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"redmatch1;c-2143980" wrote:


yet you defend it at the cost of the game entirely.
you must be delusional to think this is fair and a good business step.
increasing the price 2 to 300% and also expect countries with lesser economies to pay US prices.
And to top it off during a pandemic with tens of millions of people becoming unemployed everywhere.

@EE_Elephterion I still dont understand why you snitched on the Argentina funds thing.
What on earth do you gain from it?
Other than more time once EA pulls this project down and away from Envision.

This sentiment appears to be the common message among those complaining, yet every single one of you have it backwards. The original intent was to offer varying costs to different impoverished countries. Unfortunately, players from the rest of the world figured it out and used it to cheat with. Gaining 400% strength advantage over everyone else by taking advantage of a technological hack to steal funds from Envision and EA. This F2P platform costs money and that expense is determined by EE and EA, not you or any other player.

@EE_Elephterion didn't snitch, he reported ongoing theft of funds, deep into 5 figures annually. He did his gd job. Looters robbing the store blind have no rights of any kind, the EE development staff and EA have made this crystal clear by forcing a single global pricing model. EA does not have the authority to kill anything owned by EE.

If the game is too expensive for you or anyone else, stop playing. Whine and complain to EA that you can't rob their store blind anymore, I'm sure it will receive the attention it deserves.

"gamerdruid;c-2143784" wrote:
I'm no currency or taxation expert, but the vast majority of games in that list look as if they're priced at about the same for all locations if you factor in local taxation and weakness of currencies. Quite a number don't price for Argentina, so EA are acting in common with them.

The discussion about whether a game should cost the average of 1h, 2h or 24h of wages is a common one that comes up every time the price changes. If you live in Palestine you probably can't buy anything as many companies block them.

No matter how much we complain, I've never seen the complaints about pricing here make any difference to EA policy. Threats to leave - or just leaving - do have an impact on the income, but the people who decide the pricing structure won't be the EA or EE staff who read these posts.

Pricing variances are rare, but they do exist; 1% of 1% perhaps. No corporate level serious gaming title on the World stage has pricing variances as a standard policy. The worst offenders are the Chinese, their level of hatred against other countries is unprecedented. One mobile game, Last Shelter Survival has a pricing cheat that was disseminated by the lead developer. It's a 3rd party pricing app for Chinese citizens, allowing 80%-95% discounts on all in game purchases. It's ruined any fairness to say the least.

You can keep this thread open if you like however there is no point. 7 pages of complaints and growing while both yourself and @EE_Elephterion have clearly stated the new pricing direction.

Easy solution: Just stop PvP'ing... most of my funds go to RT & Cry during PvP.
hmmm... No PvP in CnC TA... whats left then? It will be a digging-match against Clacknorion then I guess ;)

@Soixie

do us a favor and stop writing here! Your inputs are embarrassing -> again and again!

"Master161822;c-2144016" wrote:

EA can implement a single pricing model with a reasonable price point that doesn't cause the community to quit in disgust. Others will disagree, but IMO, $20-25 for 50,000 funds is fair. That's 2,000-2,500 points per $1. Also, if you raise the prices for most players, then you should add some additional value to the game, and use the revenue to actually invest in it and fix the frequent script errors and freezes. (Which seems to have gotten worse with the latest patch.)

Pot....kettle.....black.

EA did implement a single pricing model with a reasonable price point. EA's reasoning and EA's price point on what it's worth to THEM and no one else, period. Walk into your local business and ask them to drop their prices by 75% to make you feel better.

I see new forum accounts with a dozen posts like yours come and go like us veterans change our underwear daily. Your kind always have the same response to facts I and others (including statements from the mods and developers) provide you newbies. Y'all can't handle the truth, even when it's staring you in the face with crystal clarity. But hey, keep arguing 1+1 doesn't equal 2.

I love your idea of fair though, why don't you pipe me 5 million credits I paid for and didn't receive over the years. Otherwise, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

"Master161822;c-2144016" wrote:


EA/Envision should be focused on reversing this trend and encouraging longtime players to stay, and new players to keep playing, not doing the opposite. And while it is certainly EA/Envision's prerogative to ignore the community and tell all its customers to either pay its ridiculous prices or go kick rocks, that shouldn't dissuade players from posting here in the forum. When longtime loyal players quit and profits fall, then @EE_Elephterion deserves to know why, and to know that it was his fault.

I don't understand how you think any of this was his fault. He works for (does not run or own) Envision, a company contractually linked to EA. EA made the decisions. I don't know if Envision were consulted, but he isn't at that level in Envision as far as I know. As commented elsewhere - if an employee notices a theft (and it is theft by deception - deceiving EA as to your location) then he is duty bound as well as morally bound to report it to the appropriate people.

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> And you are probably the only one from the whole community who honestly paid $ 40 all these years, and now you are just offended))

I suspect this account is related to the developers. it is really just one player who fiercely defends the developers

Glad to see I'm not the only one that's annoyed with this game :)

I only came back because of lock down boredom and I'm sorry I did. Somehow got roped into starting three worlds and I'm not likely to finish any of them due to this price jack. The Argentina loophole was a double edged sword for me, funds were cheaper but I was going through them 50K's like there was no tomorrow.

There were no RT packs when I quit this game years ago but on return I soon realized that with enough funds you can literally buy a top spot on the board and play the game more instead of waiting to play like many others were doing with the "cheaper funds"

So now I have maxed out SP on each world and caps that are going to end in the near future, I'm not prepared to spend the insane amount of money it would now cost to keep burning through SP like I was doing before even though it actually was an insane amount of money to be spending on a web browser game that's not really anything special to be fair.

I'm sure you'll get the odd few with unlimited spare cash willing to buy that top spot but I just can't justify spending that kind of money on a browser game.

I worked it out to about 30K to scrape by on three worlds every 30 days and even that seems like a rip off now lol, obviously it would be much less fun too so I'm thinking why bother, I think it's time to go back into rehab, stop living my life around this money sucking addiction and move on but not at least finishing the worlds I started before I do is annoying me :)

ps. gamerdruid probably gets funds for free and soixie is an EA employee/shill so....

EA is doing everything to make me stop playing this game, me and a lot of my friends
this game is played by so few people compared to other "online" games

others are trying to get new players (like "wot" etc.), EA is original - trying to get rid of old players and not acquire new ones

this game gets too expensive - it's not worth the price

just stfu and play for free.
or just quit!
stupid much? do u crave for some "prison time" or just feel the need to pay for a lawyer?

better yet...why not ban everyone that admitted and complains?