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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
The scourge of EA's sports games in recent years, but especially NHL (due to it's lower budget overall) is the stupid micro-transaction based "ultimate team" modes. I'd wager they make significantly more revenue from that than they even do from base sales of the game, so it becomes almost the entire focus of the dev team. Stuff like Be A GM or Be A Pro will never see any TRUE improvement or innovation because they don't make any money off of it after the game is released.
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Which is a damn shame, because at that point they're developing the game for the 1% of their audience that keeps giving them money. Good for the financials, but disappointing for everybody else. I'd love to know what percentage of those who bought the game have spent more than $60 on DLC.