Current Events > After forcing EA to cut cost of Star Wars unlocks is Reddit the place to be

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for a gaming message board? I don't think if people complained on this site EA would have responded like the damage control they did on reddit. That reddit response was later picked up by the news and on front page of other sites like imgur.
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EA would literally never post on here
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Only if you are a Guilded Redditor.
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Reddit is massive because it appeals to everyone. That's why it garners so much attention.
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Didn't they also cut the amount of credits you get so that basically nothing actually changed?
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BLAKUboy posted...

Didn't they also cut the amount of credits you get so that basically nothing actually changed?

They only changed the amount of credits you earn upon completion of the single player campaign. They only ever wanted you to gain enough credits to unlock the lowest level hero, which is the main protagonist for the single player game.
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Alucard188 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Didn't they also cut the amount of credits you get so that basically nothing actually changed?

They only changed the amount of credits you earn upon completion of the single player campaign. They only ever wanted you to gain enough credits to unlock the lowest level hero, which is the main protagonist for the single player game.

So why not just unlock that character then lol this makes no sense

BLAKUboy posted...

Didn't they also cut the amount of credits you get so that basically nothing actually changed?

This is what I'm hearing

EA is literal cancer in the industry
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Alucard188 posted...

Reddit is massive because it appeals to everyone. That's why it garners so much attention.

But this site doesn't even have as much people browsing as any of the niche subreddit. r/gaming generally has 40,000 people active at any given time. This site has 2,500 during peak hours. 900 during early morning on east coast.
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we did it reddit
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Freddie_Mercury posted...

we did it reddit

we did it reddit
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Reddit is also a fucking eyesore and is nothing but a bunch of isolated echochambers.
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Game developers not only responded they are going to do an AMA tommorow. I can't remember the last time any Game developers posted here to answer questions. I remember Troy Baker posting a couple years ago but he got modded in his only post.
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soulunison2 posted...

Alucard188 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Didn't they also cut the amount of credits you get so that basically nothing actually changed?

They only changed the amount of credits you earn upon completion of the single player campaign. They only ever wanted you to gain enough credits to unlock the lowest level hero, which is the main protagonist for the single player game.

So why not just unlock that character then lol this makes no sense

Because EA wanted to direct you towards its shitty credits system. It's like training a monkey to dance by giving them cocaine as a reward.
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The only reason they go to reddit is because its free marketing to a large userbase. No one is coming here to market shit because there are like 5 people on each board and 4 of them are trolls
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Alucard188 posted...

soulunison2 posted...

Alucard188 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Didn't they also cut the amount of credits you get so that basically nothing actually changed?

They only changed the amount of credits you earn upon completion of the single player campaign. They only ever wanted you to gain enough credits to unlock the lowest level hero, which is the main protagonist for the single player game.

So why not just unlock that character then lol this makes no sense

Because EA wanted to direct you towards its shitty credits system. It's like training a monkey to dance by giving them cocaine as a reward.

Ooooohhhhh the loot box reward screen so pretty must purchase moreeee
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Gaming subreddits>>>>gaming message boards here

Though I understand that's not saying much, gaming boards here are toxic as fuck and pretty much bottom of the barrel.
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FifthBeethoven posted...

EA not only responded they are going to do an AMA tommorow. I can't remember the last time any gaming company posted here to answer questions. I remember Troy Baker posting a couple years ago but he got modded in his only post.

EA isn't doing the AMA, they are having some of the developers do it.
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voldothegr8 posted...

FifthBeethoven posted...

EA not only responded they are going to do an AMA tommorow. I can't remember the last time any gaming company posted here to answer questions. I remember Troy Baker posting a couple years ago but he got modded in his only post.

EA isn't doing the AMA, they are having some of the developers do it.

Point still stands edited post to say Game developers.
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josifrees posted...

The only reason they go to reddit is because its free marketing to a large userbase. No one is coming here to market shit because there are like 5 people on each board and 4 of them are trolls

This why the hell would they post on these gaming boards. The topics rarely get more than 10 posts. The Star Wars Battlefront boards here are so dead. Topics on reddit regularly get 5,000-10,000 posts if they hit the front page.

I myself go to reddit for my gaming news. I usually get the news there 6 hours to a couple of days before the gaming boards here.
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The most popular gaming subreddits are trash. truegaming and patientgamers are the best. Being a "patient gamer" avoids nonsense like this anyway.

Asherlee10 posted...

So the backlash on Reddit worked?

Debatable.

They lowered rewards in a similar manner, and now removed ability to cancel preorders online.
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Asherlee10 posted...

Funkydog posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

So the backlash on Reddit worked?

Debatable.

They lowered rewards in a similar manner, and now removed ability to cancel preorders online.

Lowered the rewards? Meaning it won't take a 40 hour grind or $30 to unlock Vader?

10 hours now. 60k->15k
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Asherlee10 posted...

Hey - that's something! I'm so surprised that this happened. Now, if gamers could organize their efforts to communicate with publishers in an appropriate way, this is a sign that they will listen.

Yeah, it costs less to get things, but they lowered the rewards they gave as well in similar manner so still being shitty as ever.

Then coupled with removing the ability to easily cancel your order, shows they are still determined to fuck people over through all this.
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@Asherlee10 posted...

Lowered the rewards? Meaning it won't take a 40 hour grind or $30 to unlock Vader?

