Forum: microtransactions have to stop

[IHateNBoyCottEA]

No more.

No more micro-transactions.

No more season passes.

No more incomplete games.

Ruining Battlefront and releasing Star Wars skinned COD is gone too far. I'm not buying any more EA games til this issue is stopped once and for all. No Madden, no Battlefield, no Mortal Kombat, nothing, and the customer support seems extremely disingenuous. I don't know a single gamer that would accept paying $110+ for a game that would still be missing the features that made it one of the most anticipated games since the last one. I'll be eagerly awaiting Battlefront 4 to see if EA starts caring about their customers.

What's your thoughts on the Battlefront franchise's dissection?

[EA_Bastian · Accepted solution]

@IHateNBoyCottEA thanks for your feedback, I will pass it on to the studio.

Just as your title might be a bit misleading for players in this forum: Season-Pass bundles, which includes in the case of SW:Battlefront all map expansions in a bundle is not the same as micro-transactions. Micro-transactions are usually small download additions such as item boxes, ingame-currency, weapons or similar content which players can get additionally for an extra charge. This does not mean that I agree or disagree with micro-transactions, it is just to clarify what we are talking about here. If expansion packs should be free in general (which was/is rarely the case since gaming invented the idea of expansion packs) is another story.

Btw. micro-transactions are not planned for SW:Battlefront, as stated by our developers. It is quite easy to google some articles, news, information or even interviews about that, but I give you something to read: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/no-microtransactions-in-star-wars-battlefront-says/1100-6431154/

@SuperAvnas We had this in your other topics and please keep in mind that thread-hijacking is against our forum rules. I gave you an answer here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/DLC-costs-75USD-50GBP-in-UK-not-50USD/m-p/4870229#M365

Cheers

Basti

[SuperAvnas]

EA also charges more for the game and the DLC in england. it's pretty dire. 

[SuperAvnas]

ReneHere are the prices according to our account and billing specialists:

ReneStandard: 59.99
Deluxe: 69.99
Ultimate: 119.98
Season Pass: 49.99

youwhat currency is that in? those don't match up to the prices i have here.

youhold on

youright i'll make the same list of what prices i have in front of me

youstandard : 76.67

ReneSorry that is for the North American region

youdeluxe : 84.34

youultimate : 144

youDLC : 61.33

[SuperAvnas]

to clarify:

that's 144 to buy the game with a season pass and 144 to buy it with all the content.

[EA_Bastian · Accepted solution]

@IHateNBoyCottEA thanks for your feedback, I will pass it on to the studio.

Just as your title might be a bit misleading for players in this forum: Season-Pass bundles, which includes in the case of SW:Battlefront all map expansions in a bundle is not the same as micro-transactions. Micro-transactions are usually small download additions such as item boxes, ingame-currency, weapons or similar content which players can get additionally for an extra charge. This does not mean that I agree or disagree with micro-transactions, it is just to clarify what we are talking about here. If expansion packs should be free in general (which was/is rarely the case since gaming invented the idea of expansion packs) is another story.

Btw. micro-transactions are not planned for SW:Battlefront, as stated by our developers. It is quite easy to google some articles, news, information or even interviews about that, but I give you something to read: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/no-microtransactions-in-star-wars-battlefront-says/1100-6431154/

@SuperAvnas We had this in your other topics and please keep in mind that thread-hijacking is against our forum rules. I gave you an answer here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/DLC-costs-75USD-50GBP-in-UK-not-50USD/m-p/4870229#M365

Cheers

Basti

[IHateNBoyCottEA]

Bastian,

Thank you for responding. I'd edit the name if I knew how to include season passes and other "expansion packs" that are part of my original post.

If you look at Battlefronts I and II they were completely well thought out games with competitive gameplay and game modes that made the games irresistible. They had Campaigns, they had Galatic Conquest, Battlefront II had the Mos Eisley Hero vs. Villains battle, all things not in Battlefront III, even as DLC. These were what made the game phenomenal, but they aren't in the game now. It's $110 for all of the game. Expansion packs are not extra material from the game, they're material parts of the game that should have been in the original copy. I don't care if it means waiting longer for a complete game, but all of your gaming customers are tired of getting the incomplete gaming experience.

It's abusive to make an expansion pack of half of the game in order to charge buyers MORE money to get the game that they paid $60 for and makes EA non-competitive with companies like Bethseda that do not offer these highway half games. It also undermines all the efforts of your development team to go and split the game up like this and enrage the clientele to the point where we are backlashing their game, not for what they did or did not do, but for what YOU did on the marketing side.

In addition, @SuperAvnas did nothing wrong. I asked others what their inputs were about this game so that you can see that it is more than just me that is dissatisfied with this.

[EA_Bastian]

@IHateNBoyCottEA you can absolutely share your opinion about the game or the content in the game included. So what I read is that your major concern is that there is simply not enough or the right content at launch to validate that you have to pay for additional aka extended content later one which should be in the game from the start. That is hard to argue at everyone has his own expectations about specific content and it's importance. As an example, a lot of today basic game modes where included in expansions for Battlefront II while people have not got a full inside about all our content such our missions. In fact, if you compare especially the base games the amount of maps and game modes for multiplayer or coop/offline gameplay which come with SW:Battlefront is not that small. Still, while it is not our job to tell you if you are right or wrong about the content you want to see in your favorite game, we will value your opinion and it is an important factor for us in our sentiment reports to know what the community wants and how they feel about our game. 

And @SuperAvnas concerns are not the issue as we got already an answer in a different topic and the pricing which may vary by region is just not on-topic with the general valuation of paying for content in general.

Cheers
Basti

[MutantNeo]

I want it to change also. It's so boring when I have to pay for more microtransactions. I want it change because I want to play a game and not pay for things(maybe its because I don't have a credit card) but still I get really angry when a game dev wants more money from me.