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Every Major EA Franchise Going Free-To-Play

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Great. Okay. EA. I thought we could give you another chance, even though it was the 1000th one. We can't give you any more chances. Please. STOP IT.

 

STOP IT.

 

Look at what you just did with Plants Vs Zombies 2. Yeah, F2P, indeed. But apparently unplayable without paying. I'm just too scared to install it so I won't.

 

EA please. GODDAMNIT I'M ANGRY.

 

*sees gaming industry die even more*

 

Thank you Valve to still exist. TF2 is one of the few F2P games that can be justified and are playable as normal without paying as well.

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I just watched the full interview, not as what OP posted tbh. Its going to be limited in games, scope and regions and it seems to be only multiplayer content also (ie not single player games or the single player side of games)

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NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Star Wars is going to be EAed on a level we were not expecting :( It will become P2W and that ruins every game. Instead of making games F2P why not just make them 30-40 bucks? 60 bucks is too much for a game that doesn't provide anything new, which is why I usually wait for a sale. However there are some games I would pay 60 bucks for, Star Citizen and Wild Hunt are the 2 that I can think of right of the top of my head, otherwise 40bucks is acceptable...

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Look at what you just did with Plants Vs Zombies 2. Yeah, F2P, indeed. But apparently unplayable without paying. I'm just too scared to install it so I won't.

 

EA please. GODDAMNIT I'M ANGRY.

It really isn't, anyone who said that is pretty bad at tower defenses. It's definitely easier if you pay $4 for Torchwood or pay $100 for the million coins and use the swipe abilities to eat your way through the levels, but that isn't very fun. I haven't paid a dime and I've gotten every star challenge I can in under two days, but I'm also a PvZ addict.

 

I was disappointed with how pay to win it was, though. That was sad for me.

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I personally really like Free to Play as long as it's done well. TF2 isn't "good, for a free game", it's good and also free, and also profitable. Very few games manage to strike that balance, either giving too much benefit to paying players that they can't sustain a community, or having nothing worth buying (which leads to no profit, thus they put in things which benefit paying players and we know how that goes).

 

All that said, if a company makes a "free" game they won't be thinking about "How can we make people want to tell their friends about this," they'll be thinking "Once they're playing, how can we trick them into giving us money?" Even TF2, with what I consider the best F2P model I've ever seen, is guilty of this; they shove crates in your face all the time and whisper about how maybe THIS one will be an unusual hat, while game-breaking bugs and overpowered weapons can last for months at a time. There's not really much need for retention, so they don't need to make it good.

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oh dear god.

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dafuq is wrong with this company? ....... They seriously need new Management in there. Fresh Management means fresh ideas, and possibly less idiotic decissions being made within an already hated company.

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I now know why EA was doing all this good stuff like the "good game guarantee".Ie.. If EA doesn't have any more paid games then what is there to return? :blink:

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So they are just going to make you pay for little things nows?

$5 for a weapon in BF5 and no other way to upgrade other than to throw cash at it.

$30 for a brand a new map that is already in the game data just disabled

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Free to play is horrible, it's always pay to win or Just has a terrible community. Goodbye battlefield, it was nice knowing you.

At least there will always be BF3 and BF4 ;P

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typical ea back at it again........

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So I guess the "We can get better" comment lasted what?  One month?  That or Moore confused the word better with "greedier"

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GG BF5? 

 

I hate to say it but F2P ruins game, absolutely ruins games.

It makes the community go to hell, just look at MOBA's.

 

I really hope this won't happen. I will always go with the $60 over F2P

You are so right. Not looking forward to it if this is a thing.

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This wouldn't be too bad if they brought back their sports franchise back to the PC! I'd love me some quality free to play NHL 14 on the PC. I'd prefer non free to play NHL games on the PC, but I'd take what I can get. The last NHL game was 09, and it was a terrible port of the PS2 version, not even the ps3 or xbox 360 version it was horrible.

 

 

This is somewhat rehashed old news, it was announced months back that they would be doing this. Then they made a small press release saying we misheard and only a few titles would be F2P model, yadda yadda yadda, looks like it's now back to their most popular games which they feel like they can get the most out of.

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I watched the clip and I don't think he ever said all new games will be free to play, just that in some parts of the world "where they only play free to play games" EA is doing the free to play thing. And that he thinks its a good game model I think the huge thing we should take away is that pc gaming is #3 on EAs list behind consoles and smart phones, and just before platforms that they are developing nothing for like nvida shield.

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good job EA

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Judging by that  article they're just looking to expand on their range of ftp games. I think people are misinterpretting this, they're not going to ditch bf5 for a ftp version, thats what battlefield play4free is for. By the sound of it they are going to add play for free options of some of their other titles. I really don't see how this is a bad thing...

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"We don't ship a game at EA that is offline."

 

^this.

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And the Hate EA bandwagon jumpers fail to read yet again........

 

 

This is clearly beginning to show signs of a mental health issue.

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