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Lootboxfall incoming. Also everyone will be forced to watch them. I wonder if the plot will be changed to the giant, evil, exploitative, planet destroying corporation being good actually.
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I have faith that we'll be forced to watch some Pilots open a loot box only to get owned by a Titan drop.
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You no longer call down your titan in the middle of a match; instead you call in a giant lootbox containing a "weed life" skin that lasts one match for a gun you don't own and can only gain through microtransactions. Titan meter is replaced with lootbox meter, and teammates can earn more money for the next wave in frontier defense by watching you call in and open your box. Gain an edge by buying a random boost instantly at the start of competitive matches with PilotBucks!
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Nov 11, 2017 00:52
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Burn Cards only available inside select flavors of Flavor Blasted Doritos.
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Nov 11, 2017 00:56
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If you choose ash as your faction she malfunctions and plays ads for the latest microtransaction skins at the start of a match.
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You can no longer wall run, you can only wall jump, because testers thought wall running was too harder and EA demanded the game be easier to approach.
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Nov 11, 2017 01:00
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Burn Cards only available inside select flavors of Flavor Blasted Doritos. This one is the worst post because this is 100% what's going to happen. "Use card to turn your frag grenades into ninja stars for one match"
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Nov 11, 2017 10:19
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Into Doritos(tm) brand chip-shaped ninja stars.
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So I gather that there is an EA game where the action stops mid-round for everyone to watch someone open a loot crate
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Popped in titanfall 1 after not playing it since the day 2 came out and I kind of loving like it! I've got no problem finding games of attrition quick as can be. Lack of slide is the biggest issue I feel. Gonna play 1 for a little bit. Love both of these games.
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You joke about Doritos like there isn’t a Mountain Dew skin for Ion
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Teardown of the recent acquisition http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2017/11/10/opinion-i-dont-trust-ea-with-titanfall-3.aspx Zampella interview (grammar bad) https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/10/why-titanfall-studio-respawn-sold-to-ea/ We'll see how it goes. Still excited for more TF 
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Blind Duke posted:You joke about Doritos like there isn’t a Mountain Dew skin for Ion also the TF2 double xp codes and such were not only from mountain dew but bags of doritos
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Teardown of the recent acquisition This is the part that continues to stick out for me: quote:Perhaps still the biggest concern in my mind was EA's decision to release Titanfall 2 within a week of its other big published shooter, Battlefield 1, during the holiday season to essentially compete with itself for money. Why would you want to work under the publisher that did that?
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Brutakas posted:This is the part that continues to stick out for me: Maybe the idea was to capture the market, just cover all their bases against CoD
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Brutakas posted:This is the part that continues to stick out for me: I can only assume that it was cashing out. I wouldn't want to see Respawn and Titanfall under Nexon's wing, because Nexon are Korean and will turn any game they own into microtransaction city, but much the same can be said about EA. I hope everyone working at Respawn got a big payday with the EA buyout. And if not, they should milk EA for all they're worth before jumping ship.
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It was a chess move that backfired badly. Also who's on xbone here? PC is slower now so I'll give console another try. I'll still do PC if we have a crew there too. quote:I hope everyone working at Respawn got a big payday with the EA buyout. And if not, they should milk EA for all they're worth before jumping ship. They got 165 mil in cash but the remaining two thirds are tied to backside bullshit and stuff like the netacritic scores of the Star Wars game and Titanfall 3 so... yeah.
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RBX posted:It was a chess move that backfired badly. Metacritic is a blight
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/10/why-titanfall-studio-respawn-sold-to-ea/ quote:I talked about the deal with Vince Zampella, CEO of Respawn, and Patrick Soderlund, executive vice president at EA. They say that the opportunity arose and the timing was right to take the familiar relationship to the next level. They said that Respawn will operate autonomously and continue its work on a Titanfall game, a Star Wars game, and a non-Star Wars, non-Titanfall virtual reality game for the Oculus Rift VR headset. Allow me to translate the words of noted liar Patrick Soderlund, into what the rest of us know he actually means: quote:Respawn had better loving watch their rear end. Either your games pull in billions of dollars and looks good on the balance sheet, or you get to join Visceral, and Origin, and Maxis, and Mythic, and Bullfrog, and Westwood, and Pandemic. Also, you can do whatever you like, so long as it uses Frostbite, and gets focus group and market tested to death. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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RBX posted:It was a chess move that backfired badly. My x bone gamer tag is fastestgunalive, add! I’m out of town for the next month but I’m still all about playing this game
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I wonder how many of those 25k people who downvoted will actually follow through by not buying the game.
