EA charges for gas in Need For Speed: No Limits

Holy shit, r u 4 real

EA will basically be employing the always fantastic wait or pay mechanic in the new Need for Speed. You can either wait for a certain amount of time, or pay to fill up your tank immediately and keep racing. Each race uses up a certain amount of your fuel. It's like the ambiguous energy level used by some games, but employing the gasoline metaphor we're all accustomed to from real life.

The IAPs won't stop there. EA will also have multiple currencies in the game too. The more rare will be gold, which is used for "premium" transactions. You will be able to buy it for cash money, then use it to fill your tank, upgrade you car, and so on.

This fucking company. Not gonna respect mobile games anytime soon here.

and people voted EA better than Ubi/Activision in the poll

.....why did you vote EA people?

Ah, a mobile game. Yeah, this shit has happened before.

This "wait a day before getting to play again or buy activity points to keep playing."

How many songs is Randy going to have to write to foot that bill?

"Invite 834 of your friends for a free fill up!!!!!"

and the whales will keep giving them money of course

lolmobilegames

Isn't this a F2P game? Call me when this starts happening for $60 releases.

also, LOL the game's title is amazing

lel

You have to be shitting me.... Ubi move over baby you have a passenger.

@blabadon

OT: Hey I got that 3tb HDD and enclosure for my X1. It did speed up texture loading in Farcry 4. You were right. I noticed it right off the bat.

Here's a link to the two I bought. I have 8 games installed I'm using 6.7 % .. :p

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KGNXTE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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So, $300 for a sporttas that contains 290 goud that I can use to get up my brandstofmeter about 96 times.

Value!!

Indeed lol, Need For Speed: No Limits except for that one, that one that one that one over there, that one and that one, oh and that one.

Isn't this just the same as most f2p mobile games?

I play clash of clans and boom beach, you have to wait to mine resources or you can pay and speed things up.

Mobile games are pretty much a joke.

Not new.

I'm amazed stupid people actually pay for these things though.

lol the balls on them. F2P gaming is utter milkage.

EDIT Mobile F2P i mostly mean (obviously some on other platforms too)

The mobile market was quite promising at first but it's become more greedy and anti gamer than we've ever seen. This shit. People will pay for it too, the clowns.

I can not wait for the mobile gaming market to crash hard.

I wonder if the fee will change by country. Gas is cheaper in the 'States than it is in the UK, and gas is cheaper in Dubai than it is in the 'States.

</sarcasm>

It's begun, quite insidiously in most ubisoft games.

Thank god it's just a mobile game. Still a disgusting practice, but at least the next real NFS game on real gaming platforms won't be like that.

I won't be playing that game then.

This makes me laugh...so hard...and yet, I'm not surprised.

So what happens if you run out of gas in the middle of a race? You get screwed over and can't finish the race and get penalized.

Have to make money on those F2P games.

lol mobile games

When I was playing Driver on the PlayStation and was wishing that it included a mechanic that allowed you to fill up at a gas station, I wasn't thinking about something like this. HOLY ****

This isn't new, a lot of mobile games do this...

It's a competition between EA and Ubisoft to see who can be the slimiest of them all.

This is not anything special for mobile gaming. Free to wait is the standard.

F2P mobile games have been doing this for years, the only reason this is even remotely newsworthy is because now it's EA.

Or just ya know...offer a game worth paying for and make money from the sales of said game worth playing.

This is why i dont touch anything with EA on the box or title screen. I havent given them a dime in years and dont intend to start back up

Console gaming is headed in this direction. Slowly but surely, watch. It will only get worse.

LoL.... damn thats fucked up....might aswell just race real cars....

Is this a mobile game? If so, who gives a shit?

Its a mobile game, what were people expecting?

That sounds ball bouncingly fun. Can't wait for them to implement real currency speeding tickets.

This is a mobile game... A lot of games do these things, don't see a reason to pick on EA for this

@Blabadon: oh is this a mobile game? Not surprised this type of shit happens all time. I thought u were saying this was a console game.

The problem is that mobile gamers are cheap skates and don't like buying games, instead they will get the free games and up rate reviews that should be called out on.

I guarantee people on ios reviews will praise it. Casuals ... ughh I wish it was back to handhelds and a few j2me games like it used to be. Back when you actually had to pay for games on mobile.

Now if this was a console game, I would hope the game would get 0 sales and a big upraoar. Just watch this crap seek into 60 games (oh yeah it already started with forza 5, so I've heard)

Is really real? I remember a few years ago the EA ceo taked about charging money for ammo in battlefield games. It never came to pass because of the hate.

But dear god, I hope the industry does not adopt this type of transactions..

Edit: Oh, its a mobile game. phew

That's not an excuse or the fault of the device. It's the publishers taking a dump on the consumers face.

As they are with consoles btw.

So you want games that cost nothing and are amazing? Sure... They need to pay the developers, so there are three ways to do this. Advertisement, in-app purchases or the game costs money. But a completely free game? Don't make me laugh

No: that's just you badly attempting to construe shit.

Mobile games come cheap or free to download then they fleece you once you get in the door. Publisher know they can't sell one for $60 but they sure as hell can wring players pockets dry once they start the game.

There are a lot of Facebook games do this shit as well.

Unfortunately the mass market for this shit will give them money by the bucket load and EA know it. Kabam have made billions from it.

Indeed. People are in denial about most trends in the gaming industry, but this is a big one that's going to hit the AAA blockbuster market in the next couple years like a ton of bricks bring dropped in front of a moving car.

There should be a backclash from the gaming community about the "free-to-play" label. It's not "free" at all (but then again cows think PSN+ games given away are "free" too). It's a stupid method of getting people to invest money in a game. At least the games that do F2P right (i.e. Path of Exile or League of Legends) don't give a distinct advantage to people who pay real money for things. They just give players the ability to visually customize their player character, and everything else is available to everyone else who plays the game.

Well this makes me glad I don't game on mobile.

This is the same as a bajillion other mobile games, F2P generally sucks.

The biggest problem with the big publishers going the F2P low budget route is that it showcases just how bad they are at making games.

Hopefully this doesn't make its way to console versions of NFS. It wouldn't surprise me if it did. Just look at Madden MUT. It basically allows people to buy good teams, even after spending $60 on the game.

Real Racing 3 does this too I'm pretty sure, lots of free2play games have this kind of stamina meter that you can recharge with real money or wait for it to refill.

It's a shitty practice, but it's nothing new.