Yahoo speaks the truth about EA

[stanley roper]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/p...th-it-/1358619

Quote:

Microtransactions Remember when you could just walk into a store, buy a game, and that was the end of it? With the growth of purchasable downloadable updates and game tweaks, modern video games can be expanded well beyond their original capabilities (like, say, with Burnout Paradise's series of outstanding content downloads)...or exploited to nickel-and-dime gamers for features that really should have been in the game to start with. Several publishers have been tempted by the extra revenues this strategy can offer, but easily the worst (and most recent) offender is EA Sports. Take Madden 10: some of its purchasable downloads give your team boosts like immediate injury recovery, temporary stat boosts, and perhaps most egregiously, the $5 "Elite Status" -- which unlocks the game's toughest difficulty level for online ranked play, among other things. Nice, but didn't we already pay for this game once?

[darthlaidher]

yahoo must be watching the forum cause we been sayin this for months.

[jnofx]

Everyone on this board has been on top of this, I'm glad there are articles exposing this practice for what it is.

[Guggy107]

do people actually buy that stuff??? if anyone has bad enough taste to want to cheat by allowing instant injury recovery or something ridiculous like that, let them pay for it. dont ruin the game i bought by putting that crap in there, even if it would be something you could turn off. im not a big fan of EA, but i dont blame them for trying to make money in this case. if people really want them to stop pulling that, then stop buying the stuff. its useless anyway, in my opinion.

[rckabillyRaider]

Its a business and EA knows there are people that buy that little petty stuff. I enjoy Madden 10 but sure as heck aint gonna buy none of those "boosts". Its silly, IMO

[stanley roper]

I know, and I heard all the excuses. They could afford it is the biggest. Sure why not, but in the end, more people are not buying into this gimmick and it's going to disappear like a fart in the wind soon. People are silly for buying into these really. "Make the online game harder"? I mean really? "One year retirement prevention" lol

[Nza]

Welcome to the free market I guess. If people don't buy something, companies won't sell it.

I wouldn't want 99% of this stuff in the game anyway because I'd never use it. The exception is the AFL pack.

[DEFTFUNDAMENTALZ]

@ Best Buy Charging $130 for plugging in the PS3. Crazy.

[marcus82]

I don't think the video game industry has enough critics with clout. Look at the movie industry or consumer products industry. There are plenty of well respected critics that don't mind calling your product trash if the title fits. Good Housekeeping/Consumer Reports are all good watchdogs of these industries.

I was shocked to read the Gamespot review which lauded this madden as the best of all time. It my be the most feature/animation/graphics heavy of all time but by no means is it the best. I really think many of these review sites are taking incentivees to write favorable reviews. I like the game but there was not one mention of any of the numerous fundamental issues that this game has and has had for the last 4-5 years

[SA1NT401]

EA as a whole, just needs a wake up call....I think it pathetic what they expect us to buy....ANd YES...I know we dont have to buy it, but its the point of even charging it altogether.