Poll of the Day > EA's bullshit response to community outrage becomes the most downvoted comment..

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Blightzkrieg
11/14/17 10:44:50 AM
#203:


Apparently people now need to call EA manually if they want to refund their preorder.

Hopefully this turns more people off preordering.
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shipwreckers
11/14/17 10:50:40 AM
#204:


adjl posted...
shipwreckers posted...
I'm just glad to see EA finally get publicly humiliated for their excessive greed. Bots or no bots, it's very apparent that there's a whole mess of deepseated bitterness within the community against this company (built up long before BF2) that finally came to a head in glorious fashion.

The straw didn't just break the camel's back, it violently shattered it.


This isn't really anything new. Did you forget the time they beat out Bank of America for the Worst Company in America a couple years back?


Not at all. That's my point. This rage has been simmering within gaming community for a long time, and all it takes is little sparks to make big explosions.

This is probably the biggest explosion I've seen since that "worst company" poll, and I'm anxious to see what the next explosion will be.
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papercup
11/14/17 10:53:18 AM
#205:


Blightzkrieg posted...
Apparently people now need to call EA manually if they want to refund their preorder.

Hopefully this turns more people off preordering.


Like I said, EA wants my money, but they really fucking don't want my money.
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ZiggiStardust
11/14/17 11:16:44 AM
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Blightzkrieg
11/14/17 11:31:19 AM
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ZiggiStardust
11/14/17 11:34:51 AM
#208:


Blightzkrieg posted...
https://i.redd.it/3pq2on702txz.jpg

hahaha agree, ok?
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Yasten
11/14/17 11:37:46 AM
#209:


ZiggiStardust posted...
Blightzkrieg posted...
https://i.redd.it/3pq2on702txz.jpg

hahaha agree, ok?


Now they "Redd it"
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shipwreckers
11/14/17 11:38:21 AM
#210:


People will always buy EA's stuff, not because of EA, but because of the stuff. Dice is a good developer, and BattleFront is a huge IP. The silver lining is that the more people can keep EA's PR in the crapper, the more likely they'll be to make better decisions (or reverse bad ones) because NO COMPANY WANTS BAD PR.

The same thing happened when Xbox One was about to launch and their batshit DRM / Online policies were reversed. The whole "vote with your dollar" thing rarely actually works, but a little bad PR can go a long way.
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AllstarSniper32
11/14/17 11:47:28 AM
#211:


Blightzkrieg posted...
Dikitain posted...
I don't think I have purchased anything EA since Battlefield 3. Everything else I just wait for them to release for free.

I was tempted to buy Sims 4, but it apparently isn't all that great.

I've never really followed the Sims, but everybody I hear talk about them always suggests that each game is progressively worse.

Pretty sure the Sims was one of the founders of this microtransaction hell we live in anyway.

The last time I played a The Sims game was Sim2. I've never paid for it.
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TheCyborgNinja
11/14/17 11:55:54 AM
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shipwreckers posted...
People will always buy EA's stuff, not because of EA, but because of the stuff. Dice is a good developer, and BattleFront is a huge IP. The silver lining is that the more people can keep EA's PR in the crapper, the more likely they'll be to make better decisions (or reverse bad ones) because NO COMPANY WANTS BAD PR.

The same thing happened when Xbox One was about to launch and their batshit DRM / Online policies were reversed. The whole "vote with your dollar" thing rarely actually works, but a little bad PR can go a long way.

With the Xbox One announcement the PR was so bad it became about losing money though... hence MS certainly being third to PS4 and Switch. Its pretty sad, as Xbox brand was my favourite and now its basically just there, with less games, all of which are on PC or PS4 too.
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-Komaiko54-
11/14/17 2:02:33 PM
#213:


The only good sims game was Urbz

I never paid for it, it was gift, so I can still say I never gave them money lol

Blightzkrieg posted...

Hopefully this turns more people off preordering.


What do you mean "hopefully?" More people do cancel their pre-order, that's what they get
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Sahuagin
11/14/17 9:23:26 PM
#214:


should have posted this earlier (it has a couple sound problems that it didn't used to have):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LE0ycgkBQ


also this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjYEi4PEqF4


image at the end of that one is the best:
lHlPWv6
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Grendel Prime
11/14/17 9:56:33 PM
#215:


What bums me out is that we watched them kill Maxis, Bioware Montreal, Black Box, Pandemic, and Visceral, and a handful of other studios.

