I see your money, and I raise you....loadsHagi said:I think he's totally correct.
Money most likely was the last thing they thought about. And the first. And the second.
Money Money Money.
You know, all your accessibility perks used to come in the form of cheat codes for free... just saying.MikeWehner said:"EA leaves us alone. Almost every decision when it comes to the game is ours and ours alone," Calhoun explains in regards to who made the call to include paid weapon and credit packs. "We're trying to find ways to make sure that Dead Space 3 is really accessible. That doesn't mean we're going to sacrifice who we are or what the core tenets of Dead Space are in order to attract new players. Dead Space 3 shares the exact same DNA as Dead Space 1 and Dead Space 2." Adding later, "The last thing we think about is monetization."
And you just know they'll blame the fans and critics for it too.Andy Shandy said:
Oh yeah, good one there, Visceral, we believe you *nudge nudge*
Well, after Medal Of Honour's death yesterday, I believe Dead Space may be the next to go.
How can there be any other motivation to add paid content than money? Do they expect that anyone actually believes this kind of bullshit?MikeWehner said:Calhoun insists that money was not a motivating factor in the decision.
And it was BS back then as well, I suppose (never realy played Dead Space). But it's not just that they announced their BS DLC, they also have their paid content thing and flatout said that they were just going to make a shitty PC port because fuck you PC gamers. All of that happened in the course of like two or three days. And then they went on and claim monetization had nothing to do with that. It's just insulting, and I'm not even a fan of Dead Space.Trishbot said:On one hand, EA is the same company that said "they have to sell 5 million copies to remain a viable franchise".
On the other hand, and I'm going to just point this out... how is this ANY different from the ORIGINAL game?
http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Downloadable_Content_for_Dead_Space
You could pay money for better suits, better weapons, better abilities... or you could ignore it. DS1 came with a large chunk of DLC that serves the exact same purpose of giving you an edge in the game.