EA business model

DJONES13 said:

Secret EA employee!!! 🤣😅

I think EA is unprofessional in a lot of ways as it applies to Madden...I just don't think them wanting to make money is one of them.

As for your comment about "buying the game", I guess I just see the Ultimate Team game mode as a separate product.

The game purchase covers the game, you can play regs and franchise all you want without spending on MUT.  

Expecting freebies from a business whose goal is to make money is crazy...and you shouldn't be angry at a company for trying to do so.  If you don't like the product, don't support them.

But why does any of this matter? Last week you hate the game and this week you're defending it. Everybody knows it's a business, that doesn't mean people have to like it. And UT isn't a separate product, it's part of Madden. You can't play UT without buying Madden itself so you have to buy the game regardless.

My first time playing mut was 2016 when it had journey solos, gauntlets and rewards at the end of solos that were players you could add to any team. Sets rewarded the player with the champion and all players back and still auctionable. Not its bnd and solos don't reward anything to help your team with. Nms complaints are valid when ea was still making money in 2016 even then.

MaddenIsTerrible said:

But why does any of this matter? Last week you hate the game and this week you're defending it. Everybody knows it's a business, that doesn't mean people have to like it. And UT isn't a separate product, it's part of Madden. You can't play UT without buying Madden itself so you have to buy the game regardless.

I love Madden.  Expressing concerns about the prevalence and acceptance of glitches/exploits is much different than hating the game.

But correct, you don't have to like businesses trying to make money...that's just how the world works.

It's kind of like someone buying a base model car and then complaining it is not fully loaded.  Or buying a house and then complaining that you have to buy the furniture and appliances.

You can play all the regs and franchise you want for your game purchase.  If you don't like the MUT game mode or business model then don't play it.

DJONES13 said:

I love Madden.  Expressing concerns about the prevalence and acceptance of glitches/exploits is much different than hating the game.

But correct, you don't have to like businesses trying to make money...that's just how the world works.

It's kind of like someone buying a base model car and then complaining it is not fully loaded.  Or buying a house and then complaining that you have to buy the furniture and appliances.

You can play all the regs and franchise you want for your game purchase.  If you don't like the MUT game mode or business model then don't play it.

If everyone who voiced their complaint about MUT stopped playing the mode right now, would it improve the game for you? 

I see your point but we’re trying to make this a better product, but EA’s business model is clearly working. Put out a shitty product, lock game changing content behind a pay/time wall, and it’ll sell while the community fights itself.

DJONES13 said:

I love Madden.  Expressing concerns about the prevalence and acceptance of glitches/exploits is much different than hating the game.

But correct, you don't have to like businesses trying to make money...that's just how the world works.

It's kind of like someone buying a base model car and then complaining it is not fully loaded.  Or buying a house and then complaining that you have to buy the furniture and appliances.

You can play all the regs and franchise you want for your game purchase.  If you don't like the MUT game mode or business model then don't play it.

True but people are also allowed to complain while playing the game. I've been playing MUT since Madden 16 and i watched you in the MCS and everything so i've been playing a long time. Greed has ruined the game.

we could go back to playing only team roster vs roster but every one wants the customizable roster. Ea gave people what they wanted but at a price

HauteAndFresh said:

we could go back to playing only team roster vs roster but every one wants the customizable roster. Ea gave people what they wanted but at a price

so why not make it a separate product then? 

please don’t reply  saying i paid 70 dollars for the opportunity to play MUT.

Extra content sales as you put is often referred to as live service revenue and yes it now represents the majority chunk of EAs revenue every year. It is an extremely successful model when it comes to money.

This distinction is between normal revenue streams like game sales and things like in game content purchases. Micro transactions isn’t accurate. There’s nothing micro about $100 bundles.

Gaming companies used to rely on just game sales and that meant a lot of Peaks and valleys. Not an ideal scenario. Now they can keep a much larger revenue stream coming in all year. They can also do things like pick and choose a date they want to boost revenues at certain points in the fiscal calendar.

This model of game development requires more time, more money and more people. So basically we want more and better content than we have to pay for it. No the executives are not going to sacrifice their bonus to provide that content.

If we a had the ideal game from the ideal company in game purchases would more than likely be just as rampant and impact the users experience just as much. I’m not giving them a pass. I’m pissed about the state of our game.

I don’t mean the things like the set glitch. That is minimally important by comparison. I know many feel like some people got something extra and that they will suffer as a result but the reality is that the glitch didn’t happen in a vacuum. I choose not to participate in those types of things but I still benefited by selling cards to those people all day. Food for thought. I broke up my post into two parts. There should be a post with the rest right below.