Nah. I think it’s all pretty much bullshit no matter how you slice it.

As has been said multiple times, EA doesn’t want to make money. They want too make ALL the money. If they can’t make ALL the money, the game is a failure.

This right here is my exact issue with this stupid game. Everything about it is awesome from the class play balance to the huge maps and the mountain of content. It is finally a dream star wars multiplayer game and they’ve boned it with a f2p p2w loot crate model in a full priced game.

It’s fine that you have to grind for nearly two days to unlock Luke Skywalker, the dude who Star Wars is largely about?

EA, why you gotta do this, man. This game is fun. The bones of it are great. The shooting mechanics are on point. It’s fucking gorgeous. It absolutely nails the Star Wars feel and atmosphere. It’s packed with content. It’s vastly improved over the first one. You’ve got everything you need to make this a fantastic…

But you can buy all of this for the in game currency. Real money are there just in case. So everything is fine.

Except that this is gating entire characters, not skins. Imagine how pissed everyone would be if you had to play ~40 hours to gain enough credits to buy Mercy and other popular characters in Overwatch, all while Blizzard advertised in-game currency.

Worker and consumer rights are absolutely moral issues, largely because compensation for labor and the cost of goods (at least under capitalism) is fundamentally exploitative in execution. Usually, we roll with it and that’s fine. For instance, I don’t have a problem giving my guy at the bodega a buck for a soda even…

Okay, some further editorial.

Loot crates have always been a moral issue that the industry (publishers, devs, journalists, influencers, and whoever else) has mostly ignore or dismissed and that’s incredibly screwed up. Even cosmetic focused crates, which don’t affect gameplay, use specific audio/visual cues and…

Someone else said it much better than I.

The only counterpoint worth saying, then, is simple and vulgar: Richard Petty, go fuck yourself.

Yes, I read it, and Blizzard is a huge company that’s basically printing their own money at this point. Overwatch is a huge cash cow. They’ve created a league that costs tens of millions just to enter.

This is bullshit. People responsible for community management and people who build maps and design gameplay are not the same people. Kaplan is so full of shit and he always has been going back to his WoW days.

Spencer did nazi that coming....