Update from EA - sounds good
Sounds quite fair to me. What do you think?
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It's not enough. They want to save their launch sales and image, but don't want to try and exploit people out of money using Pay 2 win gimmicks.
It would not be hard to have had crates give you cosmetic things like skins, just like Overwatch- they chose this because they thought it would be easier, take less effort, and generate more money for them.
As long as you can get actual gameplay affecting items, from a crate you can purchase, you are going to have a backlash. Period.
Making it not give you the best stuff but still give you an upper hand isn't what people asked for, they asked you take all gameplay affecting items from the crates.
It's not rocket science, people have been abundantly clear what they dislike about it.
Edit: Also, this always gets brought up- I don't even care about them tbh I know I will do well enough I can probably deal with some guy with some cards or w/e. The problem I have personally is that soooo many people are upset about this and not going to buy the game because of it; and if none of my friends are going to be playing and if the community is going to be low volume because of EA's stubbornness on this, why bother picking it up?
- I do wonder though, how small a percentage those people are.
At some point someone had the knee-j e r k reaction of "oh no, loot boxes, evil!". Then, a whole bunch of people jumped on that bandwagon, because "hey something to complain about". In the grand scheme though, I'm not too worried. I think sales will do great and there will be enough players. And when the loot boxes sell well too, we'll have a good and maintained game, with free servers, for quite a while.
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