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Apex Legends battle pass U-turn fails to stop Steam review bombing (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] BombOmOm 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Shoulda not done the shitty thing in the first place if you don't want people leaving bad reviews.

Edit: EA has done so many shitty things at this point I simply feel nothing whenever they advertise a game to me. So many better games out there for me to spend my time and money on.

[–] Phegan 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Good. We need to stop letting companies announce something aggreious and then pull back to something slightly shitty after "reflecting on community feedback"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

True.

But the change would have been an arguable improvement in terms of how psychologically exploitative battlepasses are, as it technically reduces sunk cost fallacy.

If you have to buy each battle pass, you won't feel as pressured to play through each one to keep the chain going. If you want to sit out a season, either to take a break or because the current pass doesn't have anything you want, doing so would no longer have meant you'd "lose" the pass after that one, because you'd have to buy it either way.

But to change to a "buy-every-season" model, the price should have been reduced accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

*egregious

[–] Phegan 2 points 5 months ago

Cool.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

It still has 200k people playing it. I do wonder how many of those people actually bought the battle pass and how many didn't.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago

Before, players could use Apex Coins to grab each new pass, earning enough from previous passes to fund their next purchase. The new system for the battle royale game would require real money transactions in addition to doubling how many battle passes would be released per season.

I don't play this kind of game and don't understand what the controversy is. What does a "battle pass" buy you? I guess they made it so people can't obtain it by just playing where before they could? Why is that something to be outraged about?