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[JusticarDoom]

So, I recently wanted to buy the trilogy and I managed to pick up Mass Effect 3 for just over £6, as an Origin key. I decided to buy all the DLC to make a total, 100% run through the trilogy. I also wanted to do this for Dragon Age II, in anticipation for Inquisition.

However, I did the math, and forgetting about Dragon Age II DLC, to get all the Mass Effect story DLC that isn't free (Cerb Network, Bring Down The Sky) it costs me over £50. Just the Citadel DLC costs £9. You can get the GAME on Origin for £9.99. The entire trilogy can be bought for £40, which is steep anyway but you can get it cheaper elsewhere. Why is DLC pricier than the actual games themselves?

Request #1
Make the DLC of the ME Trilogy cheaper.
Request #2
Get. Rid. Of BioWare Points. I beg of you.

[Navasha]

Because the DLC is largely why people are replaying it now. The cheap price of the base game is called a "hook". You buy, you like it.. you want more. The more costs ... well, more.

[corporal doody]

for more content....QUALITY content....i would pay!!


IMHO....BW has been pretty good with their DLC...save for DAII...which was terrible all the way around. IMHO.

[Reever]

Navasha wrote...

Because the DLC is largely why people are replaying it now. The cheap price of the base game is called a "hook". You buy, you like it.. you want more. The more costs ... well, more.

[Reever]

Sorry about the quote, can't edit the post. Just wanted to say that yes, that seems to be their tactic. But I won't give in and buy the Dragon Age DLC, paying double or triple of what I payed for the discounted game itself

They really should discount the Bioware points or decouple the DLCs from those points. I mean, they managed to to it with Kingdom of Amalur.

[ThePhantomArtist]

It's annoying for me as I've just got rid of my 360 which I had all the DLC on and bought the games for the PS3. I already have the DLC for ME2 as I previously owned it on PS3. Looking to get the ME3 DLC is going to set me back about £30 (on the plus side, I did manage to pick up a new PS3 Collectors Edition for £7 so don't have to buy From Ashes). I'm probably going to wait for a sale, the DLC was all half priceish recently so will probably be again at some point. Alternatively, as I'm playing through the trilogy again, I'll pick the DLC up as I can afford it - won't be using it for a while anyway...

[XCPTNL]

"The cake is a lie..."
Sorry, I just had to

[RampantBeaver]

I literally came back to this forum after over a year and a half just to ask this question lol.

How is the DLC still full price that just seems insane to me. I will never buy it at that price.

If ME3 hadn't been a cop out I'd happily throw my money at them but no, just no, never going to happen. Reduce the price please.

[Seishoujyo]

I don't understand this too, they should cut the price of the DLC, I would like to buy some DLC for DAO and DA2 but 10 euro each DLC ? No. If each DLC was for 4 or 5 euro I would buy it.

And DAO Awakening for 20 euro on PSN ? This is a big joke.

[grimkillah]

Several ME3 dlcs is on sale now on XBOX LIVE, all 50% off:

Citadel
Genesis 2
Alternative Appearance Pack
Groundside Resistance Pack

Modifié par grimkillah, 28 janvier 2014 - 12:55 .

[Harorrd]

If you keep spending 20$ of cut content then they will cut even more content in the future, because you guys will pay for it regardless

[N0rke]

Harorrd wrote...

If you keep spending 20$ of cut content then they will cut even more content in the future, because you guys will pay for it regardless

Cite your sources that they cut more content from the game than From Ashes.

[chris2365]

grimkillah wrote...

Several ME3 dlcs is on sale now on XBOX LIVE, all 50% off:

Citadel
Genesis 2
Alternative Appearance Pack
Groundside Resistance Pack

What OP is trying to say is that while Xbox 360 has gotten half a dozen sales on Mass Effect 3 DLC, PC players have gotten exactly .... 0

[BlacJAC74]

Yeah, but those half a dozen sales have been painfully slow and i mean painfully s...l.....o....w. Citadel which was released at around the same time as Dragonborn has only now went on sale, whilst Dragonborn has been reduced more times than i care to remember. I've bought each dlc as and when they've been on sale (not played any dlc yet) and it's only now that i can go back and play the full game. It's been a farce with ME3.

It's even more of a farce that for those of you that play it on PC have had nothing.

As for the 360 - Leviathan has been on sale twice, Omega has been on sale once and Citadel only now.

Modifié par BlacJAC74, 28 janvier 2014 - 09:04 .

[eshrafel]

I am assuming the EA/Origin system has no method of discounting DLC?

