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Posted 27 February 2013 - 09:40 AM
I'm sure this will affect their PC and PS games as well, but I'm posting it here because my source is OXM.
EA has announced that all of their games moving forward will have micro-transactions, much like Dead Space 3 has. Thoughts? Opinions? I haven't played DS3 yet, but it's on my wishlist. But then again, I haven't finished DS2 yet...
King of Clubs
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Posted 02 March 2013 - 05:02 PM
Just another way to make more money...
They're not in business to give it away 
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Jack Ass
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Posted 02 March 2013 - 05:16 PM
No there not however ask them how ME3 did.. making games that level out important parts of the game but u have to pay for it after u just spent 60 buck...this is one reason I will not get a PS4.
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Posted 02 March 2013 - 08:26 PM
No there not however ask them how ME3 did.. making games that level out important parts of the game but u have to pay for it after u just spent 60 buck...this is one reason I will not get a PS4.
I guess I don't understand the logic of that one. You're not getting a PS4 because EA over-charges for everything?
Jack Ass
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Posted 02 March 2013 - 10:15 PM
I guess I don't understand the logic of that one. You're not getting a PS4 because EA over-charges for everything?
Not just EA but the whole gaming industry, and that is why I'm not getting a ps4 or any other console. I'm just choosing not to go next gen, because I don't like where it is going and I can't afford it.
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Posted 03 March 2013 - 03:12 AM
It's interesting to me that console companies are going the way of the monthly/yearly fee system, something the PC side has been slowly moving away from. I'm still curious as to if Sont will ultimately go with a larger pay model similar to microsoft. I'm going to assume that they ultimately will.
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Posted 03 March 2013 - 07:28 AM
I'd only go along with this if EA games were free, or at least drastically reduced in price to like 9.99 or something. Paying 60 bucks and then having to pay for advancement in-game is a losing proposition. The only reason that the freemium model works in the mobile market is that the games are free, luring you in as a customer for the IAPs.
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Posted 03 March 2013 - 09:26 AM
Not just EA but the whole gaming industry, and that is why I'm not getting a ps4 or any other console. I'm just choosing not to go next gen, because I don't like where it is going and I can't afford it.
Ah, okay. I guess the singling out of the PS4 threw me since this is in the Microsoft forum. But I can see moving away from consoles completely. I'm more likely to put the money towards building a good tower over any console at this point. It's just not as easy for me to keep a system up to date now as it was back when I was mostly a pc gamer. Back then, I was making 5 times (or more) what I made last year. That's what makes consoles so tempting to me right now, it's easier to come up with a 1-time fee that will run everything for the next 5 years (or longer) than it is to come up with the same fee, then regular hardware updates in addition.
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Posted 03 March 2013 - 09:27 AM
I'd only go along with this if EA games were free, or at least drastically reduced in price to like 9.99 or something. Paying 60 bucks and then having to pay for advancement in-game is a losing proposition. The only reason that the freemium model works in the mobile market is that the games are free, luring you in as a customer for the IAPs.
My understanding of it was that you don't have to pay to advance, it's just an option. It's not an option I would ever take, but it's just an option.
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 07:10 AM
Micro Transactions I'm pretty much against in anything. If a game like DS3 has it but doesnt affect the core game then I wont really care its in it. But if it does affect balancing in MP and stuff then I wont. Ive already conformed to certain DLC and PS+ but thats pretty much as far as I'll go right now and for awhile. I'm still not keen on spending over 20 bucks for digital games at this point either need my BD's.
Still in general I would refer if games weren't polluted with Micro Transactions.
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 09:43 AM
Ah, okay. I guess the singling out of the PS4 threw me since this is in the Microsoft forum. But I can see moving away from consoles completely. I'm more likely to put the money towards building a good tower over any console at this point. It's just not as easy for me to keep a system up to date now as it was back when I was mostly a pc gamer. Back then, I was making 5 times (or more) what I made last year. That's what makes consoles so tempting to me right now, it's easier to come up with a 1-time fee that will run everything for the next 5 years (or longer) than it is to come up with the same fee, then regular hardware updates in addition.
other than upgrading storage space, the upgrade i did last year to my pc was past the 6 year mark. that upgrade cost me less than what my ps3 cost originally. When the first borderlands came out i think i was playing it on 4 year old hardware. back when hardware was expensive i could see that argument, now it's not even close and the hardware has tapered off when it comes to how much faster they get over the course of a year. that not to mention the fact that you're going to be using your pc for everything else, more so than you would a console (word on a 360 anyone?). Owning a console is really an added expense when it comes to gaming.
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 02:37 PM
Maybe, but I use my PS3 as much as I use my laptop. Between games, movies, streaming movies and musics, my PS3 is nearly always doing something if I'm home. A new tower might replace some of that, maybe. But with my PS3 running through my big screen and my surround sound, all of that will look and sound better out of my console. Unless I spend even more money for that.
Admittedly, I haven't been into PC gaming for about 4 years now, but I was always replacing something every few months. I easily spent as much a year on my gaming pc as I did on my PS3, and I bought the big one at launch. And constantly fixing my mother's PC, I can tell you it's still expensive. In the last 2 years, I've spent enough on her systems (buying most everything from Newegg) to buy 3 PS3s.
Then you have the upgrade pace. Sure, the PC hardware upgrades faster, but it also needs upgraded faster. The version of Windows I was running on my gaming tower when I bought my PS3 isn't even supported any more (XP). A couple months later, I got a new work laptop with Vista, which has already gone away. My current laptop is running Windows 7, which has also been replaced by Windows 8. That's 3 brand new versions of Windows that have come out since I bought my PS3, none of which are cheap.
Now, I've been piecing together a gaming pc for a while now, but I still need a copy of Windows if I'm going to be gaming with it. If I go with 8, I'll need a touchscreen to actually utilize what's good about it. Even going with 7, I'm going to be spending $100 (assuming I go with the cheapest one, I usually went with the Professional version for use with work). I know there's other hardware I know I'm going to need to get it online, but I'm going to have to work and tweak to figure out what I actually need, then get everything working together for optimal performance. And the chances are that I'm going to have to replace at least some of the parts, as they're all second hand from systems that were already damaged. I don't know if any of them are even any good.
With a console, I don't have to do that. I plug it in and go. Everything is optimized for me. I don't need to worry about drivers, or if my graphics card is good enough to run this new game I want, or diagnosing what's wrong with the system this time.
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Posted 05 March 2013 - 08:19 AM
While i agree with everything you're saying, i've just seemed to have a good deal of luck not having to diagnose many issues. There have been a few graphical glitches with a couple steam games, but really not any more so than some ps3 games that randomly lock up, d/c or all out bugger up visually. Least with the PC you can actually do something about it, with the console you just have to wait till someone fixes your issue and apply the update. Consoles definitely have a big advantage in ease of setup and use, but they are also pretty limited. You can pretty easily stick your PC next to your big screen and have all the good stuff you have with the console, you can even use your ps3 controller 
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Posted 05 March 2013 - 04:10 PM
If I can get back to a point where I'm making $50 an hour plus over-time, I'll definitely be building a new tower. But that's looking less and less likely as time goes by. Right now, I am Broke (with a capital B ), so any expense is too much. In that situation, the console is the cheapest way to go.
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