NoxJuked wrote...
Blarty wrote...
I should be surprised this debate has got to over 250 pages, but as it's BSN I'm not.
The facts are, as been said many times, a) everyone knew that there would be extra characters and missions in the CE and have known for a long time, so 
this is not a surprise, c) that the extra mission and character are being released (for a fee) by Bioware for people who were unable to get the CE and d) Bioware did not have to release this at all to non-CE buyers.
Although I can certainly understand peoples frustration regarding the choice of character, (surprisingly it would have been completely ok for it to be an inconsequential numb nuts of a character that you could then whinge about that being $10 because the character is pointless and not worth $10, rather than essential in your eyes, whilst being blind to the fact that either a supposedly important or pointless character are both optional to the story, gameplay and ability to complete the game satisfactorily), I also cannot subscribe to these heavy-handed rebukes at a company which has to pay people, make a profit and have that profit invested in the future of the franchise - do you work for free because someone tells you you should? - and also rebukes at people who are willing to buy DLC purchase on day 1 or otherwise.
And whilst you are all on your high horses shouting 'Pre-order cancelled', 'Last Bioware/EA game I'm going to buy', or 'I'll pirate it, and get it all free and you can have no money'.... but I bet you'd change your mind if the mob rule wins and they give you the Prothean for free... - think about this ... do you pull this kind of c r a p to the guy behind the counter when a shop offer finishes and you can no longer get 2 for 1, for instance? You may not like the Day 1 DLC, and I myself am certainly not a fan of it so I believe it is somewhat morally grey in that I can see both sides of the opinion, but the kind of thing many of you are doing is tantamount to holding the company to ransom and more or less threats to blackmail - that might seem a little strong but hey.
First of all I don't care about this true fans bought the CE BS - there are many true fans that could not afford or have access to CE - hell, I've got 2 on order with GAME and I still have no idea whether they'll actually be there to be picked up on release day. What I do believe is if you are seriously pulling these kind of tricks over a $10 optional DLC (and no, I don't care if it's a Prothean - nobody markets stuff for purchase that no-one wants - and people whose experience of Mass Effect is only through the PS3 really don't have the Prothean connection that ME1 players have) then it really is pretty low (and on a par with how low you think Bioware and EA are being), and in that sense no you're not even a reasonable fan of the franchise.... if you don't want to buy the optional DLC then by all means abstain - throwing your toys out of the pram over this is utterly incredulous, and how the people shouting about piracy and pre-order cancellations can have the audacity and unmitigated gall to wrap ransoming a company up in the concept of it being 'on principle' disgusts me.
And this is coming from someone who is getting 2 CE's and will also have to buy two extra MP passes and 2 extra Prothean DLCs on top of that.
Misses the point, has to do with having the full ME experience that people care about. Zaeed: don't care. Kasumi: Nice, but don't care. Prothean: Hell yeah! Critical to the story background. It's not complaining that some kind of "two for one" deal ended, it's about buying a car you expect to be awesome and then as he's about to hand you they keys he says, you know we have this option called power windows that you can get for $1000 extra. That would ****** most people off, people would rather pay the $1000 more up front and be told about it than be hit up at checkout for content they'd want.
Again it's the premeditated withholding of content integrated into the main game to try and squeeze people a little more. And no, just because someone labels the content "DLC" does not mean it was developed far afterwards and completely separately from the main game, wake up.
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