Pay $1 to unlock all levels

[natster43]

Eh, I wouldn't buy it probably so it doesn't really bother me. Other people can pay for it if they like.

 

[Macemaster]

Back in my day we purchased a game and that was it.

No DLC, no DRM, no online passes and no bullshit....

Might have something to do with not having an internet but that is beside the point. The more I see companies willing to charge for shit the more I see people that gladly throw money at them. No wonder they get away with it, people are happy to pay for pointless shit I guess.

CD-Keys, Expansion packs that were a fucking joke in content and prize, "bonus voice acting" expansion where the developer themselfs stuttered the dialogue... Yup, back then moneygrab did not exist.

Open. Your. Eyes!

of course there was money grubbing, it was still a businuss after all. and you didn't have to buy the expansions. there was no dodgy online pass to keep servers up, and then the company take them down anyway, and no DRM that tried to screw you so hard you couldn't sit for weeks.

How's about you open your fucking eyes?

 

[Gnoekeos]

I've got mixed feelings on it. On the one hand it'd be great when you're at a point in a game where you've got a lot of level grinding to do and you're at the point where its taking forever and you don't really care to blow several more hours getting to where you need to be. I think a certain amount of grinding is necessary for the experience but eventually it just gets to be a big pain in the butt. On other hand There people will go through a game and not even put the real effort in and just pay their way through and in the end I suppose there's really nothing wrong with that, some people just don't have the time at all to spend leveling but still want to enjoy the rest of the game. This I think is where achievements and random item rewards can step in and give the core gamers what they need to justify the fact that they're putting in the effort while other people get to level with ease.

 

[Rawne1980]

Back in my day we purchased a game and that was it.

No DLC, no DRM, no online passes and no bullshit....

Might have something to do with not having an internet but that is beside the point. The more I see companies willing to charge for shit the more I see people that gladly throw money at them. No wonder they get away with it, people are happy to pay for pointless shit I guess.

CD-Keys, Expansion packs that were a fucking joke in content and prize, "bonus voice acting" expansion where the developer themselfs stuttered the dialogue... Yup, back then moneygrab did not exist.

Open. Your. Eyes!

We didn't have expansion packs or voice acting ....... in fact CD's were still a pipe dream.

I'm talking wayyyyy back (around the early 80's) when most shit was still black and white stickmen.

Cassettes, cartridges you had to take a running jump to ram into your 2600 and eventually the Floppy Disk.

 

[josemlopes]

I think the problem here is that this kind of thing used to be free with cheat codes.

Saying that the buyer has the right to all the content if he purchased the game doesnt make much sense since he still needs to spend more money to unlock them. Its a money grab and because there are a lot of lazy people in the world they will let it slide and help making it standard

 

[Sansha]

Double post ftl. Self-reported for deletion yay.

 

[Sansha]

I think the problem here is that this kind of thing used to be free with cheat codes.

Saying that the buyer has the right to all the content if he purchased the game doesnt make much sense since he still needs to spend more money to unlock them. Its a money grab and because there are a lot of lazy people in the world they will let it slide and help making it standard

A dollar?

You mean, an entire dollar? Clearly this proves the market is full of corrupt, money-hungry corporate bodies who're ruining the spirit of gaming.

But seriously, my point has already been illustrated.

I don't really care. If someone wants to pay to skip levels, have at it. I paid $60 to play my game...

I said it in the "Battlefield 3 paid for shortcuts" and I'll say it here:

-If it's single player, do whatever the hell you want.

-If it's multi-player, as long as paid items don't have an advantage over the unlocked ones (or if you just pay to unlock them early), have at it publishers.

That, and it's entirely optional. If you don't believe it's right, you don't have to partake. So, don't, and don't tell other people what they should or shouldn't be spending their entire dollar on.

 

[tippy2k2]

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Well, in Battlefield it DOES have an advantage. Any moron can fly around in a Jet now and roast people on the ground with Rocket Pods and what not, yet crash immediately afterwords. They jump directly back into the Jet leaving those of us who ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO FLY THE THINGS, bored out of our minds... also dead. Very, very dead.

See, that to me is more "stupid teammates" than broken system.

