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1 year ago

Fed up with EA Play promo on launch

I bought F1 24 a few days ago. Starting the game is always a bit of a pain because you always have to choose if you want to play the regular version or the VR version. That doesn't make any sense to me, since I would imagine that many people that play this game doesn't have a VR headset and don't care for one, and the rest of the people do have a VR headset and use that to play the game all the time. 

But after that, it used to smooth sailing to get to the main menu. For the past couple of days, you get o the main menu, and not even a second later, this thing slides in:

I don't want EA Play, and I never will have EA Play. The only reason I had EA Play until a few days ago was because the Xbox Game Pass 14 day trial I had for $1 included EA Play. But I'm not a gamer,  I simply bought this game because I liked the 2023 version when I installed it as part of that Game Pass trial. When I uninstalled all the games and cancelled the Game Pass subscription, I opened the Epic Games app to use Unreal Engine, and I happened to see that F1 24 Deluxe Edition or whatever it's called, was on sale for less than 20 bucks, when every other place had it for like $90. I thought that while I'm not a gamer, less than 20 bucks for this game was worth it.

But I'm beyond fed up with corporations trying to sell me more and more and more and more all the freaking time!!! I couldn't care less if I paid a quarter of the price because of a sale. It's a promo, it's a deal like many others, and no chance I would have bought this game at retail price, and the same goes for Grid Legends, which I also bought that day for a small fraction of the retail price.

To me, once you buy a game, whether it's as a downloadable product or physical media, what I paid for it is what you get. Don't push me over and over to buy an EA Play subscription because it's going to give me more freaking points in the game I already paid for!!!

This has to stop!! No more buying a game and getting promotions for other products or subscriptions, and no more markets inside the game where you are charged real money to advance or to buy a better car!! If you want a market in the game, fine, but it has to be with the money that you earn in the game, call it credits or whatever you want, but stop trying to squeeze people for more and more money.

As for the stupid EA Play promo screen showing every single time I load the game, the only thing you achieve is to get on my bad side and make sure that I will never get an EA Play subscription!!!

 

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