Can I just do the new guy thing and ask what is this argument is about?
I mean I’ve been following this topic since it only had 72 pages, and despite the spirals and circles it hasn’t really be defined.
Is it about the DLC’s availability or implementation? Questionable business practises? Or is it about content?
Because there seems to me a lot of people saying stuff about lines in the sand and someone even quoted Martin Niemöller, and while I admire that, the noticing of “this far an no further” I have to say, personally, your too late.
I shall explain; I am an old school gamer, and whether it’s because I just haven’t moved on with the times or that I only came into the 7th Gen consoles till last September (having given up computer games while trying to do University) I am a firm believer in that you get the game you pay for. Developers shouldn’t hold anything back and that the finished game on the shelves is just that: FINISHED.
Cue September 2011. I plug in my new fancy PS3 for the first time and start to want to play some games, and to my surprise and horror there was this thing called DLC.
DLC being extra’s you paid, sometimes lot, for what should as I saw it be in expiation pack, a disk on it’s self if not included in the original realises of the game it’s self. I was shocked and appalled I wanted to go on the internet and complain, I searched and searched for forums to vent on and what did I find? Nothing, because gamers have cheerfully accepted this. DLC is now just the done thing, and if you are fool to believe that DLC is never planed during the initial game development stage you are a fool. Any writer worth their salt thinks of the add ons and extra’s while working on the main body, it’s what we writers do. And the one thing you can accuse BioWare of having is damn good writers. So what if the DLC was thought up and started on while the main game was still being finished. It doesn’t change the fact that is an extra, the sprinkles on the donut as it were.
So if this is making a stand ageist DLC it is 5 to 6 years too late. This is the world you let them build, now deal with it. But that’s an argument for another day.
But is this is about content? Someone about 100 odd pages asked that if this said character was Vaga and not some Fluff piece would people still care? And the general consensus was no, they wouldn’t. They don’t care about some Human character they want a dead space sheep, who’s not quite dead… yet.
Because lets not hide behind false importance that is what this DLC is. It’s Fluffy and Flossy. Flossy is the mission and all the extra wonderful XP and Fluffy (the Prothean) who walks and talks.
I will tell you I am excited about Fluffy for one reason; I am hoping he is implemented like the Phantom is in the Multiplayer. One thing ME lacks is a character that has any decent melee attack, and since ME3 has more of a role for melee I hope that Fluffy will be filling that role, but if he is another sniper or shotgun guy, I’ll be disappointed. I have plenty of them already. SO other than that, he’s not all that important.
‘But what about the Lore be brings’ I hear people ask;
What lore? The story of the Protheans was done and over by the end of ME1, we found out all there was to know about them, they lost. They died. And in ME2 it got worst, they didn’t just die, they got turned into Space Bees collecting Human nectar for their hive at the centre of the galaxy, and then we blew them up.
So unless this DLC gives a super advanced weapon that turns Reapers to Stone just by looking at them or a Secret Space Fleet of Super Advanced Ships for Humans to use ageist the Reapers I don’t see him adding anything.
I just want a melee sheep.
Is this about Questionable business practises?
I don’t see how I looked at both CE & SE before making an informed decision on what to spend my money on, if you did not then that’s not my fault, EA’s fault, BioWare’s Fault, or the retailers. All the information was there for you to see and the lack of information also. If you saw the CE for its greater price came with a list of extra things, and then the SE for its lesser price didn’t come with that list. It doesn’t take a child to realise that the SE doesn’t come with those things. If you haven’t grasped that concept yet, more fool you.
So Business practise? Not questionable. You just might not like it, but that’s the world we live in.
This squabble over Fluffy has been blown out of portion because of one man with a microphone and a YouTube account. At best it should be a minor annoyance for those who for whatever their reason didn’t buy the CE, but at lest BioWare has given you the option of maybe thinking for yourselves. You don’t need Fluffy, but if you want him he’s there. Fluffy wasn’t free to make, he wasn’t free to voice, he wasn’t free to market (not that we’ve seen any of that right now) and he’s not free to implement. I and a lot of others made the decision to pay for him, his mission his wonderful, wonderful XP and all the extra fluff that comes with the little space sheep. If you want him you should do the same.
If you want to complain about all DLC and I do mean ALL DLC however, I am with you. I will bring all I am to bare on that fight, but if you’re angry over the content of just the one ‘extra’ then bog off.
Sorry for the long wall of text
I'll just go back to lurking now thanks.
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