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yeah duncan i know what you are saying but, for me, this has been going on for several months, how long am i supposed to wait? Its been going on for longer than that for some of the diehard fans. What is the timeline here? Noone knows! Yeah there is a deadline to make the game profitable, that doesnt mean that all of this will be straightened out by then.
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You have a choice. If *you* want to play on a free account and accept the limitations that go along with it, you certainly may.....but there are others who are paying their monthly fees for the extra benefits, and taking the bad along with the good and we WANT to support EA, not because *this* product is necessarily worth $10 a month, but because we believe that the money we pay now is ensuring that in 6 months we'll still have a game to play, a game that will be WELL worth $10 a month, if not more.
This game won't survive without revenue and what you are suggesting would kill it. Do people not understand that the plug would have already been pulled if Luc had not stepped in and become our saving grace? He was given a timeline to make this game work, and to put it into profitable margins. You're suggesting the opposite....not more money for EA, less. I hope by now you can see your idea is logical and beneficial from the consumer's point of view, but not from a business standpoint.....not with the ultimatum that the team has now. We need people that will weather the storm and take the good with the bad, or none of us have a chance of even having this game to play one day a week, so when you think about it even being down for a solid 24 hours in a 7 day period isn't so terrible as not being able to log in ever again.