Electronic Arts is in some trouble with its Star Wars fan base.
"Star Wars Battlefront 2," officially comes out on Friday, but many players are already upset over the expensive in-game transactions necessary to unlock certain characters. Tamoor Hussain, editor at GameSpot and Russell Holly, managing editor of VRHeads.com joined Cheddar to discuss the concept of paying extra within a game.
Hussain says that it used to take a significant number of hours to gain points in order to unlock certain characters, which upset players. So, companies began to add the option to buy the power to unlock them. But people are still upset. He says it could impact sales this week, but many people won't be looking into the issue too deeply.
Holly says in-game transactions are a tremendous business for Electronic Arts, which just bought Respawn Entertainment for over $400 million.
To ease some of the pressure, EA said that it will reducing the amount of resources it'll take to access key players in the upcoming game.
"They kind of changed the discoursed around the game," Hussain said, adding that this move will sway public opinion positively.
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George Schutlze, founder of Schultze Asset Management, is a former Tesla short-seller who covered on the day Tesla CEO Elon Musk released controversial "funding secured" tweet. That didn't work out well for Schultze, who said he's considering a new short position based on the company's cash flow problems.
After months of damaging headlines and privacy mishaps, Facebook may be down, but it's not out ー especially not in the case of the U.S. midterms, according to the company's director of outreach. Katie Harbath, global politics and government outreach director at Facebook spoke with Cheddar's Hope King about fighting fake news from the company's "war room" in an exclusive interview.
Box CEO Aaron Levie told Cheddar that his company's structure -- lots of small, empowered teams -- has helped land it two-thirds of the Fortune 500 as customers.
Apple shares tumbled after the bell on Thursday, despite beating analyst estimates for its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue. Cheddar breaks down the results.
Google employees across the globe staged a walkout in protest of the company's mishandling of sexual harassment. Cheddar's Kristen Scholer was at the New York office walkout and spoke to employees who participated.
Eva Chen has spent the past three years turning Instagram into the go-to platform for fashion. Now the app's director of fashion partnerships is channeling her expertise into a new children's book, "Juno Valentine and The Magical Shoes."
