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EA/Rockefellers indoctrinating youths to alien cults (demo pricing errors on Xbox)
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Ya burnt, BF4.
A pricing error no-one will do anything about?
SenjutsuSage
Banned
I'm just pissed cause I bought the demo for $20 last week. Now everybody else is getting the deal of a lifetime.
TrueGrime
Member
Apparently, this has been on EA's radar too.
http://kotaku.com/5498985/electronic-arts-plans-to-make-you-pay-for-glorified-game-demos
http://kotaku.com/5498985/electronic-arts-plans-to-make-you-pay-for-glorified-game-demos
That's gotta be one of the worst articles I've ever read =\
I'm just pissed cause I bought the demo for $20 last week. Now everybody else is getting the deal of a lifetime.
Did you really? :/
It is an unusual model but I wonder if its here to stay in lieu of EA's online passes.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
But it's a soccer game. Every match is dynamic with many possibilities. You can play it over and over again for hours and no one match would ever be the same. Bringing that into consideration, $5 is actually rather cheap.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
LOL no, just adding to the joke. I may love the Xbox One, but I don't love it enough to pay $5, much less $20, for a demo.
PaulExcellent
Member
ITS CUZ UF ZE GRAFICS SO GOOOOD 10/10 $5 WELL SPENT AM AI RITE?I'm just pissed cause I bought the demo for $20 last week. Now everybody else is getting the deal of a lifetime.
lol
I really hope this was a price mistake or something, though.
If gamers pay for this shit, I'll stick to PC and last-gen stuff. -_-
GHG
Gold Member
Yep. The writing has been on the wall for a while. And where better to roll it out than with their pals and anti-consumer drm advocates Microsoft?
Unpresidented partnership indeed.
Caayn
Member
Okay, I laughed. I didn't expect those.
Why did I read it as "NBA Live demo is unbelievable". MasterCard.
probably is, they will most likely change the name from demo to "standard model" to avoid stigma
Yet somehow the dozens upon dozens of football demos over all the years have managed to stay free...until now.
$5 is $5 too much.
TrueGrime
Member
GHG
Gold Member
"Paid trail" would work better.
How long before there will be IAPs to unlock leagues and teams, etc? I hope we wont start seeing that shit till next gen, which is more than enough time for,me to find a new hobby.
Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck
Member
You are too naive, good ser. Who do you think is the real owner of EA?
PaulExcellent
Member
you know what your rite
i mean you can play all you want and its always diffrent
what mattrs is the exprience and the feeel of playing as you're favorte team
5 dollrs is nothing for the amount of countent that comes in the demo
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JoJo UK
Unconfirmed Member
I downloaded this less than a week ago for free and then deleted it about 48 hours after, when I get home I'll test to see if I can download again for free or I now have to pay.
EDIT: I'm on XB1
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Miles Quaritch
Member
The penny drops. To think that we actually believed EA were just following the market when they dropped online passes and wouldn't do something equally or as worse to replace them.
jediyoshi
Member
Do you just like putting words together because they resemble what a thought might look like
But you didn't really because you're actually under the impression this is deliberate
Doomshroom
Member
Fuck you EA and Fuck your Dragonage and fuck your Masseffect.
Miles Quaritch
Member
With it being EA, I can believe this is deliberate. I'd wager this is a test run to see how the community reacts. If there's a huge uproar, they'll claim it was a mistake. If it passes the day without many outlets railing against them, I wouldn't be surprised to see it become the norm by years end.
Basically, after Dungeon Keeper, I automatically believe the absolute worst in whatever EA does until there's significant evidence to the contrary.
Quadraphonic
Member
These aren't the kind of changes that happens when a server burps.
This is the kind of stuff a publisher needs to setup in something like an xlast file and send it over to Microsoft. And then MS has to approve it and set it.
Why would untouched demos that don't get server maintenance or ANYTHING get touched randomly on a Thursday night?
This has to have been planned.
Conflict NZ
Member
The only case where this would ever be OK would be like Dead Rising Case Zero, a "Demo" with a miniature scale of the game, tied into the story but content that doesn't appear in the main game and still manages to show off most of the features. For a section of the retail game, fuck off!
elementalsin
Member
While I don't in any way agree with what he said... We can no longer say with any certainty that early access games in any way GUARANTEE a 'final' game. We're simply guaranteed a 'game'.
Yeah someone must be causing shit... I've downloaded and played all of these for free...
Yup, pretty sure that's the case.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
It's a pricing error guys, I played the demo last week for free.
Though I really wouldn't put it past EA to pull this kind of bullshit.
Though I really wouldn't put it past EA to pull this kind of bullshit.
travisbickle
Member
But if you buy the demo, EA will give you $1.99 off the purchase of the digital full release.
thiscoldblack
Unconfirmed Member
Testing the waters, I see.
$1 demo access future incoming.
$1 demo access future incoming.
What if the free demo was the pricing error?
Ascenion
Member
Sad part is that there are people oblivious enough to believe that somehow saves them money. Guess EA doesn't want Comcast to win worse company in America without a fight next year.
Green Yoshi
Member
Price in Germany is 4,99 as well:
https://store.xbox.com/de-DE/xbox-one/games/Fifa14Demo/8c792db9-b3d7-4def-ace3-8ac5a7826cfd
https://store.xbox.com/de-DE/xbox-one/games/Fifa14Demo/8c792db9-b3d7-4def-ace3-8ac5a7826cfd
Miles Quaritch
Member
TrueGrime
Member
REMEMBER CITADEL
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If this turns out to be real... Well, I don't know what to say, that's beyond ridiculous. Demos are marketing tools, for Christ's sake.
If this was any other company, my first thought would be pricing error. But this is EA (remember this one? http://youtu.be/ZR6-u8OIJTE - and you thought it would get better after he left). The fact that the price was changed from free to $4.99 for two demos at the same time makes this look even more like a deliberate consumer experiment.
Heaven help us.
tokyostomp
Banned
Will be watching intently when they mis-price the full game at $4.99.
Make it happen EA!
Make it happen EA!
Doomshroom
Member
What are you people waiting for start telling everyone on twitter. (i dont have twitter)
Stripper13
Member
I'll be honest.
The most ridiculous thing about this whole situation is that I would not put this past either EA or Microsoft at this stage.
I hope it's a pricing error, but I don't doubt for a second that either one of these companies would test the waters on something like paid demo's.
The most ridiculous thing about this whole situation is that I would not put this past either EA or Microsoft at this stage.
I hope it's a pricing error, but I don't doubt for a second that either one of these companies would test the waters on something like paid demo's.
Messofanego
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