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[WhiteKnyght]

Cause I'm getting very tired of Sony's PSN downtime. I mean really, from what I've read they were hacked a little while ago and just hacked AGAIN.

I only go on the PSN Store for one thing, DLC, and I don't do it that often. But I want the appearance pack for DAII and I hereby request an alternate way to buying for console users.

There are a couple of ways to go I can suggest.

Paid download from Bioware's site. Buy it, download it to our computers, and install on PS3 through a flash drive like you can do with PS3 firmware updates.

DLC Discs available in stores like Walmart, Game Stop, Etc.

[sestrensaz]

Your suggestions are not feasible since the first one (download to PC and transfer to console via flashdrive) opens up their DLC to piracy, while the second (buying a disc in store) would go against the entire point of DLC, making it far too costly and thus make DLC unprofitable - so, in short, both of your suggestions are never going to happen. Also, this is the wrong place to ask... BioWare are the developers, you'd want to be talking to EA since they are the publishers and therefore the ones that deal with content delivery.

But even asking EA is pointless because their hands are tied. They have to either support the platform holder (i.e. Sony) or remove DLC altogether - there is no alternative. Sony (and any other platform holder) would have something to say about developers cutting them out of DLC profits by going over their heads and offering their content outside of the Playstation Store. They simply wouldn't allow it.

I know the downtime is irritating (I bought the Arrival DLC for Mass Effect 2 right before the store went down and didn't get a chance to download it!), but we just have to deal with it. BioWare has other concerns in this scenario than getting you your DLC a little bit quicker than if you simply wait for the store to return (I mean, they promised it would be back by the 31st, which is only a week away now - if you've waited this long...).  The politics of this downtime is rather complicated for both Sony and their publishing partners who are eager for their content to be made available to their customers - I'm sorry to say it, but what you are asking is simply impossible on any console.

Modifié par sestrensaz, 24 mai 2011 - 11:05 .

[WhiteKnyght]

sestrensaz wrote...
 while the second (buying a disc in store) would go against the entire point of DLC, making it far too costly and thus make DLC unprofitable - so, in short, both of your suggestions are never going to happen.

Not really, Bethesda did it for Fallout 3 on the 360 (Disc combo packs
of DLC), Rockstar did it for GTA4 TLAD&TBOGT, and let's not forget
Bioware/EA did it with the Dragon Age Origins - Ultimate Edition which
includes all the DLC.

Modifié par The Grey Nayr, 25 mai 2011 - 11:50 .

[WhiteKnyght]

Accidental double post. Plz delete

Modifié par The Grey Nayr, 25 mai 2011 - 11:50 .

[sestrensaz]

The Grey Nayr wrote...

sestrensaz wrote...
 while the second (buying a disc in store) would go against the entire point of DLC, making it far too costly and thus make DLC unprofitable - so, in short, both of your suggestions are never going to happen.

Not really, Bethesda did it for Fallout 3 on the 360 (Disc combo packs
of DLC), Rockstar did it for GTA4 TLAD&TBOGT, and let's not forget
Bioware/EA did it with the Dragon Age Origins - Ultimate Edition which
includes all the DLC.

Those are quite different, significantly large DLC packs which are honestly more like expansions costing enough per unit to warrant the production and distribution cost of the discs.  It's worth mentioning that a lot of those disc-based DLC packs only make their way to the US and not any other territories.  What you were asking for was a way to download a costume pack, there's no way in hell that kind of DLC would ever get made if the distribution method was buying it on disc in a shop.

The Ultimate Edition of DAO ( as well as the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 which is a similar deal with all the DLC bundled with the original game) is an entirely different situation.  It's all the DLC sure, but it's WITH the original game which was always sold on disc.  Again, what you were talking about was costume packs for DA2 - those packs, and all other smaller DLC offerings you get digitally, simply wouldn't exist without XBLM and the Playstation Store.  You could hang on a year or so and wait for an ultimate edition of DA2 which might include all the costume DLC along with any other DLC BioWare have planned for DA2, but obviously that's quite the wait.

Like I said before, as annoying as it is that the store is down there is no other alternative method for BioWare and EA to deliver their content to you.  It's only a matter of days before the store is back up now if Sony are on schedule as planned, so try and be a little more patient.

[Tommyspa]

I wish this were possible, mostly because I live in a region where high speed internet of any kind is unavailable (satellite or cable), I'd kill for the option of usb installs for dlc. But I don't see it happening.

[DarthSliver]

sestrensaz wrote...

The Grey Nayr wrote...

sestrensaz wrote...
 while the second (buying a disc in store) would go against the entire point of DLC, making it far too costly and thus make DLC unprofitable - so, in short, both of your suggestions are never going to happen.

Not really, Bethesda did it for Fallout 3 on the 360 (Disc combo packs
of DLC), Rockstar did it for GTA4 TLAD&TBOGT, and let's not forget
Bioware/EA did it with the Dragon Age Origins - Ultimate Edition which
includes all the DLC.

Those are quite different, significantly large DLC packs which are honestly more like expansions costing enough per unit to warrant the production and distribution cost of the discs.  It's worth mentioning that a lot of those disc-based DLC packs only make their way to the US and not any other territories.  What you were asking for was a way to download a costume pack, there's no way in hell that kind of DLC would ever get made if the distribution method was buying it on disc in a shop.

The Ultimate Edition of DAO ( as well as the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 which is a similar deal with all the DLC bundled with the original game) is an entirely different situation.  It's all the DLC sure, but it's WITH the original game which was always sold on disc.  Again, what you were talking about was costume packs for DA2 - those packs, and all other smaller DLC offerings you get digitally, simply wouldn't exist without XBLM and the Playstation Store.  You could hang on a year or so and wait for an ultimate edition of DA2 which might include all the costume DLC along with any other DLC BioWare have planned for DA2, but obviously that's quite the wait.

Like I said before, as annoying as it is that the store is down there is no other alternative method for BioWare and EA to deliver their content to you.  It's only a matter of days before the store is back up now if Sony are on schedule as planned, so try and be a little more patient.

Well the PSN store has to be back before E3 or I am sure Sony will get bad press with it still being down. But their top prioty was getting it the PSN up around the World, which sounds like they did recently. So I hope the 31st is right like you said.

[Lordran]

Anyone heard anything recent on when the PS Store will go online again? My old PS3 died during the PS network outage - imagine the issues I had with getting my saved games onto the new system and working with games like Dragon Age II which are network linked... It's a definite pain that you still can't download your extra game content now... Couldn't they activate that independent of full PS Store activation? The other bioware network features are running after all, why not through that channel?

[Cawti35]

The store was up about two hours ago when I checked.

[Lordran]

Thanks - my post superceded by events actually... Store up again, all my content downloaded and installed, so all set again. Finally...