Anyone have any other Origin games with DLC and knows the answer?

[chris2365]

eshrafel wrote...

I am assuming the EA/Origin system has no method of discounting DLC?

Anyone have any other Origin games with DLC and knows the answer?

They can, they just don't. I have seen DLC on sale, but the trouble is that on PC you buy the DLC with Bioware Points, and EA doesn't want to reduce them in price. You can pay 10$ for the full game, and end up paying 50$ for all of the DLC

[Sanunes]

eshrafel wrote...

I am assuming the EA/Origin system has no method of discounting DLC?

Anyone have any other Origin games with DLC and knows the answer?

I think it has something to do with BioWare points themselves, for with Dead Space 3 I have seen all the DLC on sale when the game goes on sale, but because BioWare points work for four BioWare games (and the multiplayer of Mass Effect 3) it might be something they avoid. I have also seen BioWare points on sale prior to Mass Effect 3 (I stockpiled a lot then), but I haven't looked since then.

My hope is now that Microsoft has done away with their point system and now EA using Origin that future BioWare games don't use BioWare points, but I can't see them being removed from existing games.

Modifié par Sanunes, 28 janvier 2014 - 10:05 .

[AlanC9]

Sanunes wrote...

I think it has something to do with BioWare points themselves, for with Dead Space 3 I have seen all the DLC on sale when the game goes on sale, but because BioWare points work for four BioWare games (and the multiplayer of Mass Effect 3) it might be something they avoid. I have also seen BioWare points on sale prior to Mass Effect 3 (I stockpiled a lot then), but I haven't looked since then.

Theoretically they could change the point costs of the individual DLCs, though, rather than just selling the points.

[Five Seven Five]

I think EA had a terrible misfire with the Mass Effect Trilogy release not containing all the DLC. A comprehensive package, with the DLC on disc for those without access to broadband for downloads, would have been able to sell at a reasonable price point well, well into the future. Bethesda's GOTY compilations, for example, are something that is always on store shelves and always bringing income.

[Sanunes]

Five Seven Five wrote...

I think EA had a terrible misfire with the Mass Effect Trilogy release not containing all the DLC. A comprehensive package, with the DLC on disc for those without access to broadband for downloads, would have been able to sell at a reasonable price point well, well into the future. Bethesda's GOTY compilations, for example, are something that is always on store shelves and always bringing income.

The problem is I see technical issues with adding the DLC on the Xbox version, for they would have to break the game apart for disk swapping for I have read in the past Microsoft doesn't want developers making content that installs off the disk to the console.  For unlike other games that the DLC is fairly small the DLC for Mass Effect 3 was an additional disk of content.

[xaliqen]

For someone like me, who bought a lot of games on consoles along with DLC, it's kind of frustrating knowing I'd have to spend a ridiculous amount of money just to get the same DLC on PC.

Sure, charge whatever you want for DLC, but at least make one purchase span across all platforms. I'm certainly never re-buying the DLC unless it significantly drops in price.

Modifié par xaliqen, 29 janvier 2014 - 06:42 .

[wolfsite]

I'll be happy if they drop Bioware points and use real world currencies in the store.

[Reever]

wolfsite wrote...

I'll be happy if they drop Bioware points and use real world currencies in the store.

I hope this will ultimately happen. Everyone else is doing this anyway (AFAIK) and not even EA sells other DLC for $$$.
To be honest, that's why I'm putting off playing DA2. I want to play the full game, with all story DLCs, but (as I said before) they would really cost me more than the vanilla game So I'm waiting till they discount those damn DLCs =)

[Allison_Lightning]

It's the download size that irks me. I play across two platforms and I just can't afford the bandwidth price to get the PC DLC- the XBOX 360 ones (Silly bug that means I have to do the internet connect trick to get this site to update From Ashes and Leviathan to my registered content aside) were big and done over months. We're talking the size of a game to download and worse than Mass Effect 2's.

Again, and I've begged on other posts, please release a disc for at least us PC users, at least as some special order option, even at normal Bioware point price. It's bad enough Australia has huge price markups and our internet is ultra expensive. A lot of people would be happy to special order a disc locked to their account and I'm sure, with a little tweaking it could work for a 360 version of such considering authentication software.

I don't buy a lot of games which is how I justified spending seventy-something dollars for the DLC. I'm not about to complain about the price as much as the download size and lack of Origin/Bioware prepaid cards in store internationally, like in places like here in Australia.

Modifié par Allison_Lightning, 01 février 2014 - 02:49 .