OK so I know some of you guys are aware and some of you have not been aware for awhile, about the somewhat conniving concept about DLC (Downloadable Content)these days. Now to my knowledge not all game companies perform this practice. Some games have DLC content already on the original disc you purchased. Then what happens is that they make you pay extra money to unlock the content on the disc that you already own. I mean really people how can we let game companies get away with this kind of thing?
Now for gaming fanatics/extremists who defend their favorite games to the death for some creepy reason, I don't expect them to see this as outrage. As a matter a fact, a gaming fanatic/extremists will start listing off reasons as to why these game companies don't have to be so honest with us about the products we purchase from them. For people who primarily play PC games on a regular, i don't know....maybe they see this as normal I guess...But so far from what I've been seeing, Capcom is notorious for this less than honest practice (Not to mention being buttholes about putting out multiple versions of the same game: MVC3 & Street fighter 4 for example).
I'm just waiting for jail breaking videogames to go mainstream for the large majority of gamers out there so that game companies will finally start to take a hint that this practice is not cool. That 60 dollar game you purchased winds up actually costing you 70, 80, 90 maybe 100 or 110 dollars when you start adding up all that DLC stuff. Now sit down and think about how much of that content was actually already on the original disc you purchased....Doesn't seem so fair now does it?
I remember long ago when the internet was still pretty young and p2p music sharing was still a new concept to the majority of people out there. The movie and music industry didn't really give shit that people were still paying 30,40 or even 50$ for a ten year old CD album or movie.
People complained about the high prices for years, but they didn't care as long they kept getting money from it and also because they thought there was nothing the consumers could do about it.
P2P music sharing came on the horizon, movie and music industry was quick to jump up and say THEY were the ones getting ripped off by this. They ignored the consumers and the consumers found a solution on their own. For the first year or two, they fought hard against music sharing even going so far as to lock people up for it.
Eventually they started to figure out that this new concept was not going to go away. And it was in THAT moment they started to reconsider lowering their prices for movies and music. That's why nowadays the most expensive CD or movie you see is no more than about 20$ (excluding Blu Ray movies) That was their big kick in the mouth. The question now is when will the gamers start fighting back SERIOUSLY on these issues like DLC.
All we're doing right now is giving them more leg room to keep slapping on "hidden fees" on games you guys already own. If we keep making excuses for these game companies they'll keep tossing DLC at us. Sooner or later we'll be paying 90-100$ for a game and people will consider it normal because they will think they can't do anything about it and because no one will speak up about it. When will we as a community say enough is enough?
Now for gaming fanatics/extremists who defend their favorite games to the death for some creepy reason, I don't expect them to see this as outrage. As a matter a fact, a gaming fanatic/extremists will start listing off reasons as to why these game companies don't have to be so honest with us about the products we purchase from them. For people who primarily play PC games on a regular, i don't know....maybe they see this as normal I guess...But so far from what I've been seeing, Capcom is notorious for this less than honest practice (Not to mention being buttholes about putting out multiple versions of the same game: MVC3 & Street fighter 4 for example).
I'm just waiting for jail breaking videogames to go mainstream for the large majority of gamers out there so that game companies will finally start to take a hint that this practice is not cool. That 60 dollar game you purchased winds up actually costing you 70, 80, 90 maybe 100 or 110 dollars when you start adding up all that DLC stuff. Now sit down and think about how much of that content was actually already on the original disc you purchased....Doesn't seem so fair now does it?
I remember long ago when the internet was still pretty young and p2p music sharing was still a new concept to the majority of people out there. The movie and music industry didn't really give shit that people were still paying 30,40 or even 50$ for a ten year old CD album or movie.
People complained about the high prices for years, but they didn't care as long they kept getting money from it and also because they thought there was nothing the consumers could do about it.
P2P music sharing came on the horizon, movie and music industry was quick to jump up and say THEY were the ones getting ripped off by this. They ignored the consumers and the consumers found a solution on their own. For the first year or two, they fought hard against music sharing even going so far as to lock people up for it.
Eventually they started to figure out that this new concept was not going to go away. And it was in THAT moment they started to reconsider lowering their prices for movies and music. That's why nowadays the most expensive CD or movie you see is no more than about 20$ (excluding Blu Ray movies) That was their big kick in the mouth. The question now is when will the gamers start fighting back SERIOUSLY on these issues like DLC.
All we're doing right now is giving them more leg room to keep slapping on "hidden fees" on games you guys already own. If we keep making excuses for these game companies they'll keep tossing DLC at us. Sooner or later we'll be paying 90-100$ for a game and people will consider it normal because they will think they can't do anything about it and because no one will speak up about it. When will we as a community say enough is enough?
