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clok:
EA, sad how such a great name is MUD.  Archon, STarflight,  the list is so big..  When they said, FOOTBALL, we wont make the better game, we will just make it so nobody else can make a competing game (exclusive NFL licence)... And the Digital model.. EA started a digital store way back, prices where often MORE then in stores.. no bargains, nothing.. (i bought a few new games as I could get them ASAP (red Alert III was one i think)).  They didn't do ANYTHING to make it successful and it sorta just disappeared.. (thankfully i have a TXT document with my RA3KEY). STEAM comes along and makes a successful Digital service.. EA says that sales model Devalues games.. Then EA copies it, starts sales (and give away of games).. 2 faced is all i can see.  EA is just a business now.. plain and simple.. most game devs are.. but EA has skipped the "appear to care about the customer" part, where the others at least make it look like they do. heck I wont talk about the EA exec who took an Interview before  the MMO Star Wars game was released and said it was crap and wouldn't work ( he was fired).. but good  gosh.. right or not.. sabotage before its released, your own game? Quality thinking on that one.

Crysis 3, Dead Space 3, etc... skipped um all, Origin will not be on my machine. Sad to think.. I wanted to play Crysis 3 bad..

thewisteron:
IMHO, there are some really good freemium games out there.  I play a lot of them (Simpsons Tapped Out, Hay Day, Deer Hunter, Sims Freeplay, etc...) and I have paid less than $20 for a LOT of gameplay.  If a freemium game is good enough, I'll pay.  But not Candy Crush...that game is evil and brilliant at the same time.

thatpurplestuff:
Will never forgive EA for what they did to the Plants vs Zombies sequel.  Just give me the option to buy the freakin game... I'd be happy to spend $20-30 on the full game, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be nickeled and dimed.  Instead of $20+ they get $0 just out of principle.

I absolutely hate the freemium model but it's at least tolerable when you can unlock everything with a one time purchase... these games that charge you for lives and other temporary things are just gross.

thatpurplestuff:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on February 09, 2014, 09:58:25 pm ---That would explain why their POS games are ranking higher than they should. EA has been ass raping every single game under their title. The freemium changes to PvZ2 was a bit of a shock and I've purposely shielded my kids from it.

There was a video not too long ago that illustrated the real problem best. This is a business model that is not going away. There is an entire generation of gamers whose first introduction to gaming is the freemium business model and the fixed ratings system. These are adults and kids alike who have no idea what gaming was like before this gaming hell appeared. They'll be used to paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars for what should never be more than a $19.95 experience. And $19.95 is being generous to those ---uvulas---.

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Amen brother.

keilmillerjr:
I thought that when Apple started allowing in-app purchases, it would be used to resolve the issue of developers creating a seperate app just for a trial version. Like the game? Spend $20 or whatever on it. Boy, was I wrong. Developers seem to have misused that privilege in my eyes.

PS EA has $100 in app purchases for fake game currency to advance in a crippled game. It's it legal? Yes. Is it immoral? Yes. It's a perfect scam.

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