{"id":3364,"date":"2017-09-14T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T07:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2017-09-14T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T07:56:18","slug":"coming-out-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"Coming out of retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I put down Star Wars Battlefront after 129 hours, 25 minutes and 53 seconds of game time, ending with 5,321 kills and 7,505 deaths.<\/p>\n

Now, after over a year of retirement, I\u2019m coming back for Part 2.<\/p>\n

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I was kinda fooling myself into thinking I could just be satisfied with watching from the sidelines, clearly, the Dark Side is too strong to resist.\u00a0 I\u2019m be joining the Public Beta on 6-9 October and no doubt there will be over 5 million players doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

EA Public Beta is a bit of a nonsense as the company probably has an army of professional gamers, developers and streamers willing to test at any time.\u00a0 I guess the argument is to load testing the server network but I suspect the real motivation is to hook players into buying the game, pure \u201ctry before you buy\u201d marketing.<\/p>\n

EA Earning results<\/a><\/p>\n

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EA Digital net sales of $3.034 billion for fiscal 2017; this represents 61% of total net sales, up 20 % year over year.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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I put down Star Wars Battlefront after 129 hours, 25 minutes and 53 seconds of game time, ending with 5,321 kills and 7,505 deaths. Now, after over a year of retirement, I\u2019m coming back for Part 2. I was kinda fooling myself into thinking I could just be satisfied with watching from the sidelines, clearly, … <\/p>\n

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