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"Triplis;c-17914361" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17914227" wrote:
I mean... I wouldn't personally want to work in sales? But I'm also kind of glad that there are people who exist who can sell me the things I want?

Capitalism is capitalism. It has its pros and cons. I think we can be realistic about the latter (which sometimes means being negative), but also acknowledge that this game is a product, we all obviously like playing it and are glad that it's here to one degree or another, and so we are also engaging in the practice of capitalism by purchasing it. So, yeah, manipulation to increase sales is not the most virtuous thing. But it's also not an OH MY GOD SHOCKING thing that EA invented from wholecloth. It is what it is. Manage yourself accordingly.

Ah so you're trying to normalize what they're doing by saying it's all the same and it's just how things work. You sure you don't work in sales?

I don't have to work in sales to observe the world around me; it literally is how things work, regardless of how I feel about it. Preorder bonuses for games have been around for twenty years at least. Good or bad, EA didn't invent them. You don't have to like it, but you also don't have to buy them.