Sentences with phrase «microtransactions from»

After facing heated fan backlash, EA has already made two huge changes to its long - awaited Star Wars shooter: first, reducing the amount of credits you'll need to unlock heroes such as Luke and Vader, and, more shockingly, completely removing paid microtransactions from the game.

After a massive wave of fan backlash that included EA getting the most downvoted Reddit comment in history, the publisher made drastic changes to Battlefront II's in - game economy and even removed all paid microtransactions from the game.

EA backtracked almost immediately given the immense backlash, and the company removed microtransactions from the game completely as a temporary fix.

The backlash was so fierce that EA actually ended up backing down and pulling microtransactions from the game.

A report from VentureBeat suggests that the decision to pull microtransactions from the game was in part driven by a phone call from Disney boss Bob Iger to EA's CEO Andrew House.

EA Dice's Star Wars: Battlefront II is finally out and there's even more good news: after the massive outcry from the players, the publisher has decided to pull the microtransactions from the game.

Last week, EA told its investors that removing microtransactions from Star Wars Battlefront II would not have «a material impact» on the game's projected earnings after it announced it had temporarily suspended Battlefront 2's premium currency.

Update: In the face of a controversy that's point blank refusing to budge, EA has decided to temporarily remove microtransactions from the game while it reworks them.

The heat was so intense that developer DICE decided to remove all microtransactions from the game the night before it launched to the public.

November 17th: EA «temporarily» removes microtransactions from Battlefront II wholesale, just hours before the game was set to launch.

Months after removing controversial microtransactions from Star Wars Battlefront II, publisher EA today announced its plans to bring them back, this time tied only to cosmetics rather than gameplay.

In a move that is sure to please the «PAYDAY» community, publisher Starbreeze announced that it will remove microtransactions from «PAYDAY 2» as well as confirm that «PAYDAY 3» will be coming in the near future.

Eventually, EA made the surprising move to temporarily remove microtransactions from Star Wars Battlefront II altogether.

Warner Bros. announced last month that they would be removing the system of microtransactions from Middle - earth: Shadow of War, which drew a lot of criticism around the game's launch.

In the video version of this week's show, Brent and Ben get together to discuss the removal of microtransactions from Battlefront 2, the first concrete details on Curse of Osiris, Marvel Heroes Omega shutting down, October's NPD results and the curious case of Bethesda single - player games, the games and developers of this year's PlayStation Experience, PUBG's nomination for «Game of the Year» at this year's Game Awards, Mario returning to Hollywood, this week's new releases, and lots more!

In the past Warframe's developers have removed a specific kind of microtransaction from the game due to players spending too much money on it, out of worry that they were stoking a gambling addiction (see link below).

Not exact matches

Those franchises helped EA earn $ 1.81 billion in the 12 months ended mid-2017 from recurring sources such as microtransactions, subscriptions, and game expansions, up 25 % from a year earlier.

hello ubisoft your game is sucks and its all filled with and microtransactions its unplayable its better to play with banana from playing your game

That's For Honor... It's also microtransactions though, and «Recovering Network Connection,» and a hundred tiny annoyances that detract from the core conceit.The only honor here is on the battlefield itself.

I don't know if it was because of the microtransactions, or if they wanted to have an overly - simplified loot system from the start, but I just don't find myself hooked to Destiny 2.

Following the success of the highly popular GTA Online, it would make absolute sense if Rockstar Games decides to pursue a similar mode for Red Dead Redemption, especially since GTA online has generated over $ 500 million from optional microtransactions for the company.

While after the success of microtransactions in Grand Theft Auto 5 it was basically a given that Red Dead Redemption will have something similar, hearing it from the boss man himself made them a near certainty.

New stats from SuperData show how much money the biggest console games are making from digital full game sales, microtransactions and DLC.

Of course, there is a real chance that Rockstar won't step away from the system that worked so well for GTA Online, and simply use a similar microtransaction based monetization scheme.

Microtransactions are still a factor, letting you spend real - world money on premium card packs, but there's enough in - game money to be earned from various fights and challenges that paying real money never seems necessary.

