Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-14.2.115.176-20150906165100/@comment-71.222.33.15-20150908202421

RR3SeanR wrote:

BTW I do find it interesting (well, funny, no actually... sad) that one of the "compensation" models that someone suggested on facebook was to "let us watch ads for a whole day". They've certainly got the audience trained!

I've said it before and I'll say it again - but any game that involves an in-game compensation model where it is more advantageous to players to *not* play the game than to play it has something seriously wrong with it. BINGO... SPOT ON... You know a game's designed to be as greedy as possible when I can rack up ~10MILLION in in game "cash" but have NOTHING to do with it because esentially useless and just a distraction to try and (poorly) hide the fact that GOLD is the only thing that matters and they want you to pay LUDACRIS ammounts of actual money to buy it from them. If they really cared at ALL about the end user they'd have a way to let us BUY GOLD using in-game cash, but then EA sports IS one of the worsat companies on earth in this respect. Everything they touch goes to hell if they can find a way to make the user continue to pay over and over again for very little gain in the playing experience (seriously, 100G for a performance "upgrade" of .001 sec 0-60 and .10ft less braking distance... HAHAHAHA SERIOUSLY???).

Yes, of COURSE it's broken... it benefits the user and allows them to gain more GOLD (eventually) so of COURE it's broken... but hey they gave us "NASCAR" so... Seriously, FM is SO bad now days, every "update" they break something (and NASCAR isn't an upgrade in ANY way, it's a DOWNGRADE, end of story) and it's always at the expense of the user who DOESN'T want to play their massive PAY2WIN game bullshit... it's almost like it's intentional. And yet as you progress through the game here they are with their hand out asking for Gold only car purchases or Gold only upgrades in the early stages of a car build that are crucial to advancing. Fuck EA and FM, they've ruined a great game.