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EA pulls the same poo poo with battlefield 1. the game lets you unlock new guns at a slow trickle just playing as usual but I can jump on there right now, throw $50 EA's way and be given every single one of them instantly.. they call it a 'time saver pack'. 
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Dude decides to open the gate for the firefighters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpZ2Bkz11U
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Slugnoid posted:EA pulls the same poo poo with battlefield 1. the game lets you unlock new guns at a slow trickle just playing as usual but I can jump on there right now, throw $50 EA's way and be given every single one of them instantly.. they call it a 'time saver pack'. Yeah but in this case it was "4500 hours of playing or $2100 to fully unlock Star Wars: Battlefront II" which is why people were complaining.
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Ariong posted:It actually is. Keep in mind this is a AAA game based on the world’s biggest franchise. It’s like if Thor: Ragnarok had only made 200 million dollars. Like yeah that sounds like a big number, but the budget on that movie was 180 mil. Yeah, just some back-of-the-napkin math, if each of those 880k copies sold for 60$, that's 53 million revenue best case (likely quite a bit less from sales through retailers instead of digital distribution). Against a budget that was supposedly in the neighbourhood of 200 million, EA is making huge losses on that. Sure, they were presumably banking on making a significant chunk of money through microtransactions over time, but even if they manage to outright double the money made from initial sales that way, they'll still fall short by a large margin. Usually the success of games like these is measured in whether they manage to hit their projected profit goals. This one might not even manage to break even in a reasonable time.
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Feonir posted:882,000 still sold, that is not a small number. Gamers really do deserve game companies. Nearly 900k copies is terrible for a AAA game. Launch week(end)s generally want 3-5 million copies sold.
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They were expecting something like 1.7 million in that first month, then a giant leap for Christmas and the movie. They may still get it, of course. Smaller schadenfreude; someone I went to high school with posted on Facebook, asking if the game was appropriate for a ten year old. She said he would only be allowed to play the single player mode, no online at all. I can't imagine there's very much to single player, especially for $60.
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The sales are probably up to 2 million considering the NPD doesn't count digital sales like Steam as part of their numbers.
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Perestroika posted:even if they manage to outright double the money made from initial sales that way, they'll still fall short by a large margin Disney is apparently putting the thumbscrews on them regarding 'getting kids to develop gambling habits is a really bad look' because Disney is a terrifying hellbeast of a company but it (likes to look like it) gives a poo poo about kids. I'd be surprised if the microtransactions ever come back.
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Mu Zeta posted:The sales are probably up to 2 million considering the NPD doesn't count digital sales like Steam as part of their numbers. It's EA so it's not on Steam although I'm assuming most people who want the game probably already have Origin installed.
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The article also estimated around 500k in digital, which still falls short of what they wanted.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"Who ordered the same day delivery???"  I hope their cheap crap from Amazon was on time at least.
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Somfin posted:Disney is apparently putting the thumbscrews on them regarding 'getting kids to develop gambling habits is a really bad look' because Disney is a terrifying hellbeast of a company but it (likes to look like it) gives a poo poo about kids. I'd be surprised if the microtransactions ever come back. Ehhh. They only care about it because it's getting bad press. Disney's licensed mobile games have microtransaction bullshit too, but "hardcore gamers" don't give a poo poo about mobile games (aimed at kids or not).
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Odddzy posted:I agree with the above poster, 800k copies of a star wars licensed game is NOTHING and the EA brass must be panicking. It's a Star Wars game? Yeah, I'm gonna agree that 800k is a tiny amount. Gamers merged with Star Wars nerds sounds like the absolute worst of fandoms though.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Dude decides to open the gate for the firefighters Oh god the look of just a total feeling of self defeat and depression on that guys face at the end
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Dude decides to open the gate for the firefighters Absolute pro click here.
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Slugnoid posted:EA pulls the same poo poo with battlefield 1. the game lets you unlock new guns at a slow trickle just playing as usual but I can jump on there right now, throw $50 EA's way and be given every single one of them instantly.. they call it a 'time saver pack'. right, but like most of the battlefield games before it, some of the best guns are the starting ones, and none of the planes or other fun things are locked behind anything. if someone just wants to give EA money I do not care much, though all such systems just going away tomorrow would be nice.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:They were expecting something like 1.7 million in that first month, then a giant leap for Christmas and the movie. They may still get it, of course. Apparently the single player campaign is about 5 hours (a 10-year-old will probably take longer though) and is generally incoherent, featuring the hero and villain characters in weird interludes that don't seem to have any connection with the Inferno Squad storyline that was advertised as the single player campaign.
