MEA was a decent game hampered by comparison with a stronger preceding trilogy and a buggy launch. If only around 16% buy the DLC (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dlc-and-microtransactions-new-study-shows-how-game/1100-6444522/) and fewer people bought the game because of its rough launch, the costs of making the DLC vs likely sales may simply not have added up.
Actions matter more than words, but reading the words is a positive sign that needs to be followed up with deeds. If Anthem has great stories, great characters and great gameplay at its core, I'm in.
I prefer playing games on my Xbox, I enjoy the feel of the controller and the platform. Multi-platform titles I play on that. I also picked up a PS4 on Black Friday specifically for the Sony exclusives. I don't like having to have two machines, but if you don't get sucked into every Pro and X update it's a viable strategy. No, Microsoft don't have a meaningful selection of games as 'exclusive system sellers'.
@devilmaycryyyy: Gamespot usually rates below the pack (OpenCritic is at 79) often for fairly spurious reasons. I normally add 1 or 1.5 to Gamespot's score (and deduct 1 from IGN's score) and it seems to work out about right.
Viewership falls consistently over last 4 years, likely down to changing way people stream and consume content. Long-term trend is less than half the viewership of 20 years ago.
Headline 'big films' may have a partial impact, but that's hardly explaining the ongoing downward viewership.
Article ignores this trend and people pull spurious reasons out of their ass. Nice.
They did say 'optional'. So if the 'grind' isn't bent out of shape to force them, that would be 'better'... EA will clearly not abandon the concept altogether, and many gamers will clearly still buy the games even with 'bad' microtransactions.
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