CorkyJester said:
Might as well join this thread to give my two cents?
OK well I?m boycotting Mass Effect 3 not because I believe it?s the DLC is unfair but because EA is basically trying to use its position to strong arm consumers into buying more products and abusing its position.
BioWare wouldn?t make this DLC if they weren?t owned by EA. (That is an assumption going off that the most developers... in fact all aren?t this abusive of customers.) The argument that they shouldn?t release DLC first day is because they spent time instead of developing this game but instead on the DLC. Now even if they say they finished the game then worked on the DLC... Well why isn?t the game out before the DLC was finished? why is the programming team working on the DLC when they could be fixing bugs on the ?finished product?. Well it?s not finished if they didn?t release it yet now is it? Why haven?t they released the ?finished product? when it?s in their interest to get the most money quickly to reinvest into their company (EA). It is because they want to get more money out of the consumer. Which isn?t bad but its damn unethical when they release a finished product with extra content separate that could easily influence the story.
Next main point and here is the big one ORIGEN. Now you must have ORIGEN to play ME3 on PC, essentially they are forced more software down consumer?s throats. That is annoying and obvious they want more people to use a horrible online retailer so they can try to get you to by more of their non discounted games that they don?t have to share in the retail price as with other competitors aka steam. So they block steam for selling ME3 so they don?t have to share sales, when they could of easily let steam sell it for 60 bucks and used an ethical way to get people to try Origen like I don?t know charge 55 bucks on Origen. I would totally take that incentive and buy the game, but no its just EA in the end trying to strong arm the market and get as much money out of the consumer as possible and I?m not having any of that. So go ahead and by the game, its your money, but remember when you buy this game EA will get the picture that they can keep pushing its consumers more and more little by little, and I?m not even going to try to guess what?s next.
Sorry about spelling or grammar, truly sorry, that is why I?m an Economy major and not English
Well the reason the game doesn't come out before the dlc is finished is because it takes a while for the game to get tested and fixed, then they have a certain time period set out so they can do a marketing campaign for the game to get more people interested and during this time the developers can work on any dlc they have planned for the game, now dlc doesn't take very long to make because most of the time spent in game development is spent creating the engine and the environments and since this is already made it shouldn't take very long for the dlc to be made.
And the origin thing is just downright childish, people just ***** about it because they can't use their precious Steam, we'll guess what Mass Effect 3 is published by EA so I'm pretty sure EA is going to want to have their products sold through their service. Notice how you can only play Counter strike or Left 4 dead 2 (which is published by EA by the way) on Steam, that's because they're made by Valve and they only want their games on their service. Think about this; would you be able to buy a hollister shirt at an abercrombie store, no, you know why, because why should they let abercrombie get a part of their profit from their product when they can sell it through their own store and make full profit. That's just basic business practice, you should know that if your studying economics
