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You can play Plants Vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville starting TODAY (Founder's Edition, $30/€30 for Early Access on PC, Xbox One and PS4)
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I played a ton of the previous two on PC and never had problems finding matches. They are dead now but I imagine the console versions are as well.
So If I buy the founders edition now, do I get access to the full game at launch? Or do I have to pay extra for it?
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Yup! Just logged in on PC and on the store it just had the "Add to library" button and said it was included with the subscription.
GW1 and 2 were very fair with microtransactions so will give this one the benefit of the doubt as well.
Oh wow I'm so excited. Definitely getting this today. What an interesting approach, there doesn't seem to be any real 'downside' to getting it now aside from you're essentially beta-testing it. But considering you don't pay any more for the full release...
A very convoluted but interesting approach by EA here with the early access roll out. I assume after the alpha the team felt things needed more time which is why we have this approach.
I adored GW2, very excited to get on this tonight with some friends!
I adored GW2, very excited to get on this tonight with some friends!
Actually had nda'd alphas for it recently and it was pretty damn good.
Oh fuck off EA with your hub-worlds/zones/etc.
This shit is only in these kind of games to show off your newly bought skins so that little billy can be laughed at by his friends that he can't pay for the new skin his friends already have. They even talked about it in the trailer.
Show off to your friends...
Fuck off EA.
This shit is only in these kind of games to show off your newly bought skins so that little billy can be laughed at by his friends that he can't pay for the new skin his friends already have. They even talked about it in the trailer.
Show off to your friends...
Fuck off EA.
They fucking did it again. PC players don't get local multiplayer or co op.
I fucking wrote them about this with PvZ2 I'm legitimately irritated right now.
I fucking wrote them about this with PvZ2 I'm legitimately irritated right now.
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The HUB zones are used to enter in the open world sp missions, PvP and PvE.
I wonder how games without hub-worlds are dealing with this problem.
I might actually grab this on ps4 (since I am doing all other FPS on pc). The first 2 were so much fun and very easy to play casually.
Sit in boring and lifeless menus? Everyone wants to get away from those. :) An ingame hub makes people relate much more to the in-game worlds and their characters.
I still dont really understand this. I played quite a bit of the last two games and I dont remember ever feeling the need to drop money on anything. Unlocking in game currency to unlock characters happened pretty quickly. The shittiest thing that bothered me was the random nature of it all. You could unlock a new character after only 2-3 matches but you couldnt pick WHICH character you would unlock.
Me too. UBI needs to learn from Origin 100 dollar a year premiere tier.
Are people just making stuff up now?
The last two games I barely noticed microtransactions were there
That's one way to look at it. I like clicking few buttons in a menu to get into a game instead of loading into a world, running around for half a minute, and only then being able to do the few button clicks and actually get into a game properly. Menus are glorious in their effectiveness, running in a hub that usually does nothing except present flashy buttons to do the menu things is annoying.
I suppose it matters whether the game is mostly multiplayer or mostly singleplayer. I don't mind the hubs in for example Monster Hunter World, but in games like Call of Duty (WW2) and PVZ I would much prefer the simple approach of everything being available in menus.
Yeap, but when done right, and the game features support interesting things, it can be incredible.
Take Stormwind or Orgrimmar in WoW, for example, they effectively are hubs, but built amazingly to support most / all game features. :)
Yeah, same, they were unobtrusive and unnecessary, didn't bother me in the slightest.
Out now and for $30 no less? Hell yeah. I dumped a ton of time into GW2 and have been looking forward to the next one for years. GW games are a really positive, well-made, and fun shooter.
I didn't find the micro transactions too obtrusive in GW2 though there were a tooooon of classes and customizations to unlock. The grind never felt in any way mandatory, but I do have some concerns that it could tilt a bit further into an obtrusive and not-fun situation in the sequel.
I didn't find the micro transactions too obtrusive in GW2 though there were a tooooon of classes and customizations to unlock. The grind never felt in any way mandatory, but I do have some concerns that it could tilt a bit further into an obtrusive and not-fun situation in the sequel.
Studio is trying new approach. Getting the game out early in a scaled back state to the hard core fan base to start getting invaluable feedback from their community as they continue to build on other modes and features for when the game launches in full.
Dang it looks so good visually, and finally split screen in every mode is a MAJOR sell for me. Just a bit sad there's no Switch version.
