@thorstein - Oh it will come back. That's why a lot of people are still raging. This is EA.
This may come as a shock to someone like you who bends over willingly for anybody who asks, but other people don't like it when developers don't fulfill promises or make their games purposefully frustrating so as to push players towards gambling mechanics in order to progress.
Keyword here is - "for the time being". I'm willing to bet(no pun intended) that they'll put it back up once the current storm has passed and people's attention move on to other things. This is EA. I expect nothing less.
"socialist core values"?
How's that gonna work? Is that like -
- All players have to distribute ammos evenly between them even though you found the most ammo yourself?
- If your group kills one from another group, you have to give them a free kill of one of your own in return to even the odds?
- If you dominate a game, you should be ashamed of yourself because you clearly don't care about others?
- In the end, every single com...
"Who is forcing the developers"
Publishers. And publishers are in turn forced by investors/shareholders. And investors are forced by the government. And the government is forced by politically influenced identity groups and the mainstream media. Take a look at the current loot-box controversy with Battlefront 2 and tell me again that no one is forcing developers to change things in their games. Didn't you hear news like feminists trying to blackmail CDPR about how their...
Thanks for the disagrees. However, it would be more helpful if you can also reply with the reason you disagreed.
I agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, you'll always have people defending the publishers no matter what they do, trying desperately to downplay their disgusting practices.
I agree, except for the DmC part. They should never have touched it. They should've known something was amiss when Crapcom approached them with the concept of "surprise us, shock us". It wasn't going to go down well with consumers when the IP owners themselves don't even know what the hell they want to do with it.
Makes me want to play the game all over again, for my 5th run-through.
@Jinger - Well, clearly the people responsible for regulating shitty practices, the ESRB, can't do their job right. Hence, the government involvement.
Its kind of ironic that the ESRB was formed by publishers themselves in order to not need government intervention in the gaming market. But they got too greedy and used the ESRB to protect loot-box implementation in their AAA games. Thus they have managed to shoot themselves in the foot. I expect all hell to break loose. ...
EA are in full damage-control mode. They're scouring left, right and center for friends and calling in favors within the market to help them save face.
Exactly. A better way to save money is to NOT buy this sham of a game in the first place.
Free update? Aren't 'updates' free in the first place, or am I missing something here?
Why is forced diversity good? How does changing the original race/gender of a game(movie) character just to fill an imaginary "quota" help anyone? You're just affirming to THAT section of your consumers that they are indeed the "lesser people" and need to be coddled, which would be counter-productive to finding the solution to the actual problem. Its rather ironic that, sometimes the most racist/sexist people on the face of the earth are those that belong to the anti-r...
They're doing it with The Gwent card game. But its a free to play game. Its most likely how a company struggling to stay alive would do it, not that CDPR are struggling at the moment. Meanwhile, EA and other big publishers are doing it to their full-priced $60 AAA games.
I'd also like to know exactly how CDPR ate their words with The Witcher 3 DLC. This is the first time I've heard such a thing. Please enlighten us, @Puty.
Agreed.
I read the title and thought - "Oh good. A 'diversity' headline yet again. We definitely definitely need more of those...... /s".
Funny because, as an Asian gamer, my enjoyment of games do not depend on how many digital Asian faces or Asian-looking faces they put in front of me. This inability of some people to separate video games and identity politics is annoying to the extreme. Unlike those people, I don't jump up and excl...
Don't forget NBA 2k...whatever number.
And here......we..........GO.
The snowballing has begun.
Publishers beware. LOL
If it was THAT easy for them to learn their lesson, they would not be the most hated publisher in the gaming industry. If its not season passes, its loot-boxes. If its not loot-boxes, it'll be something else equally slimy.