I guess I would be OK with paying for more stuff if I'd waited for the fast, big price drop, but I didn't know it'd drop to $40 that fast and it's one of the (very) few franchises I like to get ASAP. Won't do that again, and frankly I probably would spend a few points to get some more stuff if I'd paid $40. I'd be totally cool with an MSRP of $40 and then letting people max out on other stuff for more cash if they wanted.

Not to defend this practice, but to be fair, the scavenger robots picking up extra loot can also be done with ration seals that are earned in-game. If there are people who actually chose to pay instead of, or in addition to, using those, well..."a fool and his money." The guns are, from my understanding (since I completed the game and never paid for any of that crap), purely cosmetic, because you can build any uber-weapon you want in-game as well.

The day these things become available only by paying extra money, I'll be protesting as loud as anyone else. I'm more put off by DLC practices in general than these optional microtransactions.

I recently got The Saboteur. The game was supposed to have a free DLC that was only available from EA. EA shut down access to the DLC.

I also get tired of EA games that require me to cancel out of logging into their online service every time I play the game. I don't want to socialize my achievements and I don't do multi-player.

I don't believe that EA is worse than Satan. Run by Satan? Certainly. Worse than? No.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/...h-your-dollars

Mr. Bleszinski mentions "Your average guy that buys just Madden and GTA every year doesn’t know, nor does he care. He has no problem throwing a few bucks more at a game because, hey, why not?"

One might wonder how this average dude is going to sustain an industry. Kinda sucks if your not Madden or GTA.

I will not throw those extra bucks at games. If they push it too hard, I'm willing to cease giving any money to them. As much as I like games, I'm willing to walk away completely.

He claims that the gaming industry is an industry and that people shouldn't be outraged that they need to make money. This is a hollow argument. I'm not a communist. I'm not someone screaming, "It's data. It's all data. And data must be free!"

I'm not asking for free games. I'm saying quit trying to jerk me around.

GTA comes out every year? maybe he meant COD

I can't speak to Dead Space, but the last Madden I bought maybe 2-3 years ago had this feature where you could replay events from last week's games. They'd pick maybe 5 games, and you took over in a crucial spot and see how you did. I thought it was a fun feature.

The first week's games were free, after that you would have to buy with $$ OR with in-game Madden-Points, or whatever they hell they were called. The only way to get madden points in-game was to play that weird game mode with using random playing cards to generate a team, and then play games with that team. You start with such a crappy team from the random cards, I got 1 point the first time I played a game (which take about an hour to play). Each week's scenarios cost like 200 points.

Blezsinski is a huge douche. He also looks like a douche and has a douchey nickname.

And, I hear, he douches.

There wasn't a DLC.

There was an unlock, to get access to some place where you can see some naked ladies, but it was timed. It actually still unlocked some time after it was supposed to end.

It was DLC, or at least an unlock that needed to be downloaded like DLC from XBL/PSN. There was an EA server that you had to use to redeem the in game code, and once you did that, you were able to download the content from XBL/PSN. EA decided to shut down the server that was used to redeem the code. It was announced along with a list of other online game servers that EA was shutting down due to inactivity (all the other games had actual online content). I'm not sure if it was always planned to shut down after a period of time, or they really shut it down due to inactivity like the other games. If it was the latter, this problem really could've been solved by just including an actual XBL/PSN code in the game, instead of the ass backwards way they chose to do it.

boobies FTW!

Cliffy B's ultimate conclusion is "If you don't like it, don't buy it". He's right. End of story.

This all started with horse armor!!

Followed by, "Buy $45 worth of weapon skins for GoW3, it's totally worth it!"

I am just glad the weapon skins were just cosmetic. Imagine if they added attribute boosts to them...

It's just one if those things you have to accept. More and more firms are going to move to models like That. It's part of a changing landscape in the industry and isn't going away anytime soon. But yeah, if you don't wanna support it then don't. It's your money and the decision really is that simple.

Orrrrr..... You can always just be a year behind the curve and get the eventual GOTY editions of everything.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/6/407...-cfo-clarifies

Maybe not so evil.

I guess why I really don't like it is because: "Here's a good game for $60. If you want to add a really cool feature it'll be another $5. If you want a super duper cool feature, well now we're at $70..." And on it goes. Why put out your best game if you can put out a good game and have people pay even more to make it really good?

P.S. And I don't believe the bot features in DS3 can, in fact, be bought with rations seals. Tried it yesterday and you have to pay 400 points to double the size or the speed of your bot. Also they removed the 30-pack purchase for the other stuff. Why would they do that?

I forgot to mention that EA killed Origin Systems. Ultima. Wing Commander. Crusader.

EA only seemed to care about Ultima Online. They wanted their own "Everquest". Ultima Online was the only Origin game that I had zero interest in.

Now they've got their own "Steam" and they decided to call it "Origin". Rat bastards.

And it's terrrrrrrrrible

here's my experience with Origin. I had to sign up through my ps3 one time to use Fifa or something like that. I was pissed I had to sign up, so I made the password something like: eatshitea, and it linked to my PSN ID. since then I changed email addresses, and now I can't link my new origin account to my PSN ID, because it is still linked to my old email address, which they cant change and I can't remember exactly what profanity I made the passwd. they basically told me there was no way to undo the link to the old account.

so they basically told you to eat shit