MVP
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EA UFC 3 is worth getting into, but it's not worth the minimum asking price of 70$
As an MMA fan, I am hyped to play EA UFC 3 as soon as possible, despite it's already revealed flaws, despite it lacking in some departments and lacking some more detailed feutures, that a lot of us long-term hardcore fans of the series have expected to have made it in the series by now, but didn't, which is where the feeling of disappointment, for a lot of us griefing in this forum, derives from.
Make no Mistake, EA UFC 3 is a complete & fully functional AAA game, a game that Anyone who is a fan of MMA, can play and enjoy and possibly have the best available MMA gaming experience to exist in this point & time. Both in terms of the game being up to date with the current visuals standards, as well as the gameplay depth & the replayability factor.
Hell, if you have never picked up any of the other games of the EA UFC series and you are just getting into it the current-gen MMA gaming now and thus, are not burned out from some of those old(but well-made) aspects of the 2 previous games, i'd say you stop reading right here and go and pick up that game Day-1, because you'd be getting your money's worth.
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But because EA UFC 3 is part of a 4 year old series and because it's reusing a lot of those older assets & because it has a lot of older flaws and lacks the appropriate polishing & is rough around some edges, that many of us have been putting up with throughout the series, to anyone already owning EA UFC 1 & 2 or just 2, I cannot recommend that they get the game on Day 1 for the full 70$ price.
Although irrelevant, because everyone should be focusing on themselves when it comes to pushing the boundaries forward, it's worth noting, that this has become the norm in the gaming world of Sports Franchises. Selling annual sports games' sequels for AAA prices, when there are barely any noticable differences from their predecessors. Although the EA UFC series is a 2 year- development cycle franchise, it doesn't mean it isn't suffering from the same flaws that other annual sports games sequels are suffering from.
Still, this doesn't mean that because the time has passed and something negative to the consumer like this, has been the standard of the industry for a while, we should just give up and accept it as is, thus passively normalizing it and contributing into harming the industry as a whole even further. Harming it, By allowing the limit stressers to get away with edgy anti-consumer tactics, without any blowback.
For that reason, i am writing this post to express my disappointment for some of those feutures that are holding the series back and I am gonna use the only tool we have as consumers, which is our votes. Those votes are made with our wallets. The best way to affect those votes, is for people to spread criticism over things they are displeased with and if others can relate with our mindset, we can convince them to vote similarly as well and make our change through the power of numbers, which is the only thing that will make the publishers pay attention to.
I think we can all agree it's already too late for EA UFC 3 to do anything major so close to release date, i doubt we can do anything at this point, to get the game sorted out, at a stage where we would be getting our money's worth on release date. (Polish the Finish-The-Fight & Knockdown Mechanics/ Some Tweaks on the Ground/Clinch Game to make em more responsive to the player's input and fitting with the rest of the game's pace/ Add a Replay System/ Update some Out-dated Fighter Models)
Which is why i would propose to the community, if you don't want to get disappointed by EA UFC 4 again, you need to vote with this game. EA UFC 3's failure, should be our message to the publishers for the next game. Do not pre-order this game, do not buy the Champion's Edition, do not support Origin Early Access, do not buy Microtransactions, do not buy this game on the first month of it's release. Wait until it reaches the deserving price of 30-40$ in a month or so, because at this point, we are getting way too many reused assets & way too many flawed, out-dated & lacking gameplay mechanics, that the supporters of the series don't deserve after investing in all of those games
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With that said, i'd like to hear from you below, what are your thoughts on my assessment of the EA UFC series situation and what are some of the things you would have come to expect from the series at this point, but are disappointed that they haven't gotten down yet, with EA UFC 3 right around the corner?
Last edited by manliest_Man; 01-14-2018 at 02:02 PM.
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