Astronomer Posted February 28, 2013 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted February 28, 2013 I may have to put EA/Origin on my "Do Not Buy" list after BF3, which I see has also had a 'pay to rank-up' controversy last year. "Develop reports on comments from Blake Jorgensen, Electronic Arts' Chief Financial Officer, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference. As you may have guessed from the name of the conference, the business aspect of EA was the topic. Jorgensen said, 'The next and much bigger piece [of the business] is microtransactions within games. ... We're building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way, either to get to a higher level to buy a new character, to buy a truck, a gun, whatever it might be, and consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of the business.' This is particularly distressing given EA's recent implementation of microtransations in Dead Space 3, where you can spend money to improve your weaponry." JohnnyDos 1 Awards
Evil-Monkey Posted February 28, 2013 Member ID: 221 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 85 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1865 Content Per Day: 0.32 Reputation: 751 Achievement Points: 12313 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 06/10/1967 Device: iPhone Posted February 28, 2013 Wow that sucks i hope they get smart and dont do this. for if they do i wont ever use ea/origin again ...damn JohnnyDos 1 Awards
Hunter1948 Posted February 28, 2013 Member ID: 1850 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 328 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8620 Content Per Day: 1.60 Reputation: 4222 Achievement Points: 55994 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 06/19/1948 Posted February 28, 2013 Yes that does suck maybe have to stay with the COD series games. baldie 1 Awards
TecHnOBoY Posted February 28, 2013 Member ID: 755 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2191 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 961 Achievement Points: 14309 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2019 Birthday: 01/14/1982 Posted February 28, 2013 It was a question of time.. They can't get enough with selling the games only. First step were the DLCs the next one is to earn money with their "Blockbusters" continuously.. I bet that Activision will do so with the next CoD too... Awards
ugotittoo Posted February 28, 2013 Member ID: 5514 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 36 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 122 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 46 Achievement Points: 792 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/07/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 24, 2013 Birthday: 07/20/1914 Posted February 28, 2013 When EA bought Westwood and destroyed them, and all the game they made is when I understood that EA....... is a bunch of A-holes
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