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kane_magus) wrote2012-02-23 10:51 am
kane_magus) wrote2012-02-23 10:51 am
Entry tags:
- bioware,
- dlc,
- ea sucks,
- game industry stuff,
- games,
- mass effect 3,
- pc,
- ps3,
- rant,
- xbox 360
"Bioware defend Mass Effect 3 From Ashes day one DLC"
Dear BioWare,
If this Thing™ that you are doing (and have been doing at least since Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2, except that you're gouging everyone this time, rather than just used buyers) is something that you feel the need to "defend" from everyone who is calling it a very crappy thing, then perhaps you should take a step back and consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't be doing said crappy thing?
Sincerely,
Someone else who is also very sick and tired of Day 1 DLC, regardless of any bullshit excuses and rationalizations for it.
In any case, between this and all the other crap swirling around this game, I've pretty much decided now that I'm just going to wait for a "Game of the Year" or "Ultimate" or "Complete, and not hacked up into various pieces of DLC" version of Mass Effect 3 before I bother to get it, if I get it at all. I can wait. I've got plenty of other things to keep me busy in the meantime. If such a version of the game is never released, then I can still wait until the hacked up version is suitably bargain bin price, such that it plus any DLC (assuming the DLC is even still available at that point) would be around the price of a normal full game altogether, rather than as it is now, i.e. a game at full price plus what will likely end up being an additional almost full game's price worth of DLC on top of that.
My only regret now is that I didn't do the same sort of thing for Mass Effect 2 as well, given that all of the DLC for that game that I may care to get currently comes to a total of 2480 Microsoft Points, or around $31 (and if I ever do get it, it will only be if/when there is a sale on it). But then, there hasn't been an "Ultimate" version of ME2 made available yet (at least, not for the Xbox 360 anyway), which leads me to be pessimistic about there being one for ME3 either. Oh well.
(EDIT)
And would you look at that. Yet another industry brown-nosing op-ed piece by that dumbass Chris Pereira guy at 1up.com. This guy's starting to bug me even more than Jim Sterling of Destructoid does.
(/EDIT)
If this Thing™ that you are doing (and have been doing at least since Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2, except that you're gouging everyone this time, rather than just used buyers) is something that you feel the need to "defend" from everyone who is calling it a very crappy thing, then perhaps you should take a step back and consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't be doing said crappy thing?
Sincerely,
Someone else who is also very sick and tired of Day 1 DLC, regardless of any bullshit excuses and rationalizations for it.
In any case, between this and all the other crap swirling around this game, I've pretty much decided now that I'm just going to wait for a "Game of the Year" or "Ultimate" or "Complete, and not hacked up into various pieces of DLC" version of Mass Effect 3 before I bother to get it, if I get it at all. I can wait. I've got plenty of other things to keep me busy in the meantime. If such a version of the game is never released, then I can still wait until the hacked up version is suitably bargain bin price, such that it plus any DLC (assuming the DLC is even still available at that point) would be around the price of a normal full game altogether, rather than as it is now, i.e. a game at full price plus what will likely end up being an additional almost full game's price worth of DLC on top of that.
My only regret now is that I didn't do the same sort of thing for Mass Effect 2 as well, given that all of the DLC for that game that I may care to get currently comes to a total of 2480 Microsoft Points, or around $31 (and if I ever do get it, it will only be if/when there is a sale on it). But then, there hasn't been an "Ultimate" version of ME2 made available yet (at least, not for the Xbox 360 anyway), which leads me to be pessimistic about there being one for ME3 either. Oh well.
(EDIT)
And would you look at that. Yet another industry brown-nosing op-ed piece by that dumbass Chris Pereira guy at 1up.com. This guy's starting to bug me even more than Jim Sterling of Destructoid does.
(/EDIT)
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But then, you know what groups use to do during that supposed downtime that exists? They start on the next project! They can't do that this gen tho, particularly at this stage. That downtime is now dedicated to finishing what they decided to rush to market before it was actually ready.
So basically to me even that excuse holds no water. And that's the most believable excuse I've ever heard put forth. Everything else was just far less believable as a real reason.
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No, you don't do that. What you do is what you always used to have to do before the advent of DLC: you either cut it out entirely, or you delay the release of the game until you finish it (or you wait six months to a year and include it as part of a bona fide expansion pack). I would much rather have a delayed but complete game rather than a half-assed rushed out piece of unfinished crap with Day 1 DLC that "couldn't be included in the full game because hargle-bargle bullshit".