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[Korahan]

Hello Bioware!

 

First of all, thank you, for the great games you've created. I've enyoed all of them in many playthroughs. 

 

Since there is now Dragon Age: Inquisition rising on the horizon, I decided to play the whole merchandise again and some of the great mods certainly (such as Chroniken von Coldramar for example ;-)). 

 

I started obtaining all the content i want to play, installing the main games, downloading DLCs ... and here began the problems.

DLCs of Dragon Age 2 are simply too expensive for a game three years old. 

 

For example, I can buy the main game on amazon for 9 Euros, whilst 1600 Bioware Points are sold for 24 Euros in the same shop. (To be fair, the best price i found for 1600 Bioware Points was 16 Euros on Origin or Bioware Community, but stil expensive.)

 

I thought about it and I came to the conclusion, that you simply can't lower the price of Bioware Points, if you want to sell future DLCs this way too. I understand that.

 

BUT you could and you should reduce the amount of Points, older DLCs cost. 

 

And when you think about it too, you will find no argument against it. Not even an economic one. How many people will still buy the DLCs on a price more expensive than the main games? Wouldn't it be kind of a promotion for Inquisition, if players are encouraged playing Dragon Age 2 again through cheaper content, they dont have played yet? Wouldn't people spend the small amount of Bioware Points they have left (like mine 240) on old dlcs so they have to buy new Points for future DLC releases?

 

 

Greetings from Austria,

Korahan 

[cJohnOne]

The word is expensive not expansive, ha ha. They probably should lower the price over time but it's up to their bean counters to figure out prices.

[Korahan]

Haha, thank you, I will edit that. ;-)

[KroganCmdr]

If EA/Bioware is paying attention now is the time to release an Ultimate Pack (Like they did for Origins/Awakening) to bolster intrest in the new game and give those who either did not get their own copy, or are new to the franchise, to get caught before the world of Thedas falls apart.

[Frerol]

If EA/Bioware is paying attention now is the time to release an Ultimate Pack (Like they did for Origins/Awakening) to bolster intrest in the new game and give those who either did not get their own copy, or are new to the franchise, to get caught before the world of Thedas falls apart.

They should also release ultimate packs for the Mass Effect franchise

[Sibladosi]

If EA/Bioware is paying attention now is the time to release an Ultimate Pack (Like they did for Origins/Awakening) to bolster intrest in the new game and give those who either did not get their own copy, or are new to the franchise, to get caught before the world of Thedas falls apart.

I agree! When you say Ultimate pack you say the game + dlc right? If possible also a pack with all the dlc form DA2 =P

[Thandal N'Lyman]

I love how people repeatedly tell BioWare (EA, really) how to price their wares.

Somehow the message is never to raise the prices...

 

As cJohnOne said, the people in charge of that are the bean counters.  They read spreadsheets, not player forums. 

[Googleness]

They will never do that.

 

and free tip if u purchase the dlc from the "Game Library" of origin u get priced with USD and due to conversion sometimes it gets cheaper and sometimes they offer smaller amount of Bioware points like 200-400.

[Tony208]

At least do a half off sale.

[Shadow Storm]

Haha, thank you, I will edit that. ;-)

As they say vote with your dollar. Money related issues have nothing to do directly with the Bioware team so anything mentioned here is only going to be ignored. Things Bioware can deal with like Bugs, bad content and all concerns regarding the game itself may be picked up by staff on forum. (Don't hold your breath but if enough have an issue they will intervene eventually)

 

If the flow of money from DLC was to suddenly die completely for at least a month (after this length of time) then and only then will EA turn around and say "hang on my money were is it". And we all know how EA is where money is concerned. You can bet it will be adjusted then.

[uzivatel]

I dont see them cutting the price of DLCs, there have been some 50% off sales in the past, but the stable price is one of the reasons companies love them - as OP mentions, the main game has almost no value these days.

 

As for Ultimate Edition, there is not enough DA2 content. The company trying to pretend the game never happened does not help either.

[AlanC9]

 

 

I thought about it and I came to the conclusion, that you simply can't lower the price of Bioware Points, if you want to sell future DLCs this way too. I understand that.

 

 

They certainly could do this. They've done it in the past.They just don't want to.

[Urazz]

I don't think they can lower the price of Bioware points themselves but they can lower the amount of points each of the older DLCs cost I think.