It will probably not change spending by a lot. https://www.serkantoto.com/2012/08/12/dena-regulation-gacha-odds/

They replaced dlc & season pass with mtx, but perhaps that was what you were saying?

Well this content probably couldn’t be released earlier since it’s connected to the movie.

This game will probably still be one of the top 10 selling games this year (going by 50% of Battlefront 2015 sales) so no need to worry about player count yet.

If I was putting on my anti-cheat hat I’d guess the cap exists to prevent people from getting tons of credits without playing at all.

Well Fifa, Need for speed, Garden Warfare, Mirrors Edge also use the engine so it seems to be quite flexible.

I guess we will see how the campaign holds up when the game is released. I still have high hopes for the game.

Noticed that you forgot about hearthstone (a game that probably makes quite a big cut of that $1B)

It’s very close to how theed looks in the movies http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Theed_Royal_Palace/Legends

The game will have a single player campaign and an “arcade” mode where you play multiplayer with bots.

Yeah, thought I had seen a fair (not exaggerated) compare for those two also but couldn’t find it :(

To be fair it’s a fictional county and not just one small town.

In Sweden (where he is from) you don’t do all that stuff. You just apply on a website.

Since I’m not a native English speaker I make mistakes like that all the time. I appreciate that you took the time to correct me (for real), it makes it a lot easier to improve my language skills.

Oh I didn’t know there where criterias for when you where allowed to be titled a gamer, I just figured if you spend money on and play games you’re a gamer. Thanks for correcting me. You should look if the game police is hiring: https://twitter.com/thegamepolice

Wow, ME:A not selling as expected has to do with 3rd-wave feminism? That is so crazy I’m not sure where to begin... just wow.

If you have a PSVR the the VR-mission is pretty cool (but short)

If you have a PSVR the the VR-mission is pretty cool (but short)

The 4-12M subscriber is not concurrent users of course but I get what you’re saying. I would still argue that it’s still not “free in the grand scheme”, a lot of costs won’t be related to hardware or bandwidth but to headcount for developing, managing and supporting the online systems needed.