I keep throwing money at my computer, but still no Jim Bucks! What the hell is this shit?!
Anyway, amen Jim. A-fucking-men. Not surprised about the Dead Space weapon crafting thing though, they did the same shit in Mass Effect 3. When you play Mass Effect 3 you get a tiny amount of in game money. To get new weapons, do you just buy the weapons you want or earn weapons as you level up? No. You buy a pack and get a random assortment of shit. And the shitty packs are the only ones you can realistically afford with the tiny amount of money you earn by playing the game, but that's okay! You can BUY some Mass Effect bucks with REAL FUCKING MONEY so you can afford some decent weapon packs, which still won't contain and weapons that are any good for your current character, so go ahead and buy some MORE fucking Mass Effect bucks with real fucking money to try again! And people praise this multiplayer mode just because EA throws them a free map pack or character every now and then. You morons, you already spent far more than the map or character was worth by buying those stupid weapon packs. They aren't doing you a favor, they're ripping you off massively, and you're fucking praising them for it. AUGH!
And yeah, Capcom and their cheat code DLC can kiss my ass. $5 cheat code DLC for a $40 retail release that should have just been a $15-$20 DLC pack for Dead Rising 2 in the first goddamn place. And before anyone says "well it's a lot to add a new area to the map, record new voice acting, rewrite the story a bit, and add in challenges" to defend the release of Off the Record as a brand new game, no. You don't get to say that and do you know why you don't get to say that?! Because of Grand Theft Auto IV's DLC. Because of Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas's DLC. That's DLC done right. Rockstar, Bethesda, and Obsidian all put in WAY more effort into their content than Capcom did for Off the Record, and they added it to the game as DLC instead of saying "Nope, buy this brand new disc instead." The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony are both full of new voice acting, new motion capture, new interiors, new vehicles, new weapons, new licensed songs for the radio, and both were $20 each at launch. Off the Record was a bit of new voice acting, motion capture recycled from the downloadable title Case West, one small new area, a very small number of new survivors and psychos, and some new challenges for $40 as a new game at launch. Rockstar did way more content for less money TWICE and it was DLC you could download for your existing game, and Capcom did way less content for more money and you had to go to the store and buy a new disc. And now the cocksuckers are doing it again with Dragon's Dogma, only this time with the excuse "Oh but we had no hooks so we had to charge you $40 for a new disc instead of $20 for DLC." Bullshit, patches are for ADDING hooks you nimrod. This excuse signals one of two things: that you're completely incompetent when it comes to game development, or you're greedier than fuck. Neither of these shine you in a positive light, Capcom.
Oh and fuck EA. Do I really need to say more than that? We all know that EA is the worst, I think "fuck EA" is enough.
Quiotu said:
There really is an easy way to do this, though it's already been said many times before. Simply let publishers know with your wallet what you'll accept and not accept. I buy EA games when they don't screw me over. I bought ME3 used, but I bought SSX new... because one had DLC practices I liked and the other didn't. I don't buy Ubisoft games on the PC period. I haven't bought a Final Fantasy game since 12, but I bought Sleeping Dogs and Deus Ex: HR because those were good games that Squeenix had other developers make. Capcom is virtually dead to me, but I'll buy Okami HD just so they know that's the last thing decent they published. And I haven't bought anything from Sega since Valkyria Chronicles since they've shown they can't make and keep an IP to save their life save perhaps Total War, and a dev they own makes that instead.
Again, never say you'll boycot... because hardly anyone ever perseveres enough to stick to it. Buy what's good, buy what's fair, and let everything else fester as a signal to all publishers concerning what you're willing to put up with.
Except that doesn't work because all people like you manage to do is kill Radical Entertainment and Pandemic while everything you hate about publishers like Activision and EA lives on and continues to make them piles of money.
Actually seeing a lot of that in this thread. I guess you guys forgot about this episode already:
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Buy the game to show that there's a market for these games, but whine your ass off to show that we don't want this DLC bullshit anymore. And don't buy the DLC. Not buying the game and not buying the DLC are two massively different things. Not buying the game makes the publisher think nobody wants that kind of game and they don't make that kind of game anymore (and probably kill the studio that made it). Not buying the DLC makes them think nobody wants that kind of DLC and MAYBE if that message gets across, the message of high sales for the base game but low sales for the DLC, finally they'll fucking stop.
But no, most people I see seem to fall into two camps: the "I'm not buying the game at all" camp, and the "I already bought the game and the DLC is cheap so I'll buy it even if I am getting fucked up the ass." camp. Seriously, I've seen people defend the Saints Row The Third forty weeks of DLC making you buy costumes that should have been unlockable for free like they were in the first two games with "It's cheap so I'll just buy it!". I hate these people SO MUCH for what they're doing to gaming, for the message they are sending publishers. And of course, I hate the people not buying the games at all for what they're doing to gaming as well. Once again, thanks Activision boycotters for not buying Prototype 2; Radical Entertainment is no more and CoD lives and sold better than ever once again in 2012. Good job guys! You showed Activision what for and got exactly what you wanted. ...Oh wait.
So yeah, remember the message from the previous episode. Buy the game but have yourself a righteous whine about the business practices. That's what this video is in some form: "I'm buying Dead Space 3 because I love Dead Space, but FUUUUUUUUUCK you EA for the micro-transaction weapon crafting rooms!" And if you love Dead Space, you should buy it too. Just be sure to not buy any Dead Space bucks and do some whining about it. If you buy the game and the bucks, they'll just do it again for the next game, and if you don't buy Dead Space 3 at all, there may never be a Dead Space 4.
JudgeGame said:
I cannot lie, I'll be slightly happy the day one of these truly despicable publishers bites the dust. It's a shame THQ went under when it was one of the better examples.
THQ had online passes, on-disc DLC, overpriced costume DLC, cheat code DLC, shitty PC ports, piles of shitty licensed titles, unimaginative CoD clones, and more. It wasn't one of the better examples, it was one of the worst examples. The death of THQ as a publisher is a good thing. I feel bad for all the innocent developers losing their jobs in the transition to new publishers or not being bought at all, but at the same time, I celebrate the death of one of gaming's awful publishers. Burn in hell THQ, and let your death be an example to other publishers.