EA Finds New Wat To Milk Money From Consumers

Stress Welker

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The freemium game industry just took a twist for the worse — although you can’t help but appreciate the ingenuity of developers in this particular case. EA has decided that players will need gas for their car races inside Need for Speed: No Limits, and the company will sell it to you via in-app purchases.

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Of course, there’s always the option of waiting for your tank to fill back up automatically, but that will not always coincide with your need for gaming, as that will take some time.

As Android Police reports, the game, which is available on iPhone and should be launched on Android in the future, requires a certain amount of gas for each race, meaning that some players may choose to pay for gas to be able to play the game at their own pace.

In other words, EA’s “No Limits” game is rather limited in terms of what you can do without in-app purchases.

As expected, there are multiple levels of currency in the game, the most precious one being gold that can be bought with actual money. And no, before you ask, there’s likely no correlation between the current price of oil and Need for Speed: No Limits‘ gas cost.

An image showing gas consumption as featured inside the game follows below.

https://games.yahoo.com/news/ea-com...509.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw
 

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Meh, most mobile games work like this already.

If it was a console game, that'd be crazy.
 

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I've always hated the wait mechanic in ios/android games. I tried to play that simpsons tapout game and fukk waiting two or three days for something to build. They gotta make money somehow though. That's the portable gaming world we live in.

Hands down the best implementation of free to play is plants vs zombies 2 and hearthstone. Both of which you can enjoy immensely without spending a dime.
 

Zebruh

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the new ace combat wants a word with you

And we see how popular and talked about that franchise is...:camby:

:to: I used to be a AC stan but fukk em if they did that.
but imagine what a next-gen Ace Combat would look like graphically :whew::whew::whew::whew::whew:
 
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