Manveer Heir speaks out against EA

Yep, there is only so much players and time and interest in similar games.

Microtransactions have nothing to do with a game "full experience", they are either cosmetic items you don't need to play the game or they make you progress in the game faster (usually way faster so people feels like they need to buy them).

If you are talking about DLCs (aka expansions*), they first showed up in the mid-80s. The only time you could have bought the "full experience" of a game is when you bought a game that never got an expansion (which is the majority of them regardless of time period, unless we are talking BioWare games in which case it is the other way around) or you bought the game "complete edition" a few years after the game released (which in most case is still something that publishers do).

*the term expansion never denoted size or type of content, and DownLoadable Content is the way the extra content is delivered. One of the first game to have an expansion, if not the first, was Xanadu:Dragon Slayer II and it was what we would call a missions pack DLC today except that back in 1986 the Internet wasn't really a thing so you had to buy the disk.


I can see complaining about the cost vs amount of content added, but that's the result of the cost of AAA games being unsustainable.

Shattered Steel was a worse Mass Effect game

And Lawbreakers was considered quite good in gameplay and quality. These games live and die with playerbase.

Sure, AAA attracts more base, but sharks be sharks and if they all try to fish the same herring expect some sharks to go hungry.

It depends on the microtransactions. As I said, when they are purely cosmetic it's completely fine. But some games actually sell items that make you more powerful or needed to complete the game (online card games, for example). Shadow of War is currently being heavily criticized because of it. 

And yes, expansions happened on games before, but they weren't very common. Most games I played never had an "expansion" (I think the only game I played that had an expansion was Age of Empires II). And most of the expansions, were, like the word said, expanding the game, not bringing something that would be crucial to the main plot, like Bioware did in Mass Effect and Dragon Age (Corypheus + Arrival) 

*triggered

I really don't think creating an Overwatch competitor would be a good idea for any developer. They kind of have a monopoly on that market.

Blimey there are touchy people in this thread.

Anyway, loot boxes should be banned.

Just like I always say, a troll can't be a troll without a point.

Is it possible to STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS GUY? Enough! Stop it!

I think him throwing out that number is disingenuous for we don't know the context of those purchases, if anything he used anything he could about microtransactions due to the current climate of dislike towards the practices.  I can't speak for Andromeda, but I know I saw people opening 100s of packs of cards after any expansion for Hearthstone live on stream.  I also think that goes way beyond requirements to buy an entire manifest.

EDIT:

Now I just did some napkin math.  Right now in Andromeda there are 450 UR locks (7 Characters and 31 Weapons and 20 ranks per character and 10 ranks per weapon).  If a person was buying the most points at once with 13,000 points which costs $130 CDN.  Now using paper napkin math they get 5 UR unlocks per 13,000 points ~1 every 9 to 10 opens it would be just over $10,000 CDN if they had EA access.  That would also assume they were able to get all the other unlocks while trying for the UR which from my experience in ME3MP will happen for I had my manifest complete except for URs.

In ME3 Liara is also the Shadow Broker even if you didn't play Shadow Broker DLC in ME2. Also, Leviathan is important to understand some parts of the story. 

DA:O you need to play Witch Hunt to understand the eluvian thing. 
DA2 you need to play Legacy to know who the hell is Corypheus in DA:I
And in DA:I you have to play DLC (can't even remember the name) to learn what the hell happened to Solas and what happens next to the Inquisition