The Saboteur Offers Free DLC of Boobs on Day One

[jords]

Awesome.

 

[lumenadducere]

Fuckin' A, it's just like with DA:O, the DLC SHOULD HAVE been included in the actual fucking game, pretty soon we'll be doing a pay-to-play, where you have to pay for every hour's worth of game.

How is including the download code in the box not including it in the game? Or did you mean on the disk itself? To me it amounts to the same thing, and I don't really get why it's such a horrible thing when it's free.

To the OP, I think I'm actually in favor of free DLC as a means to combat used game sales and piracy. Certainly beats the crap out of any DRM, that's for sure. And if it gives publishers and developers some money when people buy used games, then more power to 'em. Goodness knows the industry as a whole loses out on millions from used game sales as it is. Would be nice for the hard-working people working in the industry to actually see a portion of that money.

 

[SimuLord]

"so one would assume that there will be many opportunities for this content to pay double D dividends."

So it would pay DDividends?

 

[somerandomguy76]

... titties for the world, I say!

Everything before this is unimportant

OT: Why is EA being so smart? They're making it so hard to hate them lately...

"so one would assume that there will be many opportunities for this content to pay double D dividends."

So it would pay DDividends?

The sad thing is, this is the first thing I thought of too.

 

[FROGGEman2]

I like this, it's free.

And breasts.

 

[luas_dublin]

Wow, really? They're sure desperate for sales.
Personally, ever since I heard that horrifying terrible "Irish" accent, it put me off the game.

Same here , man! I mean there's a load of decent Irish voice actors knocking about the UK and the states , hell what about the dude that played Atlas in Bioshock?.
I've heard the trailer and urrgh ,after listening to the main character for a few seconds I can say It's pretty much a non game for me.
You guys from the states dont know how bad this can be but ...say you were playing a game with a character who's supposed to be from new york.
Only the voice actor playing him is from France.
And when he starts talking it sounds like a some sort of 'yosemite sam' texan voice , then the accent drifts a bit and he's doing some sort of deep south then , then woody allen style jewish new yorker, then some sort of Baaaawstan thing and then ..well you're not sure , is it canadian? is he having a stroke..then back to yeehaw again.Oh and All in the same sentence.
So every time he opens his mouth its a game breaker
That's how bad "Oirish accents" sound to us.

Screw the Bewbs , where's our "Replaced accent that doesn't make you want to feck the disc out the window" DLC?

 

[Flamezdudes]

They really are desperate for us to get this stuff. Even boobs.

 

[Doug]

By making nudity something that each consumer must choose to display, however, EA deftly sidesteps the issue. Ostensibly, anyone who is able to purchase games and downloadable content from XBLA or PSN is old enough to have a credit card and therefore old enough to decide if they want to see virtual boobs. Of course, that still doesn't prevent some parent crying foul because they never set up parental controls or let their kids have their credit card number. In any case, it is a clever attempt by EA to offer adult content if you jump through an "age gate."

I strongly disagree. GTA: SA didn't even give the option of launching the Hot Coffee content, and it required an external modification of the game to achieve, and yet they still got utterly hammered by the ban-happy folks and the people who think parents can't look after their own kids....well, in America anyways. I believe the BBFC's response can be summed up with a shrug and a 'meh'.

The difference between these two is the hot coffee mod was already part of the code on the GTA:SA disc, anybody with the knowhow could alter the code to implement it without any downloads.* With Saboteur, the actual nudity is not included in the game, for nipples you actually need to download the code. I don't know the ESRB's stance on DLC, but good odds EA makes an effort to cover their ass on this, either throwing a disclaimer with the DLC, or even have the ESRB throw in their two cents.
*:[small]I wonder if Rockstar leaked the info, or what the person who first discovered the code was really looking for.[/small]

Possibly. But I doubt Fox News, and the other anti-gaming sociopaths, or the judges, will understand (or more accurately for Fox, choose to understand) the difference. Still, we'll see what occurs. Hopefully, I'm just being overly pessimistic over this.

As for what he was looking for when he found Hot Coffee, I believe he said he was looking through the game data files, looking to see what stuff there was for modding, when he found the enabling value and wondered what it did. I doubt Rockstar wanted it leaked out given the fine, recall, and so forth.

 

[AnonymouZero]

"if anything will succeed at separating gamers from money, it's tits."

i think i just found my new forum signature.

as for the article... hooray for the gaming industry of thinking about a way to get something out of the resale of their products. Kinda sad it was satan/ea the ones that thought about it first/effectively.

 

[Raven's Nest]

I actually can't believe they think people will pay to see virtual tits when the real thing is free and but a click away!

Spoiler: Fun for all the family

 

[Virgil]

I strongly disagree. GTA: SA didn't even give the opinion of launching the Hot Coffee content, and it required an external modification of the game to achieve, and yet they still got utterly hammered by the ban-happy folks ...

The only trouble GTA:SA ended up in was because the content was left on the disc and was never mentioned or reviewed by the ESRB. The problem wasn't necessarily that there was nudity or sex, but that they didn't disclose it, and then denied it. The ESRB takes their ratings very seriously, and if you try to pull something over on them they can and will hit you with a huge fine and/or refuse to rate your games (which means most retailers won't touch them).

Sure, the media got riled up about the nudity, like anything they could use to whip up some ratings, but had it not been for the lying part it would only have been a footnote at best (like the Mass Effect nudity).

Well, it says the uncovered boobies AND extra hiding places and stuff; so, in order to get the extra stuff, I have to have the uncovered boobs?

The DLC apparently enables a nudity toggle in the options menu (and probably turns it on). If you don't have the DLC, the toggle to turn on/off nudity is stuck in the off position. If you get the DLC, you can set it to whatever you prefer.

 

[Theogrim]

This must be a US thing. In the UK The Saboteur is rated 15 and the nipples are already on the disc.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

The game launches on the 8th?
dammit, I need to pre-order it in the next few days :O

 

[Baby Tea]

This ... is GENIUS!

So apparently Russ is a 'boobs' guy.

On topic: I couldn't care less about the nudity, but I actually do like the DLC for free for new-copy users. The extra incentive is a smart idea for businesses, and it rewards, essentially, those who bought it new. Dragon AGe had it, and I thought it was a great idea. Shale rocks.

 

[scotth266]

Roman will be very excited.

I like this idea: allowing for the download of adult-oriented content is an interesting way to circumvent the annoyance of OH NO MY KID BOUGHT THIS GAME AND IT WAS PORNO stupidity, as well as guaranteeing a number of new sales.

 

[capacollo]

This places onus & responsibility on the parents where it should be. However is it the responsibility or fear from EA which drives this?

 

[Jandau]

Wait, they are charging 3$ for nipples? I don't like where this is going...

 

[Woodsey]

God who cares?

Either put them in the game or don't.