Nothing they can't recover from, especially since it's artificially inflated anyway. Though, I'm curious what changes they might consider to ease the uproar, if any.
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Lol, did you just c/p the whole article? Give ‘em their clicks, man— you’re using their words.
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Well, I don’t need to because you posted all the meat yourself.
Not trying to be a dick, but please notate your quotes correctly. Those clicks mean $$$ and you used no original content in your OP.
Even the lamest of articles were written by someone, give ‘em their due.
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You know what is REALLY funny?
That Activision's stock increased.
When they did the EXACT same shit in Call of Duty: WWII. But their player base eats it up and asks for more.
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they deserved to learn the lesson not to sit on customers and milk them.
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don't worry, they will recover once they set up the microtransactions for p2w items in december/january, after everyone watched sw8 and are still overhyped.
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Does EA feel bad for itself ?
NO
This is just a temporary setback for this billion dollar company. They will get back on track by making billions more in the coming years.
A lot of gamers are stupid after all. They will continue to buy whatever garbage EA pumps out every year.
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Who writes this garbage? EA didn't lose any money. The corporation market cap went down and share holders are affected so long as they sell the stock while its 'down'.
You people (the author) make this long argument that EA is so bad for its micro-transactions - meanwhile we will look the other way and ignore Blizzards micro-transactions, Take Two's micro-transactions, EVERYONE ELSES micro-transactions.
Like, hey, I get it... EA sucks. But let's not pretend they are doing something different than any other developer/publisher here. Everyone is in the business of micro-transactions yet people only seem to be upset about EA doing it LOL.
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Well, but that's also not completely true :P. EA did lose money, however, in the long run that's nothing they can't handle and from which they most likely will recuperate. You wouldn't believe what nonsensical rumors brought stocks down in the past, but again, like you said, there are way more factors at play than simple micro-transactions, just look at the insanely inflated stock market indices and their unusual highs around the world and the reasons for that, also way more complicated than simply blaming low interest rates.
But yeah, hating on EA just because is also foolish, since the whole industry plans and already goes the DLC/micro-transaction route, ain't nobody different than EA. Well, maybe PR-wise. That's a thing where EA made some terrible mistakes and now has to pay for, while Take2 and Blizzard kinda secretly sneak past ;>.
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No, the author didn't ignore it. In fact the author wrote that such other companies were up in trades during the same period. But you didn't bother to read, didn't you?
Did you read it? Mentioning competitors isn"t the same as metioning they have the same or similar practices.
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This number is really meaningless to them, microtransactions are not going to be removed from the title completely and they'll recover from this small drop in no time as it equals for them to dropping a penny on the street.
You really have nothing to celebrate, sales in UK might be 60% lower than EA's first Battlefront but it's #1 seller in different countries. You should keep pushing them with negative PR, especially the one that will reflect on Disney.
Star Wars reputation is especially important to Disney right now as the movie is right around the corner, temporary removal of microtransactions is just a PR stunt to ensure people won't be bitching about it when the movie rolls out and it's already achieved it's success as a lot of people went crazy "OMG EA CARES" and bought the game. Once the movie is out a while later microtransactions are going to be re-introduced.
You can hope right now that some countries will start to regulate Lootboxes, though that is unlikely to happen. And for god's sake please don't blame DICE for anything that has happened with this game. If Battlefront 2 will be succesfull with it's microtransactions (read as; people will allow that) then this system is very likely to transfer to future EA games such as Battlefield, Titanfall etc.
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They'll make it all back when they turn the microtransactions back on for Christmas and little Timmy is getting curbstomped by his friends and begs mom and dad to let him buy some lootboxes.
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Lol, reddit still thinks they're fucking important for complaining about bfii2, like they matter or have changed anything.
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Is reddit a singular entity, now?
I thought its whole bag was the millions of splinter groups.
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There's really not as many groups as they'd like you to believe, but the people who think they matter see themselves as reddit Changing the games industry, not nesscarrilly the sub they're part of, at least in this case.
Kia would be a decent example of redditers who seperate themselves from the main site and consider their subreddit it's own community "fighting back for gaming"
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