Bad for EA... possibly good for BioWare?

This story is still very much a fluid situation and thus still unfolding. So it's still very hard to tell what the ultimate outcome of it all will be. It's at least proved once more if enough people band together and refuse to handover money, ONLY THEN will EA start to listen. While a win in the temp pulling of lootboxes, it's only a battle won and not the war. If EA bring something else back into SWBF2 but not as outrageous and enough of the masses tolerate it, then we'll just see things gradually return over time after EA proved they went way too far at this present moment.

What the regulators decide will also play a huge part in how this will end up too. If lootboxes are indeed ruled as gambling, then in some major countries that would result in games vanishing out of site, as they would earn a certification of "adult" putting it alongside the likes of pornography and other extreme content. Which would mean it can't be displayed in unlicensed premises, and would be de-listed from store website searches. In short their potential to market a product out would be so curtailed it would actually be pointless having the lootboxes included for the game earning such a limiting rating.

SWBF2 got a lot of flak even in mainstream media for the shameless cash grabbing it features. That's highly unusual and probably even more damaging than if it was confined to the dedicated game mags. Good for Bioware? I don't think so, seeing as their next game is Anthem. A game concept that can only be successful via microtransactions.

That would be outright illegal in some countries. Where the state holds a monopoly on gambling.

I don't see how this is good for Bioware. All EA has to do is dump the RNG to their microTs and they'll still make bank, there is a proper way to do microTs and EA should know better being how they've got highs with less aggressive setups.

All gamers and their parents have to do is keep themselves disciplined. Bon't buy that shit and don't even look at the store for microtr-DLC. Really, it should not stop with EA. We deserve better than half finished games in which we fund the patches and remaining percentages of the full unbroken games. It's a trend that's been tolerated for over a decade and it's well past time for everyone to say enough is enough. I was so excited for GT Sport until I saw what a train wreck it is-- same for Dlcstiny during its original unvieling, There's so many games I couldn't give two fucks for if I poured over the globe twice over that it's so underwhelmming looking at all these lame franchises and the ones from yesteryear before their proverbial souls were swallowed up. So I say, keep up with the Batterfont thrashing. They deserve it... with no vaseline.

I wouldn't start to celebrate yet, for there is still plenty of room for the investigations to fall apart. I know I always bring this up, but don't forget what Blizzard did with China by finding a loophole in the new regulations so even if they do legislate they will do as little as possible to change the system to fit within the new rules and guidelines if there isn't corporate pushback. Depending on how the legislation is worded it might target other companies which then will join with the publishers and put pressure on the government not to pass the law. Of course then there could be just the publishers deciding that lootbox transactions are more important then the Belgian market and just geoblock them.

Lol people hate EA so much they managed to bring legislative attention to its practices, that's actually funny. I wouldn't dismiss this out of hand, apparently multiplayer sales made up 61% of EAs revenue this year and I'm also pretty sure I read somewhere that lootboxes are turning out to be one of the most effective ways of getting people engaged with MP purchases (cuz it totally fucking is gambling). EA will not want to milk this cow so hard it dies. I also can't imagine any other large companies employing the same tactics will appreciate disproportionate attention drawn to it. I don't think think MP or microtransactions are going anywhere mind you but EA learning that if you miff gamers they're obsessive enough to do more than harm the immediate sales of your game isn't a bad thing. 

Holy hell.

SW : The Online Casino Version (formerly SWBF2) represents just greed on the part of EA, and furthermore, Disney. Pure and simple, black and white, greed. Not keeping the lights on for the next few years. Not keeping the developers working. Not even keeping those fat cats happy at the top. Pure and simple greed.

I certainly wonder how places like Iceberg Interactive makes money, because they are making money. I certainly wonder how places like TTG are making money. Because they are making money.

Take this fucking "games as a service" and stuff it right straight in your asshole. Because that's where shit belongs.

I knew that advertising was a juggernaut, but I thought that after Netflix, YouTube, etc had come out, that they would learn their lesson. Apparently not, 'cause these fucking millenial snowflakes believe everything that is told to them. Just like they believe everything that is told to them about copyright. "Oh, well, you are stealing! I don't care how much CD sales were up in the year that napster came out."

Please, god, shut up.

Next thing is that they are gonna be telling us all that high fructose corn syrup isn't as bad as sugar. Watch. Why? Because someone from General Mills told them so.

Another fantastic studio and franchise bought and buried by EA games. RIP

And what did I tell you?