just a hypothetical/possibly joke thread, what would happen if EA bought boundless? What would they lock behind a paywall? What lengths will they go to so they can inconvenience the player base?
Just come up with stuff EA might do to inconvenience us or lock behind a paywall.
Gleam Club… Sovereigns…
110% wholeheartedly agree. Haven’t paid for any of those in over a year but I imagine EA would absolutely add onto it. Maybe EA would make beacons gleam club only?
btw look at the tags, this is hypothetical, not stuff in the game right now but i’ll allow it
Active development then? We can just call it DLC
DLC but they never actually implement it 
Edit: @Redlotus that’s the best out of context quote i’ve seen so far
Meteor DLC
and how much would it be for?
Too much…
Not to mention monster ad-ons for other throphies
Oh, so you could have Meteor Summon Tokens. No more natural spawning meteors. Cash shop and very rare drop. The Meteor core level is based on the number tokens activated while the meteor is falling, with diminishing returns as the level gets higher. Tokens from drops contribute less to levelling the meteor. $5 for a pack of 10 tokens, which is enough for a level 3 meteor.
$1/token for Gleambow Meteor Summon tokens, but regular tokens can boost the level of these as long as the first token used was a GMS token.
Timed loot booster. $1 each you and the 5 players closest to you get double loot for the next 5 minutes. You cannot receive the boost buff for this while you have meteor life, so make sure you group up before and pop the booster before starting the meteor and finish quick to boost the final loot.
Note that it boosts on collection time, not death, so make sure you loot fast!
Beacon count caps, including campfires. It takes 72 hours after a beacon is removed before you can use that slot again to prevent griefing (and prevent use of campfires for meteor hunt loot).
Inventory capacity changes - players start with 10 inventory slots and can craft up to 3 backpacks to increase capacity by 5 each. Cash shop backpacks are available in 10, 15, and 20 slot sizes for $5, $15, and $30 respectively. You can increase your backpack slot capacity up to 10 for $5/slot.
Cosmetic lootboxes. $5 each. 95% chance you get a neon pink camo skin for some tool, but the store only shows you the super shiny awesome skins unless you click through 3 levels of menus.
Gleamflowers - a cash shop only prestige plant. Worth 100,000 prestige each. Lasts 1 month. $30 for a pack of 5.
Hmm, I guess you said EA and not Korea 
Let’s stop acting like EA are the only ones employing doubtful monetization schemes. Activision, Ubisoft, Square Enix… they all do some reprehensible things.
The true question is: Would you rather have
A) The game stay as it is : likely no more updates, and risk the game being definitively shut down.
B) The game being taken over by a new team which would bring back updates and ensure the game lives on longer, but at the cost of more intrusive monetization schemes.
Truth is, even as an hypothetical scenario, I can’t really get into it because I fail to see why any of them would buy Boundless alone. They’d more likely want to start building a similar game from scratch. BUT, IF Square Enix was to be bought by another bigger company, then maybe…
The obvious thing to do would be cosmetic armors and premium blocks.
Then again, one can wonder if that’s a worthwhile endeavor. Creativerse is currently making big changes to get rid of the whole F2P thing, removing ALL their in-game store premium stuff and introducing them all in the game’s progression, stating the time they made the most money was before they went F2P. Ain’t that interesting?
“streamlined”, “streamlined”, “streamlined”, loot boxes “paid surprise mechanics”
@Rydralain that’s the type of list I’ve been meaning to see here.
I doubt there will be more updates, but I also doubt the game would get shut down.
But I absolutely do not want premium blocks, only cosmetics and no locking content behind paywalls.
EA, It’s in the pay er, “Game”
cool portals btw
pay-portals
Pay 25.99 for the ability to go through portals!
Another 4.99$ for skill points to make the portals in the first place (only if you have the portal DLC in the first place)
IF this was what it would take to save the game, as in bring back regular-ish updates and more content for us to use, and be 100% sure the servers would not be shut down, I’d be like
False dichotomy.
Having the game taken over by a new team does not mean that the new team will continue to develop and improve the game.
The game could be sold to a company like Gamigo, which will keep it in maintenance mode and milk as much money out of the declining playerbase as possible before finally shutting it down once there’s nothing left to extract.
Dude I mean, you’re also doing a false trichotomy if you wanna play into that dumb game… 
Doesn’t have to stop at B) or C) or D)… I just stopped at B), but OBVIOUSLY you can come up with lots more options, like the good one where some nice company buys the game and actually does all the right things with it. Or options which are subtle mix and/or variations of things previously stated.
If anything, the last few years have shown us a large array of ways video-games can go wrong.
As it is, Boundless is already one such bad scenario.
Eitherway, in my mind, as it is, it’s already highly unlikely that Boundless will ever get any new content/update/additional MTX, or be bought. So if we go into the “you’re wrong” territory, I’d argue this entire thread is wrong.
But my point is that I don’t think the game is healthy enough for us to start being picky about other options which could potentially bring more content, even if it’s premium content.
Yes, something like Gamigo could happen, but I’d expect that the game would then die faster, as I doubt people around here would put up with BS like that if it’s mostly a losing situation for us.
