GOOD NEWS! EA’s future games will all feature microtransactions!

[Sir Prince]

Possibly, and also he probably was referring to other things since it was at a business conference or something. Bobby Kotick went through a similar incident a few years ago when talking to investors and had to explain that the language he used meant something quite different in business speak than how most people use it.

 

[Æthelwulf]

Still, shame about SimCity.

 

[Notsure]

The same problem occured with The settlers 7, its a shame indeed they insist on permanent online connection but dont have the infrastructure or the will to do it right.

 

[Goker]

Not directly related to Microtransactions, but I guess you could say this mocks EA - Always Online DRM well enough.

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[Sir Prince]

I want to play Solitaire now.

 

[Kawee]

EA does it again

Another classic ruined. Check out the price of this game though, nice one by the guys at Bit-Tech.

 

[Jhessail]

Hahaha.

But yeah, not a surprise at all. Well, except that Mythic got their name soiled like this. I would have expected some no-name Asian studio to work on it, or something.

 

[Wellenbrecher]

The biggest gem about this whole fiasco is that you can't rate the game at anything but full five stars.
Anything less will take you to their support page instead...

 

[Notsure]

TB did a video on that, thankfully a game not owned by EA got kickstarted and seems to be the real successor,check out War For The Overworld.

 

[Vermillion_Hawk]

So what does EA do when they get feedback that people don't want to see their beloved franchise turned into a free-to-play monstrosity? They shut down production on it and lay off the entire studio that worked on it. Sorry if this is old news but I just found out and damn am I pissed.

 

[Æthelwulf]

BBC are actually reporting on it. My oh my.

 

[Nahkuri]

The biggest gem about this whole fiasco is that you can't rate the game at anything but full five stars.
Anything less will take you to their support page instead...

Hahaha, what?

 

[Goker]

You have two options; rate 5 stars or 1-4. Clicking on 1-4 stars directs you to a support site of EA, so you can give feedback but won't actually give any rates on the App store and whatnot.

 

[Nahkuri]

wow, that's smooth.

TB did a video on that, thankfully a game not owned by EA got kickstarted and seems to be the real successor,check out War For The Overworld.

What video is that?

 

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[Jhessail]

BBC are actually reporting on it. My oh my.

Thanks for the link, buddy:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26033685

Hilariously, EA spokeswoman claims that the game must be good, because there are so many 5-star ratings at App Store.

 

[Notsure]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DJmS7prcmE&feature=c4-overview&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ

Theres some footage near the end Nahkuri.

 

[Amagic]

The term "cow clicker" has never been more relevant.

Gotta hand it to EA though for their amazing innovation. There's nobody even near their levels of utter bull****. Microsoft and Ubisoft really got to step it up.

 

[Vermillion_Hawk]

Who knows, maybe they'll take the Worst Company of the Year Award for the third time in a row. They certainly seem like shoe-ins at this point.

 

[romandude]

Gotta love EA.