I completely burned myself out on multiplayer FPS games after playing the mess that was non-CTE Battlefield 4 for a year straight, but I tried this on a whim earlier even though I knew that I was going to hate it, and to be honest, I think I might have actually had a little bit of fun on a video game.
I'm sure DICE will somehow manage to ruin it before release by adding tryhard guns, tryhard gadgets and terrible but inexplicably popular maps, but so far, if you're looking for some fairly mindless shooty-bang-bang with a Star Wars skin slapped over it and you're willing to forgive the game for being an abomination to the Star Wars canon, then you might enjoy it.
Turns out that running around after Darth Vader as a snow trooper, competing with friends for an imaginary employee of the month status and dying in the most spectacular way possible is a pretty good way to pass the time.
The kill trades though... Oh dear lord the kill trades!
@virtuasega: Yeah, no. Seeing as you've made it clear that you don't think that a basic understanding of marketing and being susceptible to it can be mutually exclusive, that was your implication.
However, I won't be wasting my time any further by reading any more of your childlike, mongoloid scribblings. 4 chances you've had to contribute to the discussion by typing something worth reading, and you've blown every single one of them. What a bitter disappointment you must be to your parents.
@virtuasega: It does, that's why they do it, to target people who are either on the fence about buying a product by constantly reminding them that it exists and that their library will never be complete without it, or that just have more money than sense. If it didn't work then no company would waste their time marketing a product in such a way.
And being able to turn it off is literally the only good thing about being advertised to in this manner seeing as it effectively boils down to "We're going to plaster this shit in every place that you might look until you cave in and buy it."
@virtuasega: It's an effective marketing tactic, but just because it works on those with less resistance to such marketing, doesn't mean those of us who aren't susceptible to it appreciate being bombarded with it.
@spartanx169x: "I need to validate my home media choices by creating hypothetical situations in which everyone who chose differently to me is a hypocrite!"
Seriously though, if any company had done this, then anyone in their right mind would find this kind of marketing invasive as ****.
The store already offers recommendations (albeit poorly), now they have to clutter the list of things I own with things I don't own too?
@sithalo: This automatic system has been in place on the Playstation store for a long time, so why do they also need to do it with your personal library?
I could understand the justification if they were doing it with smaller titles, but Destiny? That game you can't go anywhere on the internet without hearing about, or even access the Playstation Store without being directed to it's own, special Destiny section?
Oh please... Last time I checked, my library was meant to be a collection of content that I already own, and the fact that it directs you to the most expensive version of the game shows that the only reason that they're doing this is to try and wear people down until they fold and buy it.
Yo Dawg, I heard you like pre-orders, so I announced a pre-order for a pre-order so that you can pre-order a pre-order for a pre-order while you wait for your pre-order.
9 main games, 13 mobile/handheld games, 9 comics, 3 short films, 1 WIP feature length film and an encyclopedia, all for a series that isn't even 8 years old yet.
At this point, Assassin's Creed Vs. Judge Dredd, Assassin's Creed Vs. Predator and Assassin's Creed Vs. Terminator probably aren't that far off of Ubisoft's radar.
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