Community soundly rejects EA's defense of Battlefront 2's locked heroes (Updated)

[amstech]

Translation : "You should be proud of mindless grind. Without that, you'd only be having fun playing a different game. And the whole point of modern EA games is repetitive mindless boredom, not to actually have any fun, right?"...


Translation : "Comparing achievements is completely pointless for this game because the amount of effort required will constantly change. When player numbers drop we'll dumb it right down making those who put in hundreds of hours in of grind look stupid."


Translation : "We really don't care what you think anyway because we're too big to fail. This gets reinforced to us every time our captive vegetative state audience continues to pre-order. However, some guy in PR said we needed to 'say' something so this is our half-hearted attempt at damage control. By using key-words like 'passion' and 'compelling' we can sound all professional-like and talk around the issues without ever addressing them head on."

One of the best posts this year.
Bravo sir, bravo.

 

[axiomatic13]

Too late EA. I already got my refund. You really need to keep the marketing depatment away from DICE EA games. It's your "cash cow" and you are blowing it big time.

 

[hahahanoobs]

EA has to make money, yes.

Doing it by making games a grind fest unless you invest hundreds of dollars for loot-boxes is a shady and disrespectful way of doing it. if it was just cosmetics, then W/E, but that isnt the case with battlefront 2.

Ignore, of course, that EA is going to have another bumper crop year. They are just too greedy to not make as much $$$ as possible. Screw long term customer loyalty and IP loyalty, right?

"This attempt was weak, but there has to be attempts..."

 

[hahahanoobs]

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Too late EA. I already got my refund. You really need to keep the marketing depatment away from DICE EA games. It's your "cash cow" and you are blowing it big time.

Are they though? These kinds of games still sell millions upon millions, and the lootboxes make these companies more money then DLC ever did.

 

[Potato Judge]

680K downvotes at my time of reading. Good thing I don't care for EA's games or anything else with pay to win microtransactions.

 

[richcz3]

I realize its easy and popular to pile on the rant train. EA is very deserving of this backlash. The Loot Crate system should never have included vital items. Thankfully, they managed to drop the Season Pass for DLC which fractures the player base (Battlefield 1), but put in a paid back door system to offset the dev costs. Had the Crates been superficial items, like skins/poses etc...Yeah.

With all that said, I am enjoying the game so far (Yes, I pre oredered). It is superior to 2015's Battlefront and I can see putting a lot of hours into it. I've put in well over 400 hours in Battlefield 1 and never regretted the purchase. For me, 40 hours in a Multiplayer game is completely inconsequential. At this point, I believe people will jump on any detail and find something wrong with it, for the sake of doing so. Conversely, EA needs a complete business exorcism, to rid itself of some horrid management ideas or its Triple A games may never recover.