"Guys, were removing Online Passes..." "Woo!" "...And replacing them with Microtransactions!" "..."

[quote]We don't ship a game at EA that is offline," Moore said. "It just doesn't happen. And gamers either want to be connected so their stats and achievements reflect who they are, or you want the full multiplayer experience on top of that. We don't deliver offline experiences anymore."[/quote] I am a pretty balanced guy on stuff like this. EA has released some really good games. I just dont understand how a company can be soo -blam!-ing stupid. Sure people want to be online and play multiplayer but that doesnt mean that they want it 24/7. Some people like to play SP or offline with bots sometimes. Why does it have to be all or nothing? Having a game like sim city which tons of people enjoyed playing offline is now forced online. You want to know how much I use those online features of sim city? I don't! Now the fact is when travelling sim city is useless for me. Shit like taht irritates the -blam!- out of me. It is one thing to give players the option to have the ability to go online it is a totally other thing to force the players to be online. Added to the fact that F2P isnt a good model for every game. It is a simple concept that obviously EA has a difficult time grasping. F2P has been good for multiplayer so far at least for the companies taht do it right. How is it going to be applied to SP. Does this mean that people are now forced online everytime they want to play a sp game? *sigh* Why do I even get work up about shit like this.

Don't feel like watching a video. Does this pertain to Mirror's Edge, Battlefield, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Battlefront, or anything like that?

Woah, what?

Aka pay to win

They really do have a way of making them deciding to stop their shitty business practices and replacing them with another sound good.

Aw. But I want to buy my games rather than stupid microtransactions :(

What the f...?

I always loved being spammed with Micro transactions anyways

Oh God....

D: Oh god, please let this be a joke.