What EA did to Sim City was a crime against humanity.

*debunked, *promote

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this feels much like what the airline industry is doing; recently I bought an American airline ticket or so I thought... the ticket I thought I was buying had a ton of ridiculous restrictions so I ended up paying another 30$ to be able to pick my seat, not get on the plane last, be able to use the overhead bin, ... and from there, they had charges for the premium seats which 5 years ago were first come first served

That's nothing -- on Iceland Air, they charge you an extra 50 bucks just to sit on the inside of the plane.

Can someone explain the debunked tag? My last EA game was Battlefield 3 and I never looked back. These days, I just don't find many of today's supposed AAA games to be all that appealing. I'm sick and tired of the yearly sports release. And I groan every time I hear a new Call of Duty is being made.

Here is an interesting article on game development economics, by a long-time industry veteran.

https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/11/27/some-current-game-economics/

I think if you're going to have P2W - it should take place on a P2W server separate from those who are grinding the game. It's just one of the many reasons WoW isn't all that special anymore. Need a level 100 toon? Pay $30, get one instantly, on any sever ya like, you know with the people who put in 1000 hours of their real life.

I don't really care about loot boxes as long as they are cosmetic. In HOTS or Overwatch it's just like an added bonus, even though most of it is trash. Though, having loot boxes in HOTS is a little different than Overwatch which was an overrated/overpriced $60 game while HOTS (also made by Blizzard) is actually free to fucking play and even then I have most of the toons and never spent a cent and get plenty of loot boxes for free as well.

Keep this shit up though and the underground/indie devs are going to take over the gaming industry. Just like what happened with music, MTV not playing real music, the radio playing the same shit over and over again, major labels putting out garbage over and over again... and it eventually broke the mainstream music industry (thank fucking god).