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[LPPrince]

It doesn't have to be a drastic price cut.

If Bioware releases 40 dollars worth of DLCs for ME3, I'd pay $30 up front for a Season Pass.

$20 would be a steal.

[Mazder]

Tbh, if it's for future DLC and not CE DLC then it should be okay.
I don't think people should pay some money to get the CE stuff for a limited time. If you wanted that you should have bought the CE as it's the same price. It makes the CE almost worthless if you do that. But for future DLC it could work.

[Wulfram]

Buying the game should get you a "season pass" at least for the first few months.

edit: Also, the collectors edition should be "almost worthless" unless you're an actual collector who'll value a fancy box, artbook, maybe figurines or a nice map or whatver.  It shouldn't be about getting a better version of the actual game.

Modifié par Wulfram, 25 janvier 2012 - 11:54 .

[Mazder]

Wulfram wrote...

Buying the game should get you a "season pass" at least for the first few months.

edit: Also, the collectors edition should be "almost worthless" unless you're an actual collector who'll value a fancy box, artbook, maybe figurines or a nice map or whatver.  It shouldn't be about getting a better version of the actual game.

Okay, the CE's DLC content and the reason for getting the CE in part for having the pre-order DLC, would almost be not worth it, in the sense of getting the DLC in it.

[LPPrince]

Wulfram wrote...

Buying the game should get you a "season pass" at least for the first few months.

edit: Also, the collectors edition should be "almost worthless" unless you're an actual collector who'll value a fancy box, artbook, maybe figurines or a nice map or whatver.  It shouldn't be about getting a better version of the actual game.

I don't know about you personally, but I get my CE's for the in game content.

Some folks buy CE's for the physical goodies, and thats all well and good. Hell, that's why those items are there.

Me personally, I like things I can use in-game. The whole point of buying the product is for the game, afterall.

I don't think CE items make the game a "better game", but I do think they add to the experience, even if its very minor.

As for purchasing the game netting you a season pass- nah.

Purchasing the game should get you the game.

Anything extra should cost extra, unless generosity is involved.

So if Bioware were to say, "If you bought the game new, you get a 2 month Season pass and any DLC released in that time will be free" I'm happy.

If they don't say that, I'm cool with that too. I'm willing to pay for a Season Pass. I don't really see why it should be free.

Then again, the Cerberus Network was kind of a Season Pass for a little while, and it was free with new copies of the game.

ME3 will have the Alliance Network, which is effectively the same thing. Just the good guy version, hahaha.

So as it turns out, generosity IS involved.

But after that brief time period, I'm definitely down for a pre-payment for all future DLC releases.

[Arbiter156]

this deserves a bump, also ive created a poll for this here social.bioware.com/1455914/polls/28060/

Modifié par Arbiter156, 25 janvier 2012 - 12:46 .

[Wulfram]

If the thing selling the Collector's edition is in game content rather than anything that is, y'know, collectable, then it's not really a Collector's edition. It's a complete edition, or a deluxe edition, or something. And the regular edition is an incomplete edition.

It's got nothing to do with generosity. It's a business decision.

The question for Bioware/EA is whether it's in the long run more profitable to extract every last dollar out of your audience now and be resented for the tactics you employ to do it, or to be seen as a company with which it is pleasant to take your custom and which delivers value for money and thus hopefully secure business in the future.

[N172]

So it is finally here, that idea of creating something and let customers pay more than once for it.
EA/Bioware paid their employees one time to create a DLC, they create it one time and then its there, it is not necessary to "recreate" it.

Whould i pay multiple times? No, i may buy up to 50% of the DRM-infused games i whould have bought without DRM, but i definitely wont buy such time-limited bs.

[HolyAvenger]

LPPrince wrote...

It doesn't have to be a drastic price cut.

If Bioware releases 40 dollars worth of DLCs for ME3, I'd pay $30 up front for a Season Pass.

$20 would be a steal.

The "worth" of a DLC is set by Bioware alone so I can see that system being a ripoff.

[LPPrince]

Wulfram wrote...

If the thing selling the Collector's edition is in game content rather than anything that is, y'know, collectable, then it's not really a Collector's edition. It's a complete edition, or a deluxe edition, or something. And the regular edition is an incomplete edition. 

