Not to mention the fact that all that DLC, which in more and more cases lately requires you to be connected to the Internet to be able to use even after you've bought and installed it (i.e. it "needs" to be able to connect to the servers to "verify" the DLC every time you try to play the game using it), is essentially just yet another form of DRM these days. So, in effect, they get to have their cake and eat it too. You are paying them extra for their DRM in the form of the DLC.
In any case, I fully agree. You've described precisely and accurately why I have pretty much all but completely and utterly given up on modern video games altogether.
All I can say is thank goodness for the 75-90% off Steam and GOG sales, without which I would simply be no longer buying modern games at all (or even some of the older games via GOG, for that matter). At least, of course, until the video game industry as a whole mobilizes to squash those into distant memories, anyway. There have already been rumblings in (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/579520.html) some (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/592787.html) circles (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-12-gog-com-steam-sales-send-wrong-message-to-gamers) for a couple years now about how these sort of sales are supposedly bad things. (Looking back on that now, though, I find it amusing that both Origin and GOG were complaining about those craaaaaazy Steam sales and how they "cheapen intellectual property" and "send the wrong message to gamers," right before they started doing the exact same goddamn thing (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/593647.html) themselves.)
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Date: 2014-11-28 03:32 am (UTC)In any case, I fully agree. You've described precisely and accurately why I have pretty much all but completely and utterly given up on modern video games altogether.
All I can say is thank goodness for the 75-90% off Steam and GOG sales, without which I would simply be no longer buying modern games at all (or even some of the older games via GOG, for that matter). At least, of course, until the video game industry as a whole mobilizes to squash those into distant memories, anyway. There have already been rumblings in (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/579520.html) some (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/592787.html) circles (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-12-gog-com-steam-sales-send-wrong-message-to-gamers) for a couple years now about how these sort of sales are supposedly bad things. (Looking back on that now, though, I find it amusing that both Origin and GOG were complaining about those craaaaaazy Steam sales and how they "cheapen intellectual property" and "send the wrong message to gamers," right before they started doing the exact same goddamn thing (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/593647.html) themselves.)