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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Nov 29, 2017 4:53:41 GMT
You know what the sad thing is? That I actually had a ton of fun playing the beta of the game. Lootboxes And microtransactions were still an eyesore, but I had way more fun with the samples of this game, than I did the “full game” of the first Battlefront. But seeing this greed, how it impacts the performance by giving lucky dicks with dollars an unfair advantage, and EA continuing to taint the potential of what would otherwise be good games, I cannot in good conscience sign off on buying this, even for Star Wars. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I have to boycott it at this point. Are you gonna boycott all EA games? Because just boycotting one game doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things, when the next Mass Effect or Dragon Age rolls along. I’m definitely avoiding the big multiplayer epics like the plague, but Mass Effect and Dragon Age I think are exceptions. Those are both mainly single-player based games that don’t try to weasel lootboxes or microtransactions in, whereas Star Wars, Need for Speed, and others have lootboxes and such so intrinsically tied to their gameplay, making most of their bread and butter out of the multiplayer, that it inignorably damages the entire core experience, unlike the Bioware story-driven games with no such hiccups. Andromeda was disappointing for a good number of reasons, but predatory leeching wasn’t one of them. There’s still room for them to be greedy bastards and put them into Mass Effect, which would be a huge blow in my eyes (Mass Effect is one of my favorite franchises), but hopefully this little shit storm will make them think twice about it. |
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Nov 29, 2017 20:37:34 GMT
They just can’t stop talking out of their ass.Instead of trying to say the lootboxes aren’t pay to win, now they’re pretty much owning up to that. So why tie game breaking advantages to a randomized lootbox instead of just offering purely cosmetic changes (wouldn’t be excusable still, but at least it wouldn’t be as insulting)? They didn’t want to mess with “canon” by offering things like a “Pink Darth Vader” as they put it. Yeah, because the first Battlefront didn’t already have an actual decent variety and selection of cosmetics that fit within canon. A canon you so clearly respect judging by your multiplayer, reliving such classic moments as Yoda duking it out with Kylo Ren, Rey taking part in the Battle of Hoth, Boba Fett in the battle of Jakku. Somebody needs to save them from themselves.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Nov 30, 2017 19:10:38 GMT
They just can’t stop talking out of their ass.Instead of trying to say the lootboxes aren’t pay to win, now they’re pretty much owning up to that. So why tie game breaking advantages to a randomized lootbox instead of just offering purely cosmetic changes (wouldn’t be excusable still, but at least it wouldn’t be as insulting)? They didn’t want to mess with “canon” by offering things like a “Pink Darth Vader” as they put it. Yeah, because the first Battlefront didn’t already have an actual decent variety and selection of cosmetics that fit within canon. A canon you so clearly respect judging by your multiplayer, reliving such classic moments as Yoda duking it out with Kylo Ren, Rey taking part in the Battle of Hoth, Boba Fett in the battle of Jakku. Somebody needs to save them from themselves. And now it looks like the “canon” argument is crap! Modders found alternate skins (all perfectly fitting within Star Wars canon) that the developers hid away within the source code, rather than include them in the finished game... Maybe they will give us pink Darth Vader at some point. |
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