It's just business. Please understand...
EA CEO: We`re not trying to be greedy.
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It's just business. Please understand...
You play 100000 hours of Hearthstone for free and then you decide to buy a card pack for 0,99 because why the heck not.
His wording is a little byzantine but I think he's trying to say when people traditionally "spend time where they spend their money" he means that when someone invests in a $60 video game, they "force" themselves to spend their time with it as well in order to justify the money already spent. "Now" the idea behind EA Access and other a la carte services is to spend money where you find you spend the most time without imposing restrictions like satisfaction bias for a physical product you're stuck with. Or something.
I'm saying there's a greedy way to do F2P and a less greedy way.
Little Monser
Banned
After what they pulled with Dungeon Keeper mobile im surprised PR even bothers to clean up EA's image.
On a personal note i was done with them the moment they fired the creator of PlantsvsZombies. PvZ2 is the most cash grab shit they could have pumped out with none of the pacing of the original thanks to microtransactions.
On a personal note i was done with them the moment they fired the creator of PlantsvsZombies. PvZ2 is the most cash grab shit they could have pumped out with none of the pacing of the original thanks to microtransactions.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Oh yeah, I had suppressed from my memory this shitstain upon the gaming industry.
That's pretty much the only evidence needed, I retract my previous statement and just point to this.
jetsetnickradio
Member
Dungeon Keeper mobile was vile, but to be fair wasn't that like 3 years ago?
Cizeta-Moroder
Banned
It sounds hilarious)
EA's batshit insane!
Quoted the wrong bloody post didn't I.
Not a fan of them but hey, they're a business trying to survive in a changing climate. They found a way to do that and then some. Not sure if that's greedy or just smart business sense.
If you don't like it, vote with your wallet. I've bought maybe 5 games of them in the past 10 years - 2 of them were €20 and the others were used for <€5. All great value to me.
If you don't like it, vote with your wallet. I've bought maybe 5 games of them in the past 10 years - 2 of them were €20 and the others were used for <€5. All great value to me.
God please don't remind me of this garbage, one of the all-time greatest RTS games ever made, and was my childhood - they bastardized it, which turned it into whatever the fuck that was. Fuck EA for killing Bullfrog.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I was expecting this sentence to end with a "buuuut..."
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
EA isn't greedy. They don't take chances and they stick with a formula that works.
brokenbeans
Banned
Lol yeah, go open £100 worth of packs on FIFA and see if they are greedy or not.
jetsetnickradio
Member
So would you blame all of the problems a nation is facing on the president/prime minister that had just been elected?
The Dutch Slayer
Member
hahhahahah great quote"We spend human beings as money"
travisbickle
Member
I'm pretty sure "trying to be greedy" to a CEO of a large corporation is very different to most people's definition.
Most people don't really understand how a behemoth company works. They're like Titanic (even the sinking sometimes) and steering them is not as easy and quick as some people think.
Also, "greed" is pretty much in the job description for the CEO of an already established company.
No, just saying he didn't exactly try to give EA a better image of not being greedy by letting it be released.
Also, what problems? Its not like someone is attacking the capital of EA. It's EA themselves wailing in the mud and saying "look at all the money we made from you suckers!"
It's expensive, sure, but the game's very well-built. We'll see how they handle the expansions, but if the only problem is price, then we're doing pretty good.
An expensive game is eventually affordable, but a bad game is bad forever. Usually.
GametimeUK
Member
Because Titanfalls DLC didn't become free with an update, Battlefront didn't get night maps (as far as I know the last one was happening / has happened).
I wouldn't call basing your whole game mode in Halo 5 around Microtransactions "doing it right". Diablo 3 on consoles for sure has great, free content.
While I suppose his statements won't sit well with GAF, if you ask me, what he's saying is reasonable enough. He's right, the video game market went through some significant changes with the rise of Internet, smartphones and whatever, so capitalizing on that is perfectly valid. Besides, I think EA is big enough they can provide us with both the traditional games and these new, microtransaction or DLC based models. While I'm not too interested in most of their games, I honestly don't see them as "evil" or "greedy."
xChildOfHatex
Member
I came for this quote. Not disappointed.
Pantaghana
Member
Dear EA:
Your history of bullshit is too long for anyone to trust anything you have to say.
Sincerely yours,
The internet
XOXOXO
Your history of bullshit is too long for anyone to trust anything you have to say.
Sincerely yours,
The internet
XOXOXO
Just look at Halo 5. Create games like that, but sell for a lower price and coup the losses with MT's. Don't see any issue with that, creates a more constant revenue stream for the parties involved.
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
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Novel Mike
Member
I wish some of these company's would just own it instead of trying to pretend to be something your not.
I'm not saying come out and say 'WERE GREEDY AS FUCK GIVE US MONIEZ!!!' but instead of trying to pretend your not greedy just be more honest. Something like...
'We know how some people portray us as being greedy but we are a business and we have a responsibility to our shareholders to make them as happy as possible and while some of the decisions we make because of that at times make our customers upset doing so is the only way to keep making the high budget games and services they ask for.'
I could make that a lot longer but I have no actual desire to think how an EA PR person would.
I'm not saying come out and say 'WERE GREEDY AS FUCK GIVE US MONIEZ!!!' but instead of trying to pretend your not greedy just be more honest. Something like...
'We know how some people portray us as being greedy but we are a business and we have a responsibility to our shareholders to make them as happy as possible and while some of the decisions we make because of that at times make our customers upset doing so is the only way to keep making the high budget games and services they ask for.'
I could make that a lot longer but I have no actual desire to think how an EA PR person would.