with micro purchases such as buying gas for your car. Jeez what is next?
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EA comes up with an ingeniously sleazy new way to milk money from gamers
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EA comes up with an ingeniously sleazy new way to milk money from gamers
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EA comes up with an ingeniously sleazy new way to milk money from gamers
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.
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Why? If someone is that :ping stupid, so what? They deserve to lose their money. You know, there was a time we used to put in a quarter into a machine to play a game with a limited amount of lives and when we used them all up we had to put in another quarter if we wanted to continue playing.Losbot wrote:F'in thieves.
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Electricity used to charge batteries isn't free either.Pugsley wrote:Well then I will just use a Tesla and never have to buy gas!
The charging for gas idea isn't really all that much different than paying to have certain maps, levels opened up (or unlocked) in many other games. Depends on what they charge you for gas as to whether it'll be worthwhile to those who might want to try it.
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I own several such games... but I get to keep the quarters in the end!psypher wrote: You know, there was a time we used to put in a quarter into a machine to play a game with a limited amount of lives and when we used them all up we had to put in another quarter if we wanted to continue playing.
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