I live in hope...dashed yet again :(

"Inna Minnit;14497818" wrote:
Newsflash: I hope you are sitting down.... EA and every other business exists to make a profit. Every employee counts on that to be able to have jobs and make a living.

If you are not willing to pay the price, don't buy. EA isn't greedy. They are in business to make a profit. They will price what the market will pay. It's kinda how life works in the grown up world.

For me EA's actions do strike me as being that of a greedy business as opposed to a business that is just trying to make a profit, but then I've taken issue with their current model for TS4 because I really strongly disagree with the kind of DLC model that basically involves releasing content every month for a premium price. I just feel as though it is unnecessary and a bit scummy.

I'm not someone who expects anything for free, if I want it I will pay for it and I'm also not anti-DLC if it is price right and it isn't released too frequently (in other words, not released so often I might as well be paying a monthly subscription fee), but for me, EA breaks both of my rules - they release expensive DLC far too often and it's for an AAA title. It's honestly put me off buying more content because I feel as though the game is a massive money pit as opposed to an admittedly expensive hobby I used to only buy something for maybe twice a year.

I appreciate I might be the only person with this view and I know this model started with TS3 and that store then moved onto more frequent expansion and stuff pack releases, but it came off to me as being greedy then and it comes off to me as being greedy now.