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  Wait...they made $25 million on that fucking Tapped Out game? That's insane. : Vincent Grayson
  • Holy christ. : Magitek
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    pretty sure Madden Ultimate Team has been a nice little cash infusion on top of normal Madden money : derelict515
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      They must have made much more money on both that and FIFA Ultimate Team than on the games themselves. : Lethal01
      • yeah I'm not sure what the breakdown was (especially FIFA, that's a lot of $60 sales) but it's certainly ... : derelict515
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  i would pay an extra 25% to have all the achievements unlocked and the game beaten for me thanks EA : DrFlammable
  • LMAO... good one. : megreedy
  • I bet there would be a not-so-small number of people who would pay $5 to unlock all achievements to boost... : Entity
• Huh crazy. : valcan_s
• good bye EA it was fun while it lasted : action figure
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  I know microtransactions are on the cool-to-hate list, but I wonder if these could be a real boon to deve... : Firefly1985
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    The worry is that the game will be built in such a way that it almost requires micro-transactions to be p... : FreshwaterAU
    • On top of the $59.99 you are already spending : Volatus32x
    • This is definitely the case with Madden Ultimate Team. You basically can't play it without dumping money ... : rodneystubbs
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      Which would be hated by 99% of gamers, so I doubt it would be a repeated mistake at the AAA level. : Firefly1985
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        Never underestimate big gaming publishers' talent for repeating mistakes. : dumb.
        • If it loses them a fuck ton of money, they won't repeat it. : Firefly1985
  • For me it's simple: I play games to escape reality. Being sold to in-game shatters that fantasy & makes m... : dumb.
  • Namco has done this with the last few Tales of.... games. I wonder how much they've made on that stuff. : Vincent Grayson
  • So you're argument is instead of buying a $60 game with everything in it. You want to buy a $60 with some... : dookiebot
  • I might pay for more first rate content, like the upcoming Dishonored DLC, but that other stuff I have ze... : Conan
  • no because it gets in the way of game design : Chipwarrior
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    It's already worked really well for the Bioware team. They've released a ton of free multiplayer expansi... : Halon50
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      Mass Effect 3 is probably the last game that should be brought as doing DLC well. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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        His point is a good one, though. The long term support of ME3 multiplayer has been fantastic, and that's ... : Firefly1985
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          me3 was not unanimously well received. many people thought it was handled very poorly. : jim bone
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            The multiplayer support was poorly received? Really? : Firefly1985
            • No but the single player was. Maybe EA should just transition fully into making games as services instead... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
            • the game itself. : jim bone
  • microtransactions in the game make it worse : jim bone
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    I doubt the profits go directly to the developers or 3rd party houses, I think they go to the manager's b... : uranium232
    • If the DLC and micro-transactions do well it means you might not get fired / laid off because they need p... : Lucy Labia
  • Pay 2 win. Nuff said : soapland
  • boon to publishers maybe : pulse2115
  • Microtransactions are not going to magically convince publishers to take risks and make better / more int... : dnuts
  • My problem with microtransactions is recently it gives developers a reason to release beta content as ful... : Nighteyes
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  As long as microtransactions don't break the game for those who play the old-fashioned way, I don't care. : David Craddock
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    Is that wishful thinking? : uranium232
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      Well, Dead Space 3 certainly let people totally ignore the microtransaction system. As long as they keep ... : DedlokPM
      • until you have to play a game 10+ hours to achieve items/experience that would otherwise cost you a buck. : zxinfinity
  • They will increasingly squeeze the traditional way until its such a pain in the ass to play that way you ... : Beady
  • Pretty much this. : boarder2
• Unless it's F2P I don't want microtransactions. : Kojak2000
• Consider the context: this is EA's CFO speaking at a bank-sponsored corporate conference. He is playing ... : the archvile
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  So... you're basically selling us cheat codes? : zxinfinity
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    The games will most likely be tuned so that you will be sufficiently hamstrung by not paying for xp boost... : rodneystubbs
    • My sense is that you would also use cheat codes to not be crippled, i.e. you don't have the patience to p... : zxinfinity
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      If XCOM came out as it currently is, but their was a microtransaction model that let you buy ranked soldi... : Firefly1985
      • It just seems a dangerous place to go with "real" games. It's pretty clear that many, if not all of the "... : Vincent Grayson
      • how would this be any different than using the hacks/tools such as trainers? : zxinfinity
  • no, that was Dead Rising 2 :( : k1ld0r
• Mod tools are impossible they say but hey here is tons of shitty DLC instead. Suck it EA. http://www.... : ant_hillbilly
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  Here's the solution for the current VFX problem...microtransactions in movies! Pay an extra $1.99 to see ... : Senor PoopyPants
  • pay $1.99 to replace the badguy with obama : boring gegtik
  • We are one step ahead of you: pay $3.99 extra to see our movie in eye-searing 3-D. We are even willing to... : beef2187
  • i would pay 1.99 to remove animated menus, studio logo intro vids and fbi warnings in a second : mort
• I will never make a "micro" transaction in any game ever. : beef2187
• God damnit. : thetangent
• LOL. Dead Space 3 has this crap right? I downloaded some free trainer that gave me whatever extras I wa... : tunis5000
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  can you imagine if a game like final fantasy 7 had microtransactions like this? or quake1, half-life? thi... : mr.sleepy
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    you mean if I could pay $1 to avoid 5 hours of pointless grinding? JRPGs had the F2P gameplay nailed year... : derelict515
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      Or they could just design the game to not have pointless grinding instead : Mecha Tofu Pirate
      • next you're going to suggest that they make men look like men and offer choices in the narrative. Blasphe... : derelict515
• Haha bye bye : A10Pilot
• Looks like I'll continue to not buy ea games. =( : brickmatt
• I'm not happy that EA is still losing money. As much as I hate a lot of their decisions, I think we do ne... : Kub666
• Dear EA. Please continue doing this. I would also like you to add always on DRM, mandatory Cloud save, ... : capt tripps
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  Who the fuck cares? Every publisher has microtransactions in their games. Lets pile on EA though, that's ... : creeping-death
  • Pay me $5 to agree. : dookiebot
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  those pre-order bonuses so many of you ogle... are essentially microtransactions. is everyone against pr... : zxinfinity
  • you'll find plenty of people complaining about preorder bonuses : derelict515
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    Preorder bonuses are dumb, but they (theoretically) don't cost anything extra : MaxPete82
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      well the way i see it, they are incentives to get you to pay more to get the game at it's peak cost : zxinfinity
      • they're incentives for you to buy it at the same cost you would have but at a particular source instead o... : derelict515
  • I find pre-order bonuses mostly annoying, yeah. I can't think of any that I really liked or benefitted fr... : systatic
• "We hope you are enjoying [game] by Electronic Arts! You have now played [game] for [y] hours; in order t... : RaptorII
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  What is up with EA's trend of looking at something that is getting success in some places, and then decla... : sammyl
  • It is pretty dumb to do and even dumber to announcd : derelict515
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  Guess I won't be getting around to making an Origin account. : systatic
  • same here. : megreedy
  • Fight the powerrrrr! : jimvolk
  • Cool. I'll be over here, enjoying BF3. : GreggD
• Sounds like they are working hard on retaining the 'Worst Company' title from last year. : smax
• Thank you EA! I really needed more time to catch up on my backlog, and you're making it as easy as pos... : Kubiac