Corpse Run 759: Pay to sin
So I’m sure everyone has heard about the EA fiasco recently regarding microtransactions in BF2, but in the event you haven’t it boils down to:
- There are microtransactions to purchase in game items
- These items are not purely cosmetic, they include things such as unlockable characters that are more powerful.
- These items can be acquired through playing the game normally, but would require an absolutely immense amount of playtime to unlock… like eight hours a day for a year kind of time.
- This makes the game a pay to win game, which is ridiculous when it’s a full priced (not free) game.
For all the lameness that folks feel towards Overwatch regarding the community, at least the game is awesome and any additional money that a player can pay would be for cosmetics, nothing that affects gameplay.
Hopefully enough people make a stink about what EA is doing and make it unprofitable. If this becomes the norm, games simply won’t be fun anymore.
People are giving a lot of shit to Overwatch because it essentially started the lootbox trend, but I don’t really get it. Sure, you can say they started it, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was a somewhat acceptable system in that game and it was games like Shadow of War and Battlefront 2 that took that system and twisted it into something truly damaging to the gaming community. If I occasionally piss on the toilet rim and don’t clean it up, and then other people use that as an excuse to start shitting all over the rim and floor, am I at fault for that much more obnoxious behavior? Is the group of people who use that bathroom all at fault because they tolerated the piss?
That analogy was weird, but I think it makes sense.
*start shitting all over the SEAT and floor
The rim being the part that’s exposed when you lift up the seat, the seat being the seat. An important difference that’s important to my stupid analogy, oh god I can’t believe I’m explaining this
Just saying. Before overwatch there were many games wich allready had lootboxes. That said this is not EA´s first time they do something like this.
There used to be a game called Battlefield heroes. It was a free to play game. Back when it was still in beta you could buy weapons with ingame currency that would take maybe 1h of game play or you could sink in 50 eurocents (yes that cheap) to get said gun for ever were the ingame currency would be for 1 day. Shortly after the game got released they changed that. To have a better gun you would have to actually grind your ass of to get the gun for 1h or sink in the 50 eurocents to have it for ever. That was the beginning of the end. The game lasted longer then you would think because people kept playing the game and infesting money into the game via microtransactions because well they allready payed for it. 6 years after the release they closed down the game servers. All that money that the players put in poof magicly disappeared. And EA, they do not care. They are like Apple. Always there will be people who will buy there things if you like it or not.
It’s good you’re talking about EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II now, I was going to ask it for Christmas. I changed my mind after the late microtransactions scandal.