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And here's more of the same.
You remember the recent release of Metal Gear Solid V? Where the PC physical disc was actually just a disc with a steam installer on it with a free coupon for the download version of the game?
You know, the whole epic fail of them not realizing (And come on they have to be trying REAL hard not to get this) exactly what the group of customers that prefer and expect (or even only consider buying) a disc version?
Well, on a walk today I passed some game stores and in them I saw... Minecraft: Story Mode for sale as a disc!
Wait a sec... isn't only the first of five chapters even done?
Why yes. And that's exactly what you get with the disc - plus a DLC coupon for the remaining chapters whenever they get done.
I hate this. I really, really do.
Within 2 years, if people actually buy this piece of shit in droves, this will start to become the norm for physical releases - where the physical release will essentially be nothing more than the alpha (maybe beta if we're lucky!) version of the game, along with a DLC coupon to download the rest of the game later in the year/nextyear/whenever/hopefully when it's actually completed.
Which of course means "when we get to a particular part and we decide to cut you off and make you rebuy expansion packs and misc DLC that we don't want included with the inserted code we gave you with the buggy literally half finished product."
This is essentially exactly what I predicted they'd do with physical releases (Actually a bit worse than my prediction!) where the disc wouldn't even contain the full game anymore.
Actually my prediction was that they'd have the entire game on the disc, but it all locked out into a demo mode until you put in your little DLC coupon code. With this, the majority of the game (a full EIGHTY PERCENT) isn't even completed before they started selling it for full price. So I guess they've jumped over a step.
My link above is for the Xbone version, but there's similar disc versions for the PS3, 360, and I think PS4. (Can't remember seeing the PS4 version at the store, but saw the other two.)
So yeah. Death of physical media. By the end of this console generation it'll become standard practice, and when it comes time for a new console to replace what's on the go you'll have people going "why bother with physical discs. they never have the full game anyway. digital all the way!"
Just so we're clear, I won't be buying this lame ass disc version. I'll probably boycott the "game of the year version" they might release in a year's time - which will simply be the full game, minus DLC.
And just because this dick move pisses me off, I'm not buying it on steam either, I don't give a shit if it goes on a 95% flash sale. (And this means I'm not buying it digitally on the consoles either. :P)
You know, the whole epic fail of them not realizing (And come on they have to be trying REAL hard not to get this) exactly what the group of customers that prefer and expect (or even only consider buying) a disc version?
Well, on a walk today I passed some game stores and in them I saw... Minecraft: Story Mode for sale as a disc!
Wait a sec... isn't only the first of five chapters even done?
Why yes. And that's exactly what you get with the disc - plus a DLC coupon for the remaining chapters whenever they get done.
I hate this. I really, really do.
Within 2 years, if people actually buy this piece of shit in droves, this will start to become the norm for physical releases - where the physical release will essentially be nothing more than the alpha (maybe beta if we're lucky!) version of the game, along with a DLC coupon to download the rest of the game later in the year/nextyear/whenever/hopefully when it's actually completed.
Which of course means "when we get to a particular part and we decide to cut you off and make you rebuy expansion packs and misc DLC that we don't want included with the inserted code we gave you with the buggy literally half finished product."
This is essentially exactly what I predicted they'd do with physical releases (Actually a bit worse than my prediction!) where the disc wouldn't even contain the full game anymore.
Actually my prediction was that they'd have the entire game on the disc, but it all locked out into a demo mode until you put in your little DLC coupon code. With this, the majority of the game (a full EIGHTY PERCENT) isn't even completed before they started selling it for full price. So I guess they've jumped over a step.
My link above is for the Xbone version, but there's similar disc versions for the PS3, 360, and I think PS4. (Can't remember seeing the PS4 version at the store, but saw the other two.)
So yeah. Death of physical media. By the end of this console generation it'll become standard practice, and when it comes time for a new console to replace what's on the go you'll have people going "why bother with physical discs. they never have the full game anyway. digital all the way!"
Just so we're clear, I won't be buying this lame ass disc version. I'll probably boycott the "game of the year version" they might release in a year's time - which will simply be the full game, minus DLC.
And just because this dick move pisses me off, I'm not buying it on steam either, I don't give a shit if it goes on a 95% flash sale. (And this means I'm not buying it digitally on the consoles either. :P)
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It used to be that they wouldn't release a physical copy version of their games until the full game was finished and released. (And, no, I do not consider a single episode in an episodic series to be a "full" game by any stretch of the imagination, which is why I have never and will never buy a Telltale game [or any other game that releases in episodes like this, which seems to be becoming more and more prevalent these days in general, but that's another rant for another time, assuming I ever give enough fucks at some point to rant about it] until and unless the full season is out.) But now they're selling a mere fifth of the full game on discs? Bullshit. Utter fucking bullshit.
Oh, and while it's not a physical copy, obviously, you can be sure too that they're already selling the "full" game (i.e. all the episodes, even though only the first one is out so far [EDIT] no excuse me, episode two was just released yesterday, not that that matters in the slightest bit as far as these rants are concerned, of course [/EDIT]) of this shit on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/376870/) as well. Hell, there doesn't appear to even be an option to buy only the first episode by itself for this series, which is another thing that used to be the case for these episodic games. You used to be able to buy it a piece at a time rather than having to put a fucking down-payment on the whole fucking thing. This is "pre-order culture" taken to its most outrageous, egregious, asinine extreme.
You call this DLC, but this isn't even DLC anymore, except in the most literal of ways (i.e. it is content that is [or, rather, will eventually be] downloadable, so in that sense alone does it still count as "DLC"). No, DLC implies (or, at least, used to imply) something extra. Something in addition to the full game. This, right here, is not something in addition to the full game. No, this is four fifths of the actual full game not being fucking included on the disc at all. I don't know, I guess that's better than the Metal Gear bullshit with only including a Steam installer on the disc, which was five fifths of the actual full game not being included on the disc at all? But there's only a nut-hair's worth of difference to be had, and it's still fucked up horseshit, no matter how you look at it.
Then again, I guess what we may consider to be proper DLC no longer matters. The definition changes with every passing year, hell even every passing month, to mean whatever bullshit the video game industry wants it to mean. The definition of the term "DLC" has transformed from meaning, yes, additional material that was made well after the full game was released, to meaning microtransactions and chunks of the game that was cut out of the full game to be explicitly sold for extra, to meaning chunks of the game that was made concurrently to the full game which should be part of the full game but which was never intended to be part of the full game so that they could pussyfoot around accusations of content being "cut out" (since how could it be "cut out" when it was not ever meant to be in the game to begin with?), to now meaning up to 80%-100% of the full game, period. Full stop. End of line.
Welp, at this point, I guess I won't be buying Minecraft Story Mode until I see the whole season on Steam for $5 or less, assuming I ever buy the shit at all, even if it does ever reach that still-too-high price. Seriously, what the hell happened to you, Telltale? You used to be cool, but now you, also, are just a shitstove like all the fucking rest. *weary fucking sigh + fucking facepalm*
You know what? Just fuck the video game industry. The whole fucking thing. Just fuck it in the ass with a corn cob wrapped in razor wire permeated with necrotizing fasciitis. I'm out. If I wasn't already out before, I'm definitely out now.