torok said:
Yes, even a sharp increase on digital sales would probably not even manage to decrease the gap to 40%. I also do hope BF2 has the same legs of BF1 (that means, sales fall from a cliff after the Star Wars film hype ends). It will still sell good numbers, but if it loses 4 or 5 million sales when compared to BF1, it could mean that adding loot boxes can't offset the decrease in the profit from game sales itself. On a side note, I've read that the decision to remove the microtransactions wasn't from EA, but a demand from Disney. They are usually quite protective of their IPs and we also had reports confirming this behavior from the guys from Visceral, saying that when you do a Star Wars game everything has to go through Disney's executives since they want to check if someone will screw the IP. And to finish the problem, we also have the Belgium government considering rule loot boxes as gambling, which would basically screw every game using it. |
Haha Disney are going to kick EA's ass over this.
A developer like Geurilla under Sony would give the IP the respect it deserves.
torok said:
At least with the prologue you do know it's just a paid demo. It also was 40 bucks. And it also released much earlier in the lifecycle of PS3 and PS2. Having a real GT game only close to PS5 would be pathetic, specially because the other gen would arrive and even a PS5 remaster would look unimpressive. Polyphony used to stand for its excellency. Now they stand out for not being able to release games and for poor critical reception. I'm a huge, huge fan and seeing they walking towards a slow and painful demise is heartbreaking. |
Agreed. The problem was they developed GT6 for ps3 only when it should have been remastered on ps4 aswell.
