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EA UFC 3’s Ultimate Team Beta is Built on Pay-to-Win Loot Boxes

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EA UFC 3's premier multiplayer mode Ultimate Team is shaping up to completely revolve around its pay-to-win microtransactions, with the publisher seemingly set to wade into yet another controversy regarding its use of microtransactions.

Ultimate Team is a game type that EA uses across many of its various sports franchises, with it tasking players with building a team using cards that represent their real-world counterparts. While there has always been an element of paying real cash to get better players in these modes, with them being tucked inside randomized packs akin to loot boxes, they've typically remained thoroughly playable regardless of whether or not you've invested cash into them. UFC 3 changes that, making the game mode so reliant upon opening packs that, judging from its closed beta, it's incredibly difficult to imagine players being able to succeed in it without spending money.
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UFC 3 changes this by making each of the five fighters in your team fully upgradeable solely using loot boxes, which are purchased using either its in-game currency or, you guessed it, with real money. While Star Wars Battlefront 2's loot boxes were particularly pernicious and gave players distinct advantages for forking out more cash, in UFC 3 a player can essentially make themselves untouchable by spending an exponential amount of money on the mode, equipping their fighters with abilities that dramatically increase their stats and afford them new abilities.
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Though this is only UFC 3's closed beta, its Ultimate Team mode is built from the ground up to revolve around obtaining cards which can only be "earned" in its loot box-esque card packs. Without these cards fighters are left completely useless, and obtaining better ones can transform your team into a gang of amateurs to an undefeated mob of hard-hitters. If this is the way EA intends to implement this system in the final release of UFC 3, then it looks set to be the most egregious example of microtransactions in a retail release yet.
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Source: http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/358249-ea-ufc-3-multiplayer-built-pay-win-loot-boxes

Uh oh, here we go again. It's in BETA, so it might change around a bit.

Keep an eye here for the potential incoming wall of feedback

https://www.reddit.com/r/EASportsUFC/comments/7gmr6g/ea_sports_ufc_3_the_single_most_egregious/

https://www.reddit.com/r/EASportsUFC/comments/7gojzo/pay_to_win_money_grab_game_is_broken/

Influenced by this article

Ultimately, UFC 3 feels like an embarrassing step back for EA Sports as nearly every mechanic has been subject to alteration so that microtransactions can slide in. In lieu of recent controversy surrounding EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2, one can only hope that the MMA gaming community rallies their efforts in a similar fashion to change UFC 3 for the better.

I was excited for the beta and considered UFC 3 to be an obvious purchase for any die-hard MMA fan. After having played for only a few hours however, I can safely say that UFC 3 is not worth the price of admission, let alone the considerable amount more that players will need to spend to be competitive online.
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https://www.astutegaming.com/single-post/EASPORTSUFC3BETA
 
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FIFA has been this way for the last 5 years! How is this shocking anyone?!?
 
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"Hey gamers, you wanna be a fuckin fighter? You wanna be like Conor Mcgregor? Well spend money like him, ya fuckin' goofs." -Dana White
 
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An Ultimate Team mode with Pay-to-win?

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This has nothing to do with EA, I'm sure Dana White was meddling with the game. EA wanted to do cosmetics only, but it would've messed up the UFC lore.
 

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Oh right, people will probably kick up a big fuss about this now and say how terrible it is, despite noone caring for the last however many years about Fifa and Madden lol. Outrage of the month in full effect. When can we move on to the next outrage and forget about lootboxes?
 
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I didn't spend too much time in UFC 2's ultimate team. However, from the way I remember it being setup, this seems like an extremely easy monetization move they made.
 
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TehPotentialz said:
Oh right, people will probably kick up a big fuss about this now and say how terrible it is, despite noone caring for the last however many years about Fifa and Madden lol. Outrage of the month in full effect. When can we move on to the next outrage and forget about lootboxes?
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When the industry forget about lootbox and don't put them in games.
 
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TehPotentialz said:
Oh right, people will probably kick up a big fuss about this now and say how terrible it is, despite noone caring for the last however many years about Fifa and Madden lol. Outrage of the month in full effect. When can we move on to the next outrage and forget about lootboxes?
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Not everyone plays EA sports games, and you could re-read the OP you know. Things can exist in a series but get "worse" in a newer iteration

If this is the way EA intends to implement this system in the final release of UFC 3, then it looks set to be the most egregious example of microtransactions in a retail release yet.
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Obviously writer opinion, but this is a closed beta so it's probably mostly MMA fans and UFC fans playing right now. Maybe the system is much worse than UFC 2? If that's the case then why wouldn't you expect UFC fans to dish EA some criticism for making the game system "worse"?

They managed it with BF2 vs BF1.
 
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Gotta stay true to the UFC canon. Steroids aren't free.

TehPotentialz said:
Oh right, people will probably kick up a big fuss about this now and say how terrible it is, despite noone caring for the last however many years about Fifa and Madden lol. Outrage of the month in full effect. When can we move on to the next outrage and forget about lootboxes?
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Feel free to disengage at any time.
 

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The "Ultimate Team" concept has been entirely built on this for as long as it existed in every EA Sports game it appears.

No surprises here.
 
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Did the old thread get closed?

Search function, people.

If what your OP is based on is over 3 hours old, you bet your butt it has a thread.
 
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That Astute Gaming article you source is absolute trash. This is no different to how Ultimate Team has worked in a number of games for a number of years.

Also there was already a thread on this.
 

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As a long time UFC 1 and 2 player I must say that you actually can compete without spending any money. I have almost one thousand cards in my collection and have not spent a dime. Got them through playing game.
 
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Gamer @ Heart said:
Did the old thread get closed?

Search function, people.

If what your OP is based on is over 3 hours old, you bet your butt it has a thread.
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You can't search UFC, not enough characters.

"Ultimate" only brought up this from days ago

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Sorry if it's a dupe but if it's not on the first page and if awkward to search it's not always findable.
 
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