A few words about the Youtuber whom you are going to watch. Yongyea is a well respected games pundit and hes good at covering the usual BS that big publishers are known for. My thoughts on this matter follow after the vid.(use the link. It got removed when I embeded it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC19cGJa-xw
To summarise this. EA wants an undetectable system that rigs a match with the ultimate purpose to keep you playing and spend money on microtransactions.
So basically the quote that struck me the most is that the publisher will decide wether you win or lose based solely on buying mtx. At this point I'm writing any "entertainment" software off from being concidered a game. This is like those stupid mobile "games".
I think this a little different from activision's patent, but not that far off.
To be honest I find this to be even worse than pay to win, because essentially you will be set up to fail even if you have dropped money for top tier gear. I wouldn't be surprised if Battlefront 2 implemented this system. It already shoves in your face who killed you and what star cards he has.
Of course much like Actiblizzion's patent there are going to be people that will claim that this is not the case and that EA wont use just because they said it yada yada yada. We were saying the same about loot boxes, and look where this got us.
EDIT: Something else I wanted to add is that basically these systems are using you as an ad banner. You are doing advertisement for them, and you are supposed to have no idea about it.
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