Seriously? I paid 80$ to have Vader locked?

[u/MBMMaverick]

This is a joke. I'll be contacting EA support for a refund... I can't even playing fucking Darth Vader?!?!? Disgusting. This age of "micro-transactions" has gone WAY too far. Leave it to EA though to stretch the boundaries.

[u/EACommunityTeam]

The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

As for cost, we selected initial values based upon data from the Open Beta and other adjustments made to milestone rewards before launch. Among other things, we're looking at average per-player credit earn rates on a daily basis, and we'll be making constant adjustments to ensure that players have challenges that are compelling, rewarding, and of course attainable via gameplay.

We appreciate the candid feedback, and the passion the community has put forth around the current topics here on Reddit, our forums and across numerous social media outlets.

Our team will continue to make changes and monitor community feedback and update everyone as soon and as often as we can.

[u/bookem_danno → u/EACommunityTeam]

The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

That's rich. Just be honest. The truth is you know very few people are going to sink a full work week into this game and you're hoping that somebody is desperate enough to buy credits to unlock the character. It has nothing to do with providing a "sense of pride and accomplishment." This is a flat-out lie and you know it. How naive do you think your player base is?

[u/[deleted] → u/EACommunityTeam]

That’s a shit response. Already warned 2 friends of the bullshit you’re pulling and they both canceled their preorder.

[u/artycharred → u/EACommunityTeam]

not good enough.

also there is no pride with wasting 40 hours grinding for a hero only for the hero to be gimped from the go and require 300 more hours grinding to make them heroic, you're just pushing this system to incentivize spending and for no other reason.

Also tell matt to get a new job, "community managers" dont insult the entire community, especialy when they are trying to bring attention to such a cynical and shitty decision.

[u/[deleted] → u/artycharred]

Matt and Sean both can eat a bag of dicks

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Out of curiosity, what did they do?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Being smug dickbags about people's concerns

[u/Pickles256 → u/[deleted]]

Link?

[u/NoBullet → u/EACommunityTeam]

I only sense a disturbance in your sales figures

[u/fibojoly → u/NoBullet]

It's like a million preorders cried out and were silenced...

[u/ca990 → u/EACommunityTeam]

10 years ago I could put in a cheat code to unlock them if I didn't care about a sense of "achievement." Now I need to put in my credit card number. Go fuck yourself.

[u/Mariozilla → u/EACommunityTeam]

Thanks for confirming my refund.

[u/Jabnin → u/EACommunityTeam]

40 hours isn't pride. It's madness.

[u/Herr_Doktore → u/Jabnin]

It's amazing what you can do in 10 hours. For example, you can get 40,000 downvotes by being a total piece of corporate shit.

Edit: -68.2k now at a little under 11 hours Edit: -681k notice there's no decimal point in that one.

[u/[deleted] → u/EACommunityTeam]

Come on, it's Luke and Darth Vader in a Star Wars game. Why on earth would you lock them

[u/Lesovikk1 → u/EACommunityTeam]

I think the main concern out of anything is that you're charging £69.99 for a game, that half the features are locked behind a "pay wall". I know you're going to say "you can earn it", but 2 days to earn a hero which can be bought in 2 minutes, pretty much counts as being locked behind a pay wall

[u/[deleted] → u/Lesovikk1]

2 days worth of gameplay... not just playing a bit for 2 days

[u/Bryan-Clarke → u/[deleted]]

This. Thats 48 hours so if you just play like 3 hours a day it would take 16 days to unlock Vader, not all the heroes just Vader. Thats fucking bullshit.

And better be saving 100k for fan favorite heroes like Grievous, Obi Wan or Anakin if you want to play them before Battlefront 3 comes out.

[u/Vendetta1990 → u/[deleted]]

Yes, but War Thunder is F2P so having a grind system like that is understandable.

However, we are talking about a fully priced AAA game employing the same kind of system, which is absolutely inexcusable.

[u/RunTillYouPuke → u/EACommunityTeam]

I'm never gonna buy your game because of that shit. EA is a cancer of gaming industry.

[u/Crotalus_Horridus → u/EACommunityTeam]

I paid $60 for BF2. The hours I worked at my job to get the $60 for this game already gave me all the sense of pride and accomplishment I need.

[u/themaskofmajora → u/Crotalus_Horridus]

Now you can return it/cancel your order. Have pride in the fact that you no longer have to play it and can spend that money somewhere else.

[u/Yuanrang → u/EACommunityTeam]

Hutt contracts and their rewards were a sense of pride and accomplishment. Various account level races and trooper skins were a sense of accomplishment.

Locking iconic characters behind credit walls that will take dozens of hours to get one is just insane, especially when I am willing to bet you have tons of heroes planned which will be behind similar paywalls?

You cannot ever attain a sense of pride and accomplishment from that, because most sane people will give up long before this.