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Comment by Mikeb85 | Hacker News Reader

I'll never understand why people still buy EA products. They're easily among the most anti-consumer of all companies. Between their Origin client, microtransactions in AAA games, yearly releases with no appreciable changes and now shit like this I could never buy a product from them.

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The Origin Client is no different than Steam or GOG really.

EA usually give away of put on sale a lot of their DOS / Win 9X library. Also the odd problem I've had with their store (I couldn't activate Crysis Warhead from a legit CD installer I had) It was resolved in about 15 minutes.

EA generally are bad. Don't get me wrong. But it isn't as terrible as many people make out tbh.

They find the game fun, I suppose. I still really love Fifa and will keep playing it

The most amazing thing is that after all of this hullabaloo... a good number of these frustrated players will still purchase a Battlefield 6 game.

I enjoy the games. It is as simple as that. They are fun to play and you don’t need to buy the MTXs to enjoy the game despite multiple people crying about them.

Games are also more and more expensive to develop so you kind of need to add MTX to the AAA games to cover the costs, especially when BFV didn’t have any DLCs. It is not 2000’s anympre.

Shouldn't really dismiss the people complaining as they are forcing EA to be less horrible to you whether you purchase the MTX or not.

> Some gamers calculated that it would take six years of playing two hours a day to unlock all the features in Battlefront II without handing over any real money. Paying for everything, meanwhile, would cost over $2,000.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/16/technology/battlefront-ii-s...

But the thing is those are purely cosmetic. There’s no reason why one should be able to get them for free, especially when it is a multiplayer game.

Why do you think the unlocks are purely cosmetic? You unlock better equipment characters and equipment.

So if you pay more money, you have an advantage = pay to win

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