{"id":41121,"date":"2017-11-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=41121"},"modified":"2017-11-28T02:38:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T07:38:29","slug":"the-untold-history-of-eas-long-and-rich-pay-2-win-love-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=41121","title":{"rendered":"The Untold History of EA&#8217;s Long (and Rich) Pay-2-Win Love Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter someone linked me to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PTLFNlu2N_M\">this video<\/a>, which tells the history of EA&#8217;s pay-to-win shenanigans. It&#8217;s a really good video. I know a lot of you don&#8217;t come here for video content and tend to skip this sort of thing, but if you get the chance I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PTLFNlu2N_M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PTLFNlu2N_M'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I intended to make a column about this story, but I didn&#8217;t have quite enough time to make that happen. <\/p>\n<p>This video really makes me wish I&#8217;d spent more time reading EA earnings reports. They&#8217;re publicly available, and if you&#8217;re willing to sift through the filler and jargon you can learn a lot from them. I read a little a few years ago back when Peter Moore was still running the show. They&#8217;re not a lot of fun to read, but given the amount of time I spend slagging the EA leadership I should probably pay more attention to the financial end of the operation. <\/p>\n<p>Sorry to leave you with nothing but a YouTube embed for the column this week. Two of my three kids are moving out today (we&#8217;ll be driving them to the bus station when this post goes live) and I spent some of my column-writing time playing <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/252610\/Death_Road_to_Canada\/\">Death Road to Canada<\/a> with the oldest before she leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this an open thread for discussing the video. EA, pay-to-win, loot boxes, the gambling controversy, the quality of their games, etc. Also, if you&#8217;re a fan of the FIFA games I&#8217;d love to hear what you think of the loot box implementation used there.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to add my thoughts to this next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter someone linked me to this video, which tells the history of EA&#8217;s pay-to-win shenanigans. It&#8217;s a really good video. I know a lot of you don&#8217;t come here for video content and tend to skip this sort of thing, but if you get the chance I highly recommend it. Link (YouTube) I intended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}