Dragon Age Ultimate Edition
Oct. 1st, 2010 05:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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.
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.
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Date: 2010-10-02 07:11 am (UTC)You don't even have to look that far for degrading value given you can buy a lot of games at retail stores like Wal-mart for under 20 bucks when they use to cost 60 new. And then you have the whole "Greatest Hits" angle.