EA's Business Model Finally Revealed

Ratman5674 wrote:
What are you saying about my EA

Irishlad is just expressing an opinion. You better respect it.

Ratman5674 wrote:
What are you saying about my EA

they have taken a 19th century business model and updated it to the 21st century
and this is what they used page by page

irishladsoca wrote:

Ratman5674 wrote:
What are you saying about my EA

they have taken a 19th century business model and updated it to the 21st century
and this is what they used page by page

I'm just kidding you know me and EA are having babies now. Other person who was rude it was a joke.

If EA is making a lot of money off of this game, good for them! Most of us want to make as much money as we can in life. If your employer offered you a raise, would you decline? No way! Corporations are no different, they'll take your money if you're willing to give it to them. If you give out everything for free, you go out of business. There have been mistakes made in the implementation of this event in my opinion, but the fact that you need to spend donuts to get all of the prizes (unless you're incredibly lucky) is not one of those mistakes.

jbondra wrote:
Yeah, because a business model should be to lose money :roll:

They were making money hand over fist before they decided to change up the game with the chance wheels/boxes. There was no need for them to change a thing, in fact if they didn't, most who are complaining would still be happily handing over their money, but they let greed get in the way and now those who never thought twice about buying donuts are thinking twice about buying donuts. They were never in danger of losing money leaving the game the way it was, but now? short term gain perhaps at the cost of long term lose

Ratman5674 wrote:
Other person who was rude it was a joke.

Ah, yes. I'm rude, but you're joking. Classic troll defense tactic when your own words are used against you. Next you'll be claiming the sky is pink or somesuch, but no wait you were only joking. I've seen this movie before, I know how it ends.

In before neuro's Android screengrab! ;)

neuroheart wrote:

Ratman5674 wrote:
Other person who was rude it was a joke.

Ah, yes. I'm rude, but you're joking. Classic troll defense tactic when your own words are used against you. Next you'll be claiming the sky is pink or somesuch, but no wait you were only joking. I've seen this movie before, I know how it ends.

Me and the op had a nice chat in my other thread about it and we had a joke with each other. You do twitter?

teo47 wrote:
If EA is making a lot of money off of this game, good for them! Most of us want to make as much money as we can in life. If your employer offered you a raise, would you decline? No way! Corporations are no different, they'll take your money if you're willing to give it to them. If you give out everything for free, you go out of business. There have been mistakes made in the implementation of this event in my opinion, but the fact that you need to spend donuts to get all of the prizes (unless you're incredibly lucky) is not one of those mistakes.

I have to disagree. Yes, making money is great. As a libertarian, I believe strongly in the free market. However, there is a limit to how much a company should take advantage of its customers. TSTO was never advertised as a gambling game. Yes, the product description says "SIMULATED gambling", which is not the same as actual gambling with real money. To get to my point, I think it's bad for business in the long run to implement gambling into the game. Most TSTO players are not looking to gamble with their money, nor are they used to it being a feature of this game. This will pay off in the immediate future for EA, but in my opinion, the increase in profits will be short-lived. People are wising up to the horrible odds in this event and it's made a lot of us premium players, who used to gladly throw tons of cash at EA, rethink our spending. That's not good for business. If companies followed your logic to its natural end, there would be massive price gouging. Good business is about balancing profit with customer satisfaction. If your only concern is making the biggest profit possible, but your customers are dissatisfied, you'll soon find yourself without customers and without profit. EA is playing a dangerous game with these gambling events. That's just my take on it. I don't think that this is a good long-term business strategy.

edit: typos

teo47 wrote:
If EA is making a lot of money off of this game, good for them! Most of us want to make as much money as we can in life. If your employer offered you a raise, would you decline? No way! Corporations are no different, they'll take your money if you're willing to give it to them. If you give out everything for free, you go out of business. There have been mistakes made in the implementation of this event in my opinion, but the fact that you need to spend donuts to get all of the prizes (unless you're incredibly lucky) is not one of those mistakes.

Another point that I forgot to make in my other post was that nobody is asking for anything for free. We premium players who have spent hundreds of donuts for absolutely nothing premium are clearly willing to spend money. The problem is that we're spending a lot of money and getting nothing in return. It's EA who wants the free ride. You've got it backwards. I have NO problem forking out cash to this game, but I want something in return. That is the most basic rule of economics.