#youarenotacow

[goblinhorde]

View this post on Instagram

Raph is helping me mow the backyard. #raphandfriends #raphael #youarenotacow #whatareyoudoing

[livefromthearcade-blog]

Thought & Opinions – #Rant #FIFA15 #Youarenotacow

Call of Duty look like it's finally been supplanted as the yearly franchise everyone needs to hate on, mostly by the new one being filed under a big fat 'meh' by most people.

No, it's time to take on the real evil, the truly top level genius evil, that appears yearly to the sound of 'ker-ching!' and EA executives giving each other 'handshakes' over a job well done.

I'm talking of course about FIFA15.

A game so devoid of actual gameplay improvements they've had to start coming up with ridiculous things. Like the players getting emotional.

Seriously? That's your big sell? The players get visibly annoyed if they get fouled or really happy when they score. Didn't they do the second one anyway, you know with the celebrations that go on for far too long?

And if they're annoyed, do they play any worse? Well, no silly that would affect the game balance.

Riiiight. So basically, you've added some vaguely reactive animations that functionally, do nothing?

Oh and the goal keepers are apparently 'less shit' than they were last year.

And you want me to spend £50 on this?

Just so all the progress I made with my ultimate team can be reset?

Just so all the people with more money then sense can fork over another insane sum of cash to buy Messi, rather than having to play approximately a billion games in order to acquire him legitimately.

Just so we can line EA's pockets with more gold...

It's a really sorry state of affairs when consumers are too stupid to notice they're being shafted on a yearly basis, twice this year actually, with the addition of the special World Cup edition.

Or there's an even worse and perhaps more likely scenario, where they know they're being drained for cash but buy the damn thing regardless.

That's the prevailing attitude I get from people I know, who wouldn't label themselves as 'hardcore gamers'. The average man on the street cares not a jot for the politics of the gaming industry, it's simply: 'That time of the year when I buy the next FIFA game, maybe I'll take a day off and ignore my wife/girlfriend...'

I almost find it sickening. There must be a better way than this? Surely?

The irony is that the FIFA games are pretty good; if you want to play virtual football, there's none better.

It's just that the copy of FIFA11 I picked up for 49 whole pence serves just as well as the brand new version that costs 100 times the price...

I don't hate FIFA, I simply hate what it represents: an industry that churns out the same thing over and over for profit and a world where people lap it up and say 'Yes please, take my money again for the same thing I've already bought for the last five years'.

My advice: Don't buy it. You're not some cash cow that's to be milked yearly. Act like it.