Pre-backlash, high-tier heroes cost 60k to unlock, mid-tier cost 40k, and low tier cost 20k. Upon completion of the SP campaign, you got a loot chest reward. One of the pieces of the reward was a one-time allocation of 20k credits. Post-backlash, the costs to unlock heroes were cut by 75%, but so was that final reward from the SP campaign. This means that the credit reward was only ever meant to unlock the low-tier hero of your choice, which I believe was only the protag from the SP campaign.

Now, it will take you less time to unlock the other heroes, but we run into a problem here - namely the fact that progression rewards and hero unlocks share the same currency. So, you have to make a conscientious choice: Do you buy star cards to make your current roster of playable characters better, or do you go for the unlockable characters? It takes less time to get the characters, but the progression system remains the same. It's pretty shitty.
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This is a friendly reminder that EA didn't actually change anything. They lowered the cost of heroes by 75%, but also lowered the amount of credits you get in the campaign by 75% as well.
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@Asherlee10 posted...

Hey - that's something! I'm so surprised that this happened. Now, if gamers could organize their efforts to communicate with publishers in an appropriate way, this is a sign that they will listen.

I wouldn't be so quick to celebrate. There's a growing number of people who believe that EA intentionally introduced so shitty a service, then dialed it back to what they projected their final game to look like, just so it would make outrage more muted and make it an easier pill to swallow. I mean, if you're being kicked in the nuts with a steel-toed boot by an army vet, getting a small punch from a 5 year old doesn't hurt nearly as much.
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Wait, did someone here say Vader costs $30? If it were any other company I could be pretty sure that was an exaggeration. But with EA, I gotta ask, is it?
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FifthBeethoven posted...

voldothegr8 posted...

FifthBeethoven posted...

EA not only responded they are going to do an AMA tommorow. I can't remember the last time any gaming company posted here to answer questions. I remember Troy Baker posting a couple years ago but he got modded in his only post.

EA isn't doing the AMA, they are having some of the developers do it.

Point still stands edited post to say Game developers.

They're going to get ripped to shreds despite the cost to unlock shit being way out of their hands.

From my understanding they did an awesome job developing it but EA went full EA.
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@HitTheGroundWal posted...

Wait, did someone here say Vader costs $30? If it were any other company I could be pretty sure that was an exaggeration. But with EA, I gotta ask, is it?

No. Vader - or any hero - doesn't cost any actual money to unlock. What it costs is a time investment to earn credits to purchase it, or a bunch of loot boxes with duplicate cards in it. Duplicates give you credits (not the crafting parts that were initially promised, butletsnottalkaboutthatatallrightEA?), which you can use to funnel back into loot crates, or to unlock new heroes.
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Wasn't there a video game developer who posted here, but got modded for supposedly impersonating theirself.
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Returning_CEmen posted...

Wasn't there a video game developer who posted here, but got modded for supposedly impersonating theirself.

Im pretty sure the developer that came got banned for a censor bypass
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EverDownward posted...

This is a friendly reminder that EA didn't actually change anything. They lowered the cost of heroes by 75%, but also lowered the amount of credits you get in the campaign by 75% as well.

already addressed in this topic and been pointed out that they only ever wanted to give you enough to unlock the main character
you either take Alucard's stance and say that it's to start the addiction and train you to use credits, or you go the other way and say that it's because they didn't want to lock multiplayer content behind singleplayer
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As someone mentioned in another topic yesterday, Gamefaqs is so inferior to Reddit these days it isn't even funny.

There are currently 2,500 people on the entirety of GameFAQs. There's currently 66k+ people on /r/gaming alone.
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FifthBeethoven posted...

Game developers not only responded they are going to do an AMA tommorow. I can't remember the last time any Game developers posted here to answer questions. I remember Troy Baker posting a couple years ago but he got modded in his only post.

i marked him for censoe bypass
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Alucard188 posted...

No. Vader - or any hero - doesn't cost any actual money to unlock. What it costs is a time investment to earn credits to purchase it, or a bunch of loot boxes with duplicate cards in it. Duplicates give you credits (not the crafting parts that were initially promised, butletsnottalkaboutthatatallrightEA?), which you can use to funnel back into loot crates, or to unlock new heroes.

Ahhh farming or gambling. Yikes.
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josifrees posted...

Returning_CEmen posted...

Wasn't there a video game developer who posted here, but got modded for supposedly impersonating theirself.

Im pretty sure the developer that came got banned for a censor bypass

It was Troy Baker, and he didn't get banned, just modded. Still, that was pretty shitty.

As for the larger point, yeah, Reddit has significantly more sway over the gaming industry than this site. Developers actually monitor and regularly post on subs, which does not happen here. Reddit even has more control over this site than the GameFAQs users do, something we've seen a couple of times in the contests when they completely dominated the voting and chose the winner.
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Gamefaqs has been a zombie shell of a site for years now
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Where would have developers post here? The userbase is fragmented.
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soulunison2 posted...

So why not just unlock that character then lol this makes no sense

because then people that unlocked him already get something
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The Admiral posted...

It was Troy Baker, and he didn't get banned, just modded. Still, that was pretty s***ty.

nope . he broke the rules.
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josifrees posted...

The only reason they go to reddit is because its free marketing to a large userbase. No one is coming here to market shit because there are like 5 people on each board and 4 of them are trolls

And of those four trolls, three of them are alts of the 1 non-troll.
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Lol, VIPs and insiders haven't bothered with this place in a decade. This place is effectively dead. You had more of them on NeoGAF if anything.
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