Same, I got Fifa 13 Ultimate for much less than retail. EA just don't care and if PES was better, then I would have that. Shame EA are the ones who have Fifa...
Need for Speed went down the ******* after Most Wanted...
I will admit, I play BF3 but with no add-ons and Mass Effect 1,2,3 as the Mass Effect were bought for me...Dragon Age 2 was pure **** because EA got there tainted grubby greedy shovel hands on it and broke it...
command and conquer was a hard pill to swallow when EA ruined it, now they are doing the same to fifa, it's so sad they have such a huge monopoly. nobody can really compete with them. the amount of money they make of FIFA alone is ridiculous, it was in the top 5 selling media of 2012 (this includes blu rays and music media too) only beaten by call of duty.
worldwide their turnover could easily be £1 billion for fifa alone, especially when you take money spent on packs into consideration.
Top 10 of 2012
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (game) - 2,672,364 sales
Fifa 13 (game) - 2,601,877
The Dark Knight Rises (film) - 1,694,434
The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (film) - 1,515,604
Emeli Sande, Our Version of Events (album) - 1,446,844
Now 83 (album) - 1,389,006
Avengers Assemble (film) - 1,349,937
Ted (film) - 1,188,295
War Horse (film) - 986,870
The Hunger Games (film) - 946,592
2.6 million copies times £25 (taking £25 as EA's cut if its RRP was £35-£45) = £65 million from the uk alone which is a small place compared to other nations, and that excludes money made from packs, etc too.
take rob86 for instance he could have easily spent £500 on packs, i'm pretty sure KSI must have spent at least a few £K on packs in order to get the full TOTY team.