I wholeheartedly disagree that its incomplete in that case, but this isn't the thread to discuss the whole, "95% vs. 105%" argument.

[LPPrince]

HolyAvenger wrote...

LPPrince wrote...

It doesn't have to be a drastic price cut.

If Bioware releases 40 dollars worth of DLCs for ME3, I'd pay $30 up front for a Season Pass.

$20 would be a steal.

The "worth" of a DLC is set by Bioware alone so I can see that system being a ripoff.

Yeah, but in that case they'd get called out on it by the gaming community and get a lot of bad publicity.

[LTiberious]

One problem: For 30$ i buy a cat in a bag.

I dont know how crappy the DLC's will be. And i can't complain about it much, 'cos i've already paid for em

[LPPrince]

And if you're worried about that now, you won't have to buy the Season Pass if it ever exists.

[BeastMTL]

The season pass thing is just a cash grab by companies with no guarantee of quality for said DLC's. You could get 10 horse armors for example. And ****ing on BSN wont change squat if the DLC is crap or not. See DA2.

Not only that, but putting CE and other 'exclusive' content makes them worthless in the long term, This is only valuable to the peeps that cant stand not having EVERYTHING. Saves them money and screws over every other customer.

Thanks but no thanks.If you want EVERYTHING, then pay for it.

[LTiberious]

Id prefer DLC bundles and/or discounts with time. (ME2 dlcs cost more than the game on steam))

[LPPrince]

BeastMTL wrote...

If you want EVERYTHING, then pay for it.

That's kinda the point.

[Wulfram]

LPPrince wrote...

Yeah, but in that case they'd get called out on it by the gaming community and get a lot of bad publicity.

Hasn't done anyone much harm before, with all the other times people have been ripped off with shoddy overpriced DLC.

[LPPrince]

Wulfram wrote...

LPPrince wrote...

Yeah, but in that case they'd get called out on it by the gaming community and get a lot of bad publicity.

Hasn't done anyone much harm before, with all the other times people have been ripped off with shoddy overpriced DLC.

*CoD map packs*

Ergh.

[Arbiter156]

LPPrince wrote...

Wulfram wrote...

LPPrince wrote...

Yeah, but in that case they'd get called out on it by the gaming community and get a lot of bad publicity.

Hasn't done anyone much harm before, with all the other times people have been ripped off with shoddy overpriced DLC.

*CoD map packs*

Ergh.

^this^

[AcidRelic]

I like the idea, I've bought all the DLC I could for ME2, if they had something like this that I could have saved some $$ that would have been great. My brother on the other hand only bought 3 things because of $ reasons but for an extra few $$ and the option for the rest of the DLC I could see him getting it. It helps the customer and BioWare both. More people over all would get it to have access to all the DLC instead of just one or two pieces and it keeps the other players happy who buy them all anyway because they are saving some money.


Edit- Voted

Modifié par AcidRelic, 25 janvier 2012 - 02:44 .

[Arbiter156]

AcidRelic wrote...

I like the idea, I've bought all the DLC I could for ME2, if they had something like this that I could have saved some $$ that would have been great. My brother on the other hand only bought 3 things because of $ reasons but for an extra few $$ and the option for the rest of the DLC I could see him getting it. It helps the customer and BioWare both. More people over all would get it to have access to all the DLC instead of just one or two pieces and it keeps the other players happy who buy them all anyway because they are saving some money.

vote for or against a season pass here: social.bioware.com/1455914/polls/28060/

[ganthet2000]

Works for me. This might stop the whiners on other threads about the cost of DLC and the cutting out of content to make DLC.

[RocketManSR2]

 The special DLC that comes with the CE should be excluded (as others have posted). If that is done, then I fully support a season pass to score all the rest of the DLC (both current and future).

[Drinking Shepard]

UncleClaudius wrote...

Fantastic idea. There's lots of people who want the DLC but have no interest in the merchandise attached to it- Bioware can actually pick up those customers that way.


Of course, maybe I'm just being selfish.

Why would you call that selfish?     I don't care about action figures, ship models, posters, lithos, heavy art books and stuff just as well, but I'd pay to have every extra digital bit