Bioware! Enough is enough.

To be honest, I know what is going on here and it all has to do what what happened to MEA and what could possibly happen to Anthem (and by extension, Bioware).

Regardless of that you think of MEA, it is clear that the internet backlash from the very beginning had a lot to do with the reception that MEA had. MEA essentially became a meme generator and ultimately it is possible that the lack of SP DLC and the lack of any true commitment to a MEA2 being announced is due to the internet backlash against MEA early on. Now that the internet backlash tsunami is focusing on SWBF2, a lot of Bioware fans about becoming anxious. Anthem is going to be a MP driven game and no doubt will have some sort of MT/lootbox system. Considering the national (and global) backlash against SWBF2 lootboxes, and given EA's drive to monetize games through MTs, a lot of Bioware fans are putting 2 and 2 together and seeing how this could be a problem for Anthem and Bioware as a whole.

This isn't about SWBF2 anymore as the damage has already been done to that game and this is definately not about MEA anymore. This is about Anthem and insuring that what happened with MEA and SWBF2 does not happen with Anthem. So to be proactive, a lot of Bioware fans are essentially defending EA/SWBF2 because they do not want what happened with previous games (SWBF2/MEA) to happen with Anthem. Thats what all of this is about. Of course you will deny it but that is what it is. Anthem will have MTs in some capacity....Anthem is a Bioware game....Bioware is tied to EA......EA is pushing for the MT forumula in their games......SWBF2 had these MTs and is being chastised for it.....Anthem could be chastised as well.....the "internet" took down MEA/SWBF2......and the "internet" could very well take down Anthem.....if Anthem fails......Bioware could be done for and DA4 in jeopardy. So from a hardcore Bioware fan/loyalist perspective, it is in the best interest that the industry/media/gamers just shuts the hell up about MTs and accept whatever EA gives us because EA is surely going to have MTs in Anthem.

At this point, a Ouija board would probably be best.

The essence is that even if you choose not to pay, you would still be at a disadvantage because the points you earn in game are so low, that the only logical way to keep up is to buy loot boxes.

In a PvP game like SWFB2, that creates problems and introduces Pay 2 Win scenarios.

The MP modes in ME3 and DA:I also had microtransactions and loot boxes and NO ONE has raised a stink about it. So unless you condemn the microtransactions and loot boxes in ME3 and DA:I and just bitch about the microtransactions and loot boxes in ME:A then you are the blind idiot fanboy that you are railing against. I refuse to take you seriously as an anti-microtranactions/lootbox crusader that you claim to be. Either condemn the transactions and lootboxes in ME3 and DA:I or you are fucking hypocrite.

They're all the same across the board. The companies are walking a very fine line there. Progress in these games is very slow and tedious by design. Frustratingly so, in order for people to buy what they otherwise can only achieve by countless hours of grinding. But they can still say, you don't have to buy anything in order to progress. Which is true, but a tiresome chore.

Seeing as I don't play MP, it's none of my major concerns, other than showing some solidarity with players being borderline coned. But right now some companies try to sneak the same system into SP. And that's an entirely different matter, since it concerns every player. It's obviously a goldmine for the companies involved and the only reason for them to drop it is, if they're facing a shitstorm of biblical proportions. Which obviously is the reason why EA dropped it for now. But the operative word is "for now".

Then you obviously don't understand how that system looks. Slow and tedious as in grinding for points, not for entertainment value. But you all go on defending it. Have fun with what the companies dish out in the future in terms of microtransactions. It's a billion dollar market in the UK alone. So there's no reason to roll back unless the market shows them their limits.

what does bioware have to do with this? And how am i ignoring this issue?

And Battlefront 2 a bad game? Funny.

what does bioware have to do with this? And how am i ignoring this issue?