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https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/
Edit: Now past -400000.
2nd edit: The comment has surpassed -500000 downvotes! WOOOOOOO!!
sharkcup12
It doesn't matter how many down votes or negative rep EA gets, people still buy there games. Everyone thought redemtion after the shitty BF1
ItsBelvie
Also the press review copies unlock heroes at 10k while regular people get it at 60k which is about 20-25 hours game play.
TheGreyKnightsBANNED
-454k currently. NOW WE JUST NEED TO MAKE EVERYONE NOT BUT THE GAME! well. time to call the girl who dressed up as the monopoly man.
TheRealGowron
Stop buying EA games. They don't care about your opinion. They care about your money.
RippleNippledBastard
Currently at -424,000
Brandisimo
EA over here like
Korthirias
430k as of now. Half a million soon!
ThatMonkeyFromCaptainPlanet
Why can't companies just take after Grinding Gear Games. Just listen to the community, cause once you release it to them, its theirs.
TheSteakBoyHimself
Over -666,666 that’s like super bad!
ImGonnaKickYouRightSquareInTheNeeeuutz
Just downvoting these now. We know..
astrathestar
-425k points from the time this comment was posted.
Kirschkuchen
diphenhydraminehcl50mg
I did my part.
AddictedToCycling
Too bad the thread is locked.
ItsNikG
I worked with ubisoft last summer in MTL and met reps from EA. Ubisoft = laid back and fun. EA= Suits and stuck up pricks.
KaJuN
EA makes games for shareholders, not gamers.
faceofpoopy
almost at 400k now.
TwokN
Passed it.
faceofpoopy
I wonder where it'll end. I'm hoping close to a million tbh
Belarkernous
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EA/ This is what gets a CEO's attention.
hanael
That dip in '08 though. Didn't expect to see a game company get hit so hard by the housing crash (I knew everyone did, just not that much)
MorrolaneDrien
Exactly! They were down by around 1.5 earlier.
monocline
I get unlocking a character and such but...seriously? "Well if we make it take hours upon hours then they'll pony up."
potshot
Unlocking skins or effects? Sure. A loyalty character for preorders or long-term customers, even that I understand. But this is pay2win.
SaltheartFoamfollower
This is just the tip of the iceberg. There's other shady stuff too. In December when they release Finn and Phasma, twice the price of Vader.
SaintMaceToTheFace
Well who gives a shit about them
OhhHaiMark
You mean the game company that charged you ridiculous amounts for the first game and add ons did the same thing again and you still bought?
MrAgnosticman
I won't consider buying anything from EA unless it's on sale for $5-$10. Even then the add-ons have to come with it.
OhhHaiMark
I’m probably ganna buy the sims for PS4 tomorrow but since it is a smaller release doesn’t look as fucky as battlefront
Bambi577
To be fair, the DLC is free and they scaled back the loot box system. This came as a surprise to me at least. I thought they learned.
OhhHaiMark
I don’t think they learned... just modified their business plan to a different kind of “fuck you”
GilliamTheButcher
Hey, OP, what are you using to make your Reddit screen black? That'd certainly make late night redditing much easier in my eyes.
coolfeels
@GilliamTheButcher
coolfeels
On the Google Chrome version: Click the 3 horizontal bars on the top right and select "Night Theme". Probably the same for the app as well.
GilliamTheButcher
Thank you for that. I never even knew the feature existed.
IThinkImInLoveWithMargot
Not a gamer and 2 questions. Can you unlock Vader without $? Can you just return the game? I’m sure you can. Let EA know with your returns
saturos01
You can, but it takes 40+ hours of play to unlock each character, which is why there is outrage because that basically means you have to pay
IThinkImInLoveWithMargot
Gotcha. Yeah, I’d be annoyed. Vader should be one of the first characters to unlock. Who is the first?
KoenTje
I made a Reddit account just to downvote.
tutito
And for that, you deserve an upvote.
