Hey Jason,

And if it were for purely cosmetic things like armor/blaster skins I’d be right there with you. But when you can spend money to get an advantage over others, that’s where a line needs to be drawn.

Come on people. Don’t be fooled by this.

Yeah, yeah...capitalism is great and all that, but the fact of the matter is that is consumers don’t push back against this shot now there’s no end to how far these pigs will take it.

If we let EA and DICE get away with building a game like this, one which was specifically designed and balanced to put players who chose…

Just dont, how hard is that to understand, by buying the game you are telling them you are ok with this type of shit in full priced games.

the loot boxes suck and are terrible but it really doesn’t help much that the game itself just isn’t very good.

Someone at EA had to know this was going to happen. I guarantee you there was someone, either on the Dev team, the marketing team, or in management that said “Yes, we can make our $60 Triple-A licensed game a pay-to-win fest, but should we?” and they were promptly overridden by someone that’s never picked up a…

Yes, they can. If they said they’d listened and were never reinstating the system, that would be the end of it. But they said they’d bring it back later, so there’s no other way to interpret the statement.

I hope that there’s some sort of reevaluation of the gaming industry in the near future that calls out microtransactions, season passes, loot boxes, day 1 DLC, and any other bullshit that game developers (specifically EA at this point..) are trying to push on their customers. I know that I’m wrong, but I still hope.

Does it though? I’m not sure I like the whole “players that dump 100s of hours get advantages” thing. People that play the game orders of magnitude greater than average already have a huge advantage in being better practiced.

I’d like to remind people that this isn’t a “victory,” just a delay for what is effectively the same system to return in some form.

Not dispelled, just delayed. They said they’re going to be bringing it back in some form.

Yes, but it still leaves us with the complete disaster of a progression system put in place purely to sell loot crates.

Microtransactions have been a hot-button issue, angering players and genuinely undermining or flat-out ruining otherwise perfectly fine games, for some time now. Publishers know full well that we’ll put up with this rampant greed and blatant anti-consumer horseshit to a point, but when you combine literally every…

This isn’t mentioned clear enough in relation to the issues with BF2, but it’s absurd that they restrict how much credits you earn from Arcade—I can understand restrictions on custom games, since you can try to set things up so that it’s easy and fast for you, but they have missions there that are essentially a…

I would love to go and say “wooo we did it” but no lol.

“We will turn the crystals back on after sales numbers peak and we realize we can no longer make significant sale numbers from game purchases”.

I wouldn’t pat EA or the power of people complaining on the back just yet.

What does this achieve for players? Is it easier to get all the unlocks? Or is it just to make it so people can’t get the heroes they want as easily by paying money? Evens out the playing field? It still requires people to play a ton to get more chances to roll for random shit.

Soon they’ll be back, and in greater numbers.