A breakdown of recent sales numbers reveals that Switch accounted for just 1% of FIFA 18 sales.
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BY PHANTOM: Why should someone who has worked hard and grinded day in, day out to build up enough resources to gain quick repairs, be in the same game world as people who have purchased the kits with real-world money instantaneously?
One of the most well thought out and factual article I've read on micro transactions. I've hated the practice because to me it's just wrong unless it's a F2P title.
What gets me is the ones who say "if you don't like it don't buy it" well I don't but enough do, more than enough and it's really conditioning a generation to just accept it as "this is normal."
That's why I rally to those companies that still deliver solid FULL games. Games that are not only incredible to experience but are of some of the best quality. On the flip side that's why Im so anti certain companies. They want to deliver games that seem so sterile and cut content to sell to customers in the game stores.
I lump the GAAS, loot boxes and micotransactions into the same pile because they all exist together in one form or another.
The devs who came from the mobile game model really played s hand in getting the attention of the suits.
Microtransactions are the worst thing that has happened to video games this generation and because of them now games are being designed with them in mind.
Here’s the thing, until people stop buying them they will always exist. It’s a market and a multi-billion dollar one at that.
If people didn’t buy them then publishers wouldn’t waste their time on them.
Last year's Football/Soccer simulation, Fifa 18 has now joined the EA Access vault as a title that's free for those that subscribe to the EA service on Xbox One consoles.
Well it's got the smallest install base compared to Xbox and PlayStation so it's expected but 1%? Damn.
Also digital sales were not counted.
I still have the feeling that even with a larger install base, third parties will still have an issue selling their AAA games on the platform. Especially when its part of a franchise or genre that historically hasn't done well on Nintendo consoles.
The problem is, all fifa fans currently play it on PS or XBOX and have been for 10 years straight. That and as 2pacalypse said, the installed Base is small.
It debuted at number 7 in UK and that's pretty good. I think EA expects it only to sell 200K not 5M like it will on the other consoles.....
Games like Doom have a much better chance with Nintendo fans.
Still more then expected.. 😂