Deftones

FWIW, Best Buy's new gaming program is also offering $20 as long as you have the $15/year membership. The free gaming membership is giving $10 with purchase.

xmiyux

Again my location gets me... no Costco, no Best Buy. I used to have Circuit City...

Alright, I will probably just pre-order on Amazon for the 10$ and see if Kmart does something better closer to launch.

fumanstan

Yup. Until someone actually plays it, its all speculation on how important it is. And I guess "vital" is up for debate, as I can argue that other DLC like Shadow Broker was vital the overall story in ME given the characters involved (although it wasn't available Day 1, so I guess it doesn't count for some arbitrary reason)

MoviePage

The Shadow Broker is not as vital to the central story of Mass Effect as the Unless I'm forgetting something major, that's pretty much an indisputable fact.

(I assume that this is now the part where we talk about The Arrival and how it was absolutely essential to the story.)

Also, regarding the official Bioware response that sounds like a carbon copy of every other PR response in the history of ever, there's plenty of evidence provided by users in that same thread that the PR line is wholly inaccurate. Not that it really matters at this point.

I'm glad to see that the major sites like Kotaku and Joystiq have picked up the story and the reactions to it. The more consumer awareness, the better.

fumanstan

The Prothean race is more vital, but it remains to be seen whether the character and the story line actually adds anything of significant value. That's just my opinion. If the character doesn't do anything important other then the fact he's Prothean and I never use him in my party, I don't think i'd care much.

I see comments about the character being in a leaked script, but that doesn't necessarily refute anything to me. I'm not sure if you saw anything else in particular that was inaccurate. It's also funny to see Zaeed brought up, given that it required the Cerberus Network which cost money for used game buyers which seemed like the major issue with Recokning who's content was "free" on day one.

I don't know, take a stand and don't buy the game I guess

foxdvd

There could be a group of Protheans you find...and the dlc is just another one that you get to use in your party.

fumanstan

For what its worth, I think the character should be free for everyone just because Bioware has done so in the past, not just for CE. Or make it paid for everyone, one or the other. I understand the complaint here, I just think the reasoning a lot of folks have is flawed.

pinata242

The Shadow Broker DLC not only put Liara in a new place in the galaxy, one that could be of tremendous value for Shepard going forward, but also introduced an entirely new race to the universe we know. Plus I got to throw chumps off that spaceship like 100 times. It was pretty bad ass.

Supermallet

I didn't realize this whole DLC thing was a result of EA charging for multiplayer. Now I'm considering canceling my pre-order and waiting to get a used copy for under $50.

ultimaton

Where did I ever say we were owed anything?

RocShemp

It is paid for everyone. CE customers, like myself, paid an extra $20 for the DLC character, a few other in-game perks (weapons and some robot dog) and a few other doodads. SE customers paid $10 for the DLC character.

Seems fair to me.

fumanstan

Sort of. I have the CE pre-ordered to, and while there was a mention of downloadable content (that I specifically mentioned in a previous post already), it was never clear what that entailed until now. I think if people knew what the first DLC was going to be earlier, more people would have opted for the CE knowing the pricing and I bet that's what is triggering the ire of some people. Otherwise most people assumed the $20 extra was going towards similar items like the CE for ME2 (which I already own) like the different packaging, art book, weapons and armor, etc. which doesn't have as much value as a playable character.

I still don't think its shady like a lot of people make it out to be, but I can see a small difference.

chuckd21

You can buy points in $5 increments...

pinata242

Only if you give MS access to your finances. And that's always a safe play.

pinata242

After watching this, I believe it to be a fraud, but I don't doubt there are people out there that actually feel this way. The last minute of it is really the pay off. #fake

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Jam Master Jay

Liver&Onions

of course it's fake. It's Francis!

pinata242

His name is Chainsaw. Don't call him Francis.

Liver&Onions

Matt?

Deftones

What this guy said. No way, no how does MS get my CC after the horror stories I've heard. Prepaid cards all the way.

superdeluxe

played the demo,

The kinect stuff was kind of cool, but I kind of didn't know what to do, I would sometimes see the microphone pop up, but then I am not sure what to say.

Oh..and f**K the Reapers.

superdeluxe

Pretty much,

If you haven't played the demo

superdeluxe

I thought I had read that decisions that you made in 1 and 2, which did not play important roles, would play big roles in 3

MoviePage

While I'm happy that you found my YouTube channel, I'm disappointed that you think I'm not dead serious.

pinata242

Did you have a dry shirt on floor you could still use? Doing laundry sucks, I know.