So EA share dropped.... but EA will keep going like roaches post nuclear holocaust
EA lives on - because people keep buying their games.
Every day I'm reminded how truly prophetic Idiocracy was, They just underestimated how many years it would take.
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?” ― CD PROJEKT RED
If it was grind without the option of buying.. I'd be ok with it... Or, make it realllyyy expensive, like 10,000$ complete hero set pack to support the game. Whales will pay, but most people will work for it, I'm ok with that. As long as 10% or less from the population can afford these advantages which can be obtained by all through grind, I am pretty ok with it. 40 hours is not that much? Although, if a game is to use such a system, they should just go as free to play, or a very low price.
Basically clicking away text windows ruins every MMO, try to have fun instead of rushing things. Without story and lore all there is left is a bunch of mechanics. Reply Add Multi-Quote
The fact you can't cancel your pre-orders says a lot about EA's business decisions. They want your money and won't give it back if they can wait you out instead.
The fact you can't cancel your pre-orders says a lot about EA's business decisions. They want your money and won't give it back if they can wait you out instead.
I have given up on EA, and uninstalled everything I have from them...including origin...After their Andromeda screw up. Not buying anything else from these money grabbing pos's....
if the game were f2p .....but u need to pay 40$ or 60$ for it only to have to unlock heroes after playing 40h....add loot boxes fiasco. Is no wonder ppl are up in arms.
BTW clearly the Russian bots are at play here. It went from 47k which is still impressive to 200k in under 6 hours. Pretty suspect if you ask me.
While you're researching this obvious attempt by Russia to influence our democratic forums please also see if you can find those missing Emails and a certain dossier...
I just love the whole "Blame The Russians" defense. For a guy who's first point was about the trendy thing to complain about... this is kind of priceless.
Oh man Slap so blinded by your forum hate you cant even understand a joke.
Oh I did... if was your first post in this thread. Very funny.
See that blind forums hatred is still clouding your judgment. Maybe you should step outside and get some fresh air.
The only hate I see on this forum is coming from you and your trolling and ya know what? I can eliminate that.....
That said, I'm getting more glad every day that this is a SW game that I can take a pass on. If they'd done this to Tie Fighter or Jedi Knight, I'd have been an addict tossing them my money, cursing the whole time...
Won't get into the semantics here but as a gamer I don't want to be 'nickle and dimed' to play a great star wars game. IMO this game is great unfortunately EA is a business, businesses have to make money, I don't agree with how they want to go about making that money, therefore I won't buy it.
The fact you can't cancel your pre-orders says a lot about EA's business decisions. They want your money and won't give it back if they can wait you out instead.
I actually found that I could cancel, but not online. * eye roll * I went to their "help site" ( https://help.ea.com/en/origin/origin-access/ ) and then created a ticket for a cancellation of the game. I had them phone me but you can also go with online chat and they will cancel the preorder. You also get a nice opportunity to say why you're cancelling too.
EDIT: Seems that online chat is up to 90 minutes and is now listing as "offline" while a return phone call is about 25 minutes' wait time.
Feels good, man.
While it can be said that my $80 doesn't matter...well, if enough $80s get together, it will make a difference.
The fact you can't cancel your pre-orders says a lot about EA's business decisions. They want your money and won't give it back if they can wait you out instead.
I actually found that I could cancel, but not online. * eye roll * I went to their "help site" ( https://help.ea.com/en/origin/origin-access/ ) and then created a ticket for a cancellation of the game. I had them phone me but you can also go with online chat and they will cancel the preorder. You also get a nice opportunity to say why you're cancelling too.
Yeah, that's sounds like how cancelling SWTOR is. Every time I have, I've scoured the website, found nothing, then googled and could only find a link that way.
To paraphrase DNA: "The link was in the cellar in the bottom of a
locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the
door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
The fact you can't cancel your pre-orders says a lot about EA's business decisions. They want your money and won't give it back if they can wait you out instead.
I actually found that I could cancel, but not online. * eye roll * I went to their "help site" ( https://help.ea.com/en/origin/origin-access/ ) and then created a ticket for a cancellation of the game. I had them phone me but you can also go with online chat and they will cancel the preorder. You also get a nice opportunity to say why you're cancelling too.
Yeah, that's sounds like how cancelling SWTOR is. Every time I have, I've scoured the website, found nothing, then googled and could only find a link that way.
To paraphrase DNA: "The link was in the cellar in the bottom of a
locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the
door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
At least, that type of thing isn't completely unique to video gaming.
Ever tried to cancel a gym membership at a franchise gym? Holy shit. It's got all the convenience and expediency of a medieval age religious ritual.
Yeah, that's sounds like how cancelling SWTOR is. Every time I have, I've scoured the website, found nothing, then googled and could only find a link that way.
To paraphrase DNA: "The link was in the cellar in the bottom of a
locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the
door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
At least, that type of thing isn't completely unique to video gaming.
Ever tried to cancel a gym membership at a franchise gym? Holy shit. It's got all the convenience and expediency of a medieval age religious ritual.
