The Untold History of EA’s Long (and Rich) Pay-2-Win Love Affair


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This is the story of Andrew Wilson’s golden goose and how it saved EA but cost us AAA gaming in 2017.

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19 Comments:

  1. Overwatch 1 billion dollars franchise

  2. You get none of your facts right.

    – Publisher do care what’s popular :
    The Witcher is now heavily copied by Assasin’ s Creed
    -Overwatch is also responsible for lootbox :
    CS:GO AND Overwatch made this system mainstream, publishers understood it’s “Okay’ to charge people this way.
    -Current EA CEO didn’t invent Game as a Service
    Game as a service was introduced by previous EA CEO now managing a football team.
    It was first introduced with DLC and now has evolved toward this pay to win model.
    -EA isn’t evil it’s just a Public Corporation
    Like comcast , AT&T , Coca Cola , they just here to make profit not please gamers.

  3. Overwatch sucks too.

    Overwatch is just as guilty as starwars.
    Everyone was suckered into buying that minigame masquerading as a AAA title.
    Loot boxes are gambling regardless of the goods inside.

    If you can’t see that overwatch was that tipping point then you were not only tricked but brainwashed.
    Gamers fucked up royally by allowing overwatch to take your money with a smile on your face.

  4. Spending money for a random loot box is gambling.
    Overwatch might not have suckered as many people but it’s still gambling, just not as many bells and whistles.

  5. I hate you so much Skill Up. You are a part of a *very small* group of youtubers I watch that I could actually sit and be entertained, enthralled, and focused for *over 20 minutes* :l

    Why is your voice so damn good, why are you smart in the way you say things, *why is this channel not bigger?!* …
    Ugh. You took up another 30-ish minutes of my life, and I don’t want it back. Keep making amazing videos … sorry I can’t support you on patreon. I would if I could, believe me. Out of video-game commentary, It’s hard to have me listen to (even a TV show) a video for more than 10 minutes, let alone 20+ … But you deserve patreon support. I don’t mean you “should” get it – I mean you *deserve* to get support for the stuff you do.

    *waits for the next great video* :3

  6. MeowAlien にゃあエイリアン

    I watched video from GameStop about the developer of Cuphead

    It was so heart warming and touching, mad respect for them

    Compared to them EA, Blizzard etc is like a cold machine that work non-stop to print money with the least effort possible

    They have tasted the sweet sweet microtransaction money, they will try their hardest to apply it to their newer game with a scheme that is much worse than Lootboxes

    Still, it is great if Lootboxes disappear thanks to the government, I’m just worried on what come next

  7. EA is scared shit less now is the basic summary of this video
    thank you

  8. FINALLY, Someone FINALLY calls out FIFA, I realized this years ago. I personally sore off FIFA years ago, despite the love for World’s beautiful sport running through my viens.

  9. It all makes sense now that so much information was provided. The big mistake that EA made was that they didn’t differentiate between players of those FIFA games with Star Wars fans. Football is a sport, pure competition no real view on morals and such other than obeying the rules of that sport, so players gladly payed to have more advantages, not to mention that gambling is tied to sports, so it was more accepted from that community. Star Wars on the other hand is a title based on the fight of Good vs Evil, debates on Jedi vs Sith, their morals and ethics. When EA had a game built around one of the seven deadly sins; Greed, and the unfair advantages tied to that, the fans erupted, and gamers that want a fair competition from a game joined them. So EA really screwed up for being so ignorant and arrogant.
    EA: “Eh, gamers are all the same. Dice, put same card system that we used in FIFA, so that we can make even more money!”

  10. SkillUp sucks so much. Am I right peeps???

  11. Can we send The Punisher to Andrew Wilson’s house?

  12. My man said it’s a trap!!! Him and Tulsi Gabbard are amazing. Thank you Hawaii

  13. 23:38 he works for EA and probably is invested in them. The exact same thing happens in Poltics.

  14. Holy Shit, glad to see Division died and Skill Up. Made this amazing video. Way to think outside the box and nailed it!!!!

  15. Amazing video, I never realized the game is built around Ultimate Team. Everything makes sense now. Thank you so much

  16. Thanks for all the info we all really appreciate it. It offers us a better perspective of things. I just wish all this happened before they shut down Visceral and bought out Respawn.

  17. 89 EA Employees watched this at the time of my comment. Only way to explain the dislikes.

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