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On November 16 2017 02:31 Seuss wrote:
The games industry is going through some growing pains. At the heart of it is the growing obsolescence of the concept of an AAA game. The "dump a ludicrous amount of money into a high-risk project hoping to make ludicrous amounts of money back" model is unsustainable, but companies whose bread and butter are those AAA games will keep trying to find ways to make that model work for years to come.

EA is just the most hamfisted of those companies.

On November 16 2017 04:00 Gahlo wrote:

People will flip out about it because multiplayer shooter + Star Wars. The first also was missing major chunks that the series previously had that made it really stand out and the second was supposed to fix, but it just brought other problems with it.

But this kind of double dipping fuckery isn't new for EA.

As an aside, I couldn't consider PUBG a new IP. It's basically just the newest of a line from the same guy spread out over different companies and now he finally has full creative control.

On November 16 2017 09:31 killerdog wrote:

It's a few levels worse than anything EA has done before

-major gameplay elements stuck behind ridiculous paywalls. You can't play darth vader unless you grind (at launch) 40+ hours of optimal point earning gameplay, or spend a lot of cash.

-Earning credits is a flat time based thing, not results based.

-Offline game modes have daily points caps because they don't want people "cheating the progression system by grinding credits" (which can be bought with $$)

-A very large number of credit based purchases give MASSIVE in game strength bonuses. Shit like "40% faster health regen" or guns which just do more damage

-The prices all got massively increased for launch compared to beta with no warning

And the worst thing is it's apparently a really good game behind all that. Gameplay is meant to be fun and graphically good, and they even added space battles. It just all got completely destroyed by EA deciding to force a mobile gaming setup on it which locks pvp power behind massive grinds or credit card swipes.

edit: there's a perk you can buy which literally gives "improved aim assist"...

On November 16 2017 11:21 red_ wrote:


Some of this is peak reddit cherry picked shit though which is stupid because there is enough worth raging about to not need to skew things in favor of 'the crowd' but they did it anyways. Players gain credits for challenges and leveling up, a significant amount of them. After the 75% discount you'll have your first hero within a couple hours of playing from what people in the early access are reporting. Some of the challenges are in game things like x amount of kills type of shit, so obviously that's going to be some merit based credit gain there as well. The better you play the more/faster you complete your challenges. I still haven't had anyone answer affirmatively or in denial of whether there's a flat win bonus applied either, I would think there is but maybe not?

The offline thing is clearly because offline = far easier to be manipulated/automated. It's like Riot limiting IP gain from bot matches.

The offline thing is clearly because offline = far easier to be manipulated/automated. It's like Riot limiting IP gain from bot matches.

On November 16 2017 21:04 killerdog wrote:

Haven't been following the new changes, but at launch apparently the only performance buff was a flat 30/20/10 credit bonus for being 1/2/3rd on the team, which is a tiny % of credits earned.


This is a full price AAA game... Not a free to play or mobile game...

Imagine if some of the older cod games limited your experience gain in certain side missions or game modes because they didn't want people "grinding progression." The fact your even willing to defend stuff like this shows how far things have gone :<

If you enjoy arcade you should be allowed to play arcade to progress. You bought the damn game. What's next, daily caps in experience from non quest monsters in skyrim?

On November 16 2017 04:25 phyvo wrote:


heeeey, Rivals of Aether is a great smash-style fighter, it costs only $15 (+$10 for the 3 dlc characters) and it goes on sale for 50% off regularly. If everyone wanted a change of pace... heeeey?

On November 16 2017 07:23 nafta wrote:

The real sad part is that it will keep working for years. All you need is a big name attached to the game and people will buy it with 0 thought process.

People literally preordered an EA game. What kind of drugs do you have to be on to not realise this is stupid?

On November 16 2017 21:04 killerdog wrote:

Haven't been following the new changes, but at launch apparently the only performance buff was a flat 30/20/10 credit bonus for being 1/2/3rd on the team, which is a tiny % of credits earned.


This is a full price AAA game... Not a free to play or mobile game...

Imagine if some of the older cod games limited your experience gain in certain side missions or game modes because they didn't want people "grinding progression." The fact your even willing to defend stuff like this shows how far things have gone :<

If you enjoy arcade you should be allowed to play arcade to progress. You bought the damn game. What's next, daily caps in experience from non quest monsters in skyrim?

On November 17 2017 07:59 Fildun wrote:
I understand that there are quite a lot of people who have the option of dropping 200 dollars on Battlefront, but i don't understand that there are so many who actually do it.
Deciding to spend 200 dollars on the game also implies a decision to not spend those same 200 dollars on something else, and to quite a lot of people who have that extra bit of money, 200 dollars is still a lot.
Or maybe this is just my upbringing speaking, idk.

On November 17 2017 08:54 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
I feel like everyone else's life is infinitely more exciting than mine. I'm just trying to survive film classes where my group literally has no idea what their doing.