Well sure, they don't generally display the cancel button right next to the Cash Store link, but you can usually find it somewhere in an "Account/Subscription/Profile" section on their site, within a click or 2. Sometimes MMO's get tricky by putting it under an "add subscription" link. But I don't think I've ever been able to find SWTOR's cancel link without Googling it.
I can tell you that I make around 300-350 credits a game not including the credits you get for completing achievements. Believe me, I think it is kind of crap that they are so expensive and even with getting 300 credits a game , that's 200 games. Really really steep, at 15 minutes a game is like 3000 minutes which is 50 hours for one hero. There's two that are locked, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. I hope the will change this.
As for the Arm chair developer comment, well these arm chair developers pay for your ass to sit in that "EA" chair of yours.
I get it, publicly traded companies will always ruin their products from the constant greed and misunderstanding of its customers that oozes out of everything wall street. I'm not anti capitalism, I've just seen first hand how a family business gets destroyed when it goes public. What looks like and is stupid decisions for us, is an everyday occurrence. You're lucky that you've never been exposed to the even dumber proposals I've heard of come across the table.
This is what happens when you let accounts run a company. Numbers are one thing on paper, totally different in practice.
Not that I intended buying this game but if I did I would definitely be giving this game a miss after that flippant attitude.
The progression system is still awful in this game by tying it to loot boxes and the fact that someone who kills 50 players gets the same rewards outside of completing objectives as someone who kills 0 players is ridiculous.
Unfortunately just like Shadow of War, despite the numerous grievances people have with the game it will still sell bucketloads and the big wigs at EA will class that a success no matter what controversies surrounded it.
From the way all of it sounds, I spend 60 or more bones on a game that will be diseased with some pretty rotten pay to win? Like really EA what the hell did you think that was ok. Pretty sure I heard EA killed off respawn as well so I am done with anything that has EA's name on or around it. If they started putting there labels on milk I would eat my cereal with water.
Sorry $$$ > forum tears. There is no sign that complaints on forums are impacting the sales of these 'predatory' games.
Well I guess all the forum tears were greater this time around. In just one day EA backtracked on the cost of unlocking heroes which is what this outcry was about. They cut the amount needed to buy heroes by 75% for the most anticipated ones.
So since you like facts so much guess you were 100% wrong in your assumption that forums, ect... do not make a difference.
No company wants bad press and that is pretty much all they got the last couple days because of a bad business decision. That decision most likely did cost them customers as many have already written off the game just based on that one fact alone. You only get one chance to make a good first impression and this time they left a bad taste in a lot of people mouths with a greedy attempt to abuse their player base.
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Basically clicking away text windows ruins every MMO, try to have fun instead of rushing things. Without story and lore all there is left is a bunch of mechanics.
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with a link that supposedly works to cancel your preorder.
The link within the post is this: https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/?product=star-wars-battlefront-ii&platform=pc&category=orders&issue=cancel-preorder&isLoginForm=true
but hey its EA...
The only hate I see on this forum is coming from you and your trolling and ya know what? I can eliminate that.....
Wish more developers hardened up and didn't get intimidated by mob...
That said, I'm getting more glad every day that this is a SW game that I can take a pass on. If they'd done this to Tie Fighter or Jedi Knight, I'd have been an addict tossing them my money, cursing the whole time...
I'll let my wallet do the talking.
EDIT: Seems that online chat is up to 90 minutes and is now listing as "offline" while a return phone call is about 25 minutes' wait time.
Feels good, man.
While it can be said that my $80 doesn't matter...well, if enough $80s get together, it will make a difference.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To paraphrase DNA: "The link was in the cellar in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Ever tried to cancel a gym membership at a franchise gym? Holy shit. It's got all the convenience and expediency of a medieval age religious ritual.
I actually find the business model quite comical.
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
As for the Arm chair developer comment, well these arm chair developers pay for your ass to sit in that "EA" chair of yours.
I get it, publicly traded companies will always ruin their products from the constant greed and misunderstanding of its customers that oozes out of everything wall street. I'm not anti capitalism, I've just seen first hand how a family business gets destroyed when it goes public. What looks like and is stupid decisions for us, is an everyday occurrence. You're lucky that you've never been exposed to the even dumber proposals I've heard of come across the table. This is what happens when you let accounts run a company. Numbers are one thing on paper, totally different in practice.
The progression system is still awful in this game by tying it to loot boxes and the fact that someone who kills 50 players gets the same rewards outside of completing objectives as someone who kills 0 players is ridiculous.
Unfortunately just like Shadow of War, despite the numerous grievances people have with the game it will still sell bucketloads and the big wigs at EA will class that a success no matter what controversies surrounded it.
So since you like facts so much guess you were 100% wrong in your assumption that forums, ect... do not make a difference.
No company wants bad press and that is pretty much all they got the last couple days because of a bad business decision. That decision most likely did cost them customers as many have already written off the game just based on that one fact alone. You only get one chance to make a good first impression and this time they left a bad taste in a lot of people mouths with a greedy attempt to abuse their player base.