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[KT Chong]

BioWare has not released a "Game of the Year", "Gold", "Platinum", "Ultimate", "Legendary" or some kind of "Complete" edition of any game since the first Dragon Age.  So Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 2+3 have never gotten a "complete" edition that includes the complete game with all the DLCs. 

When BioWare decided not to release a complete/GOTY edition of Dragon Age 2, I remember BioWare said it was due to the lack of interest from distributors/retailers, (i.e., basically, it's something along the line of, "it's not our fault; no one wanted to sell the GOTY edition of that game.") But now it seems like it's become a BioWare's business habit/practice to not release a complete set of a game.  So people would have to pay for individual DLCs, forever, years after the game and all its DLCs have been competely released.

So, is BioWare ever going release a GOTY edition again?

Modifié par KT Chong, 17 février 2014 - 10:52 .

[Neoleviathan]

They've had an mmo to take care of, plus the dlc for those games have featured in sales. Combine those sales with the price you can get those games new even & it just seems like their allowing the digital market to do what a collection could for about the same price to the gamer. As a series, Mass Effect did get a main game collection too. Dragon Age 2 wasn't completed, it's final dlc were cancelled so you couldn't really get a true collection there. Mass Effect 2 complete would have been cool though. Pre-order editions have become more popular, so that may have something to do with it too. You could probably exhaust everyone throwing out a bunch of different editions of a game out there, they don't want to confuse the gamer.

I do miss the extras they would put into their complete & limited collections. Like what came with Mass Effect, those were pretty cool. But they do have their blogs & whatever else to pretty much do the same thing also.

[Get Magna Carter]

if they did one for a console version with the dlc on disc (for Mass effect 2,mass effect 3 or even dragon age 2) I would buy it

[Fast Jimmy]

It's a matter of not having an expansion pack, more than anything else.

DA:O had multiple DLC AND the Awakening expansion bundled into its GOTY/Ultimate Edition. At the time base of its release, a base game of DA:O was still going ~$40 retail (if not more). Awakening was less than six months old, and was still selling for its pull price of $25. And the four other DLC that were included ran about $10 a piece. To buy this individually would have cost the player far over $100, yet they were getting it for $60. Many players who already owned the base game but not the expack and/or a lot of the DLC wound up buying the GOTY edition because it wound up being such a value. That spurred LOTS of sales, in a volume that was close to DA2's total sales.

Now, let's look at ME3, which also won Game of the Year.

The last piece of DLC was released a year after it came out. Excluding the free EC, it also had four pieces of DLC (From Ashes, Leviathan, Omega and Citadel). But by the time the last DLC came out, copies of ME3 were selling at $25. Buying the base game and all the extra DLC piecemeal would have only cost the player maybe $10 more. This would generate very little value for players and likely wouldn't drive much in sales.

You might see a GOTY edition when Bioware makes a game not so mired in controversy that its base game drops to a third of its base price within the first year, has quality enough DLC to drive interest and an expansion pack. Until those criteria are met, it isn't a good value - for Bioware OR the player.

[frustratemyself]

Even if they don't do GOTY editions it would be nice to be able to buy disc copies of the dlcs.

[SlottsMachine]

Fast Jimmy wrote...


You might see a GOTY edition when Bioware makes a game not so mired in controversy that its base game drops to a third of its base price within the first year

ME2 was the same though, and I think a lot of other EA games as well. I always thought they did that to combat used games sales.