A minor victory as EA runs scared following a major backlash, a disastrous Reddit AMA, and interest from various gambling commissions.
But remember… in this world of constantly connected games, the goalposts are always moving, and EA’s show of remorse is but temporary.
The saddest part is this is working. Already seeing comments of ‘now I can buy this’, and people thinking that E.A.’s gone to make it only cosmetic, even though they never said that.
Calling it now, after the holiday shopping, after sw 8 comes out, when there’s the peek number of players. That’s when they will come back. That is if the player base stays after this shit show I doubt they will.
AHAHAHA I got two advertisements for this, one for their terrible farce of a mobile game, galaxy of heroes, then halfway through, I got another one for battlefront 2. Ah well at least some portion of the moneys gone to you Jim, right?… right?
REVIEW BOMB! REFUND! DON’T FUCKING BUY! RECOMMEND PPL NOT TO BUY THIS SHIT! *FUCK EA!*
Keep fighting the good fight!
Please don’t buy this game now people, Jim was 100% on the mark when he said this is just a momentary way to duck the heat.
i hope that take2 changes their mind after this
Predictions: 1) Everyone who purchased the game will now receive crystals or loot boxes equivalent to $40 or 2/3 rds the price of the game.2) The price for loot boxes will be reduced or the chance of getting rare cards will be increased slightly. 3) EA will get voted the worst company of the year again.
EA: “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
“Temporarily” Kinda in the same sense when a serial killer stops murdering people for a while after a close shave with the police.
We can’t let our guard down. Gotta stay vigilant.
This is only temporary. More sales and then they will flip the switch back on. Cattle will be fooled. They always are.
Fuck EA, I’m still not buying it.
EA’s stocks were dropping like a brick so they had to do damage control.
They are weasels so I expect more of their typical nonsense once the heat is off
EA wont learn a fucking lesson from this…but we can hope that other publishers who are smaller might see this as a warning and try not to overstep their boundaries too where it can really damage them unlike EA
“You blew up a Death Star. We promise we will never build another Death Star, please relax.”
-EA
I guess we can be pretty certain that this will work out like Bethesda’s paid mod situation…. where they dropped them after a backlash and then put them back virtually unchanged a little bit later.
Next steps for EA. Claim the removal of MTs hurt their profit margins. Call it a failure. Close Criterion.
They’ll be added back in later. Ea is just trying to make the criticisms outdated.