This is why I rarely pay more than $5-$10 for full (or at least what we now think of as "full" these days, i.e. the bare bones scaffolding around a frame that will someday be a house, instead of an actual ready-to-live-in house) games anymore, let alone DLC or whatever, and I will never pay above $0 for fan-made mods of a game. I guess the more accurate term would be "base" games, not "full" games.
And yet, people are already defending this shit in the comments below the article[1], so I expect that this sort of shit will indeed become the norm soon, just like all the other terrible shit that has come down the sewer pipe into their eagerly awaiting mouths and become the norm over the decades past.
Bethesda used to be what I considered a good company. A "day one purchase, no brainer" company. (Just like BioWare and Blizzardused to be as well.) Morrowind was (and is) one of the best games I've ever played. But then Oblivion Horse Armor happened, and it's been all downhill with them ever since, pretty much.
I'll probably get Fallout 4 someday. Maybe. But I think it was on sale for something like $19.99 or whatever the other day, and I hardly even blinked at that. Especially when I idly checked it and saw that that $19.99 was only for the "base" game, and that the Season Pass was still like $29.99 or something.
I mean, hell, look at Fallout 4 right now, without a discount. The fucking Season Pass costs almost fucking twice as much as the fucking base game itself, and that is absolutely abominable in my book. If, and only if, they ever release a "Complete" edition, with all of the DLC included, and then that hits less than $10-$20 or so, will I considering buying Fallout 4. So, yeah, to call back to the first paragraph, I don't even pay more than $10-$20 for actual "full" games anymore.
The only bright side I see is that the Season Pass is sitting at a big red "Mostly Negative" rating on Steam, so my faith in video gamers isn't completely in the toilet yet, I suppose. So, with that said, given that the DLC is apparently shit anyway, maybe if I see the "base" Fallout 4 game at a more-than-75% off sale, i.e. less than $10 or so, I might buy that stand-alone. But I very seriously doubt it.
[1] - Or perhaps it's just reputation management drones, since it seems to be mostly the same two or three people posting the Bethesda-dicksucking bullshit in the more negative comment threads.
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Date: 2017-06-12 07:05 pm (UTC)And yet, people are already defending this shit in the comments below the article[1], so I expect that this sort of shit will indeed become the norm soon, just like all the other terrible shit that has come down the sewer pipe into their eagerly awaiting mouths and become the norm over the decades past.
Bethesda used to be what I considered a good company. A "day one purchase, no brainer" company. (Just like BioWare and Blizzard used to be as well.) Morrowind was (and is) one of the best games I've ever played. But then Oblivion Horse Armor happened, and it's been all downhill with them ever since, pretty much.
I'll probably get Fallout 4 someday. Maybe. But I think it was on sale for something like $19.99 or whatever the other day, and I hardly even blinked at that. Especially when I idly checked it and saw that that $19.99 was only for the "base" game, and that the Season Pass was still like $29.99 or something.
I mean, hell, look at Fallout 4 right now, without a discount. The fucking Season Pass costs almost fucking twice as much as the fucking base game itself, and that is absolutely abominable in my book. If, and only if, they ever release a "Complete" edition, with all of the DLC included, and then that hits less than $10-$20 or so, will I considering buying Fallout 4. So, yeah, to call back to the first paragraph, I don't even pay more than $10-$20 for actual "full" games anymore.
The only bright side I see is that the Season Pass is sitting at a big red "Mostly Negative" rating on Steam, so my faith in video gamers isn't completely in the toilet yet, I suppose. So, with that said, given that the DLC is apparently shit anyway, maybe if I see the "base" Fallout 4 game at a more-than-75% off sale, i.e. less than $10 or so, I might buy that stand-alone. But I very seriously doubt it.
[1] - Or perhaps it's just reputation management drones, since it seems to be mostly the same two or three people posting the Bethesda-dicksucking bullshit in the more negative comment threads.