EA, Major Nelson, and gamer rape |
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The problem with headlines is that there's so much weirdness you want to talk about, but you have less than ten words to explain the bloody thing. To simplify the headline, we've cut out useless words, putting in only the main ideas for this story, as you can now see above.The tale of Electronic Arts is currently filled with a lot of weird bulldoody, to use the polite term. They've been offering a lot of microtransactions in their recent video game outings for the Xbox 360, and these have really turned the tide of gamers' opinion against them. From paying to unlock content in Tiger Woods, to football tutorial vids, to having to double-down for special items in The Godfather, and most recently with the Need for Speed: Carbon items, the microtransaction scheme has really hit the heart of gamers hard.
A post on Aeropause mentions that Xbox Community Editor "Trixie" said something on Major Nelson's NFS: Carbon post that summed up gamers' feelings: "Did you see the teenager who confessed to raping his mother? Either he's watched way too many French films, or he works for EA."
Of course, we can't confirm this anymore as the comment has apparently been deleted, but comments on Major Nelson's post haven't really stopped. The Major tells everyone in one of the comments,
It's still unclear to me: *IS* this content available on other platforms within the games? If so, then no..I am not happy about this. I need to do more digging on this, but I have sent off some rather terse emails to some folks to get to the bottom of this. I am also not happy about you guys not being happy.
Even if EA isn't doing as well as it'd like, and even if EA wants to continue making microtransactions, Microsoft has to be the one to approve it for dispersal on Live. We hope these emails are being sent to more than just EA, else Trixie had it right. Gamers are going to be stabbed right where it hurts the most: in their game-loving hearts.
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