This is some EA tier of bullshit.
Given the upswing in my eyes of EA having tried the EA Acess hub on XB1. I'd say its ND lvl bullshit. That said, unless its actually pay to win, I can't much care.
I don't understand why people think that anything a gaming company does to possibly make a little more money is the end of the world. I honestly don't get why people think games are terribly expensive. The last game I paid full price for was Wolfenstein New Order. Couldn't be less upset with that purchase.
I paid 59.99 for it and happy to do so. Particularly when I remember paying 70 dollars for SNES games back in the day. People keep expecting more and more game/graphics for the same money, regardless of the army of artists/animators/programmers/writers/voice actors ect ect involved in its production. Entitlement city.
Edit: Matter of fact, as a hobby it rates among my least expensive despite the fact that I don't go out of my way to save on games. I don't support the used market so I don't sell or buy used, fuck gamestop. Also, I support digital purchases on XB1 (someone has to do it, show that there's a demand for it) and that's getting better but thus far it hasn't been the economical route to gaming, convenient but not cheap. So even with all that 59.99 for digital day one on Wolfenstein, no sweat, hardly a drop in the bucket compared to my other hobbies.
I'm a tabletop/board gamer as well. I've probably spent enough to buy a ps4 (not that I would, I have a PC and an XB1, an no interest in ps exclusives) just on the X-wing Miniatures game (which is awesome) but I know I have more hours in wolfenstein because my group to play gets together only a few times a month.
My other hobby is Solo II racing with the Sports Car Club of America. 1 set of my race tires that i've used the past 2 seasons was 1200 dollars. I've probably got another 300 in the trailer and tools I used to haul my race wheels/tires behind the car to the events and change off my street wheels. I've got about 1600 in parts in the car so far. It costs 80 dollars for a membership to the SCCA for a year, and reduces event entry from 40 to 25 dollars per event. At the average event I get to make 4 or 5 runs at speed through the course. These go from 40-60 seconds depending on that weekends course layout. I get to do about 8 events a year. so... lets say 5 runs at 50 seconds a piece, thats a little more than 4 minutes of adrenaline filled 10/10 balls to the wall focus and driving each event. so a little more than a 1/2 hour of racing over the course of a summer, for that investment. Its awesome, I've never been so stoked as when I won a trophy at a national level competition.
it does make complaining about 60 dollars for a quality video game rather pale by comparison.
