Board Thread:Weekly discussions/@comment-18464102-20180706151054/@comment-36051859-20180712090858

Swaggy Shooter wrote: Supplicant wrote:

Eh this series' direction is getting worse due to EA. That's an understatement.

It seems clear that the series is not headed in a good direction right now. The consumers are unhappy, the general public is unhappy. Unhappy with EA and how they run their games, PvZ included. And it shows – the downloads for PvZ Heroes are much lower than the downloads for PvZ2 and PvZ1, and the player activity on Heroes is much lower than it used to be. And if that wasn't enough, people all over the Internet have said they just stopped playing the games entirely. The proliferation of ads on the games – presumably to act as a money source in the absence of players – seems to back up this point.

I really, really want to be optimistic about this game. Trust me, I really do. I really hope PvZ can do a 180° and become a good game again.

But unfortunately, the only one who has the power to turn PvZ around is EA. Only they are able to do what it takes to make PvZ a good game again. The question is: will they do it, or are they only concerned with micro-transactions, ads, and short-term profit? Do they even care?

Only the future knows. I really hope they learned something from the Star Wars: Battlefront II controversy, and realize just how f###ed up they are. But whether or not this is true, only the future holds the answer.

I really wish PvZ didn't meet such a terrible fate. But fate can be cruel. And in the hands of a corporation like EA, the prospect of a good PvZ game seems more distant than ever...