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[TrueIceD]

Black friday going on, games are cheap in stores - e.g. ME3 shows as ~$4 to me. DLCs are still in fking bioware points and are like $15 each - almost 4times more expensive than base game. WTF?! 

[TheProtheans]

DLC prices are hardly ever relative to the current cost of the game, unless they're huge or there is a price drop.
$4 is far too damn cheap, hell I bought ME1 for $10 well after it's release.

[Sanunes]

TheProtheans wrote...

DLC prices are hardly ever relative to the current cost of the game, unless they're huge or there is a price drop.
$4 is far too damn cheap, hell I bought ME1 for $10 well after it's release.

I took a look at Origin and I think it was a simple mistake.  Mass Effect 3 (basic) is $8, but the upgrade to the N7 Edition is $4.

My theory on why DLC rarely goes on sale because they aren't competiting with resellers putting the DLC on sale like they are with the main game. Even Steam doesn't sell DLC at the same discount levels as the games they are selling. I was going to pick up DLC for Bioshock Infinite, but there isn't a discount on any of it while the main game was 75% off.

[Guanxii]

It still amazes me how people fail to get the concept that DLC is meant to be a store of value that pushes back against the ravages of the free market. Therefore waiting for dlc to come down in price on Origin/XBL/PSN is by definition a futile exercise. The disc might only be 'worth $4' but at this point thats like paying an additional 4 bucks for a dlc delivery system. Is the dlc for ME3 poor value... absolutely.

But if you want the full mass effect 3 experience you're going to have to pay $60 for it like everybody else. Sure this sucks ass for people who supported the game at launch and have paid twice as much as everybody else, but people on the other end of the spectrum who 'buy' the game years later, second hand for 4 bucks deserve absolutely no sympathy by comparison.

Modifié par Guanxii, 01 décembre 2013 - 10:51 .

[Sweetz]

The DLC has been on sale on XBL and PSN on multiple occasions. DLCs for other games which are sold directly on Origin are on sale right now.

While it's true that publishers uses DLC to reap a lot of profit from relatively cheap to make content, in this case I think the DLC not receiving a discount is more a side-effect of them stubbornly and stupidly sticking to their Bioware points/social network system instead of just selling the DLC directly in the Origin store. Whoever is responsible for doing the pricing probably isn't even aware of the ME DLC because it's not in the freaking store. So more than likely it's just overlooked because of their unmonitored mess of disparate systems.

Modifié par Stevedroid, 01 décembre 2013 - 09:37 .

[chris2365]

Stevedroid wrote...

The DLC has been on sale on XBL and PSN on multiple occasions. DLCs for other games which are sold directly on Origin are on sale right now.

While it's true that publishers uses DLC to reap a lot of profit from relatively cheap to make content, in this case I think the DLC not receiving a discount is more a side-effect of them stubbornly and stupidly sticking to their Bioware points/social network system instead of just selling the DLC directly in the Origin store. Whoever is responsible for doing the pricing probably isn't even aware of the ME DLC because it's not in the freaking store. So more than likely it's just overlooked because of their unmonitored mess of disparate systems.

+1. Is there anywhere we can send them a note to let them know they even exist?

[Irx]

I'm kinda still butthurt about the ending thus ignore dlc, yet I thought of buying them for a full series replay in a year or two, but since they are not on sale and still require those weird biopoints, no deal for me.

[TrueIceD]

Same ****. And yes, I did pre-order ME3. And yes, it's $4 on sale ATM (russian origin). And yes, DLCs for other games are on sale - all except ME3/DA2.