future is bleak!

They all about money and this is a move to make the most amount of money, that's all it is at the end of the day

case in point. f*** ea.

EA hellbent on destroying everything they can get their grubs on

NCAA you’ll have to pay to scout outside your state

based the amount of soulless cash grab games broken at launch who were backed by your statement initially… yes but all we can do is hope

Again, yes the first option.

You speak as if EA doesnt have a proven track record of f***ing up great franchises

You sound naive as f***.

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EA f***in up another game

Not shocked

Dead space 3 was forced to have micro transactions and was rushed

No Pay to Win
No Map Areas Locked Behind Paywall
No Paid Loot Boxes
No Paid Gameplay Advantages

it says skate is going by these rules

What’s left outside of these 4 rules, besides cosmetics?

Some of these franchises falling off can be attributed to them forcing developers to use the Frostbite engine, which is infamously difficult to develop in. FIFA menus being slow and gameplay lagging when you're running to take a shot even in a local single player match - EA is to blame

Then you add the microtransactions. They responded to player feedback after Battlefront 2 but the fact that they even tried to pull that s*** in the first place shows you the kind of company they are and ended up doing a lot of irreparable harm to their reputation

Skate isn't even the only franchise under EA's belt that they haven't delivered on. People craving a new SSX. Fight Night. Burnout (EA could've kept NFS and this as two separate and unique franchises). Need for Speed 2015 is always online, even for single player F*** EA games. There's a reason they were voted the worst company in America 2 years in a row

it’s over

Oh brother

At least it’s just cosmetics and not some pay to win s*** but still that’s wild

Yeah. I’ll play this but probably won’t buy s*** tbh. Microtransactions can f*** off tbh.

I genuinely don’t know how a dev company makes something like this after all the backlash at other games who have tried to push similar things like how can you willingly go in this direction. Doing it with a super cult game sequel that people have begged for is double-y rough too. People gonna be twice as mad

Look at what caused these franchises to end or be put on ice though..

Mass Effect 1 and 2 were great, 3 got hate for the ending and none of your choices playing a role in it, then you have the trainwreck Andromeda

Dead Space 1 and 2 were great but EA insisted on making 3 more action focused and adding a second character for hamfisted multiplayer

Fight Night was going great but EA just sitting on it probably because they don't want to pay the licensing fees and they have UFC anyway which they think will sell more

NFS Hot Pursuit was great but lowkey a Burnout game. Most Wanted was mid and they just used the name for sales. Rivals was so online focused that you can't even pause the game. NFS 2015 requires you to always be online, just like SimCity which killed that franchise

Star Wars Battlefront 1 didn't even come with a campaign

Battlefield

Franchises don't need to go on forever but they also don't need to turn out as s***ty as numerous have under EA

We do need a new Fight Night though

Fr, boxing been getting popular lately so I'm surprised they haven't made one. I'm keeping an eye on that Esports game, hopefully that's not online only