Now they have their tentacles around Respawn... Titanfall 2 wasn't perfect, but it was enjoyable. I shudder to think what EA's influence will have on Titanfall 3... And how long before Respawn is shut down?
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papercup
11/15/17 12:24:57 AM
#216:


https://clips.twitch.tv/AdorableTenderCrowLitFam
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papercup
11/15/17 10:07:01 AM
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Xfma100
11/15/17 10:19:42 AM
#218:


https://www.dualshockers.com/star-wars-battlefront-2-microtransactions-live-services/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/unlocking-everything-in-battlefront-ii-requires-4-528-hours-or-2100.6190/

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/7d1dn1/star_wars_battlefront_ii_3_hour_arcade_cool_down/

Lulz.
So apparently they wished they would've put these kind of microtransactions in Battlefield 4 due to how popular it was.

It could take over 4000 hours or $2000 to unlock everything in the game.

And apparently they limit how many credits you earn when playing Arcade mode. I'm not sure if a similar system is in place with other game modes...

This is even worse than what people thought before lol.
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Xfma100
11/15/17 10:28:52 AM
#219:


Oh, and I hate double posting, but I just found this on the board for the game...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7TmXpCJI8s
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adjl
11/15/17 11:02:26 AM
#220:


Blightzkrieg posted...
Apparently people now need to call EA manually if they want to refund their preorder.


That doesn't even sound legal.
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AllstarSniper32
11/15/17 11:17:49 AM
#221:


Might as well post a video as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgZvZrcc4Y

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Mead
11/15/17 11:21:18 AM
#222:


ew not omegasin, he is terrible
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Far-Queue
11/15/17 11:21:34 AM
#223:


Cant stand AlphaOmegaSin. Care to give me a brief summary of that video?
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Veedrock-
11/15/17 11:22:30 AM
#224:


adjl posted...
Blightzkrieg posted...
Apparently people now need to call EA manually if they want to refund their preorder.

That doesn't even sound legal.

What, you think there's a law that requires simple and convenient refund methods?
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Blightzkrieg
11/15/17 11:23:10 AM
#225:


adjl posted...
Blightzkrieg posted...
Apparently people now need to call EA manually if they want to refund their preorder.


That doesn't even sound legal.

It was for people who preordered through Origin. Supposedly there used to be a "refund" button, they removed it and replaced it with a phone number with a 1 hour wait time.
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Blightzkrieg
11/15/17 11:24:43 AM
#227:


Zangulus posted...
Veedrock- posted...
adjl posted...
Blightzkrieg posted...
Apparently people now need to call EA manually if they want to refund their preorder.

That doesn't even sound legal.

What, you think there's a law that requires simple and convenient refund methods?


The whole removed refund button thing wasnt even true.

I've seen it thrown around a lot and then some other people saying it's false, don't know who to believe

idc I'm just here for the fires
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adjl
11/15/17 11:34:15 AM
#229:


Blightzkrieg posted...
adjl posted...
Blightzkrieg posted...
Apparently people now need to call EA manually if they want to refund their preorder.


That doesn't even sound legal.

It was for people who preordered through Origin. Supposedly there used to be a "refund" button, they removed it and replaced it with a phone number with a 1 hour wait time.


Yeah, that's what I heard.

Veedrock- posted...
What, you think there's a law that requires simple and convenient refund methods?


Could probably make a false advertising claim, given that the preorder was sold under the pretense of being easily canceled.
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papercup
11/15/17 4:38:10 PM
#230:


The "EA employee" who received death threats doesn't actually work for EA.

https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458

And there's no evidence he received death threats.

Surprisingly, kotaku of all sites actually did good investigative journalism work.
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Mead
11/15/17 4:40:35 PM
#231:


papercup posted...
And there's no evidence he received death threats.


There never seems to be.
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Blightzkrieg
11/15/17 6:24:53 PM
#232:


papercup posted...
Surprisingly, kotaku of all sites actually did good investigative journalism work.

