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The Secret World F2P?

The article currently says:

Secondly, while The Secret World from Funcom launched as a paid-for game without subscriptions, Funcom had to switch their monetization model to free-to-play to improve their revenues, which further affected EA Partners.

I switch this to:

Secondly, while The Secret World from Funcom launched as a subscription game, Funcom had to switch their monetization model to free-to-play to improve their revenues, which further affected EA Partners.

to more closely match this source [1] relating to something that happened in 2013. The source this mention the free-to-play claim. However AFAICT from both our The Secret World articles and searches, it's simply incorrect. The Secret World did eventually sort of go free-to-play in 2017 when it was relaunched as Secret World Legends but clearly something that happened in 2017 wasn't why EA did something in 2013.

I think this Eurogamer is confusing F2P with B2P. From what I understand, The Secret World was originally using a classically MMO payment model where you had to both buy the game and pay for subscriptions to keep playing i.e. pay to play (not to be confused with pay to win which is a criticism of some F2P games). It abandoned this and went to a model where had to buy the game but subscriptions were optional i.e. buy to play. It was obviously free to play after buying the game but this isn't what free to play means. Even in 2013, while it's true it was something that had mostly impacted online only PC games along with the mobile market, I'm fairly sure it was well established that free to play meant you didn't have to buy the game. (And definitely in the MMO market which pioneered it.)

Unfortunately since it's an analysis of the failures of the EA Partners programme, it might not be so easy to find a simple drop in replacement. But I also wonder whether this means we shouldn't trust this particular Eurogamer article even if they are I assume normally an RS. Did they just use the wrong terminology, or was whoever wrote that genuinely confused about what happened with The Secret World? If it's the former, it's no problem. If it's the latter, this suggests that maybe their analysis for this particular issue might not be correct.

Nil Einne ( talk) 13:13, 1 October 2021 (UTC) reply

Semi-protected edit request on 7 March 2022

"It is the second-largest gaming company in the Americas and Europe by revenue and market capitalization after Activision Blizzard" - Shouldn't it be Microsoft ("It is the second-largest gaming company in the Americas and Europe by revenue and market capitalization after Microsoft") or are we talking about gaming only?

Btw I am aware the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal hasn't gone through yet so my confusion is different.

Also, sorry if this demand is not how it's done. I rarely leave feedback on wikipedia. 178.238.165.69 ( talk) 17:29, 7 March 2022 (UTC) reply

I think it talks about companies whose primary business is video games, which would exclude Microsoft. However, the source used to verify this claim does not actually contain it; it merely compares financial reports of select public video game companies. I chose to remove the sentence instead. Regards, IceWelder [ ✉] 17:37, 7 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Semi-protected edit request on 18 November 2022

Change "Maitland" to "Orlando" for EA Sport Tiburon as the physical location has recently changed. 97.100.162.61 ( talk) 01:58, 18 November 2022 (UTC) reply

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — Sirdog ( talk) 04:08, 18 November 2022 (UTC) reply

Semi-protected edit request on 4 March 2023

Their company information should list they refuse to answer any complaint about their products and has no user support. They have a chat forum where they expect other users to answer questions and ban any post or user they find any displeasure with. 2601:548:8201:6F30:2250:67C4:8149:A866 ( talk) 23:38, 4 March 2023 (UTC) reply

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. M.Bitton ( talk) 23:45, 4 March 2023 (UTC) reply

EA's PC client has changed from Origin to the EA app

The current phrasing in the second paragraph is "Their desktop titles appear on self-developed Origin, an online gaming digital distribution platform for PCs and a direct competitor to Valve's Steam and Epic Games' Store."

I'd suggest refining to: "EA's desktop PC titles appear on their self-developed EA app, an online digital distribution platform for Windows PCs." 24.130.109.30 ( talk) 23:59, 27 November 2023 (UTC)  Done Modified lead appropriately. -- Masem ( t) 02:12, 28 November 2023 (UTC) reply

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