DetailedSubset wrote...
Tocquevillain wrote...
DetailedSubset wrote...
Tocquevillain wrote...
Detailed Subset, you said that including extra content is like tearing a page out of a book. I say that you bought the book, enjoyed it, and now there's a revamped edition coming out that you can only buy at ______with a new foreword and a new chapter, and only at full price. Your analogy doesn't hold up.
Which I will need new eyes to read.
..come again? 
To 'read' this new chapter I would need a PS3.
they're barring PC and Xbox users from a part of the ME story and no matter how nonessential that part of the story may be its not justifiable to give it to people who have done little to nothing to make the ME franchise as successful as it is.
[edit] after having read Jesse Houston's edited post 1 my point is irrelevant
Well, what can I say, I'll start by just saying hello to the entire Mass Effect forum community.
As that sentence might suggest, this is my very first post to the forums and I know that a very large number of you will disagree with what I am about to say on principle, but I believe that no rational member of the community will be able to deny that they are based on either facts of high probable truth or that they can not be difinatively disputed by an opposing truth.
Also, though I am a new contributor to the forums, I am not new to the Mass Effect franchise or the forums themselves. I have been reading the bioware ME forums since the game was announced at E3 '06 and I have supported the franchise relentlessly, from all three novels to the comics and obviousely the games themselves, including all story based DLC (except for LOTSB, explanation to follow).
Hence I was amazed, or something like that, to read the last post included above. Unless you have done market reseach how can you presume to kno w the retail desires of 2 million people who have bought a single product. I myself have read post on these forums of a number of people who are just like me, which is as follows.
As has been said in this thread "There is nothing like ME on the PS3". I would mostly agree with that. At its release there was nothing like ME on the PS3. However success breeds a desire to reproduce, which some developers have tried. So at the moment there are things on the PS3 like ME, but I would have to agree that there is nothing remotely like ME AND to the same level of quality as it. However even if we presume there is nothing like ME on PS3, I believe the statement is incomplete because there is nothing like ME on X360 either, and yes I have experienced Fable, it is not ME. Hence this leads me to my point. To say that Bioware is giving anything to people who have done little to nothing to make the ME franchise just ranges from wildly unproven speculation to just downright wrong, because just like me, I can imagine there are quite a few people out there who are able to afford and indeed own both consoles but really have no desire for that to be the case. And because ME is so unique, that is the ONLY reason to ever own an Xbox 360.
People have speculated on the reason to why anyone who has played ME2 would ever buy it on the PS3. Simple, not having to buy ME3 on the X360 for a whole host of reasons. So as you now might be able to imagine I rejoiced when I heard this announcement, because I , a person who has done a lot to "make" the ME franchise will now be buying ME2 and hopefully the unannouced ME3 on PS3.
And lets face it if people did not see this coming, they were not paying attention. I will give you one number 2 Million. For a game of this quality, originallity, and as Priestly has said overall awsomeness, that is a relatively low number and likely highly disappointing given that most of that two million was in the first few weeks of its release, which for high profile games is kind of unheard of. FF13 by comparison sold I believe upwards of 4 million mostly on the PS3. Not completely sure of the numbers for Fallout 3, but I believe the disparity between the two consoles was not astronomical.
Hence it is not a matter of making money, as far as Bioware is concerned (Concerning EA the argument may be a little different), for an RPG company. Given the economic climent today, the cost of making games, and the reality of what genres sell on what platforms, it is a matter of survival. You want an RPG, or whatever, to stay exclusive to you console of preference. Get more than two million people to buy it, because compared to other high profile titles plus or minus 6 months of ME2's January release that number leaves something to be desired.
Almost forgot, LOTSB was not released until after the ME2 PS3 announcement. I basically hedged my bets that LOTSB would be included in the PS3 release therefore making it a waist for me to buy it now for the X360, so far so good. Besides I have a life to live and plenty of other worthy games to keep me entertained until January.
Happy reading
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