Honestly of all the gaming sites that are still alive, Kotaku is the one I tend to hear the best positive stories from. That may just be because they're the biggest (not sure if that's the case) and I don't have to sift through all their crap since I hear about it second hand. But I couldn't tell you the last time I heard something interesting coming out of Gamespot or IGN or whatever.
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shipwreckers
11/15/17 9:53:17 PM
#233:


papercup posted...
The "EA employee" who received death threats doesn't actually work for EA.

https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458

And there's no evidence he received death threats.

Surprisingly, kotaku of all sites actually did good investigative journalism work.


It certainly isn't uncommon for employees to post highly opinionated / poorly-written stuff on their personal pages. Remember Adam Orth from the Xbox One "always online" debacle???

But I agree, the Kotaku journalist's work on this seems pretty thorough.
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IceDragon77
11/16/17 5:17:24 PM
#234:


shipwreckers posted...
papercup posted...
The "EA employee" who received death threats doesn't actually work for EA.

https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458

And there's no evidence he received death threats.

Surprisingly, kotaku of all sites actually did good investigative journalism work.


It certainly isn't uncommon for employees to post highly opinionated / poorly-written stuff on their personal pages. Remember Adam Orth from the Xbox One "always online" debacle???

But I agree, the Kotaku journalist's work on this seems pretty thorough.

It's extra funny because a number of larger news sites ran articles about it, never bothering to get the facts straight.
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SilverClock
11/16/17 5:33:44 PM
#235:


Daaaaaaangg! The metacritic user score is 0.9!!!! I didn't even know it could go that low!!
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/star-wars-battlefront-ii
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Foppe
11/17/17 5:03:22 AM
#236:


0.8 now.
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Yasten
11/17/17 12:56:58 PM
#237:


Now you can really say overwhelming dislike... That's not an understatement.
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J_Dawg983
11/17/17 1:51:23 PM
#238:


Yasten posted...
Now you can really say overwhelming dislike... That's not an understatement.

Im sure like 90% of those are just people joining in on the circle jerk of hate.
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AllstarSniper32
11/17/17 7:36:09 PM
#239:


J_Dawg983 posted...
Yasten posted...
Now you can really say overwhelming dislike... That's not an understatement.

Im sure like 90% of those are just people joining in on the circle jerk of hate.

I feel like people who think this just don't realize how disliked EA is. I'm sure at least a million people dislike EA and have disliked EA for a long time now.
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Veedrock-
11/17/17 7:38:14 PM
#240:


AllstarSniper32 posted...
I feel like people who think this just don't realize how disliked EA is. I'm sure at least a million people dislike EA and have disliked EA for a long time now.

And that warrants bad reviews on principle or something?
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AllstarSniper32
11/17/17 7:40:20 PM
#241:


Veedrock- posted...
AllstarSniper32 posted...
J_Dawg983 posted...
Yasten posted...
Now you can really say overwhelming dislike... That's not an understatement.

Im sure like 90% of those are just people joining in on the circle jerk of hate.

I feel like people who think this just don't realize how disliked EA is. I'm sure at least a million people dislike EA and have disliked EA for a long time now.

And that warrants bad reviews on principle or something?

Were lootboxes part of the game? If they were, then yes, that warrants the bad review if it's a bad feature.
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BlackScythe0
11/17/17 7:47:29 PM
#242:


So, I'm not a redditor so I want to understand is that really sitting at 676,000 downvotes?
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SilverClock
11/17/17 7:57:15 PM
#244:


Veedrock- posted...
AllstarSniper32 posted...
I feel like people who think this just don't realize how disliked EA is. I'm sure at least a million people dislike EA and have disliked EA for a long time now.

And that warrants bad reviews on principle or something?

It's about sending a message. If this game has to be crucified for that purpose, so be it. For the greater good!! *raises pitchfork and torch*
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shipwreckers
11/17/17 9:56:35 PM
#245:


SilverClock posted...
Veedrock- posted...
AllstarSniper32 posted...
I feel like people who think this just don't realize how disliked EA is. I'm sure at least a million people dislike EA and have disliked EA for a long time now.

And that warrants bad reviews on principle or something?

It's about sending a message. If this game has to be crucified for that purpose, so be it. For the greater good!! *raises pitchfork and torch*


Even if people stuck to their guns, and actually boycotted the hell out of this game..., knowing EA, they'd simply blame Dice for shoddy development and shut them down like every other developer they've killed off in the last 10 years.
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