bad idea? How can they be bad? The chart says...
But aren't we supposed to love EA now? Are we not supposed to heap praise and admiration for them finally being better than everyone else?
I mean, after all, just last week we were treated to such wonderfully encouraging news...on this very site, no less....on how EA was offering *gasp* 70% off sales in Origin! And donating proceeds from Humble Bundle purchases to charity! And offering refunds for games (only some EA published titles, with restrictions) on Origin!
I mean...it's not like other services like GoG or Steam have ever donated large sums of money to charities, or have had sales, or have given refunds for certain libraries of game titles.
This news item is clearly just part of a nasty smear campaign designed to undermine EAs good efforts and besmirch it's good name!
I mean, after all, just last week we were treated to such wonderfully encouraging news...on this very site, no less....on how EA was offering *gasp* 70% off sales in Origin! And donating proceeds from Humble Bundle purchases to charity! And offering refunds for games (only some EA published titles, with restrictions) on Origin!
I mean...it's not like other services like GoG or Steam have ever donated large sums of money to charities, or have had sales, or have given refunds for certain libraries of game titles.
This news item is clearly just part of a nasty smear campaign designed to undermine EAs good efforts and besmirch it's good name!
