Need for Speed: Shift Attempts to Drive Away With My Cash

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brewbeard

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As microtransactions become more prevalent in online games it's only natural that we'll see them spread to offline content. The precedent is already there in DLC, the vanguard of the spread, and it's just a matter of time before the $60 purchase price becomes nothing more than the price of admission and advancement comes at the cost of real dollars. I hope that there will always be alternatives to earn bonuses through gameplay, but I have a feeling such things will be in the minority as we move forward.
 

TxMxRonin

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Okay, can someone dumb this down for me cause I just got off work and all my brains wants to think about is sleep.
 

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CarrionRoc said:
Okay, can someone dumb this down for me cause I just got off work and all my brains wants to think about is sleep.
Fail the first race and you can't move on without paying real money.

In simpler terms

BULL.
SHIT.
 

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CoziestPigeon said:
Tell me if I misunderstood this, but are you complaining because you couldn't be bothered to scroll all the way through a list to find cheaper cars?
Yeah sounds like It I have the game and you don't have to fucking pay, it just sounds like an excuss to rip on EA. Its a fucking flame war going on here.

LOCK!
 

Gigaguy64

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CarrionRoc said:
Okay, can someone dumb this down for me cause I just got off work and all my brains wants to think about is sleep.
the game asked if he wanted to spend real money on in game cars that could be bought after winning one pr two races.
(shudders) thats scary.
ill just pratice a little bit more thank you.
 

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So for the lazy people that don't want to use crap cars or go to the end of the list, you can take whatever you want - convenience. For those that want to play properly you do what you do in every other car game ever made.

This thread is just trolling, and deserves a lock.
 

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Chipperz said:
See, I really like Need For Speed. I do. It's so-bad-it's-good, it's campy and it has the kind of storylines that would make the writers of The Fast and the Furious be ashamed.
I beg to differ. The story in Fast and Furious(?)(the 4th one) was really bad. "lets hire some drivers to dive really fast though some mines on the broader of Mexico then kill them straight afterwards." That was just BS.

The Need for Speed thing isn't new. Didn't Battlefield Bad Company had the same shit in it? Another EA game.
Just get the PC version they don't have that crap in it. Then you can download mods/Trainers if you're to lazy to play the game.
 

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Overlord2702 said:
The Need for Speed thing isn't new. Didn't Battlefield Bad Company had the same shit in it? Another EA game.
Battlefield did something different. You didn't pay money, but you were given unlock points so that you can get equipment and weapons that aren't available from the start.

If you're talking about the Gold Edition Weapons, you just go to rank 25, and you get them.
 

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Zac_Dai said:
Suck at games? Just throw some money at it!
well it worked for bungie (ba dum tish). Only joking I quite liked halo.

I'm not sure I see the problem. If your not as good it makes sense to give you a worse car which'll be slower so easier to handle around corners and you won't need to time your braking as well. And as your skill improves you'll get faster cars which you should be able to control by then. I'm not sure many people would spend the MS points straight away without at least consulting the internet where who knows they may even find this article.
 

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Well to my knowledge after each race there is a retry option immediately afterwards anyway that will allow you to retry the races.

There is the option to spend microsoft points to buy cars, but nothing in there forces you to, it provides a decent option for those who aren't so good at driving games to be able to buy the better cars quicker without having to grind through a huge amount of races (Which to some might sound preferal to being outclassed time and again until you can afford something better).
 

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Well there goes my hope that Shift will reinvent the name NFS and make it shine once again and then there's this hole between the teeth. Great one, EA. *golfclap*

But okay. I guess at some point that is what every company of bigger meassures will try to pull off at some point. Afterall, if enough people buy into it and wanna give it a chance? But asides from that, while I believe that most won't even encounter that offer besides casual gamers or entirely new spawns of players to that genre (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE,Earnest Cavalli! THIS IS NOT MEANT AS AN INSULT!) I think this is just a way for the newer ones to get into it really.

Sure, a cheap shot and any gamer with a sense of pride will prolly dizz it to the point of pure hatret against EA (please stop crying so much, they also got expenses to cover and you don't need to pay them if you don't like them, really...) I just say:

I don't care. I am patient and I will prolly manage to avoid that offer. If not, I try it again and again.

And so should you.
 

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Meh, I'll wait for someone to release a trainer and get me all the fake money I need, in the PC version. I cheat. I'll admit it. I hate the 'forced path' bullshit in most racing games, get a shopping cart, race against other idiots towards a curb, Jackass style over and over to buy a badass car...to hell with that nonsense.
 

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So it's EA's fault you didn't scroll through all the cars? You yourself admitted that even finishing in last place still nets you enough money to start the game so whats exactly the big deal here?

Sounds like your just bashing EA. Players have had the option to buy cars for racing games for years; NFS isn't doing something new. And again IT'S AN OPTION. It isn't the games fault you didn't bother checking all the vehicles before going on your little rant here.

Edit: Your trying to make a point here that the game is forcing you to progress by shelling out DLC money...but it isn't...You admit that it isn't and yet you still keep pushing the same point...All in all it really, really looks like you just wanted to make a bash EA post. Next time try bashing EA for something they're actually guilty of. (You have plenty to pick from)

Therumancer said:
In my opinion paying $3 for an uber-car to take online is like buying gold in an MMORPG, and should basically be disallowed.
Just wanted to make a quick point about this. While I agree with what your saying, thats really not whats happening here. In Shift you can eventually earn any car you can buy (atm) for M$ points. So it's not like the only way you can get these cars is through M$ points. Nor does getting these cars at the start really help you in any way. The cars in the single player will scale up to match whatever your driving and your skill is what matters when you play online.

To that I'd like to add that even having the best cars in the game isn't going to turn you into a good player. So even if they drop extra cash to get all the cars from the start if they suck they're still going to suck. In fact if they suck and they try to drive the better performance cars they're more likely to screw up then if they started off driving the tamer vehicles and working their way up. Play online and you'll see what I'm talking about.
 

Therumancer

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I disagree in principle, I do not believe people should be able to pay real money to get ahead in a game especially one that involves any kind of multiplayer component.

In my opinion paying $3 for an uber-car to take online is like buying gold in an MMORPG, and should basically be disallowed.

Granted, it's not illegal, but I really think the gaming industry itself should sit down and regulate profiteering withint their own industry to keep the spirit of gaming intact.

... and yeah, it does sound to me like the game was set up to get you to spend real money intentionally (from the way it's described).

Do NOT take this the wrong way, but in general it strikes me that a lot of the guys who pay for sports titles and mainly play them, tend to not be the sharpest knives in the drawer (as opposed to people who play them, but not primarily, and alongside other games). Over the years I've heard many comments about the "average gamer" playing Madden and driving titles while stoned and how that is "real gaming" and best enjoyed with herbal enhancement and the like. The sales do tend to imply that there are plenty of sports titles in homes that don't have anything else as well.

I look at this incident, and also what was going on with the Madden franchise and it's microtransactions that had Game Informer making jokes about EA wanting people to "pay for air in the ball".

It seems like gaming companies see the industry in the same (admittedly fairly offensive) light that I do and have been setting their DLC attempts accordingly.

Truthfully though it makes me think that the rest of the gaming community should consider rallying a bit more on such issues in support of our less intelligent brethren (and indeed they are our brethren). :)