Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition

[owsf2000]

So I finally bought the game, new, at a price I considered reasonable for it. $19.99.

I consider this the "Almost Finished" version of the game, since although it has both the base game and it's expansion, and 7 DLC components, from what I hear they also added more dlc afterward. I'd have to verify that on PSN - it's possible the extra addon content it mentions are just PS3 themes and wallpapers.

There were no DLC coupons in the case for Dragon Ages, and there's just a single disc. I'm going on the assumption that this means everything is actually on the disc. It's a shame EA didn't have the sense to EXPLICITLY state this on the back of the box. This was the single most deal killing uncertainty for me as I was NOT going to pay 49.99 if the 7 DLC packs were just going to be offered as single use coupons. At 19.99, that's a bit more reasonable to pick up since it'd be like getting the base game for 10 dollars and it's expansion for another 10.

There WAS a DLC coupon inside however. For the blood dragon armor for Mass Effect 2. Since I don't plan on getting Mass Effect 2 I would have probably considered giving this coupon away but it wouldn't do anybody any good. That coupon expired on July 30, 2011.



For anybody in the know (someone who deals with limited edition games etc that routinely insert single-use coupons as part of their "bonuses") do all DLC coupons tend to come with an expiry date? Or is this the black sheep? I can't say I care about this particular expiry dated coupon since as far as I can tell it isn't advertised anywhere on the box. If it was, I'd probably be pissed right now.

I can also see it mentioning registration for EA's services being required for online features. Well, I have no intention of doing that, but I have a feeling this might be why they included the DLC coupon - bait for the unwary. :P

Comments

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Bioware IS EA now, as far as I'm concerned (and as they have said themselves (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-03-bioware-ea-doesnt-tell-us-what-to-do)), since they seem to be willingly and enthusiastically embracing all of these bullshit things. (Despite the fact that prior to the EA buyout of them they never did asinine shit like this at all, but whatever.) Seriously, between requiring Internet connection to "activate" purely singleplayer content and including online codes that are useless because they have retarded arbitrary expiration dates that have already long since passed, I don't blame you at all for ignoring them. They essentially punished you for not buying new soon enough. ("Soon enough" that the game was still selling at full price is the reasoning for the expiration date, I would guess. I guess if you don't buy new at full price then you're "hurting the developer" or some shit?)

As for me, I will probably still get Mass Effect 3 eventually, simply because I've already got the first two games in the series and don't want to let one of the few multi-part series that actually concludes pass me by (assuming it doesn't end on yet another bullshit cliffhanger, of course, and I will be waiting for reviews to see if this is the case before buying it), but after this, I'm probably not going to be buying any more BioWare games either, myself. To think that it was Mass Effect that was the explicit reason I bought a 360 in the first place, back in 2007. Oh how far the mighty have fallen since then. :(

(As an aside, Assassin's Creed was another of the three titles I bought at the same time as I got the 360 initially, and just look at fucking Ubisoft now as well. They're actually even worse than EA/BioWare at this point, though admittedly not by very much. I haven't bought an AC game since AC2. Might still pick up Brotherhood and Revelations someday, but only if I find them at bargain bin price somewhere. The third game I got at the same time I bought the 360, BioShock, is the only one for which I have little reservations about getting the sequel, BioShock Infinite, at least currently anyway. At this point, who knows what all will be fucked up with that game between now and time for it to be released.)