Million $$$ "EA" Question ...
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In my other post & thread about EA's news about it's plan to release MVP Baseball again in 2024. Many replied back all saying the same with how it will be mostly "pay-to-win" due to EA's track record of games they have released within the last few years.
However "IF" EA did get it right & hit a Home-Run & releases a game that is BETTER in every way over MLBTS with it's Game Play, Mechanics, Features, Modes, Content, Etc & it was mostly DLC Purchase based.
My Question is, would you play EA MVP 2024 even though it is DLC Purchased based because the game as so much better then MLBTS. (OR) would you still continue to play MLBTS only because it is more affordable as a whole, even though NOT as good as EA with all else.
I ask this because there are 1,000's of posting & threads in here which expresses, complains, critiques, grieves & frets over with what is wrong, bad, broken, etc with MLBTS. lets say EA got it ALL correct & puts out a HELL of a game. Would that DLC Purchase Model be worth it?
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I'm just happy that they won't have exclusive rights to Star Wars games anymore. It's terrible what EA did to several of the companies that it bought out—like the city of London in "Mortal Engines," just gobbling up everything. I especially hate them for how they shut down Visceral Games, because I was really looking forward to the open world Star Wars game they were developing. Amy Hennig was at the helm of that and I loved her writing in the Uncharted series.
At least Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was great. Since it was kinda sorta open world, it gives me hope that we'll see an open world Star Wars game in the future, now that studios other than EA can produce SW games.
So let me be clear: EA is NOT the saint you picture them to be. It is a disease, a parasite, that consumes and destroys everything it comes into contact with. A plague of the gaming industry.
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I think you really need to sit down and look at EA is a company and how they produce games today. You are stuck in 2004. They are not going to come riding in as a golden knight saving the day, look at Madden and Fifa, Fifa makes them a billion dollars and there is still many issues with the game. This isn't a praise of SDS, there is alot wrong with the game, but there isn't a scenario where EA makes a non-predatory good sports game.
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The only thing EA does better is offline modes like squad battles, which SDS could fix with an extra innings program... My gripe with EA is I have to buy packs not coins, where SDS you can buy stubs and buy the cards you want and not have to hope for pulls... How annoying is it going to be when you have to rely on packs for Hank Aaron and not just be able to grind for him.
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in Million $$ "EA" Question ...:
In my other post & thread about EA's news about it's plan to release MVP Baseball again in 2024. Many replied back all saying the same with how it will be mostly "pay-to-win" due to EA's track record of games they have released within the last few years.
However "IF" EA did get it right & hit a Home-Run & releases a game that is BETTER in every way over MLBTS with it's Game Play, Mechanics, Features, Modes, Content, Etc & it was mostly DLC Purchase based.
My Question is, would you play EA MVP 2024 even though it is DLC Purchased based because the game as so much better then MLBTS. (OR) would you still continue to play MLBTS only because it is more affordable as a whole, even though NOT as good as EA with all else.
I ask this because there are 1,000's of posting & threads in here which expresses, complains, critiques, grieves & frets over with what is wrong, bad, broken, etc with MLBTS. lets say EA got it ALL correct & puts out a HELL of a game. Would that DLC Purchase Model be worth it?
Who’s going to tell him?
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@eatyum_psn said in Million $$ "EA" Question ...:
I think you really need to sit down and look at EA is a company and how they produce games today. You are stuck in 2004. They are not going to come riding in as a golden knight saving the day, look at Madden and Fifa, Fifa makes them a billion dollars and there is still many issues with the game. This isn't a praise of SDS, there is alot wrong with the game, but there isn't a scenario where EA makes a non-predatory good sports game.
Literally about the only game EA does right is Apex legends, whose business model was copied directly from fortnite anyway lol
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in Million $$ "EA" Question ...:
However "IF" EA did get it right & hit a Home-Run & releases a game that is BETTER in every way over MLBTS with it's Game Play, Mechanics, Features, Modes, Content, Etc & it was mostly DLC Purchase based.
I think the biggest thing is the "if" of this statement. EA can't even make a good game right now on their other sports franchises. Madden and FIFA both have borderline game-breaking bugs in glitches and that's just in offline modes. SDS may have it's share of bugs but I can at least play offline with little to none complications.
EA is also going to have issue breaking in to a market that is already existing. They tried to make a comeback with their NBA Live series and couldn't make a big enough dent in 2K's sales to warrant keeping it going, ending the endeavor after only a few years. And even that game, meticulously worked on to try and be better than 2K, grew stale and boring rather quickly and offered nothing new. I would argue that the baseball video game market is not the biggest to begin with so when someone already has the market cornered, you would have to operate at a loss the first few years just to even take away a fraction of the player base.
I don't believe that they can offer much, if anything, more than SDS at this point. Trying to fix Madden's franchise mode has been a point of contention for years, and even with the latest installment where they claimed that it was the deepest and most immersive in recent years, it really did not bring much new to the table and is a surface level simulation at best. Their Face of the Franchise mode makes such a focus on being narrative driven, that you lose any replay-ability. Aside from what position you play, starting another player career doesn't change anything, whereas MLBTS allows you to have several careers going on with different positions if you so feel inclined without recycling cutscenes and letting you get right into the action.
Lastly, and this may just be me, but SDS has released a ton of content that is all free. I have not had to pay for anything to get some of the best cards in the game and really only bought stubs to finish some collections since I don't play online modes at all. Meanwhile, EA nearly forces you to buy extra content to get some slightly better cards than what you have.
So if you're asking if I think EA could even make a better game? No. If they somehow did, would I buy it? No. I don't want to look at my bank statement and wonder how I spent at least $100 on top of the $60 game to have an 85 OVR team when I can also spend $60 on The Show and never purchase anything else and still feel like I am on par with people that spend money.
Apologies for the long post. Thanks for reading.
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