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[owsf2000]

This guy tells it better than I could so just watch the video.

Essentially: Season Passes, which were introduced as a way to get all the DLC in a game for a single price tag is now nothing more than high priced DLC. It's basically been used to desensitize people from having to shell out 30-100 bucks as DLC for a base game. I wonder if they'll be doing their half-step back if there's an actual response from the sheep over this.

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Originally originally, Season Passes were only intended to be "Online Passes," which were meant to block access to the multiplayer components of a game unless you coughed up the extra for the online pass. I thought that was shitty even back then, but I didn't lose too much sleep over it because I gave (and still give) almost zero fucks about multiplayer. But then, inevitably, around the time of Batman (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/528389.html): Arkham City (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/529359.html), they started putting singleplayer content behind these bullshit extraneous paywalls as well (though in that case, at least, "new" buyers still got that stuff for free, but that certainly didn't last long (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/563841.html) either). Fast forward to today and... well... *points to the above video*

"If this is what you need to do to keep your company financially afloat, that you need to literally make people spend $80, plus buy other things in the game, like it's a freemium game for a fucking Android phone or iOS device, something's wrong with the industry, man. Something is fundamentally broken, and eventually it's going to just collapse like a deck of cards. It's gonna collapse, and I don't want to see that happen, but if this is the shit that developers and publishers need to do to survive, it's just not going to work, because people are going to lose their shit. They're going to lose their patience. They're going to feel like they're being robbed. They should already feel like that. And people are just going to say fuck it, I'm giving up on it. I'm not spending over $215 to get the full experience. Fuck. That. For one game? I am out. And, yes, I understand these are quote-unquote optional things, but when you shell out $80 for game, and they already have this stuff made, they already have the suits and the monsters and all the DLC out there, you should get everything. You shouldn't be nickled and dimed after already spending almost $100 on the game to get even more items in it. You should be able to have access to everything. This is fucking inexcusable."

This. Fucking this.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

The only real difference between me and the guy in the video is that, at this point, I absolutely do want to see the industry utterly collapse over this shit. Only then will this shit have even a snowball's chance in hell of actually stopping. And by "stopping," of course, I mean "pausing for a few years, maybe a decade or so at most, until everything stabilizes once more, and then starting up yet again, same old inevitable shit combined with newer, even more heinous shit."