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[TJSolo]

As per a mod just moving this to off-topic. This is something that interests me enough to create(recreate) a topic just to see what others think.

Yuncas stated...

http://ps3.ign.com/a.../1079019p1.html <Link to original article at IGN



"Electronic
Arts plans to offer extended downloadable demos for a price to players
prior to the release of the full, packaged game, according to analyst
Michael Pachter's latest investor report.

EA's Chief Operating
Officer Nick Earl revealed the company's latest premium downloadable
content (PDLC) strategy during a recent investor visit at its Redwood
City studio, which includes charging a small price for an early look at
upcoming titles.

"The PDLC would be sold for $10 or $15
through Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and would essentially be a
very long game demo, along the lines of 2009's Battlefield 1943,"
Pachter said. "A full-blown packaged game would follow shortly after
the release of the PDLC, bearing a full retail price. Mr. Earl believes
that the release of the PDLC first limits the risk of completing and
marketing the full packaged version, and serves as a low-cost marketing
tool."

In a follow-up conversation with IGN, Pachter says
these paid "demos" will act as a sort of beta test for the company,
saying feedback received will shape the final retail product.

"Think
about Battlefield 1943 as the prototype, so a full (but short) game
experience for a reasonable price," he said. "At the same time, an
expanded version of the game will be under development for release as a
packaged product."

"However, the idea is that if the PDLC gets
favorable reviews, it will build word of mouth for the boxed product.
If the PDLC has issues, they can tweak the packaged product to address
those issues, improving the final product before release," he added.

Pachter
said he wasn't sure if EA plans to include the PDLC content with the
packaged game, adding that the content could be a "prequel" to the full
game so it can continue to be sold separately. The strategy is expected
to launch during the company's fiscal 2011 year, which begins on April
1, 2010."


I sometimes sit and wonder if we have
finally reached a limit to how greedy and grimey we have become as a
species and then I see something like this and realize how terribly
naive I was. This is SUCH ridiculous idea. I am surely not against a
company making money, that's what they exist. But this seems to me like
EA is trying to squeeze every last cent out of a product that they can.
I better not hear that EA execs are starting to get stupidly large
bonuses for no reason. 

[Darth Drago]

LOL! Boy they locked that one down fast in the ME forum…  Out of sight out of mind.


So if I get this right:
1. I as a x-box 360 user will have to pay $5 more than this $10 card? Sounds great! In fact let me preorder 2 of them right now!

2. By paying this scam I get the “privilege or honor” to play a demo of a game. So I get to pay a company I hate with a passion to play their crap games? Oh where can I sign up again!

3. I get to send feed back to EA on these games? I have no doubt that EA would listen to what we gamers would have to say about the crap they release each year? Yea, right.

If I ever heard of a money scam this is it, right next to the Cerberus Network.
How f’ing stupid do they think most gamers are? I don’t care if it’s a one time charge or not. If I’m giving them feed back then they should be paying me to do their apparently worthless play testers job.

Not to be a total ****** to EA but I wish they would just go bankrupt and get bought out by someone.

What ever happened to the good old days of getting free game demos?

Modifié par Darth Drago, 22 mars 2010 - 08:48 .

[Panderfringe]

Darth Drago wrote...

2. By paying this scam I get the “privilege or honor” to play a demo of a game. So I get to pay a company I hate with a passion to play their crap games? Oh where can I sign up again!
 

So we've established you neither like EA, nor do you like their games.

I forget - is EA forcibly making you pay? If not there is always the option of (GASP) not paying for it. Until EA starts up a brownshirt program I am not going to be getting outraged.

[Ragnadaam]

I'd rather EA put in access to a beta for an upcoming game or atleast the multiplayer component of one of their upcoming games into other games they make.A few games that did that that I know of are Crackdown(Halo 3 beta),Halo 3:ODST(Halo Reach beta),Splinter Cell:Conviction(Beta for the new Ghost Recon) and Final Fantasy 13(a chance to get into the Final Fantasy 14 beta).Give people an extra reason to pick up their existing games,while at the same time getting valuable feedback on upcoming games.Paying to beta test seems unreasonable to me .

Modifié par Ragnadaam, 22 mars 2010 - 08:56 .

[TJSolo]

This just shows that EA has not changed even with the returning CEOs claims.

They are just a series of bad greedy ideas after another.



Choice is a factor but EA is feeding off the hope enough stupid gamers don't know how to value money.

[Seagloom]

I dislike this idea, but fortunately I'm under no obligation to pay EA's fees here either. I've never been much for free demos. Paid demos are non-issue for me. If someone is so impatient for a taste of a new game they feel a need to put down $10, let them.

Modifié par Seagloom, 22 mars 2010 - 09:22 .

[MerinTB]

This is a non-issue.



Either people will buy them because they want to try them, or they'd rather save the money for the full game. Whichever way, it's no skin off your nose.



I'm with Seagloom - I almost never try demos of games anyway. I download a bunch of them from 360 live, but I think I try maybe 1 out of 6 or so that I do DL.

[AshedMan]

I rarely play demos when they are free. I sure won't be paying to play one. I don't like the idea, but it doesn't appear like it would effect me.

[crash_cy]

This part bothers me: "Pachter said he wasn't sure if EA plans to include the PDLC content with the packaged game, adding that the content could be a "prequel" to the full game so it can continue to be sold separately"
This sounds like holding game content out of the main game so people have to pay more. What if they had done something like this with DA, where the Origins are all part of the PDLC and then you buy the game and get from Ostagar on. I could see this going very badly.
If it only a demo in a normal sense, I wouldn't care, cause I never play demos anyway.

Modifié par crash_cy, 22 mars 2010 - 09:31 .

[AshedMan]

crash_cy wrote...

This part bothers me: "Pachter said he wasn't sure if EA plans to include the PDLC content with the packaged game, adding that the content could be a "prequel" to the full game so it can continue to be sold separately"
This sounds like holding game content out of the main game so people have to pay more. What if they had done something like this with DA, where the Origins are all part of the PDLC and then you buy the game and get from Ostagar on. I could see this going very badly.
If it only a demo in a normal sense, I wouldn't care, cause I never play demos anyway.

If they start pulling that kind of stuff then I'd be extremely upset. 

[yuncas]

See what happens when I go get the mail and groceries.

[Rubbish Hero]

This is due to the consoles, ever since they were able to get content via the internet, the big wigs have been brainstorming different ways to attack our anus. Back when gaming was good (PC) we had expansion packs, user made content, free map packs. Now even pc centric developers are following this path with ridiculous bugggery (Buy Empire: Total War Elite Units) and company's are locking down the ability to make user made content. Even with Mass Effect they are trying to stick there sausage in your mouth by selling off re-skinned models with shades. If or when cloud gaming like Online becomes big, they will have control of content more so than ever before, totally buggering everyone left, right and center sleeping on bags of money made up of 14 year old Jimmy Jones paperboy money he saved up for the latest Modern Warfare 2 crap-pack.

[Vaeliorin]

While I'm not overly worried because I don't have to pay for it if I don't want to (I don't) I'm worried that the opinions of the people who are actually stupid enough to buy into this might shape the games I want to play.



Games are already too mainstreamed as it is, building them based on the opinions of people who aren't that bright can only make them worse.