Angelova33
Me too. :0)
Marquistador101
A true hero.
teahmay
Followed your lead and did the same.
DamnnSon
These days i just buy the normal game. fck your dlc, fck your microshit, fck all of that shit.
superpaul79
You spelled fuck wrong. There is a "u" in the word fuck. It's only four fucking letters. Fuck isn't that fucking hard to fucking spell.
DamnnSon
Do you want to buy that letter as a DLC for only $44.99? Cucks like you always buy DLC. Get it now!!!!
swefur
If you don't pay to win, you're not the customer, you're the product. You are gun fodder for the people who pay.
Thetwitchy1
Only way to change it.
IronicUsername
That won't change anything. If you still buy the game, then their shitty practices haven't cost them anything. They still get your [1]
DamnnSon
No. i wait for when the game goes down loads of money like mafia 3 that i just bought for 7 euros. fck full money for shit dlc games.
IronicUsername
$60 and at least some people will buy the microtransactions. The only way to change it is to stop supporting publishers that do this. [2]
IronicUsername
The inclusion of micro-transactions needs to cost them more money than it earns them for anything to change. [3]
ICompletedEngineeringOnTime
that thing has 300054 downvotes... how is that for a community feedback?
ImGladWeHadThisChat
Doesn't matter if wallet feedback doesn't match up
Shcherbina
It will. I was really looking forward to buy this game but won't. I'm pretty sure there are many more like me.
discollama
-39k as of now
Burkeybumkins
-397k
rubenfasola7
Broken the -400k mark
TheInternetIsASeriesOfTubes
418k now
WouldAPonyByAnyOtherNameBeAsOffencive
478k and 456 gold.
insegrevious
Why giving them gold, btw? Just to highlight it? ;)
WouldAPonyByAnyOtherNameBeAsOffencive
can be people who like to add drama, might be EA team hoping to make it look better (you now how marketing is)
Rips4w
I don't buy EA games out of principle. That being said, this will affect them very minimally. Watch.
Satin1
I worry a lot of people will make complaints without realizing they can vote with their wallet
5tarTrek
Agreed, I think most people aren't that deep into it for this to matter.
BeardedAssassin
Yeah, they were voted worst company in america a while back. Did they go out of business? Nope.
TheFastpaws
Because idiots will still buy it. Despite downvoting and the rage the morons will still go out and buy it.
Hammertulski
I'm adhering to that principle now, too. I did enjoy the beta, but can't justify spending money in support of this kind of tactic.
spiceass9000
Idk the only thing that seems wrong about this is that you can pay to unlock the hero’s faster.
fitlex
Yeah we'll be seeing headlines like "Battlefront 2 the highest selling game of 2017" pretty soon
TituzzzD
I am watching since two hours. When will something happen?
UncomfortablyLongHugs
BendyDicksCumOnMyBaps
The reason they do this, is because they KNOW they can do this.
allegedlynerdy
Disney owns star wars, and Disney easily bows to negative PR
HellooooNurse
I was on the border for getting the game... Not going to get it now... Drops in a bucket hopefully
QuackQuackQuackQuackQuackQUACK
No, we do matter! If every person who downvoted that post, all 300,000 does not buy battlefront 2. At 60$ for the base game that's 18...
fitlex
The majority of them weren't going to buy it in the first place, so no effect. It's the "X piracy numbers = X lost sales" logic
Prednizn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMhfbLRoGEw
QuackQuackQuackQuackQuackQUACK
60$ X 300000 angry customers not buying one game equals 18million$. Do the math, if we all refuse to buy this game or any EA game, we matter
fitlex
90%+ of the downvotes are just random people from across the internet, very few were considering buying it or even knew about it before this
ImgurisluvImgurislife
Exactly. I downvoted. Haven't bought an EA game in years
ProbablyDrunkAgain
True. The vocal minority has very little impact on their bottom line (because they weren't going to pay for anything anyway).
