This sense of entitlement really pisses me off. You realise the cost of making games has grown exponentially since the early 90s when games were sometimes $80 each? And that many games, even ones that sell millions of copies, lose money? Deus Ex HR is one of the most ambitious games in years, has a huge budget and has not made it's money back. Theres a whole bunch of examples in the past year such as rage and resistance 3 which will lose money.
It's either accept the optional extras that get them a little extra money, or accept massively dumbed down games. You do not deserve the "full" experience just because you bought the disc. They have a right to put whatever they want into the default experience and whatever they want into extras. If GTAIV cut half of it's content for extras, it would still have 10 times as much content as other games you no doubt have no problem with paying for. Luckily they're only doing very small things like superficial skins, and you should be praising them for it not protesting. Used games make them no money, they have a right to lock you out completely as PC games do, but they don't. They allow you to basically pirate the game whilst paying a fee to a company like gamespot that adds nothing creatively, and yet you still protest. It's people like you that pump hundreds of millions into a flash game rip off that cost next to nothing to make and complain at having to pay a mere $60 for a game that took 3 years and cost $50m.
I rent 90% of the games I play, and I feel no entitlement to this extra content since I'm not giving any money to the creators. It shouldn't be available for me to do this, I'm paying less than 10% what it costs to buy these games, and I feel guilty about it. But I save the small amount of money I do pay for retail games towards studios who are ambitious and innovating.
