Take your fingers out of your ears.
It’s biggest sin was being largely the same sort of open world adventure game as Zelda. It’s still a very good game, but Zelda fostered a sense of exploration and wonder that is generally non-existent within the sub-genre of Ubisoft-formula open world games. Horizon has wonderful world building and a unique setting,…
Plenty of games tell good stories. That doesn’t make it unique.
Security is all about the user, not OS. I don’t understand the whole Apple having a better ecosystem argument. Unless you really believe iCloud is better than Google Drive? Apple photos better than Google Photos? I, personally, prefer an ecosystem which works with every device without being forced and settling what 1…
I don’t see Jack Daniels taking advantage of children, indoctrinating them with the idea that spending money on useless virtual items is part of the entertainment. Gtfo with that horrible attempt at comparison. I’m old enough to realize how addiction works and what these filthy scumbags like Blizzard, EA, Riot,…
I see a lot of these kinds of comments.
This kind of response could only come from someone who has never dealt with an addiction of their own—or either does not know any addicts, or has no empathy for them whatsoever because, “It’s easy for me, so it should be easy for you.”
If that’s your thought process, then I ask you: should things that are easy for…
“It’s not just a one time purchase. It never is.”
Right? Random in real life objects is finite, it runs out, like packs of cards or something. But digital has absolutely no reason for randomness, none at all, other than the single objective of getting more money out of players. “Rarity” is an illusion with digital content. That’s just so disgusting.
No you are completely wrong here. The point you seem unable to grasp is that you CAN USE OTHER WEBSITES TO GET INFO or content. No one is forcing you to use facebook to get news or google for search results. NO ONE. Thats not true with the monopolies ISPs have on the access to the internet. I only have one choice for…
we agree that the system is not performing the way we’d like it to.
I’d say it comes down to when it is and isn’t predatory. Buying MTG packs, digitally or otherwise, or Hearthstone or whatever, that is basically how the game is played, that is how you enter into that particular ecosystem, so anyone picking these things up is probably aware of that fact. While, the BF2 lootboxes…
Who knew that a child could be good at A Children’s Card Game?
Oh I get it, you’re an EA executive. That’s why you’re so hostile towards people that are justifiably angry with EA and cynical about what they’ll do in the future. Now it makes total sense why you’re a complete ass hole.
Or we could all collectively not buy it at all, and force EA to make a better, less shitty game.
So?
Would you say the same thing if a clothing store started selling their “top of the line” clothing wear to adults and kids in a box, and they didn’t know what they were getting.
Sure, that makes it less bad then BF2. But it’s still a fully priced game, locking shit behind a wall of random chance and money. If they sold the actual skins, it’d be even less bad.
“We forgot that we can sell much of our pre-owned stock of games between now and the holiday shopping season. So we’ll resume the program once we have more money and fewer used games to rent.”
(Ignoring the economics of scale (strongly favors games), digital distribution, and that fact that it is very unlikely a AAA game attached to the Star Wars IP is going to flop)