EA: Redemption?

[Vegosiux]

Oh look, more multiplayer content. I see no reason to change my negative disposition toward EA for it or reconsider my not-buying of ME3. If that's the road they want to take, fine, but sod them, I say.

 

[Xpheyel]

It is nice. Do remember that multiplayer uses a randomized system to unlock and upgrade pretty much everything, which can be bought for points.

It isn't that different from TF2 in that you can randomly get loot by playing or buy it.

 

[porpoise hork]

Publishers that sell you hats for real money are just terrible, aren't they? I mean, just look at Valve, with TF2 and Portal 2. Despicable.

Since there is absolutely zero requirement to spend a penny on them, I wouldn't go so far as to call them despicable. However if players were required to buy certain hats/items in order to play and not buying them limited actual game play then I completely would agree with you. As is stands Valve is capitalizing on certain players desire to have those extra goodies and I don't see anything wrong with it.

Except the post I replied to specifically vilified EA for doing the exact same thing with The Sims.

True and EA did it long before Valve did. Besides unlike TF2 and Portal with the Sims players can load custom content from third party developers and not pay a penny. Plus there is countless times the amount of content available than what EA sells. My wife plays the Sims and she has nearly 2GB of third party items that she has downloaded all for free. I didn't know any of this till I found the massive mods folder in her user account.


Bottom line is like it or not micro-transaction gaming is here and quickly becoming very appetizing to developers and publishers alike. All we as players can hope for is significantly reduced prices for the actual game considering how much money can be spent on add on items. If developers want to continue to charge $60 bucks for a basic game and then expect players to shell out tens or even hundreds for dlc just to make it more playable that's totally unacceptable for me.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

[HEADING=1]I look down at EA with continued contempt.[/HEADING]



Seems to me like this is EA's attempt at damage control after the nonsense ending, and the largest insanity laden gamer shitstorm the videogame community has ever seen that followed.

Multiplayer stuff is nice, and for free is even better. But, I think most of us are looking forward to how the extended ending DLC.

People are still pretty pissed about it, and they likely will continue to be after the extended cut DLC is released.

But in the meantime, I imagine there'd be more damage done to Bioware/EA's image if they released ANY paid DLC in the meantime. Besides, how much would all this free Multiplayer stuff really be worth?[/QUOTE]

haha love the picture and highly agreed.

plus no offense, but most of the stuff they are releasing is just reskins of stuff or rematched with a different character...not really all that amazing/worth paying for, a basic modder could match some of this stuff up.

not to mention, if they were "listening", they wouldn't be making all this multiplayer stuff, they'd be making single player content to fill in what was promised.

 

[JamesStone]

They are doing this because they have no other choice. They wouldn't dare to make us pay for DLC for the MUltiplayer after the shitstorm they endured, and still do in fact. It's just damage control, and not even good damage control at that. Fixing the endings... That would be one hell of control.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

See people moan about EA because they are on the receiving end. If you were EA you would be doing the same thing. Seriously, if you could sell something and make a ton of profit, you would. Just that it sucks when you are the consumer.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Except the post I replied to specifically vilified EA for doing the exact same thing with The Sims.

Vilified? Give me a break. Show me the part where I "vilified" them. I said they were capable of monetizing just about anything.

Don't break your ankles jumping to conclusions. If I feel like vilifying EA, there are better ways to go at it then their stubborn insistence on making a buck. I think it's awesome how I can get accused of being a corporate apologist AND vilifying poor sainted Electronic Arts on the same forum, though.

 

[Thoric485]

It's like going from -1000 karma to -995.

Origin, Westwood, Bullfrog, Mythic, Pandemic... nothing can erase that.

 

[wooty]

To be honest I've never really had a problem with EA, sure some things they do are questionable and irrtate me, but I get irritated with things that actually matter in the real world all the time. I guess its my passive nature.

They make games, I play their games, they pass a LOT of time, they serve their purpose. Go ahead, rage at me.

 

[GenericAmerican]

So free multiplayer DLC for Mass Effect 3?

Lol, people play the multiplayer on that? I never even touched it.