EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B

Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B by Icyphox on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:10AM (#25417051)

Ooof. Micro-transactions in F1 2021, then.

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Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B by monkeydust on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:50AM (#25417443)

Its ok theres a cost cap coming in F1, they will have to respect that right :-/

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.the-2021-f1-cost-...

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Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B by gpderetta on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:01AM (#25419028)

The cap is set at $145M. I think that EA will be agree to enforce that limit for each user.

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Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B by swagonomixxx on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:13AM (#25419191)

This made me chuckle, but I'm now dismayed because I can totally see EA making this some internal KPI ($$$ ripped off per user) that they track the mean, standard deviation, and so on YoY.

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Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B by qz2 on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:13AM (#25417090)

Every time you turn left it costs you one corporate coin.

To get an engine you have to get the right loot box.

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Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B by optic_nerd on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:22AM (#25417169)

Micro-Machines-transactions

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Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B by vultour on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:44AM (#25418088)

How could you not enjoy unpacking drivers with randomised stats from a lootbox?!

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