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EA Can “Emit Air” on my Sensitive Parts…
Posted under Market Place, Microsoft, Steve519, Websites by Steven Artlip (Steve519)one of my good gaming buddies, TheSmokingManX, wrote this on his blog and I figured I would share it with all of you as it is very important to our future as gamers because if EA continues this practice it could become the new standard in the industry thus screwing us gamers over in the long run. Here you go,
You may have heard about the recent Tiger Woods 08 content that was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace. You know, the same shit they pulled last year, where cheats are absent from the game but you are in turn given the option of purchasing said cheat codes at a premium. I’ve ranted about this in the past, calling EA out in an editorial I wrote for GamerNode when I was a lowly writer, which was never posted. (It did surface on my 1UP blog, though.)
As I point out in the news story on FileFront, I can see EA’s defense quite clearly: we’re not forcing this upon anyone, so why complain? This is something we’re offering to benefit gamers who don’t have time to grind for hours to get their character’s stats maxed out.
Bullsh@t.
If you wanted to offer those gamers a hand, EA, then why not insert cheat codes like every game that had come out in the last two decades prior? Because you’re greedy, you’re too focused on succeeding on a business and don’t give a shit about how you take a dump on your customers with these sorts of tactics. And you can’t argue with me about this, either. You clearly removed a standard feature gamers have expected in their games for years and years, and instead opted to charge gamers for it in addition to the hard-earned money they’ve already spent on your game.
What other reason could it be? Certainly it can’t be difficult to include something like this. Trying to recover costs from implementing such a thing in the game. You saw yet another way to take advantage of customers, another way to make a buck, and you jumped all over it. I really thought that, with all the complaining the community did last year over these practices, EA might have rethought this approach and decided that they were wrong. It’s greed, pure and simple.
Prove me wrong, EA. Prove me wrong.
Unfortunately, EA will never change.
Why?
Madden. As long as the casual gamers go out in groves to buy it, they won’t give a rat’s snout about what the gamer really wants.
I refuse to buy a EA game brand new if at all.
I can guarantee they won’t see a penny from my pocket until they change their insipid business practices.
As much as i like madden, doing something like this jsut isnt right. Why offer cheat codes if they prohibit yuo from getting achievements, it just doesnt make any sense other than making a quick buck. Good looking out EA.
If it’s in the game, it’s in the Marketplace.
Doesn’t bother me in the least. And if I rent Tiger, like I did last year, I’ll probably buy the max out golfer code, like I did last year.
EA-Holes are at it again. My EA-Hole boycott remains unchanged. Like the Litigator (sorry I had to spell you name non-1337), if I HAVE to buy an EA-Hole game, it will be used, so EA doesn’t see a penny of my money. I’m not so naive as to think my boycott is hurting EA-Holes, but it a principal I will stand up for and post about where ever I can. I want to give EA-Holes choice like they give me choice. Take the bad PR from the masses, or get your damn hand outta my pants pocket!
Chip Lange, as always, is welcome to my instruction of the fine art of playing my skin flute (a bargain at only 80 MS points a lesson).
I just wanted to say, while I don’t care for micro-transactions, EA is a business. As long as they don’t say things like : Were for the Gamer (and then do things for their own benifit) I don’t have a problem with it.
Other companies that act like they are trying to bond with the community and gamer, and then do things (behind the scenes to benifit internally) is more offensive to me. EA has been straight-forward and consistant. They are about micro-transactions and profiting of the gamer’s need for more. Never once saying, “This is our way to show the Community that we care.”
I can’t get mad at honesty!
Bottom line: Don’t Buy It!
I agree with Carpal….
They never say one thing and do another. I thought the purpose of business was to make money, not friends. EA is one of the old time, delveloper. They been in this long before some of these gamers have. I’ll never forget the first time I played Lakers vs. Celtics on a genesis, WOW….
But they do turn off loyal consumers… I stopped supporting them after the Dreamcast debacle.
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