staindgrey wrote...
Awful example. We can't openly negotiate the terms of a DLC. They either make it or they don't.
The actual situation at this point is more like this:
Me: Should I make this for you? It's going to cost us money to make, so if you pay for it...
Them: No. It should be free.
Me: Well, I mean, I may make it, but that's a lot of extra time and resources that we have to--
Them: I SAID IT SHOULD BE FREE.
Me: You know making this is going to cost me a lot and not everyone will even bother purchasing it right? Do you have any idea how game production works?
Them: FREEEEEE.
Me: Fine. **** you. Enjoy your current ending.
Naw, I'd say yours is the awful example, seeing as how it tries to portray Bioware as a victim of some sort. Your analogy is basically akin to someone smashing your car, then acting dismayed at the idea that they'd be expected to fix your car without YOU paying for it. In other words; why should people have to pay for them to fix their own mistakes? Sure, they don't have to fix their own mistakes. Just like nobody has to buy their games due to them screwing their consumers over time after time after time after time after time after time after time.
And yet here we are, people happily setting fire to their money for the sake of Bioware's greed. Sure, I can see how asking someone to own up to a mistake, act with a little bit of common decency and not act like a rotten human being would be difficult, but hey, considering that people like YOU keep demanding that I do these things, I don't see why the same can't be demanded of Bioware.
Really, it's pretty amusing when you stop to consider that Bioware has the gall to enact a 'zero tolerance' policy on how people behave on their forums, when their business conduct is atrocious. If you translated the way that Bioware handles its userbase into a verbal response, and posted it on here, you'd get banned under the current rule system. It's pretty much like a waiter spitting in your food right in front of you, and when you cuss him out over it they throw you out for causing a scene.