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I didn't buy the game. I mean I wasn't going to buy it anyway but still
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xxEightxx posted:I wonder how many of those 25k people who downvoted will actually follow through by not buying the game. Modern Warfare 2 boycott.jpg etc.
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im not gonna get BF2 but I decided this months ago when it didnt really interest me
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Skyscraper posted:Oh, new posts! Did TF2 maybe have a free weekend that got a bunch of new- Never seen such a post; the irony of it adding nothing to the discussion, while at the same time criticizing the discussion of becoming stale and irrelevant. Great work. xxEightxx posted:I wonder how many of those 25k people who downvoted will actually follow through by not buying the game. It doesn't matter, 25K isn't that much for a game that's going to sell millions and nickel and dime the poo poo out of those millions of players.
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s.i.r.e. posted:Never seen such a post; the irony of it adding nothing to the discussion, while at the same time criticizing the discussion of becoming stale and irrelevant. Great work. Skyscraper posted:Oh, new posts! Did TF2 maybe have a free weekend that got a bunch of new- Skyscraper fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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s.i.r.e. posted:
Well it's up to -367k now so maybe this is it. Maybe this is the turning po....nah. It's Star Wars and heavily marketed. People are going to buy the poo poo out of it. But the days of AAA loot boxes are definitely numbered.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:But the days of AAA loot boxes are definitely numbered. Is there any sign that people have slowed down on buying them? I can't imagine they put out numbers on that kind of thing, but it'd be great if it were true.
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Honestly I think between Reddit and Facebook outrage it’ll definitely have a noticeable impact. I see them backpedaling a bit in some capacity but who knows. I mean really with the last one I had so many very casual gamer friends that couldn’t care less about reading reviews/gaming forums/etc. Even they were like “wow this game is poo poo” People posting it to Facebook “Hell yeah just got battlefront” A day later “This game loving sucks I’m trading it in” Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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The outrage will have the same affect as an online fan petition. Absolutely nothing.
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Looke posted:anyone posted this yet?
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Wazzit posted:The outrage will have the same affect as an online fan petition.  If it makes a lot of money they'll keep doing it and players will stop caring after a few weeks/months. If it doesn't make a lot of money, they'll stop doing it and pretend they're reacting to feedback.
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Skyscraper posted:Is there any sign that people have slowed down on buying them? I can't imagine they put out numbers on that kind of thing, but it'd be great if it were true. Quite the opposite, they are hugely profitable with no sign of slowing down, but so was the video game industry prior to 1983.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Quite the opposite, they are hugely profitable with no sign of slowing down, but so was the video game industry prior to 1983.
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Skyscraper posted:I think the only way this will stop is if people become immune to F2P gimmicks the same way we became immune to internet ads, which I keep hoping will happen and it keeps not happening. Audiences are not stupid. Once they know that their 60 bucks is basically the entrance fee to an also-ran games-as-service f2p casino designed to extract more money out of them, sales are going to plummet. Lootboxes have been kinda annoying and lovely, but now we've hit an even higher level of egregious garbage, with them showing up at Normandy and locking items behind 40+hours of grinding in a full-priced game. They're actively getting in the way of player enjoyment (and that's by design). When I say the days are numbered, I am not talking about anything happening in the short term, it's going to need AAA publishers to get even more aggressive at monetization (they will) and for quality to drop further (it will) and for the publishers to become more aggressive about retaining players on a single title-as-service (they will). I expect we're about 5 years out, sadly. Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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quote:So, we’re reducing the amount of credits needed to unlock the top heroes by 75%. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader will now be available for 15,000 credits; Emperor Palpatine, Chewbacca, and Leia Organa for 10,000 credits; and Iden at 5,000 credits. Based on what we’ve seen in the trial, this amount will make earning these heroes an achievement, but one that will be accessible for all players But lol nerds and Reddit amiright guys? I’m above all that garbage. Brb gotta check my anime subforum threads on SA
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