fluffydelusions
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EA is going to say it's an error but they are really testing the waters to see if they can get away with it lol
These are very complicated systems comprised of tons of code and with tons of different people working on them. Anything could have happened.
Besides, if the price were set to $60 or $100, this wouldn't even have been a story. We're only hearing about it because the price happened to be set so low.
so complicated that Fifa and UFC got the exact same price for their demos..?
Demos never were and never will be free. It cost to the editor to put it out there.
Interesting fact: there was a study (or a press article) that showed that publishing a demo wasn't healthy for the commercial success of a game. I am looking for the source.
Yes, there could be a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the prices were set that way. Something besides "We're gonna start charging people for demos now!". I don't know, but I think it's awfully presumptuous that some of you pretend to know that it must have been on purpose.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=xbox+live+demos+hurt+sales
Not that I think that's what this is about, though.
These are very complicated systems comprised of tons of code and with tons of different people working on them. Anything could have happened.
Besides, if the price were set to $60 or $100, this wouldn't even have been a story. We're only hearing about it because the price happened to be set so low.
Kojima started it. You guys backed it. Now see what happens.
If it's an error then you would expect a certain degree of randomness to be involved OR the pricing is from something else related to the game but got associated with the demo by accident.
If there isn't anything else for $4.99 then we can only assume it's a random figure that's been accidentally associated with the product, but what are the chances a random figure would be $4.99? If it had been $3.72 or $2.93 then perhaps there's a case for the 'random accident' idea.
It's too specific. It was a test.
You're making a boatload of assumptions here regarding a system about which you know nothing.
''Pricing error''.What mades the whole thing somewhat suspicious is that it wasn't just the US. They priced those demos 4.99 in Germany, and £3.99 in the UK.
So where does the specific price of $4.99 come from? You can either just turn away from a conundrum like this or you can engage in speculation. I choose to engage with the problem. I do realise it's much easier to turn away and simply say 'no idea' but I have never been like that and never will be like that.
The price had to have been generated some way and unless EA specifically explain how the price of $4.99 was accidentally generated, I will always favour the 'test' theory as the most likely answer.
Ground Zeroes had more gameplay than most AAA games thesedays.
I went to download the fifa demo on my xbone and it's showing as $4.99. Price error or EA at their finest?
It's just to soften the minds and get people addicted. It's an evil spiral.
DLC, F2P, mobile genericness, always on-line etc are terrible things in the long run. Personally, I'm mostly pissed at how that stuff destroys the game's integrity. All this stuff won't work sooner than people think because of dead servers, copyright issues etc. What I loved about console games was that you bought a self-contained package, which forced the devs to make sure the games are tight and worth the investment (although it wasn't always the case, the overall amount of bugs and stupid design choices was much smaller). Moore can have his growing market, but just stay away from traditional gaming, not fucking destroy it just to have a sea of shovelware and DLC flooding us.
take the iOS apple submission store, pricing is just a checkbox menu, and the $0.99 option is just below the free option. Checking the $0.99 automatically applies it to all the countries you sell your app in in that regions adjusted price.What made the whole thing somewhat suspicious is that it wasn't just the US. They priced those demos 4.99 in Germany, and £3.99 in the UK.
Wow EA. You have to pay for the UFC demo too.
EA is going to say it's an error but they are really testing the waters to see if they can get away with it lol
It obviously wasn't an error.What made the whole thing somewhat suspicious is that it wasn't just the US. They priced those demos 4.99 in Germany, and £3.99 in the UK.
Just an fyi the FIFA demo was free on PS4 as of last week. Wonder why the disparity?
Edited to add on PS4. A very important detail
Would not surprise me one bit if it does turn out to be EA standard 10 years from now to charge for demos. "Demos cost money to make"!
Perhaps because they realise that the PS4 full game is going to sell around twice as much as the Xbox One game. I guess they're trying to claw as much back from the Demo in attempt to mitigate losses on the Xbox One SKU.
If Microsoft don't do something to stop the Xbox One flopping you may see the Xbox One losing third party support soon.
Perhaps because they realise that the PS4 full game is going to sell around twice as much as the Xbox One game. I guess they're trying to claw as much back from the Demo in attempt to mitigate losses on the Xbox One SKU.
If Microsoft don't do something to stop the Xbox One flopping you may see the Xbox One losing third party support soon.
If Microsoft don't do something to stop the Xbox One flopping you may see the Xbox One losing third party support soon.
take the iOS apple submission store, pricing is just a checkbox menu, and the $0.99 option is just below the free option. Checking the $0.99 automatically applies it to all the countries you sell your app in in that regions adjusted price.
All it could be is just someone who accidentally clicked the price instead of free when updating the system.
Some of you are really going into the deep end in this conspiracy.
Sony always did that 'Prologue' shit for the GT games.Why do you blame EA? Isn't it MGS that pioneered this type of thing?
They'll stop it if no one plays their demo. Gamers have to take a stand against this crap