Star Cards are drops that come from Crates, and yes these are what the microtransactions were going to be used for.

Of course, the fastest way to get these tickets is to buy them from Nook in the game's microtransaction shop, but players can also earn the coveted tickets through trading and salvage quests.

Usually, due to the skill and dedication of the developers, that approach didn't detract from the quality of their games — just look at Red Dead Redemption and the previous GTA titles — however after GTA Online became favored over story mode, largely due to the huge amount revenue being brought in by microtransactions, fans are concerned.

Capcom has also thrown in a new way for players to alter their in - game appearance, which may draw ire from some since the choice is being offered as a microtransaction.

Platform holders might be wary of this in the future as this might be cutting them out of the picture as far any commission they get from microtransactions but for now, this right here is an example of crossplay working beautifully.

Swinging back to Zelnick's comments, he added some important sentences after talking about bringing microtransactions into all their games: We are convinced that we are probably from an industry view under - monetizing on a per - user basis -LSB-...]-LSB-...] we're not trying to optimize the monetization of everything we do to the nth degree.

Nintendo deliberately stayed away from microtransactions and the game is undoubtedly better for it.

Thankfully that's not the case with the new limited time mode which has been released to coincide with the addition of microtransactions, as it's available straight from the main menu.

It could be referred, coming from a man who works in the financial side of the publisher, that monetization tools such as microtransactions could be delivered after the launch rather than be re-balanced at a later stage as it happened with Star Wars Battlefront II.

They also talk about Monolith's decision to pull microtransactions, and loot boxes from Middle Earth: Shadow of War, and whether its too little too late.

Dead Space microtransactions, the many irritations of the BioWare social service sticking its unwelcome nose into my single - player RPGs, multiplayer service shutdowns for everything from sports to shooters - why should I forgive EA for any of those blatantly anti-consumer policies and actions?

Andrew from Xbox Enthusiast talks about EA, Star Wars Battlefront 2's rocky launch, and why the company should cut their losses and gain goodwill from consumers instead of reinstating microtransactions, which caused controversy for the company last year.

Activision Blizzard made over 4 billion USD in 2017 from microtransactions.

I feel bad for including them since I stand firmly against the use of microtransactions in premium triple - A titles, but this list is also supposed to be about the games I've enjoyed the most this year and the truth is Shadow of War's Nemesis system has given rise to some of my cherished memories of the year, including one Orc who just kept coming back from the dead whom I actually sort of miss now that he's actually gone.

Miitomo had microtransactions, Go has microtransactions, they were there from the very start and the only exception was Super Mario Run, and that failed because the smartphone audience prefers having «free» apps and then paying microtransaction fees instead of a single one - time purchase.

In a world of open - world games where the story is an afterthought, microtransactions reign supreme and developers / publishers seem unwilling to deviate from this MachineGames have crafted a singleplayer game with a strong storyline, great gameplay, beautiful graphics and not a microtransaction nor unnecessary multiplayer component in sight.

Perhaps EA runs away from the card - based Ultimate modes as part of the recoil from random loot and microtransactions; maybe the new creative director is a big part of that.

Miitomo came out three years ago, and Pokémon Go two years ago, both earning their revenue from microtransactions.

Here comes the most microtransaction, lootbox, and pay to win - ridden titles from the new Nintendo games on mobile!

And for the love of god, no garbage planned DLC and microtransactions that skimps out the game from having a huge rich story with lots of lore and hundreds of hours of contents.

Animal Crossing is a franchise that would make stupid amounts of money from microtransactions and is extremely tempting probably to do it that way... but I hope Nintendo cares about Animal Crossing's brand enough to stop and think before ruining it for the majority of players who would otherwise play the game.

It's also about money made from microtransactions and the longevity of its multiplayer.

$ 4 billion, that's more than half of the revenue, came from microtransactions.

** The following review of Star Wars Battlefront II was written before EA temporarily removed the in - game Purchases (microtransactions) from gameplay...

I think I have to educated our players to make them understand difference from freemium (purchase premium content) and free to play game with bunch of microtransactions.