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Such an rear end in a top hat thing for them to do but from a utilitarian perspective the joy that the crowd gets more than makes up for the woman's dogshit-induced distress baw has a new favorite as of 16:03 on Dec 11, 2017 |
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Admiral Joeslop posted:They were expecting something like 1.7 million in that first month, then a giant leap for Christmas and the movie. They may still get it, of course. For her information, the single player campaign takes about 4 hours to complete. (According to Angry Joe) A kid would get more playtime out of Tetris. E,FB : 5 hours if you include the cutscenes, wich take up about an hour. Bad Wolf has a new favorite as of 15:55 on Dec 11, 2017 |
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Back in my day, we played with bots if our friends couldn't come over. I'm sure the game has neither bots or local multiplayer.
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baw posted:Such an rear end in a top hat thing for them to do but from a utilitarian perspective the joy that the crowd gets more than makes up for the woman's dogshit-induced distress The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite (or Request): Coldly Compiled Lists > Schadenfreude Thread: A Utilitarian Perspective
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Back in my day, we played with bots if our friends couldn't come over. I think it has bots, since that's how I ended up first trying the game when the free beta was up. It really isn't that great a game. It looks beautiful and runs very well like the Battlefield games, but the gameplay is pretty dull (weapons other than your primary are rechargeable powers, so it's like Overwatch but slow and plodding) and the mouse flying for fighters is horrendous and virtually uncontrollable without practice. It doesn't take a single risk and removes everything interesting and fun from its Battlefield lineage until it's actually less fun than the original Battlefront 2 from over a decade ago. It's worth maybe $30 at best, not $60 plus microtransactions.
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the schad is on me for reading the comments on this video
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chitoryu12 posted:I think it has bots, since that's how I ended up first trying the game when the free beta was up. The worst thing to come from the Star Wars resurgence is EA getting the videogame license.
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Current-events-related question: What kind of dumbass must you be to try to be a suicide bomber, build your bomb, set it off, and wind up only *injuring* yourself?
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A career-orientated one.
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Phanatic posted:Current-events-related question: smh this city has a very high standard for terror attacks, and this latest one is a huge disappointment guy should be ashamed of himself he wasn't even noteworthy enough to interrupt The Price Is Right
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That happens pretty much all the time. It turns out building bombs is hard and there's a tendency for the herd of competent suicide bombers to be thinned.
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Phanatic posted:Current-events-related question:
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Inescapable Duck posted:That happens pretty much all the time. It turns out building bombs is hard and there's a tendency for the herd of competent suicide bombers to be thinned. And if you outsource the bomb building to a freelance scientist, there's always the possibility he'll just give you a shoddy bomb case full of used pinball machine parts instead.
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Competent terrorists recruit depressed mentally ill people to be suicide bombers for them, and provide them with functional bombs. It's not at all surprising someone trying to make their own fails.
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And that's why I'm not a world-famous building climby guy.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I thought it meant it would polish your car to a shark-like mirror finish. 
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Aerdan posted:Ehhh. They only care about it because it's getting bad press. Disney's licensed mobile games have microtransaction bullshit too, but "hardcore gamers" don't give a poo poo about mobile games (aimed at kids or not). It's not so much microtransactions they care about so much as the loot crates to unlock content.
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Raygereio posted:On the grand chart of dumdasses I'd rate him slightly above the dude who stuffed explosives up his rear end. Wikipedia posted:Assisted by his older brother, Ibrahim al-Asiri, he had hidden a pound (0.5 kg) of PETN plastic explosives in his rectum and anal canal, which security experts described as a novel technique. "Again already?" Alternative: he was such a tight-rear end that he couldn't even fit enough bang inside to kill anybody but himself. I'd rate butt-bomber here a little higher than a would-be suicide bomber that fails to kill even themselves. Butt-bomber scored a 1, that other idiot a zero. Powered Descent posted:And if you outsource the bomb building to a freelance scientist, there's always the possibility he'll just give you a shoddy bomb case full of used pinball machine parts instead.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:It's not so much microtransactions they care about so much as the loot crates to unlock content. No, it's the combination of the two. Diablo III has 'loot crates', but nobody cares because you don't pay real money for the randomized item drops.
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Powered Descent posted:And if you outsource the bomb building to a freelance scientist, there's always the possibility he'll just give you a shoddy bomb case full of used pinball machine parts instead. I remember watching a documentary about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_N_xCHjFR4
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