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they never said they weren't going to reintroduce microtransactions quit being retarded

>temporarily removed

>A 60$ price tag isn't monetizing something

They literally said "The ability to purchase crystals in-game will become available at a later date"

>reading comprehension

idiots

INCREDIBLE THOUGHT
MAYBE JUST TRY TO SELL THE GAME TO PEOPLE ONCE
AND NOT TRY TO CREATE SOME FRANKSTEIN LOOTBOX INFINITE MONEY GENERATING SKINNER BOX

i hope ea kikes burn to the ground, they are a cancer to the game industry. you will not be missed.

You didn't even read the article, here's a summary

1. Battlefront got backlash for having a $50 season pass and launching with barebones content.

2. In Star Wars Battlefront 2 they changed the system and promised free DLC while using microtransactions and loot-boxes to monetize the game.

3. Thanks to the backlash, they have removed microtransactions . . . but they've stated that they're planning on reinstating them.

4. If they do bring back microtransactions tied to progression then they will still face backlash.

5. If they bring back lootboxes with only cosmetic items they'll still draw ire. They've already enticed responses from multiple governments on the issues of lootboxes.

6. That leaves them with really only one path forwards that won't bring back a ton of backlash: Implementing an online store with microtransactions to purchase cosmetic equipment. No randomized lootboxes at all. It's likely that wouldn't sell as well and certainly wouldn't be nearly so profitable.

7. At the end of the day they promised free-DLC, so not delivering on that makes them look bad. At the same time the game sold significantly worse than the first game and they won't be making the money they thought they would on microtransactions and lootboxes. Not releasing the promised free DLC would upset those that bought the game. Essentially they've backed themselves into a lose-lose situation.

but that's the future of video games, user.

what the fuck happened here....


theres gotta be some major shilling going on to have you fucks so far criticizing the criticizers of EA

>I don't know what a double negative is

It doesn't matter what you were trying to say because you are the true retard that can't even follow basic grammar.

WE HAVE THEM NOW

Not anymore it aint

They can't make a profit with just one purchase sales. AAA games have to sell a ridiculous number of copies to make money back.

>reading comprehension

Or they could just fall back on season passes.

To think they'd still be fine ikf they didn't get toogreedy and kept ripping sports games casuals off instead of going for the FPS nerds.

>Hello investors, we've decided we are going to stop added extra revenue sources to our video games and will only sell them at $60. W-what where are you going?!

>It's okay when Nintendo does it.

The industry really needs this shake up. Normies must finally stand up to the jews.

Disney told EA to remove the online casino aspect of the game. but isn't the fucking game built around the loot boxes? how does this work? Is EA truly fucked by mickey mouse?

>That leaves them with only one path forward
Making a fucking full fledged game? The first game sold FOURTEEN MILLION fucking copies according to wiki. How is that not enough money to throw into developing a game with proper content?

No one defends gacha shit.

>reddit and cuckchan bitch and moan
>they will all still buy it

shit nigga this is Sup Forums we don't need to read your shitty article to know that ea is shit

You underestimate the power of the jewside

>likely it wouldn't sell or be nearly as profitable
they literally just have to copy league's model
people will pay 15 bucks to play as vader and another 10 for a cool outfit for him
it was that fucking easy from the start but they underestimated to power of their own license and went full jew like it was a shitty pump and dump mobile game
they don't deserve to have star wars, they're too fucking stupid and greedy

>Comparing a full price actual game to a gacha

thats not to say BF2 is a full game but the point is you're retarded.

>but isn't the fucking game built around the loot boxes

Most of it. EA thought it would be a good idea to take their FIFA money making scheme and stick it into BF2 by making Star Cards the foundation of character progression and now it's blown up in their face.

Why settle for only /enough/ money when you can make more?

redditors are garbage. They ruined this games.

I'm more posing that question for the journalist going by his/your? summary than anything.

idiot

Did EA ever bring back the refund button for this fucking trash heap?

nope, better submit a support ticket :^)

I can't believe you couldn't follow along with such a simple sentence.

>release a statement to investors saying MTX wont impact orofits once removed
So the whole "games sell at a loss" meme doesn't fly either.

I bought it then charged it back with my credit card.

It's EA. Of course not.

The whole progression system was built around lootboxes, yes. Not sure how it plays without them tho.

>redditors made EA treat Battlefront like a mobile game

Then stop spending 3 times as much money marketing the game than making it.

>greedy white Christians
>try to shill it about Jews

why are internet nazis so shameless, pathetic and evil?

That game is fucking free, retard.

>FOURTEEN MILLION fu
Jesus christ. Its not the dlc, lootboxes or whatever they bring out that kills this industry, its the fucking idiots that buy rehashed shitgames.

14 fucking millions. Let that sink in. 14 millions for that game on your mind right now.

I guess people just want more rehashed cod and battlefields. These games depreciate like utter shit. Just weeks later they are utterly forgotten yet ea banked already on them.
1 year later the servers barely have any players left so they yell for another cod/battlefield game masked under some other name.

