Dragon Age Ultimate Edition

[owsf2000]

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This kind of shows exactly how game publishers are suckerpunching gamers this generation in order to make them pay more for a Full Game. DAUE has all the DLC and stuff wrapped up into it. I'm not entirely sure how the DLC is added, if it's pre-installed on the discs (You'd think that'd be the smart thing to do right? I honestly don't know.) or if they're just going to include a free coupon the way some Game of the Year editions have started to take.

The Ultimate Edition is going to retail the same as a normal New Release I believe. So about 60 dollars. To have bought all the content in this package before this it would have cost you approximately $114. One hundred, fourteen dollars. Those nickels and dimes sure add up. That's what you get for buying "beta-ware". ;)

Oh I like that term. I'm going to use it from now on for current games. >:)

For my part, I obviously don't have the game yet. (Don't have a PS3/360/Wii, and only buying cheap titles for now so I have lots to play by the time I do get them)

If the DLC is pre-installed - no download necessary - then I will likely add the game to my To Buy list. I would have been seriously pissed however if I had previously bought the game full price, regardless of if I had also bought the DLC separately.

Comments

[hikarugenji.livejournal.com]

Well...I guess I agree in a way but if the alternative is that it always costs $114 and never goes down in price, that's not that much better. I think it really depends on how long the compilation is released (and it also depends on how complete the original game feels without the DLC/expansion packs). I haven't played Dragon Age so I don't know how it works with that.

If the original game feels complete in itself, and the cheaper compilation is released long enough after the original game, it's not that bad to me. The first one is the big potential problem, of course.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Eh, another alternative is that they would simply NOT release a game until it's actually finished. Just because they decide to take the path that gouges the most money out of customers doesn't mean it's the only possible way for them to have done it.

I don't buy all the excuses about it being too expensive to develop requiring them to pull all the crap they've been pulling. They've been pulling it simply because with built in harddrives it's been -possible- to do it. That is all.

For Dragon Age itself however, the base game from what I've heard doesn't feel complete. In fact it had built in advertisements for it's gutted out DLC from day 1 iirc. So it wasn't an issue of going to the Sony store or booting up Live and seeing there were DLC bundles for the game. It was a matter of having some annoying character in the game pointing out to you that you were missing all these parts of the game, complete with notifying you that you were missing various achievements associated with them.