Wow. The madness rolls on...
Well, I pre-ordered the CE. It cost me about a hundred bucks. That's cool, I knew what I was getting, I know what I want out of my ME3 experience. It's the same reason I buy
Criterion editions of movies I really like, to get as much content for my dollar as possible - to have a
definitive version. The definitive versions
are usually the versions that cost more. They're shiny. They have that new gun smell. They offer more so they cost more. Simple. Logical. Most reasonable people would agree with this.
The SE is the standard edition. It's the main game. It's the finished game certified, pressed and released (
*X-Files music here* or so those lying sonsob!tches would have us believe). It does not, however, have the bells and whistles. People know this. Hence "Standard Edition." There is no mystery unless you're a moron.
That's why it's 60 bucks. It's the game and that's all it is. That's all you get and you know that going in - unless you're a moron.
If the DLC had never been released for either version, we would all think that that was all there was, and we'd be right. But no, EA/BW are sitting in their steel towers laughing and rubbing their hands together thinking up new ways to screw the peons because they've nothing better to do, will never be found out, never called to the mat for it. Next they'll be demanding our wimmens for an extra week of MP. Future games will demand contracts signed with a bloody thumbprint.
Gawddamned diabolical geniuses! (...and not the nerds and 'puter junkies they really are...nevermind)So, if SE buyers suddenly demanded the N7 fabric patch and the soundtrack for free because the CE buyers are getting extra content - and whether it's gameplay or not that's exactly what it is -
content - would it seem more righteous then? Would the principle of the thing be more justified if the SE folks were demanding that swag? The argument would then swiftly degenerate into, "Well, how come my box is plastic, but he done got the tin? It's class warfare!" Y'all know this would happen.
So, no. I paid a
hundred bucks for all this extra. That
includes the stupid Prothean, whether he's integral to the plot or not. If anyone deserves the extra content it's me, BECAUSE I LEGITIMATELY PAID FOR IT. It don't look "free" from where I'm sitting. Those who self-righteously demand it for free under the guise of some "glorious cause to free gamers from corporate bondage" are full of sh!t and they know it. These are in the same league as those folks who use the same cretinous logic demanding the "right" to have automatic weapons and armor-piercing bullets for "deer hunting". Yeah. Right.
The hell.
I can just as easily add that I'm
also paying that hundred bucks to get
MP I do not want, MP content I have no interest in but have to pay for anyway. Maybe they should give everyone who does not want the MP content that content for free - and those who want it can pay for it, or give us the option of not having it included at all and knock 10 bucks off the price. Whattaya think about that? Is
that fair?
No - that's as fair as people thinking they "deserve" Prothy for nothing simply because it was offered as 1stDay DLC and you've got your knickers in a twist because it offends your delicate sensibilities. I
don't want multiplayer in my game, but I
have to pay for it anyway to get the whole game. It is not fvcking optional at all. I can't opt out, that bit will still be talking up real estate on my HD. I'm stuck with what is to me a waste of damn money for a game mode I am not going to play. I can easily make a case for MP being forced on me and stealing money from my pocket, but that's the way it goes. I won't be spending any money on the rest of the ME3 DLC - of which 99% of will be MP maps and bullsh!t, anyway. That's the only satisfaction I can get for this.
If the Prothean character is what BW says it is - by some wild oh-so-improbable miracle - if he is simply a walking codex like Tali was in the first ME, then all of this is going to make all of you "We deserve this because we're angry we was suddenly gyped" look like serious d!ckheads - and you will deserve it. I don't hear anyone in this thread screaming about pre-order bonuses being denied them.
Well? Start self-righteously demanding those for free too! The hell you waiting for?
Every time I see one of these specious and fatuous "arguments" for why y'all so suddenly damn entitled all I can hear is that volus on the Citadel going, "well, she
could have taken my chit,".
Simply because that's what this all boils down to, and if Bioware were smart, they'd just adopt the notion of "Well, it looks like we've offended the SE buyers, we're sorry, so we'll withdraw the offer and this DLC." Hell, they can take it out of my CE version. Just leave me the guns and armor-whatever, and I'm fine with it. That way
no one has it and no one misses
anything. We
all have the
same game then,
don't we? Don't we?
You don't get your "blood money", Bioware, and the rest of us don't have to be plagued by this nonsense. Just offer it a year from now for 8 bucks, and we'll see if it matters so bloody much then.
Modifié par JakeMacDon, 24 février 2012 - 02:06 .
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