Gaming Gripes
You might think it's April Fool's, but completely monetizing the industry isn't a funny concept
I’m sure not though how effective this promotion actually is, did games like Black Ops and Dragon Age II really need that much market saturation, they were huge games anyway. Surely it cannot have increased the games total revenue that much? That may be a glib assessment but that’s how I roll.
Also, what’s the deal with ‘added content’ anyway? I recently purchased Dragon Age II, as soon as I put the disk in I’d found there already was DLC, on the DAY it was released. A person could spend £40/$60 on a game and then they have the temerity to expect you to pay for MORE content. At a time when you purchased a game you got 100% of it, now you pay full price for 75% of a game! Make the game cheaper if you expect us all to buy it on release date. It drives me mental.
I recently worked on testing Shogun 2, great game and all that but at one time all the content in the game was there. All the battles, clans, they were all one. Then they break the game up into THREE different packages with incremental content, so to get the full experience I have to pay nearly twice as much. When did we just bend over and take this?
It’s not like they’re the only ones to do it, it’s just how the market is. Nearly every big release now comes with roughly about a hundred different versions that you can purchase. Legendary, Extra, Ultimate, Prestige, go on consumer, pay 50% more because we put a cool sounding adjective in front of the title.
I’m guilty of it though, I purchased the limited edition version of DA:II, with pre-order it was basically the same price on release, which I was cool with because at least I was getting the full game. It was one of the rare instances that I would actually bow down to EA and allow them to shaft me. Only because in some weird rational they had convinced me that I was actually saving money by getting a discount on what should have been the normal price of the game with the full content.
I mean, it’s like buying a house but then saying; ‘well you’ve paid for it but you’ll have pay extra for the roof, you know to keep the serial killers and the rain out.’
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