I wise move hopefully when they decide to implement what ever they decide, it will be a fair and will loose the pay to win. DLC is part of current Games but needs to add to the game not give advantage to those who pay.

For now... As soon as sales are picking up they reintroduce them. Don't let this fool you.

RzrTrek:

"The ability to purchase crystals in-game will become available at a later date..." we'll have to keep a close eye on how this develops.

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Yeap, and in a 13 age game as well, and a Disney IP to boot, and i am surprised Disney have not said anything yet.

Pawel04:

'Belgium, and Netherlands' Funny that, i thought they were part of the EU .

The article says that in the EU Belgium and Netherlands will be investigating the gambling aspect. If they weren't a part of the EU, then they wouldn't do it in the EU. That being said, I'm not sure how it's relevant unless it's somehow connected to the EU. Although I'm not sure if the EU has any gambling regulations of its own. I'd have thought it's member state controlled entirely. But it could be a more complicated issue if it's an American company sneaking into the EU to arrange gambling opportunities hidden inside a PC game. In such a case the EU indeed might get interested.

Those sales are stopped simply to make people buy the game upon launch so they at least get the 60€ from everyone. Later they'll re-enable this system and force everyone to buy the DLC as well. You'll see...

The way they treat it as an integral part of the game makes you wonder how much money they've wasted turning it into such an abomination.

Big boss said lets milk the sheep as much as we can, anywhere we can.. but now the sheep stood up and raised their voice and they got too scared and said ok ok lets try to make it as it wasnt our intention to do this.. bla bla What a bunch of hypocrites, EA is no worse then those.big pharma corps.. all they see is €$¥ in their eyes, they don't care about anything else. Even if it gets them a bad name..

Buy the game or do not, nobody is forced to make ingame purchases. Why do punters continue to expect game producers to act like a charity, i charge my clients for absolutely everything "Can we have this or do this?" "Yes you can but im billing you for it".

The big issue is EA has micro transactions to where you actually pay to win in a game that minimum costs $59.99. Games like Halo 5 have micro transactions, but they also give no advantage in MP. Just cosmetic effects. I think if they did it to where you grind in game only instead to get advantages, it would be different. Black Ops 3 suffered the same issue big time, which is why player base kind of dwindled down.

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Vain attempt to avoid the gambling investigation? I hope they get slammed and it sets precedent to force loot box garbage out of all games.

pegasus1:

Buy the game or do not, nobody is forced to make ingame purchases. Why do punters continue to expect game producers to act like a charity, i charge my clients for absolutely everything "Can we have this or do this?" "Yes you can but im billing you for it".

Stunning revelation every time 🙄. No one is forced to do anything but it's always designed to encourage purchases and kids are involved. Trying to funnel children into gambling to squeeze out a few more pennies is disgusting.

pegasus1:

Buy the game or do not, nobody is forced to make ingame purchases. Why do punters continue to expect game producers to act like a charity, i charge my clients for absolutely everything "Can we have this or do this?" "Yes you can but im billing you for it".

That's not the issue. The problem is that you already BOUGHT the game, EA making you pay for the game again is shady. Clearly you don't work with contracts or even estimates where you can just take your unsuspecting clients to the cleaners (taking advantage of them in case that expression isn't native in your country.) Let's say your an architect and you design a house for someone, then you deliberately hold back the dining room until the person who hired you "unlocks" it by paying an extra 25%.

vbetts:

The big issue is EA has micro transactions to where you actually pay to win in a game that minimum costs $59.99. Games like Halo 5 have micro transactions, but they also give no advantage in MP. Just cosmetic effects. I think if they did it to where you grind in game only instead to get advantages, it would be different. Black Ops 3 suffered the same issue big time, which is why player base kind of dwindled down.

The biggest problem is with starfighters, there you literally get SIGNIFICANT stats advantage from the epic starcards, it's pay to win by the book. Not to mention that newbies who still need to learn to fly have an even harder time because of it. With the trooper/heroes starcards it's not that bad, I mean they still get an advantage, but it's manageable.

Buy the game or do not, nobody is forced to make ingame purchases. Why do punters continue to expect game producers to act like a charity, i charge my clients for absolutely everything "Can we have this or do this?" "Yes you can but im billing you for it".

Why do punters have an issue with a multi million dollar company such as EA nickel and diming fun game play and balanced game design in a game that costs $60 and has the Star Wars IP attached to it... well f*ck me I can't possibly work that one out. Oh and I loved this quote 'The micro transactions scare easily, but they'll be back and in greater numbers!'

fOrTy_7:

I hope EU commision will kick their a$$es for that. 😀 Gambling law violation - oh yes it is 😉

Or, EA bribes the EC members to push for legalisation of online gambling, effectively overruling Dutch National law.

This is the deal.. We all know gaming is just big business now. We pay $59.99 for games now, but these companies really want us to pay $100 +. How are these exec's supposed to fund their golden parachutes.. The only way to really combat this BS, is.. Tell Nvidia and AMD your not buying anymore stuff from them until these game companies stop their BS business practices. I know this is a stretch, but that would immediately prompt Nvidia and AMD to put pressure on these corrupt game companies to stop their BS.. I'm sure a savvy lawyer could come up with a class action lawsuit to go after them also. A 5 hour campaign for $59.. Really? Maybe these companies should take a look at what Gearbox did with Borderlands. A game well worth its price!

ps3/xbox360 era lead to digital content and "addon" that where paided extra that would hidden secrerts other wise and that lead to "expansion" that digital only cause I dont remeber the last time physical copies of "expansion" where sold, this lead cash shops in game and that lead to loot/crates with in game we payed 60$ for and the loot/crates are setup in way that they are gambling. very few states allow online gambling last i check same for countries. which exactly what this game publishers are trying to pull now with cash shops with loot/crates with chance to win . If i payed 60$ for game i dont want to see cash shop or crate bs in them, it sorta kinda makes sense for mmo too point even then most use in such way it becomes pay to win. but I refuse to be nickled and dimmed for game i payed 60$ in first place., there is reason why i no long buy game in when first come out, I now for most part dont even buy them till there "version" of it with all it stuff included. Nioh was only exception to that rule of mine that i have had for last 10 years. and now that there is pc version of with all of stuff included for less then payed for ps4 game i thought would stay exclusive i aggravated by that. EA has been milking starwars while and what they done to swtor after it went f2p is perfect example of that.

Oh dear , pay to win is a no go in my book 😏. This situation has gone viral and is all over the news even on cnn giving EA and Disney a very bad name: http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/16/technology/battlefront-ii-star-wars-game-ea-costs/index.html

pegasus1:

Buy the game or do not, nobody is forced to make ingame purchases. Why do punters continue to expect game producers to act like a charity, i charge my clients for absolutely everything "Can we have this or do this?" "Yes you can but im billing you for it".

I played 1000+ hours in Mass Effect 3, most of the time i played silver matches, yet i didnt have any problems to get everything in the game, because the rewards were bigger, weekend challenges where you got the ultrarare weapons (yeah crazy something rare for free). Now in Andromeda, rewards are smaller, you get some challenge every few months, and the inventory is diluted with absurd amounth of weapon variations, and the weapons itself feel like peashooters. So sure, nobody is forcing you to buy anything (even the game itself), but they sure are steer you in to that on every single ocasion with tweaking the game to be a freaking grindfest. And sorry, but paying money, to skip THE ACTUAL GAMEPLAY is incomprehensible stupid to me.