Chris Priestly wrote...
Kilshrek wrote...
I don't know, it really does seem to be about the principle of the thing here Chris. You(Bioware) should know that your community has completionists, just like any other, and to them surely this is some sort of slap in the face. Where it was merely Dr Pepper cans(again, America, nowhere else) now it's action figures. The cost of buying in seems to go higher with each game.
I call this a slippery slope, and who knows what marketing will want us to buy in the future to get the "complete" experience, because it's all well and good to say that your core experience isn't affected, but just as Zaeed and Kasumi weren't integral to ME 2, the experience would have been poorer without them.
Well, the other side of this coin is that we should deny free DLC items to those people who aren't completionists, but do support our products by buying toys, art, comics, etc. While I know there are completionists out there, there are far more of the other people, who aren't completionists, but buy a single or couple of pieces they are interested in. And I think it is better to reward thos people, who may also include the completionists, than exclude them because they are not completionists.
I don't expect a "reward" (if this sales incentive plan counts as that) out of you for buying your products, I just believed that I would have reasonable access to all the products I, and many others are interested in. I have bought multiple specialty items (books, lithos, etc.) relating to Mass Effect and none of them included DLC, nor was that the concern because I am already a person interested in those things. So I bought them. They were specialty products and I would still find this practice to be a poor decision if that DLC had been exclusively packaged with specialty items that I was interested in.
I don't see how exclusively attaching DLC to niche merchandise is anything more than an ill-placed sales incentive. The purchasers of such products are not being excluded from DLC access if they are offered the chance to download it from the marketplace along with the rest of the fans who are interested in the content and not the figurines. The people being excluded when it comes to this DLC are anyone who hopes to get certain pieces from this DLC set and instead are told they have a random chance by purchasing a figurine that some real figurine fan would have bought, but DLC-fan wouldn't have.
I'd feel pretty dang rewarded at this point if I was told that at some point we could download the content without ordering a figurine. Then us completionists, those figurine collector's, and the just-plain-don't-cares would all have access and would be satisfied on this issue. I'd take a chance for everyone to buy all the DLC over getting it with a relatively expensive figurine set. Are the figurine purists really saying they won't buy them if you don't reward them? Because if they aren't, know that there are a bunch of us sitting out in the rain wishing we could buy the DLC instead of getting wild amounts of exclusive deals flying around left and right from you guys.
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And I'm very serious. I love this series. I have three lithographs hanging on my wall, the books, the collector's editions, etc., but no figurines. Figurines aren't my thing, but they will have to be my pricey thing if I ever hope to have the full range of ME3 content. That stings me and maybe that is my problem, but it comes from loving your series. I can't imagine I am the only one with this problem.
