@bettysadog wrote:
granted we all hate EA..
I've heard multiple people say this over the last few weeks. I don't hate EA. In fact, EA has brought some of the best entertaining games for decades. I still bring out Lord of the Rings The Battle for Middle Earth from time to time, which is on my Top 5 EA games of all time. I love most of EA's games that are not sports games. It's only been since this micro-transaction craze that game developers have gotten onto that people have turned from love to hate. You may have personal preferences like someone who doesn't like Lord of the Rings probably wouldn't like The Battle for Middle Earth, but that's a personal preference thing and not actual hatred for a company producing entertainment for the masses.
I can say I hate the micro-transactions. I can see paying one set price for a game, but never a game that you pay for over and over again, which is why I play the free side of them and ignore the pay side. There was no free part of The Battle for Middle Earth. It was one set price, you pay it, you play it. EA has made SimCity BuildIt in a fashion that you don't have to pay for it at all. Things are slow going if you don't, but you don't have to pay, then with the addition of Epic Projects, I really have nothing at all to complain about for a game that hasn't cost me a cent.