@EKGProd Haha, nailed it. The truth is you can mostly thank the MMO crowd for this, these games are basically 95 percent non-gamers who just use MMO's to socialize and who is sucked into buying shit to seem cool to their friends and to have the best character. EA may have a future in this market, but most gamers will have forgotten they exist at that point.
@Relvar They are stupid, at least for thinking they can sell this to the gamer market. While the model MAY work out the core gamer market will never buy into it, and that's their main delusion right there.
Microtransactions are setback disguised as innovation - excessive greed that tries to be disguised by new speak like "free to play". EA seems determined to lose the gamer market and aim for the idiot market instead - it may or may not be a financially viable option but if they do they will have little relevance to actual gamers any more. And as more intelligent companies offer us games without this nonsense EA will probably become another casual/MMO publisher. I just hope Bioware escapes in time if EA is going down this route. Or they have an awakening, because this is getting truly absurd.
@santinegrete @psx_warrior Yes, pretending PC gamers accept rubbish DRM schemes is nonsense - and is why we love GoG. Crap like Origon and uplay is massively reviled, Steam is a whole other story and is a model that actually works.
I have a fiber line that I use for internet, tv and phone that's basically 100 percent stable (it hasn't been down a second since I got it about two years ago) - and I won't buy the next xbox if it requires an always online connection. As a PC gamer as well I have fought against rubbish DRM's - it's the sheer stupidity of requiring always online that's just too much, and actually paying for a product that is so obviously flawed is not going to happen. While MS may be delusional enough to think it's progress it just seems reactionary, desperate and tech-challenged to me to incorporate that nonsense.
And blocking used games? There is such a thing as too much greed and that will definitely be crossing the line. I can hardly believe MS will be stupid enough to incorporate these features, the PS4 will dominate completely and there's a perfect zero percent chance of that not happening if they go through with this. But so far only rumors so we shall see.
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