At level 1 or if I'm over level 9000!!!! (sorry) I can jump into a jet and crash the thing. If the things you are unlocking are items you can unlock during normal play, I have no problem with it. Now, if it gave me a super duper jet with auto-lock and nukes while the normal player gets a normal jet, then we'd have ourselves a problem.

What's the difference between me getting my ass kicked at level 1 because I don't have the weapons to fight and me getting my ass kicked at level...whatever the highest in BF is because I don't know what I'm doing?

 

[Dogstile]

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Well, in Battlefield it DOES have an advantage. Any moron can fly around in a Jet now and roast people on the ground with Rocket Pods and what not, yet crash immediately afterwords. They jump directly back into the Jet leaving those of us who ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO FLY THE THINGS, bored out of our minds... also dead. Very, very dead.

See, that to me is more "stupid teammates" than broken system.

At level 1 or if I'm over level 9000!!!! (sorry) I can jump into a jet and crash the thing. If the things you are unlocking are items you can unlock during normal play, I have no problem with it. Now, if it gave me a super duper jet with auto-lock and nukes while the normal player gets a normal jet, then we'd have ourselves a problem.

What's the difference between me getting my ass kicked at level 1 because I don't have the weapons to fight and me getting my ass kicked at level...whatever the highest in BF is because I don't know what I'm doing?

I would say its because someone who's earned the higher levels has had more time to practise, which means you'd get less of a chance of the player being an idiot, which has everyone else concerned.

However, I think the point is moot if someone's complaining about that happening on battlefield three. They already supported EA.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

I think Gears 3 did it well. What they did there was they made a special subcriber licence piece of DLC that cost about £20, but it meant that all future DLC would be downloaded automatically and for free. So if you just want the odd dlc, buy the ones you want. But if you want all the DLC, buy the licence

captcha: shaken not stirred

 

[josemlopes]

I think the problem here is that this kind of thing used to be free with cheat codes.

Saying that the buyer has the right to all the content if he purchased the game doesnt make much sense since he still needs to spend more money to unlock them. Its a money grab and because there are a lot of lazy people in the world they will let it slide and help making it standard

A dollar?

You mean, an entire dollar? Clearly this proves the market is full of corrupt, money-hungry corporate bodies who're ruining the spirit of gaming.

But seriously, my point has already been illustrated.

I don't really care. If someone wants to pay to skip levels, have at it. I paid $60 to play my game...

I said it in the "Battlefield 3 paid for shortcuts" and I'll say it here:

-If it's single player, do whatever the hell you want.

-If it's multi-player, as long as paid items don't have an advantage over the unlocked ones (or if you just pay to unlock them early), have at it publishers.

That, and it's entirely optional. If you don't believe it's right, you don't have to partake. So, don't, and don't tell other people what they should or shouldn't be spending their entire dollar on.

This one was a dollar, how about the other ones?

Like the other guy said, UFC has the same kind of deal for $2, and BF3 for $39.99.

And dont forget that we used to have the same option for free as a cheat code.

 

[redisforever]

As long as I can still unlock them for free by, you know, playing, I don't care.
I thought I'd have a problem with the Battlefield one, but not really. I still get the satisfaction of having the thing I just unlocked appear on my screen after a kill. Company of Heroes Online did this as well, but most people didn't buy the EXP bonuses, especially as you don't get real experience, knowledge you can only get by playing the game.

 

[Weaver]

Back in my day, we used cheats if we wanted to unlock everything from the get-go. AND WE LIKED IT!

I kind of miss those days...

Yeah, I'm kind of on board with this. In Smash Brothers if you rented the game and didn't have anything unlocked you could just enter a code for everyone so you and your friends could play all characters.

 

[gigastar]

For as long as said game has a way to unlock the content normally, then i wont care whether theres a pay-for shortcut or not.

 

[Epona]

Back in my day, we used cheats if we wanted to unlock everything from the get-go. AND WE LIKED IT!

I kind of miss those days...

You can partially thank Achievements for the loss of cheaters like Action Replay/Gameshark/Game Genie. I say it was a bad trade off.

 

[LightningBanks]

I liked what disgaea 3 did, you could pay money to recive bonus chracters that did nothing but be overpowered douchebags. It made the game easier, but they weren't essential.

But then the complete packaged did cost £40 (including the actual expansion pack)

Apparently the vita version has all the dlc for free though

go figure