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[Valhalla]

Please please please bioware......ME 2 and 3 have been out for 2 and 4 years now.....we need more then 7000 bioware POINTS to get those DLC on PC...and since 1600 bioware points cost 20$ its more then 90$ to get all of them....i mean COME on.....the price tag for the 3 ME is 29.99 right now on origin.....Can you please make the price of those DLC affordable.....

[JCFR]

Not to forget some are barely worth their price. Alternative weapons or outfits... well at least i can ignore such cheap, overpriced cash-ins. But dlc-camapigns like omega or leviathan with a length of 2-3hours for about 10€ each... are you serious? Didn't they gain enough money with the game itself or those collector-editions(don't know why they're so highly regarded? Just the same game with some merchandise). 

 

Yeah sure, dlc need time and effort to be made but... let's put all those dlcs of ME3 together- what did you gain?  Another crew comapnion... a handful of weapon-upgrades and about six hours of content for almost the same price of the main programm.

That's just a shameful display.

 

but i think the one at fault ain't bioware in this case. This whole thing smells like EA-marketing.

[guigaccess]

Just to point out, Omega is currently free on PSN.

[BloodyMares]

Well. I'd like to add something. I'm not going to complain about prices, BUT. make these DLC at least multi-platform. I already paid to get them on PC, why not to give a possibility to play them on X360 or PS3 too? Why do we have to pay for them over and over? I hope with the release of ME4 it would be an option.

[Valhalla]

Just to point out, Omega is currently free on PSN.

i dont give a damn about PSN....im on PC !!!

[quinwhisperer]

Just to point out, Omega is currently free on PSN.

 

Really? I can't find this option anywhere in the European store. 

[BloodyMares]

Really? I can't find this option anywhere in the European store. 

North America only.

[quinwhisperer]

North America only.

 

Oh well. Anyway, thanks for your response! 

[Valhalla]

The marketing management of EA/Bioware are really dump as hell.......never seen this kind of marketing before....this is so ridiculous !!

[zestalyn]

I paid 6 bucks to get ME3. Kind of weird I had to pay more than half for a DLC. Based on what people say about Citadel, I can imagine Citadel will be worth the money, but everything looks much less so. And it sucks cause I'd love to play the other DLCs, but holy hell they're so expensive, I might as well just buy a whole other game with that money instead! If I had known how increasing EMS works with Gibbed, I would've just torrented the whole damn thing. I want to give Bioware $ out of support, but too much is too much. 

[quinwhisperer]

Agreed. I paid 11 euros to get Mass Effect 3, then 25 euros for Citadel and From Ashes. Firstly, because I really wanted to throw a party with my crew and secondly, because I wanted to know more about the protheans. It's a shame that you have to pay extra to get such content.

[RZIBARA]

Bioware drop your prices on the DLC, its actually ridiculous. You have to pay more to buy all the DLC (around $100 for all the DLC, ripoff much?), and all three games cost less than $40 new now. Its ridiculous

[AlanC9]

Didn't they gain enough money with the game itself or those collector-editions(don't know why they're so highly regarded? Just the same game with some merchandise). 

 

Yeah sure, dlc need time and effort to be made but... let's put all those dlcs of ME3 together- what did you gain?  Another crew comapnion... a handful of weapon-upgrades and about six hours of content for almost the same price of the main programm.

That's just a shameful display.

 

but i think the one at fault ain't bioware in this case. This whole thing smells like EA-marketing.

 

This kind of argument will never work. Why should EA or Bioware make less money than they can make?

 

A workable argument would be more along the lines of  lots of us would buy the DLCs if you cut the price."

[fronken]

I got ME 1 years ago for like $5 on Steam.  BioWare gave me ME 2 for free because I pre-ordered Dragon Age II (I think).  I then managed to snag ME 3 Digital Deluxe for about $7.  So, having only paid $12 for the whole base trilogy, I didn't feel so bad about throwing down some cash on the story DLC, so I bought it all, skipping the armor/weapon packs.  I'm glad I did because most of it adds a lot to the experience, but if I'd paid full price for the games, there's no way I would have considered throwing down another $60 for the DLC.  I would, in fact, be angry about it.

[Valhalla]

since EA bought bioware....They should just dumb the bioware points system..... 

