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EA got what it deserved + Star Wars Squadrons

5 years ago General

Just two small things to tell you good folks:

Star Wars Squadrons is a fun, awesome game and well worth the purchase and playing it. especially if you grew up with games like X-Wing vs Tie Fighter or X-Wing Alliance. its fun

but you're not here for that... you're here for the big one...

well... EA has been in the hot water in various countries who are going against EA's lootboxes due to the whole gambling thing... and well, once again the Netherlands, who are among the most aggressive in coming after EA for this, have now officially fined EA 10 million bucks for breaking gambling laws.

so, let's all sit back and enjoy this moment of EA's misery :)

17 Comments

JekidoSergal777 ~hellkiller777

Scared for the future...

5 years ago

*Will Smith voice* Ahhh Haha!

*points at video* Oh that's hot! That's hot!

Ovamiat ~ovamiat

Amazonian Dragoness

5 years ago

10 million is nothing to EA, unfortunately.

Stagish ~stagish

Writer, 3D Modeler, Reviewer

5 years ago

put that from Euro's to USD

Drayk ~drayk

Watcher

5 years ago

a sad truth yeah. That 10 Million is a Speck in the the sandbox compared to all the money they've made off these systems.

Ovamiat ~ovamiat

Amazonian Dragoness

5 years ago

Add a zero to that and you'd actually get to hear them complain.

Big companies can easily swallow a 10 million dollar/pound/Euro fine.

A 100 million dollar/pound/Euro fine? Not so much.

Drayk ~drayk

Watcher

5 years ago

even at 100 million, EA has made Several BILLION off of their lootboxes I believe over the years. I agree though it would certainly irritate them.

Ovamiat ~ovamiat

Amazonian Dragoness

5 years ago

100 million would make them complain, which would be good.

However, we'd all LOVE to hear them squeal from a 1 BILLION dollar/pound/Euro fine!
Not even Amazon would be able to handle a billion dollar/pound/Euro penalty without major complaints.

Drayk ~drayk

Watcher

5 years ago

not even 5 seconds in and Yong Yea's goofy ass fucking smile kills me XD
Aight aight aight.. time to watch the rest

Stagish ~stagish

Writer, 3D Modeler, Reviewer

5 years ago

YES, YES, YES

OmegaWolf9293 ~omegawolf9293

Watcher

5 years ago

Let's see how long they can get themselves back up before they reach bankruptcy.

Valsion ~valsion

5 years ago

All I can say to this is: Get fucked EA

cheery314 ~cheery314

5 years ago

if EA goes out of business, I hope Bioware survives somehow. They're making a new Mass Effect game!

AxleFurret ~axlefurret

Gay Ferrety Story Writer

5 years ago

Bwahahahaha!

Noice!

Now if only they fined them a BILLION it would actually hurt them.

$10 million is a nothing fine to them.

Likely what they will do is stop selling lootboxes in countries that ban it and will find other ways to nickel and dime players as they always have, unless they figure out the profit from lootboxes is higher than paying the fines as many companies have done before.

Tara_Swift_Claw ~taraswiftclaw

Watcher

5 years ago

thing is long as it stays in game and game is being sold there its constant violation so that could easly be 10 million a month or week or so on easly if they wanted till they make an update that removes the boxes or makes boxes paid for in game currency that can not be bought with real money.