Capcom Denies Snubbing PS3 Over Dead Rising 2 DLC
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why is it news or even suprising that games get exclusive dlc on one system or another? i mean what exactly is the big deal?
seems like it should be a non story, with ms just throwing more money at publishers to get more stuff on their system, or if they want to say they gave it as a thank you whatever. welcome to the news of 2 years ago, when it was fallout or batman aa, or etc one system gets something the other system lacks it, people complain.
seems like it should be a non story, with ms just throwing more money at publishers to get more stuff on their system, or if they want to say they gave it as a thank you whatever. welcome to the news of 2 years ago, when it was fallout or batman aa, or etc one system gets something the other system lacks it, people complain.
So like what Microsoft said when Xbox owners didn't get the TF2 DLC? That's still snubbing a console, you fucking lunatics.
The PS3 usually receives the content down the road.
I always buy my games used and severely price slashed, so by the time I buy a game the content would likely have made the transition.
I always buy my games used and severely price slashed, so by the time I buy a game the content would likely have made the transition.
I reckon you're right XDKeith K said:
So, they're saying that if PS3 got Dead Rising 1, they we'd get givena present for a small fee as well? WHOOO!!! Paying for our own gifts!! It's such s terrible way to disguise something.
Aww, I didn't know about Case: Zero and Case: West until now... Now I feel snubbed.
Brilliantly said my fellow Troper!SL33TBL1ND said:
Seriously you must be sterile any exclusive for PS3 I spam it on every xbox site I can find.Straying Bullet said:
Yea, even if I do get DR2, I don?t particularly see this as a problem: what, I wont be able to get the traditional Capcom overpriced day 1 dlc? I always feel too insulted to buy crap like that before they ever pick any console favorites.twm1709 said:
It?s the same reason I wasn?t too disappointed about the ps3 not getting gta4 dlc when I saw how much it was. I wouldn?t/didn?t buy it at that price anyway.
And that?s the other thing, any of this crap that IS ever worth playing (even if it is still overpriced) eventually gets spread around anyway.
Just because the trial is cheap doesn't mean that everyone who downloads it will pay to unlock it, yet Capcom would still be charged for the initial download [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90344-Sony-Charges-Third-Parties-for-Selling-DLC].psrdirector said:
I downloaded the trial but I didn't think it was good enough to unlock, if I had done this on the PSN rather than X-Box Live then Capcom would still have had to pay for the bandwidth I used to download the trial.
It's not a lot ($0.16/GB), but if enough people downloaded the trial without unlocking it then that could seriously cut into their profit margins.
Roughly speaking, if for every one person who paid $5 to unlock the trial, 35 people just downloaded it without unlocking it, then Capcom would lose money.
Okay, first of all, Case Zero and Case West aren't downloadable content for Dead Rising 2. Yes, you download them and they can be called DLC on their own right, just like you could call, I dunno, Limbo DLC (pick any XBLA title really)... But they aren't DLC for Dead Rising 2. They are two stand alone games that do not require Dead Rising 2 to play. Normally when you say something is DLC for something else, you need the "something else" in order to use the content. So if you go and download Lair of the Shadow Broker from the Xbox Live Marketplace and try to play it without Mass Effect 2, that just isn't happening. That makes Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC for Mass Effect 2.
But again, Case Zero and Case West are not DLC for Dead Rising 2. They are stand alone games. PS3 not getting them is the same thing as them not getting Dead Rising 1. Just another game they didn't get, nothing more. As Shinsaku Ohara said, they aren't missing out on any Dead Rising 2 content. They get the full Dead Rising 2 that 360 players get with no missing piece of that single game.
But again, Case Zero and Case West are not DLC for Dead Rising 2. They are stand alone games. PS3 not getting them is the same thing as them not getting Dead Rising 1. Just another game they didn't get, nothing more. As Shinsaku Ohara said, they aren't missing out on any Dead Rising 2 content. They get the full Dead Rising 2 that 360 players get with no missing piece of that single game.
As far as I know Microsoft passes on the bandwidth charge to the user, as part of the Gold fee, not the developers for hosting demos.psrdirector said:
As to why would you download a trial if you didn't intend to buy it... well that's the point of a trial, you play it first to see whether you like it enough to pay to unlock it. Case Zero is a standalone XBLA game in it's own right and not just a demo.
I downloaded the trial of Case Zero to see whether I would enjoy it, but I didn't so I didn't pay to unlock it, but it's not surprising because I didn't like the first Dead Rising very much, so I would have been stupid to buy Case Zero without playing the trial first.