[Valhalla]

anyway...does EA really read those forums.....

[Valhalla]

if some of you have time for it.....try floodind the EA chat support about this inquirie.....maybe this will get them to move on the mater

 

[BloodyMares]

EA say that it's not their fault because they just distribute Bioware's games. Sounds like BS to me, but oh well.

[Valhalla]

Lol.....yup that is bs stuff

[Sirzechs_Krios]

Funny thing is ME3 is the only one without a Ultimate Edition(Complete ) on the PSN store ME2 has one and the DLC weapons are also bundle together in the Warfare pack.

 

Also Why isn't the collector's Edition Squadmate Costumes not on made available for purchase even ME2 collectors edition items can be purchased

[fronken]

When you can go to any store in the world and buy The Elder Scrolls Anthology box set for $50, and then you look at prices for the whole Mass Effect experience, there's a whole lot wrong with the picture.. and I'm not just talking about Tali.

[JCFR]

This kind of argument will never work. Why should EA or Bioware make less money than they can make?

 

A workable argument would be more along the lines of  lots of us would buy the DLCs if you cut the price."

Well, maybe i didn't express my intention well enough, and i'm not completly against dlc or having to buy it.

But is it really Ok to shove out  4 or 5 dlc which cost alltogether the same as the main-game but barely have a quarter or third of it's content?

 

Maybe it's just me, but i still like to remember on my all-time-favorite addon which was Throne of Bhaal for BG2. I paid about 30 bucks and got at least 50 hours of gameplay and lots of content. Compare that to nowadays dlc... as well as in EU i didn't see the slightiest pricedrop for dlc (not in Spyrigin - never). Completly unacceptable.

[AlanC9]

Sure. DLCs are pricier than expansions used to be, or full games are, per gameplay hour.

(Note that the $30 you paid for ToB is equivalent to about $40 in 2014 dollars. Not really important since you're comparing that to what you paid for BG2, which wasn't measured in current dollars either.)

Whether this is a bad thing..... I dunno. I've worked in academic publishing, and our business model was pretty much the same. Buying the actual book or whatever didn't earn us much, if any, profit. We made all our money off of the upkeep services that kept the work up-to-date. The supplements therefore cost much more per page than the original work.

Let's say we didn't do that, or couldn't do that. What then? Well, we would just have made the money up in other ways. We'd raise the price of the original books, kill less-profitable products, and so forth. We'd be in about the same place we ever were, though possibly as a slightly smaller company. Some customers might have ended up a little better off, perhaps. Others would certainly have lost out; a fair number of our customers didn't buy the upkeep services, and they'd have either paid more up front or not been able to buy the products they wanted at all.

[fronken]

Sure. DLCs are pricier than expansions used to be, or full games are, per gameplay hour.

(Note that the $30 you paid for ToB is equivalent to about $40 in 2014 dollars. Not really important since you're comparing that to what you paid for BG2, which wasn't measured in current dollars either.)

Whether this is a bad thing..... I dunno. I've worked in academic publishing, and our business model was pretty much the same. Buying the actual book or whatever didn't earn us much, if any, profit. We made all our money off of the upkeep services that kept the work up-to-date. The supplements therefore cost much more per page than the original work.

Let's say we didn't do that, or couldn't do that. What then? Well, we would just have made the money up in other ways. We'd raise the price of the original books, kill less-profitable products, and so forth. We'd be in about the same place we ever were, though possibly as a slightly smaller company. Some customers might have ended up a little better off, perhaps. Others would certainly have lost out; a fair number of our customers didn't buy the upkeep services, and they'd have either paid more up front or not been able to buy the products they wanted at all.

It seems like you're implying that gaming companies are all draining money.  I doubt very seriously that BioWare was ever in that position.  Sure, they may have wanted Call Of Duty money for their efforts, but the cost of chasing those dollars is too high, in my opinion.  BioWare used to be something special.. making games for the gamers, if you will.  Now they're just like everyone else - squeezing every penny they can out of you.

[quinwhisperer]

I mean, I can accept Citadel as DLC because it has, to be honest, nothing to do with the main plot and doesn't take itself very serious but From Ashes and Leviathan? Especially Leviathan. It should just have been in the main game.