Just remember, this dude was a former EA executive. That should discredit anything he says on anything by default. This is guy is a MEGACORP capitalist drone 100%.
If I got a pop-up asking me to agree to make a microtransaction to reload a gun in an FPS I would set my game disc on fire and never look back what the fuck :what-the-hell:
Super Meat Boy developer Edmund McMillan has even stronger opinions on the subject. In a recent blog post he said, “There is a whole shit load of wrong out there these days, from abusive and manipulative money making tactics, to flat out stealing.
“To us the core of what is wrong with the mobile platform is the lack of respect for players. It really seems like a large number of these companies out there view their audience as dumb cattle who they round up, milk and then send them on their way feeling empty or at times violated.”
He continued, “Words cannot express how fucking wrong and horrible this is, for games, for gamers and for the platform as a whole. This business tactic is a slap in the face to actual game design and embodies everything that is wrong with the mobile/casual video game scene.”
Harsh words. Yet following the startling success of the model, such behaviour is now set to infect core AAA games. Speaking at a stockholder’s meeting last year, EA CEO John Riccitiello outlined the company’s vision of a free-to-play future. It makes for terrifying reading.
“When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you’re really not that price sensitive at that point in time.”
“So essentially what ends up happening, and the reason the play-first, pay-later model works nicely, is a consumer gets engaged in a property. They may spend ten, twenty, thirty, fifty hours in a game. And then, when they’re deep into a game, they’re well invested in it.
Riccitiello continued, “At that point in time the commitment can be pretty high. It’s a great model and it represents a substantially better future for the industry.”
We must seize the means of game production for the future of humanity!
I will forever be grateful to Apple for the ‘show in-app purchases’ field on the App Store.
Remove ads? Sure, I’ll pay for that. Expansion packs? Sounds fair. One-time payment to remove all timegates? Yeah, ok. Annual membership? Eh, i guess. But any whiff of in-game currency, and I’m out. Especially if anything’s priced at over 50 bucks.
Video games should resemble either chess or a CYOA movie. They shouldn’t resemble a poker machine.
I've played over 100 hours in a F2P game that came out a few months ago, because it's fun and it's part of a franchise I've long enjoyed. I haven't spent a cent on it though and I never will. When I notice that it's trying to coerce me into spending money, I get mad because I'm reminded of ghouls like this trying to gouge me, and then I stop playing for a few weeks.
I will never pay. Roccitiello can drown in my piss.
Just remember, this dude was a former EA executive. That should discredit anything he says on anything by default. This is guy is a MEGACORP capitalist drone 100%.
Was he the dude who said players should pay for the ammo in their guns?
Yup it was him. "When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you’re really not that price sensitive at that point in time.”
If I got a pop-up asking me to agree to make a microtransaction to reload a gun in an FPS I would set my game disc on fire and never look back what the fuck :what-the-hell:
But think about the profits you could make :very-intelligent:
Ok
:thinkin-lenin:
:bean-think:
:thonk:
:porky-scared-flipped: :stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
Lol, if a game asked me reload any amount of time into the game i'd quit and renounce any games from all the developers within that publisher
how to radicalize g*mers:
We must seize the means of game production for the future of humanity!
I will forever be grateful to Apple for the ‘show in-app purchases’ field on the App Store.
Remove ads? Sure, I’ll pay for that. Expansion packs? Sounds fair. One-time payment to remove all timegates? Yeah, ok. Annual membership? Eh, i guess. But any whiff of in-game currency, and I’m out. Especially if anything’s priced at over 50 bucks.
Video games should resemble either chess or a CYOA movie. They shouldn’t resemble a poker machine.
I've played over 100 hours in a F2P game that came out a few months ago, because it's fun and it's part of a franchise I've long enjoyed. I haven't spent a cent on it though and I never will. When I notice that it's trying to coerce me into spending money, I get mad because I'm reminded of ghouls like this trying to gouge me, and then I stop playing for a few weeks.
I will never pay. Roccitiello can drown in my piss.