PS3/Vita/PS4 Physical Boxes
Jul. 3rd, 2014 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owsf2000You know, with me being as anti-DLC as I am, I do occationally buy a couple things for a couple of games I really really like. Assuming of course that the game feels like a complete game even without it. This is a given however, since I don't really really like games that feel like shit has been cut out to nickle and dime me later.
So with the PS3/360 era, I ended up ignoring most games I saw at the store if I saw the helpful information on the box that cheerfully let me know that there was "add on content" or "downloadable content" like it was some kind of bonus. It was generally found in the top right corner along with trophies, multiplayer, voicechat, leaderboards, etc.
If I saw it had downloadable content, I typically put it back on the shelf and promptly forgot it existed unless there was some other reason I was interested in it. (At which point I'd at least go home and check on psn/live to see what kind of addon content they had.)
I'm not sure if Sony has taken this as a bad thing. As if telling me about the dlc up front was only killing a sale. I was checking the boxes of the newer games for the Vita, PS3, and PS4 and noticed that the general layout is different. There's no convenient mention of these things at all anymore. I didn't check EVERY SINGLE game of course, but then this use to be on just about every single game anyway...
So, no, this isn't going to make me suddenly assume there's no DLC on the games and I'll just happily buy it. If Sony assumes this will be the case, they're going to be sadly mistaken. Instead, this means I will not be purchasing games at all until I do a search on my own for the DLC on PSN. This means no spur-of-the-moment impulse buys. And I'm NOT going to waste my time checking the store for DLC on every single game that remotely seems interesting in this way.
It just means the only games I'm going to be buying from this moment on will be the ones I already know about well in advance and are eagerly awaiting to be released - and that's after I do a manual check for what kind of DLC they may have. Because even if I'm eagerly awaiting a game, if they've got loads of shit cut out I'm not going to be giving the game the time of day or the money from my wallet.
This is why NIS America hasn't seen much of my money this generation compared to the PS2 era.
So with the PS3/360 era, I ended up ignoring most games I saw at the store if I saw the helpful information on the box that cheerfully let me know that there was "add on content" or "downloadable content" like it was some kind of bonus. It was generally found in the top right corner along with trophies, multiplayer, voicechat, leaderboards, etc.
If I saw it had downloadable content, I typically put it back on the shelf and promptly forgot it existed unless there was some other reason I was interested in it. (At which point I'd at least go home and check on psn/live to see what kind of addon content they had.)
I'm not sure if Sony has taken this as a bad thing. As if telling me about the dlc up front was only killing a sale. I was checking the boxes of the newer games for the Vita, PS3, and PS4 and noticed that the general layout is different. There's no convenient mention of these things at all anymore. I didn't check EVERY SINGLE game of course, but then this use to be on just about every single game anyway...
So, no, this isn't going to make me suddenly assume there's no DLC on the games and I'll just happily buy it. If Sony assumes this will be the case, they're going to be sadly mistaken. Instead, this means I will not be purchasing games at all until I do a search on my own for the DLC on PSN. This means no spur-of-the-moment impulse buys. And I'm NOT going to waste my time checking the store for DLC on every single game that remotely seems interesting in this way.
It just means the only games I'm going to be buying from this moment on will be the ones I already know about well in advance and are eagerly awaiting to be released - and that's after I do a manual check for what kind of DLC they may have. Because even if I'm eagerly awaiting a game, if they've got loads of shit cut out I'm not going to be giving the game the time of day or the money from my wallet.
This is why NIS America hasn't seen much of my money this generation compared to the PS2 era.
