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2.2 Million People Were Willing to Pay $100 to Play College Football 25 3 Days Early
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BlitzerRadic
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Predatory? waiting 3 days isnt going to kill you bunch of drama queens lmao.
bender
What time is it?
My doctor says I have two days to live.
BlitzerRadic
Member
You got 2 days to live and you complaining about $30?
phant0m
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Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
What’s worrying is what if it’s 2 week early release date? Or a month.
$200 to play the game 2 months early.
$200 to play the game 2 months early.
sharp weiner
Member
It’s been 10 years without NCAA. It’s gonna do good numbers. Playing right now. It’s fun
bender
What time is it?
You got 2 days to live and you complaining about $30?
No. I'm telling you waiting three days will kill me.
Pedro Motta
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amigastar
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USA USA
March Climber
Gold Member
Exactly. These are a different breed of gamers who buy less than 10 games a generation, and the majority of those purchases are sports games.
They don't care about what the gaming community cares about and they never will. The only thing that upsets them is when the sports game plays horribly or is balanced horribly, to which they will refund or simply go back to last year's edition.
reinking
Gold Member
I heard two people at work say they are buying a PS5 just to play this game.
StereoVsn
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2.2 Million People Were Willing to Pay $100 to Play College Football 25 3 Days Early - IGN
An incredible 2.2 million unique players played College Football 25 during its early access period, showing millions of people were willing to pay more to play the game early.www.ign.com
And this is why we can’t have nice things and Corpos like EA go nuts with MTX.
StereoVsn
Member
I mean sure, but why pay extra $30 for 2-3 days? That’s kind of dumb.
I do get why people are buying the game but $100 for basically nothing is sending a wrong message to the publishers.
StereoVsn
Member
Our likely future vice-president just gave a speech fondly remembering his grandmother and that when she passed away the family found 19 guns hidden around the house.
USA indeed, lol.
FeralEcho
Member
Don't worry,with retarded mentality like this they'll become less than peasants in a couple years
They can soon enjoy playing NCAAF on the local NES at the street shelter...the new home for "non peasants".
Portugeezer
Member
Why they like college football so much? Isn't like... Pro football better?
balls of snow
Gold Member
Wait till you see what people will pay for EAFC25 to play early.
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ReBurn
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I can't wait to post gifs of beans on toast
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
cheap to get into maybe.... once you factor in all the other transactions for gaming it's not that cheap
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Raven117
Member
I was using “bros” as a broad term of endearment, but yeah, exactly this.
bender
What time is it?
Raven117
Member
Not from the US I take it? College football is its own animal. And it’s totally awesome.
Maybe this will put it in perspective. Real Madrid plays in a 85,000 capacity stadium. Man U, about 75k.
The college I went to, and sells out most if not all home games, 102,733 capacity. There are a lot of universities like mine that are around that big. Like probably over 30 schools or more with over 80/90k capacity. Hundreds of others in the 40-60 space. All playing on Saturdays in the fall.
It’s absolutely huge.
PendekarRajawali
Member
Imagine if you were a football fan and a college student, great combo, right?
amigastar
Member
Not bad. Sadly no PC version.
www.metacritic.com
EA Sports College Football 25 Reviews
In EA SPORTS™ College Football 25 experience explosive gameplay variety across 134 FBS schools and immerse yourself in the iconic atmospheres of college football as you chase college greatness.
www.metacritic.com
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kapshin
Member
Yes but NCAA and NFL are their own leagues it's not like FIFA that included many leagues.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
With FIFA it was just the name EA were paying for.
The new EAFC doesn't have the FIFA license, but contains multiple leagues around the world and multiple leagues in the same nations.
diffusionx
Gold Member
I watched some reviews of this game and apparently, unlike Madden for the past decade+, it's good. So that is a factor. They won't just get CFB fans desperate for a new title, but they will get NFL fans who want an actually good videogame. Heck I am thinking of picking it up for that reason (I probably won't though).
Pro and college football are like two different sports.
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LordCBH
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Definitely not!
rabbity-thing
Member
As someone with an amazing pre-school-aged child who bogarts the TV to play Animal Crossing and watch episodes of Pokemon, devs could offer to let me play their games a whole year early and it still wouldn't matter. Guys, one of these days I'm going to beat Death Stranding. No, really, I'm going to do it.
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Shake Your Rump
Gold Member
What is your acceptable rate for having your new game delayed? How much per day are you willing to "save" by being forced to wait? Currently, it's $20 for three days. What if it was "pay $150 now, or wait two weeks to pay $70". What if it was "$200 now, or wait two months"?
I'm curious what people think of this. Where is the "red line"?
Shake Your Rump
Gold Member
The people waiting aren't the "prey" here. It's the people with no willpower, an addiction, a YouTube or Twitch channel that absolutely needs to be there day one, a parent's credit card...
This also discourages physical sales.
Miles708
Member
And people wonder why the gaming market in such dreaful state.
2.2 million is the answer.
Kings Field
Member
What’s even crazier is on the GameStop subreddit there was a post yesterday saying they sold out of series s and ps5’s at their store because of this game.
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CLW
Member
This series has been gone for a decade and ea successfully marketed this game as NOT a Madden clone.
I LOVE CFB and but the bullet and can tell you it’s WORSE than Madden from a gameplay perspective.
But now I have a college football game so I’m good as long as it’s backwards compatible. Last one was ps3/360
I LOVE CFB and but the bullet and can tell you it’s WORSE than Madden from a gameplay perspective.
But now I have a college football game so I’m good as long as it’s backwards compatible. Last one was ps3/360
TropicanaTwista
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Fair question. As for the price, idc, they can charge whatever. My overall point is I would personally NEVER pay for early access. I might preorder something that gives me a beta code or something, but I don't consider that paying for early access as I'm paying the same overall price.
As for the "delay" I'm not really sure and that's more of a grey area. If you talk something like a month or longer that's completely unacceptable and I would call BS on that. Probably my furthest limit would be 2 weeks, but it also depends on the game. If it's an online MP type of game, I can understand a little more leeway for server testing, better balancing etc. For something that is just or primarily a single player game, over a week is kind of pushing it imo.
Having said all that, I could still live with it. I truly can't think of any game that came out ever, or is planned to that I would need to play asap. Sure I would love to play anticipated games right sway, but it wouldn't kill me to wait a week or 2, there's wayyyy too much to play already. I guess I look at it overall I would rather publishers nickel and dime us this way than others.
Unknown Soldier
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Why only sell 1 game when you can sell 2 and make more money?
CLW
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KungFucius
King Snowflake
Wait, there is an early access option that also includes Madden and early access to it? Why wasn't this mentioned because doesn't that make this 5 bucks for early access for each game?
Unknown Soldier
Member
No, it's still dirt cheap. You should price out a bicycle these days or something to compare