HistoricalContext
But look at it this way. You have ~300k people (assuming about a quarter are spam/bot accounts) who aren't going to buy their game 1/2
HistoricalContext
and are going to tell their friends to not buy it. That is a MASSIVE amount of negative publicity. This is gonna hurt, one way or another.
JTstupidhead
Someone made a post about how only 10% of players need to participate in MTX and the only way to send a msg to ea is to just not buy the gm
JTstupidhead
As long as the other 90% particpate and create a community that makes the game exciting for the 10% this will be the new trend
ProbablyDrunkAgain
Metrics like this are standard in the industry. They don't publish if they can't meet those minimum numbers.
Seinfeldgifs
EA’s PR dept:
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honestlynotarealperson
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BoozeHound001
"This is a positive, look at all this free advertisement" - PR lead trying to spin this
JustinTroubleAgain
I met the new head of Public Relations at Magfest last year. he said they where trying 2 do better. if i see him this year im laugh at him
discollama
Brandisimo
themexicanwave
‘The Mouse’ does not like bad press. The Mouse will not be happy......
cosonfused
EA ceo
Ravenbreaker
Thats the gif I expected to see for their PR depo.
TheBlackVan
Zreen
"There's no earthly way of knowing, where it is we are rowing."
Saustino
On the contrary. I didn't know battlefield 2 came out. Now I'm going to buy it and all the DLC.
MayorofLoserville
You're drunk again right?
Saustino
Nope, at work. Good guess though.
Pegussu
I'm guessing it's actually more of a shrug, but I don't have a gif for that. People have been outraged before, but they still buy the game.
summershank
As someone who has written PR responses, whoever approved that is getting reviewed
badgerofhonour
Pegussu
Excellent choice, thank you.
PathologicalLier
ea is definitely the best publisher out there.. listening to us and stuff
mikayeld90
Lier*
vietarmis
They definitely listen... and use it to increase the profits on micro transactions.
captainswoopty
We need a sarcasm font for the internet
PathologicalLier
yes you're right. i believe that would indeed be a very useful thing..
ChuckNorrisAteMySock
Hey, at least they took the time to tell us to go fuck ourselves...
BabaBooey734
You're just a pathological liar.
glassweaver
Username checks out.
ThePodd
No you dumbass, he's a pathological lier.
BenSnow97
Well, not the only one here
PathologicalLier
no i'm not
iisn00b97
Fuck again with the lies, have you no shame.
PathologicalLier
i would never lie. i'm the most honest person you will ever see on this site. i even got a trophy for my honesty given personally from god
TheBlackVan
I started to check you profile for an "Honesty Trophy." Then I saw what you did there.
NipplesTheEnchiIada
Jokes aside, those against these micro-transactions are a vocal minority.
NastyBert2000
I think you underestimate the audience that dislikes microtransactions but doesn't get meta enough about game design to comment online.
shuya82
These aren’t typical micro transactions, and the comment is at like negative half a million votes, hardly a minority.
NipplesTheEnchiIada
I'm against them too, but take into consideration how many people are playing versus how many are pissed.
suchmanywatermelons
Those aren't that related. People can be vocal about hating something, then still go full stupid and throw money at it anyways.
suchmanywatermelons
Chalk it up to them being weak willed about it.
SideEffectsOfJuice
And we have to assume the EA apologist squad has hit that comment hard as well, trying to upvote it at least a little.
Sacurason
Star Wars Battlefront sold 13 million copies, and it's quite possible that this will sell more. Half a million is a small minority :( ->
Sacurason
-> My hope is that way more than 1/2 M people will see this because it's gone viral, and cause the game to flop at launch. We'll see.
shuya82
You’re only looking at Reddit users though. I’m sure the percentage of reddit/star wars users downvotes are actually a majority. Can only-
shuya82
Compare .5 million to 13 million if they are all using and voting on Reddit which is far from the case.