Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-27053902-20180322222054/@comment-24275721-20180409112520

Lily8763cp wrote: BonkyChoiSE wrote: Creepes wrote: Get ready for some really long talking time here...

In my opinion, Battlez and the new update is garbage, just like Toadstool (and don't you dare object! Toadstool is the plant that makes you send money to greedy EA after you discover Chomper is bad in your opinion). It puts you in games against high level showoffs and you get easily crushed if you're not careful. They're currently releasing new mint plants, but they're only bought with their own stupid currency and are Battlez exclusive. Powering up plants isn't very good of an ability anyway. Next up, some really garbage news for you all: EA will never bring back the EPIC QUESTS TO EARN PLANTS! You know why? They want you to BUY the plants so they become money carried! Ever since EA bought PopCap, there are all sorts of in game purchases! They have the freaking PINATA TRACKERS for people who just got wrecked in Battlez just to earn more seed packets! And speaking of seed packets, MORE GEM BUYING because you can't buy the PINATAS WITH REAL MONEY! And after you pretty much empty your wallet, the new updates will come rolling in, and you'll become a greedy scamp, asking people for money just so you can have the best. Freaking. IN GAME EXPERIENCE!! Let's be realistic. EA being the problem is almost always as anytime a small game industry grows and makes relevant, they buy it and then use the EA treaty which is: "A full game must cost at least 50$ more than the original, vanilla price and as much as possible". The worst part? They are literally the Kings of the West and Center in the gaming camp at the same time being the most controversy gaming industry in the last decade. They are the single reason of why I main Nintendo consoles, they release ALL theyr titles in Sony's softwares, then releasing a few titles in PC, at the point of around half the catalogue being from this cancerous industry. I don't think EA is the problem, they just approve the games. Everything Popcap does is their choice.

However, seeing what happened with Star Wars Battlefront 2, it could be their fault, but then again, I am unsure what company was behind that mess of a game. Actually a publisher has full control over the games they publish but it's upto the publishers themselves to decide whether to interfere or not or just interfere slightly. Sadly, EA has a habit and a history og messing heavily with games they align with. In this case, I don't know exactly how much of their influence has infected PvZ 2 but the monetisation model has EA written all over it.