“EA Sports College Football 25 sold 2.2m $100 copies with early access, which offered access to the game three days ahead of launch” — wow pretty expensive 3 days imo.
“EA Sports College Football 25 sold 2.2m $100 copies with early access, which offered access to the game three days ahead of launch” — wow pretty expensive 3 days imo.
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Isn’t this game basically Madden?
What was the release price? Anyway 100$ for early access seems excessive to me as well. It must have had an extreme hype!
I feel like people who are into “video games” are surprised but if you look at stats.
Sports games are Always rated extremely high on all sales charts and they’re consistent too- year after year.
So this isn’t surprising.
Its just easy money.
Just like in FIFA you pay 60 bucks (or more!?) for the same game on the same green with different names. In this case, its names nobody knows yet -.- kinda weird.
Sports gamers just love being bent over and fucked. It must be some kind of fetish for them.
I bought it, never used the early access.
The question is: did people only paid more for 3 days early access ?
It’s in the « deluxe edition » and I really doubt it was the only thing offered in it ?
I’m European so not familiar with Madden and this game at all but I think the correlation here is a little fallacious, surely it played a role but there’s more than just EA
Maybe expensive to you but to others it won’t be.
It’s not ahead of launch. It’s launch. The game is ready and the game is out. You are being asked to pay extra to play the game when it’s out, or are not allowed to play it until they decide you can for less money.
I love peoples hate on a lot of video game companies depends on hypocrisy and blatant lies mostly.
Did EA sports titles have Standard, Premium, Deluxe etc. packages?
Yes, they did.
Did EA sports titles that have those editions had Early Access before? Even tho they had these editions for over a decade?
No, they did not.
Adding Early Access to these editions that ALREADY EXISTED for almost 2 decade hurts who?
Gamers being gamers again, nothing to see here.
Couple of days of early access hurts nobody, but it is extra perk for people who bought those expensive packages and didn’t have the option before.
If people willingly give their money to these con artists, they’re gonna keep being con artists.
Idiots.
People are stupid and are fully responsible of the downfall of this industry.
You will end up paying a weekly fee to play games and it will be because of acoustic regards like those 2,2 million imbeciles.
They are mentally challenged and I am tired of pretending they are not.
Stockholders fucked gaming.
Good. They can make money off this and keep funding aaa single player games
I’m confused because the article says 2.2 million “gained access” to Early Access and then mentioned 600,000 used EA play. So, they incorrectly state you needed the 100 dollar version to play early before immediately telling you about the people getting early access through EA play(which is also a part of GamePass).
To make matters worse, they source an IGN article that already got raked over the coals the other day for how terribly inaccurate it was.
This is just bad “journalism” with a clickbait headline.