Here's a nice ironic quote from Mordin.Stormz said:
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Never had to buy our own weapons, eh Mordin?
Poll: Mass Effect 3 DLC - UPDATE!
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Never had to buy our own weapons, eh Mordin?
Of course, no one has actually drawn the line on what is nonessential. Technically, most of Skyrim's nonessential. But it'd be astronomically worse value and game if they'd parceled out chunks off the main quest as DLC, wouldn't it? Maybe you can't have battle axes or fire enchantments until you buy them for 2800 Bethesda Points? That would've been ok too. You don't need those things to get through the game either.
Can we go back to having $60 buy an entire game without the "nonessential" bits and pieces in half a dozen preorder bonuses, cross promotions, and wildly overpriced day one DLC? That'd be good.
Can we go back to having $60 buy an entire game without the "nonessential" bits and pieces in half a dozen preorder bonuses, cross promotions, and wildly overpriced day one DLC? That'd be good.
Xpheyel said:
If I may start on the line.
The Arkham City "Skins" are nonessential.
Horse Armor is nonessential
By definition, anything "cosmetic" is nonessential.
I'd love a return to the days of reasonably priced, full games. Try telling EA/Bioware that.
That'd sure be nice - and while we're at it, can we have some kind of international pricing fairness too? As an Australian I'm reading this thinking "Wow, $60 is wicked cheap for a new-release game". Even though the Australian dollar is worth more than the US right now we'd still be charged more like $90 (the collectors edition preorder is actually costing me over $100).Xpheyel said:
Back on topic though, there is this nasty devil sitting on my shoulder telling me if the industry went back to including everything for one price then the game would be less widely marketed (keep in mind that part of the point of vendor-specific bonuses is to get GameStop/EB/whoever to push the game in addition to EA's marketing), would sell less copies, making the developer less money and we'd get shafted in some other way - maybe we'd get stuck with something like ME1's copy-pasted side quests locations instead of the ME2 system of having a unique map for each one.
I think what I'm saying is everything in moderation: while I might not like it, and in an ideal world the whole lot would be included for free, up to a point I can understand it and tolerate it. Beyond that point though it's just blatant gouging of our wallets and that's what really grates with me.
Zachary Amaranth said:
I know right. No point in tolerating their stupidity. Also you're giving EA money to continue being their usual selves.
I really don't get it. Buy figurines, get extra stuff. It's your standard buy one get one free deal you see in stores every day. Buy a figurine, and you get some in-game content as a bonus. You're not paying for the DLC, you're paying for the figurine. What's so bad? Oh, wait, I forgot. It's ELECTRONIC ARTS, so it's automatically EVIL.
Pretty sure that if I wanted dolls, I'd buy thm instead of the game. You know, how the game is what I'm there for and all.Comic Sans said:
Then don't buy them. Pretty simple. The DLC is there as a bonus for fans of the game who might buy them as an incentive. It's called marketing. Unless the content offered is crazy important to the game and is never made available for purchase outside the figurines, you have nothing to complain about. Some people will like the figurines and will buy them, you are clearly not in that demographic and can calmly go about your life.ResonanceSD said:
I'm guessing that most of what you're paying for is the figures, and that the dlc will be available separately.
Also, I think their marketing is probably biting them in the ass here. In their rush to sell the figures and the dlc they're promising 'extra content', 'characters', 'the full experience'! In building it up so much they've pissed everyone off by making them feel they're missing out, when really I'm betting the dlc only really amounts to a extra bit of armour or a shiny pistol.
Also, I think their marketing is probably biting them in the ass here. In their rush to sell the figures and the dlc they're promising 'extra content', 'characters', 'the full experience'! In building it up so much they've pissed everyone off by making them feel they're missing out, when really I'm betting the dlc only really amounts to a extra bit of armour or a shiny pistol.
This has got to be the dumbest idea I've heard in a long, long time. I just know that EA is behind this. Only they can think that gamers will like something like this. As if Origin wasn't enough. Now they're making us look stupid for buying their game for full price. I just know the DLC is what should have been in the game from the start. All DLC that's announced before the game is released is cut out from the game. Another reason why Mass Effect 3 will be the most pirated game of 2012 for PC. Fuckin' idiots.
Sounds like the DLC is going to be for multiplayer, in which case I couldn't care less, as I won't be touching the multiplayer.
And I also don't see this as being "in order to get the DLC you have to buy the figure". It's "buy a cool figure, and we'll throw in some DLC with it."
It's gonna be minor DLC, and not something we're gonna care about not having.
And I also don't see this as being "in order to get the DLC you have to buy the figure". It's "buy a cool figure, and we'll throw in some DLC with it."
It's gonna be minor DLC, and not something we're gonna care about not having.
ResonanceSD said:
Cosmetics aren't essential to combat or stat systems but a game that gives you more options in the box price is qualiatively superior to one that limits them to sell after the fact. Garrus running around in broken armor for all of Mass Effect 2 so they could sell you his fixed look was kind of dumb.
Also Horse Armor was patched so it buffs horse hp because of the outcry, I believe.
"sounds neat but all this whining its making me not want to be part of this community"
I can't quote it directly because PC's being rubbish, but I totally agree with this post. If you don't like the idea, don't buy it. Simple. I don't think I've ever seen a topic on this site where people don't immediately start ripping into the subject at hand.
But hey, a high post count must make you cool right?
Personally, I'll buy the figures if I'm interested in them. I'm pretty sure they'll make them individual downloads eventually if I'm really that bothered about them. Plus most (most being the keyword here) DLC is thought up and made after game release, making it a good idea. What I dislike is the fact that we were originally told ME2 DLC would be totally free, then they started charging for it.
Still, they've only been doing this since EA bought them out. Just saying.
I can't quote it directly because PC's being rubbish, but I totally agree with this post. If you don't like the idea, don't buy it. Simple. I don't think I've ever seen a topic on this site where people don't immediately start ripping into the subject at hand.
But hey, a high post count must make you cool right?
Personally, I'll buy the figures if I'm interested in them. I'm pretty sure they'll make them individual downloads eventually if I'm really that bothered about them. Plus most (most being the keyword here) DLC is thought up and made after game release, making it a good idea. What I dislike is the fact that we were originally told ME2 DLC would be totally free, then they started charging for it.
Still, they've only been doing this since EA bought them out. Just saying.
Come on Bioware! I thought you created the multiplayer so that could be the place to dump the DLC.
To be fair, it sounds like Bioware put this forward as a fun idea to have with their figures as a little treat for the players, and marketing have tried to push it way too far.