Good job to all the faggots who bought ea games here. Im glad i never ever even played an ea game for the last 10 years.
I can tell you that i missed nothing but kept my sanity and money. Kys retards.

>remove only form of income other than base price
>no impact on profits
I wonder if there's any investor retarded enough to fall for this, what exactly is the reasoning here?

t. redditor

Not true at all. EA spends less money on development than they used to. Video Games have a profit margin over 50% when you consider how cheap digital sales are. The "We need to sell X million copies!" Is just a shitty cover they use to shut down studios and buy their IP's.

I'LL NEVER TURN TO THE JEWSIDE

wrong board for that reaction image user go Pongs

>still don't buy it
>enjoy the cries of redditors and EA cucks bitching and moaning
>YOU HAVEN'T EVEN PLAYED IT HOW CAN YOU SAY ITS BAD

League is a free to play game. Besides, no one wants to pay a dime to play as characters like Vader in a Star Wars game. Paid skins I could see working though.

The fuck do they mean by "ironically"?

you forget that all of that money was gone by the end of the year

You know what? I dont give a fuck. I hope EA fucks over all the players and rape their mothers in front of them. They bought this shit, they deserve to be treated like shit.

League is free to play, though. If this was a F2P game, people would be a lot less critical about the loot boxes.

Yes, literally yes. By making the first one a success they caused the second one to be equally if not moreso casual and shitty

Knowing EA's nature they're gonna fuck this up and not make the microtrans cosmetics. Mark my words.

the game is free

>inital sales of a game who's last entry sold FOURTEEN MILLION copies isn't enough
fuck off

And it's gacha shit. Not a good comparison but it sucks anyway.

t. Ventrue Prince

Quit projecting.

This is bs. Video games cost less to develop than movies.

>Hello consumers, we've decided we are going to keeping adding extra revenue sources to our video games and will sell them at $60, $80, $120, and $800 which may or may not give you in game advantages based on luck and how much you spend. W-what where are you going?!

That just means no further development of the game. They will shit out 1 poorly made update with 1-2 heroes and 1 map and that will be it.

i'm contrarian therefore i am smarter than you

*tips fedora*

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That's a nice way to have their license taken away from them. Won't happen.

>ironically
okay so whats being stuck with it unironically then?

All they had to do was make a good game

>western developers
>good games

>That's a nice way to have their license taken away from them

Honestly, after this huge backlash and attracting government attention and major newspapers reporting on it, they will definitely lose the Star Wars franchise, I'm sure that the Mouse is mad as fuck right now

What developer could take it though?

Probably Activision

They are as shitty as them, but at least Activision use Vaseline

What about DICE? Unless they were bought out by EA then idk

Dice Activision, ez

>yfw Platinum games gets the license

Probably just that in the attempt to greedily make a load of money, they're gonna end up making very little

Aren't they an EA studio?

>No good way to re-monetize it

It's selling for $60. It's already monetized.
When can we hang the Soyboy journalists?

>60$
>stuck
>need to re-monetize

the current state of this industry and it's press

If they cannot just sell me the game without any strings attached, then they can just fucking die for all I care.

It's literary irony, they became so greedy that they got stuck with a no-MTX lemon.

>6. That leaves them with really only one path forwards that won't bring back a ton of backlash: Implementing an online store with microtransactions to purchase cosmetic equipment. No randomized lootboxes at all. It's likely that wouldn't sell as well and certainly wouldn't be nearly so profitable.
Except this is the single most profitable method of cash shop bullshit there is

>It's selling for $60. It's already monetized.

user, devs need to re-monetize their games because selling games without DLC or MTX aren't profitable for the companies

Which part of EA saying that earnings wouldn't be affected by the removal of lootboxes in BF2 did you not get?
No company is idiotic enough to budget their AAA game around microtransactions, don't fool yourself, they are still making a good money with BF2

oh yes, every single redditor bought those stupid games, us REAL gaymers at Sup Forums never buy shitty games

microsoft

bethesdsa

>Jew = Greedy
>Implying Jews invent Capitalism

>Which part of EA saying that earnings wouldn't be affected by the removal of lootboxes in BF2 did you not get?

They say that to calm down investors and shareholders

We don't know the impact of the MTX removal yet

Hello comrade

Good riddance, maybe they'll learn something from all this. Who knows, we might be seeing the fall of EA starting up, could be good.

Hello

this is wrong and if you seriously believe this than you're literally a fucking drone

>EA saying that earnings wouldn't be affected by the removal of lootboxes
How do you not recognize an obvious fucking lie?

If their earnings (which are now zero) would not be affected, then their earnings with lootboxes would have also been zero. Which means either they planned for absolutely nobody to buy a lootbox, or this is an obvious lie. They are straight up saying that they're not losing any revenue by shutting down microtransactions, how can you believe this?

Everyone will forget about this in a year, 6 months even. EA made $2 billion off micro-transactions already, they're unfortunately going to do just fine.

Suppose battlefront somehow gets picked up by Bethesda.
What lay in store for us then?