Those were my exact thoughts. That is was 100% intentional and they (naively) thought there wouldn't be this big of a backlash or that there would be some backlash and maybe even people would leave but they'd get new players and "survive" the backlash. Kinda like what happened when FreePlay introduced death.SKatF wrote: ↑29 Nov 2018, 18:07The cynic in me does not believe the new prices were unintentional, although the intensity of player response may have caught them off guard.mockingbird288z wrote: ↑29 Nov 2018, 00:37 In a topic that seems locked and not open for replies EA has posted on their support site that the prices of the new system were unintentional and they're working on fixing it.
For a change as large as this and one that they had to know would not be popular the one thing they should have done was make sure it was working properly. And to take so long to address the issue!!
There's no mention of the glitches still going on and no mention of the floors and wallpapers that have gone missing.
The loss of already paid for content may have been unplanned and I'm glad they're fixing it.
My other thought was this is all intentional, the extreme prices and the partial walk-back. Now they can say they listened to us and fixed the game. And the idea is we begrudgingly accept the change to how the different colors are priced while being thankful it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
It's hard not to be cynical when we're dealing with EA. I still haven't updated yet and I won't until the fix is in or I guess until the pre-event quest starts.