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EA Fired Developer Who Refused To Add Pay-To-Win Elements To His Game
With the recent controversy over lootboxes, microtransactions and pay-to-win mechanics in EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2, there has been an increased awareness among gamers and the community about how predatory these systems can be. EA has since then rolled back a lot of these elements, but one has to wonder if Star Wars: Battlefront 2 was just a simple miscalculation, or has EA been greedy all along, and this is them simply pulling back under massive pressure. Turns out EA had been pushing for pay-to-win elements in their games for a good long time now, and even firing developers who refused to comply to their demands. In a recent Round Table Live podcast, a game designer, Edmund McMillen, talked about how EA had pushed to add pay-to win systems in Plants Vs Zombies 2, and then fired...