EA drops Plants vs. Zombies 2 lawn mower microtransaction tax

Despite what the media said upon its release PVZ 2 is a grind and what once had a quirky suburban style and humour, was dumbed down with the addition of time travel, a talking car and more cuddly graphics, clearly an attempt to bastardise the franchise to appeal to kids i.e. the ones more likely to max out mum and dads credit card details on these despicable game taxes, and worthless digital trinkets. F*** you EA F*** you very much !

abso-god-damn-lutlely unacceptable. This is why we don't purchase from EA people. Enjoy Titanfail, Xbitches.

yeah, test, sure, whatever you say.

I am too performing a test where i do not buy EA's products and services and i feel just fine. Just tell me EA when you apologize and change to stop my test too.

What kind of a test is it when you start charging for a key feature of the game? More like a robbery they conducted, since the poor people who payed for that stuff and are now finding out that they didn't have to were essentially robbed.

Or in other words; yet another failed attempt from EA to follow a successful trend set by other, smarter, more creative developers. We saw it with Medal of Honor, we're seeing it with Dungeon Keeper and Plants vs Zombies, and in a few months time we'll see it with that MOBA they're whipping another slave team of programming monkeys into making. Because that's pretty much all EA do these days. Aside from a couple of gems last generation like Dead Space, they just sit on FIFA and Madden and wait for the next break out business model or innovation to appear and jump on the bandwagon like a cancerous growth.

We'll probably be back here sometime later this year to see them fumble around trying to exploit early access. Watch this space.

The thing with EA is that they don't care. They'll try again and again with every single game to find a way to rip us off.

They don't try to please the customers by doing nice free stuff first, their politic is to try "if they can slip one past us" and see if it works, if it doesn't they take a lot of heat and probably think "too bad, let's try something else" and they take a step back and give some sort of apology or compensation... And then they ask themselves why gamers hate their guts...

yes, we were testing to see if you are stupid enough to pay us for this.

So what? They'll pull the same shit in their next game.

How many times have you given them the benefit of the doubt, only to be screwed over later?

Here's my simple solution: Boycott EA.

EA is the Borg cube of gaming, soon there will be nothing left, all assimilated into generic crappiness. :P

a test huh?..

Played the first game and I really enjoyed it. Played the second game and I deleted it after 2 days. Couldn't stand the ridiculous micro transactions.

Lawnmower microtransaction tax?

What the hell is the world coming to?

Ah, yes, the old "How much bull**** will people put up with" test.

Yeah, cause you can't "test" things before releasing them. Keep up that great customer service, EA.

<< LINK REMOVED >> No, the masses of people dumb enough to pay for them are ruining gaming.

EA's business practices as of late are truly disgusting. I'm well aware that they are a company and are well within their right to do whatever it takes to make money, but the practice of milking their customers for every penny they can get is getting real old, real fast. On top of that, their constant backtracking when criticism is levied against them is just plain insulting. I understand that people make mistakes and will fix said mistakes when criticized all in the name of improvement, but with EA it seems that the lessons are never learned. The company just seems to be looking for more and more ways it can get their hands into pockets of unsuspecting consumers. It's sneaky and underhanded and outright scary. I know that EA probably isn't going anywhere due to how many people will still purchase their products, but I'd like to say that perhaps the gaming community needs to ask themselves when enough will be enough.

What bullshit. Almost every "update" they make to this game makes it worse. The only update I've enjoyed is the boss fight, and we only got one.

I like the game a lot, but it really turns into a grind-fest about midway through. It's intolerable. When it first launched it wasn't too bad, but they figured out how to squeeze a few more bucks out of you.

Well, not me. I refuse to pay a dime. I'd prefer to buy it outright the way I did with the first game. Until they let me do that I'm paying nothing. Hear that, EA?

Such bullshit.

Its sad because there are a lot of improvements in PvZ 2. The graphics have seen a huge upgrade and the different settings, plants and even the addition of a storyline make it interesting.

I would have gladly paid $10 to play this on my laptop or even my phone. But those microtransactions grossly inhibit any progression without paying up.

I uninstalled it after the first 4 missions.

EA really knows how to ruin a good thing.

A test? Calling it a feature?

Wow, they really treat their customers like idiots.

Testing to see how much money they can squeeze out of players before they break....

Gotta love 'em. -.-

Here's an idea charge one "fee" for a game and give away DLC for free. Stop nickel and diming what customers you DO have. Learn from industry veteran's like CD Projekt RED who give away their enhanced editions for um FREE. Their games are good so they can do that.

=/ Free DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition por favor!