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Disney Pressured EA to remove Micro-transactions from BattleFront II

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/20/2017 09:35 AM | source: | 20 comment(s)
Disney Pressured EA to remove Micro-transactions from BattleFront II

EA halted in-game sales of virtual goods in its high-profile sequel to “Star Wars Battlefront” on the eve of the game’s launch, bowing to pressure from Walt Disney Co. as well as customers who fear big spenders could gain an unfair edge over other players.

This news is reported by the Wall Street Journal, Disney pressured EA as yes, they have a movie coming up, Star Wars: The Last Jedi launching December 13th.

EA has been under massive under attack asking for inappropriate amounts of time and money to unlock certain heroes, for example, Darth Vader. The public opinion is that with 70 euros they already pay enough for the game, gamers who do not shy away from spending, even more, money will get unfair gameplay advantages, called pay2win.







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Brit90
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#5493945 Posted on: 11/20/2017 10:05 AM
I am totally against pay to be better, that I totally agree with.
What I don't understand is why people are complaining that 40 hours to unlock a hero is such a problem? I am maybe an old timer, in gaming and grafting is what games should be about. The more effort you put into something, the greater the reward.
Games with unlimited saves/respawns/continues as well as no punishment for dying are just way too easy.
I play Diablo 3 on hardcore, because the thrill of dying adds to the excitement, not the same tedious, if I die, no punishment.... Maybe it's me, but I hate this baby state of people thinking they deserve to be the top when the effort they put in is negligible.

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#5493980 Posted on: 11/20/2017 11:58 AM
I am totally against pay to be better, that I totally agree with.
What I don't understand is why people are complaining that 40 hours to unlock a hero is such a problem? I am maybe an old timer, in gaming and grafting is what games should be about. The more effort you put into something, the greater the reward.
Games with unlimited saves/respawns/continues as well as no punishment for dying are just way too easy.
I play Diablo 3 on hardcore, because the thrill of dying adds to the excitement, not the same tedious, if I die, no punishment.... Maybe it's me, but I hate this baby state of people thinking they deserve to be the top when the effort they put in is negligible.
Come on man, 40 hours for ONE character is a very long amount of time. Keep in mind that it's effective gameplay.
The idea is that they made the characters very hard to unlock in order to encourage you to spend money on loot boxes. That's a dick move and it's the reason why one of their comments became the most downvoted in the history of reddit (by a very large amount from the 2nd most downvoted).

IIRC, I finished Witcher 3 in a bit over 40 hours. Dragon Age: Inquisition took around the same.

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#5493989 Posted on: 11/20/2017 12:26 PM
I am totally against pay to be better, that I totally agree with.
What I don't understand is why people are complaining that 40 hours to unlock a hero is such a problem? I am maybe an old timer, in gaming and grafting is what games should be about. The more effort you put into something, the greater the reward.
Games with unlimited saves/respawns/continues as well as no punishment for dying are just way too easy.
I play Diablo 3 on hardcore, because the thrill of dying adds to the excitement, not the same tedious, if I die, no punishment.... Maybe it's me, but I hate this baby state of people thinking they deserve to be the top when the effort they put in is negligible.

You choose to play Hardcore in Diablo if you like it. Would you like that others would be able to get stronger in hardcore by paying? (I know that doesnt really affect you in Diablo, but lets imagine the game had actual open world PvP and they could kill you)

Thats the problem, your gameplay being affected by other players that payed extra money to get stronger.

alanm
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#5494001 Posted on: 11/20/2017 01:13 PM
Ha ha... so much for EAs apology to its customers... "We hear you loud and clear, so we're turning off all in-game purchases..." When in reality they were forced to turn off the transactions by Disney.

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#5494017 Posted on: 11/20/2017 02:21 PM
Wait, Disney... morals... what?!

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