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Shadow Of War Microtransactions are now on death row

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This is what happens when you raise enough hell and vote with your own feet. Shadow Of War will be getting free updates, one of them involving the removal of microtransactions.

Please note that the above updates are free for all Shadow of War owners. The ability to purchase Gold will permanently cease on May 8, 2018. The permanent removal of Gold, War Chests and the Market will take place on July 17, 2018, at the same time as all other updates discussed above.

Honestly I’m a little surprised by this. I would have expected them to completely ride it out taking money in any way they could. The negative press must have had quite the impact on them if they’re removing their store entirely. This should be a lesson to other companies that plan on trying or are currently using similar tactics. This never should of happened in the first place, especially for a single player game for fucks sake.

If you have an Origin Account you might want to read this.

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Tons of account names and passwords were leaked to Pastebin according to this source.

At about 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, a gamer who has asked that his name be withheld, got a password reset notification for an old Skype account. A few moments later, there were five additional password reset requests from Dropbox.

Soon after, the gamer got an email from someone who spends their time sending notifications to people who have had PII exposed online in data dumps. The message, from “urhack.com” contained his EA password in plain text and a link to the Pastebin post.

I don’t have an Origin account myself, but have let my friends know on Steam about it via the status page. Now I’m posting it here just in case anyone reading this trips across it.

Comcast and EA join forces for the best worst thing ever

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They’ve partnered together to create a game streaming service called Xfinity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MdJxO3_fA0

Of course these games will easily eat through your shitty Comcast data cap. :v

Now maybe if they partnered with Time Warner Cable and Ubisoft we could have the four corporations of the apocalypse screwing everyone over under one roof.

EA wants microtransactions in all of their new releases.

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Get ready for EA to fail once more.

“The digital business is broken up into a couple of pieces, one is pure digital downloads of full games,” Jorgensen said during an investor conference call last Tuesday. “The next, and much bigger piece is microtransactions within games. So, to the extent that as [EA CTO Rajat Taneja] said, we’re building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way, either to get to a higher level, to buy a new character, to buy a truck, a gun; whatever it might be. And consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of the business.”

Most games with microtransactions are usually supported on the Free to play model, or have a supportive community and developer. Grab the popcorn folks! :popcorn: