My Thoughts on DLC

[addam]

True; quite a few of the games I own I pirated first or played it at a friends house to get a proper idea of what's going on. A demo-into-buy option would really make things easier for us and ease the burden of piracy on the publishers...of course this argument only holds if publishers ONLY release quality products

Well if it's not quality they should up their game (intentional pun)! I'm sure EA makes so much money on their buggy games and "DLCs" (patches) that they have no desire to put in the effort required into making sure their games are quality. I know studios make the games, but EA should be the quality control.

[PsychoFish]

Well if it's not quality they should up their game (intentional pun)! I'm sure EA makes so much money on their buggy games and "DLCs" (patches) that they have no desire to put in the effort required into making sure their games are quality. I know studios make the games, but EA should be the quality control.

And that is partly the issue. The problem is that some people buy a game, dislike it and then cannot return it because (1) Shops don't take physical media back unless it's unopened or damaged (2) it installed with Steam/Origin either digitally or from disk and as part of your EULA you cannot return the game, you cannot even sell it either. So you're stuck with it.

Now irrespective of the above, it's still considered a sale. Hell, even this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZdrNOaOWE counts as a sale. At the end of the day as long as the manufacturer/publisher/studio/developer sees a sale they are happy.

[AlphaJohn]

With all this talk and even looking back to the past, all I can say is F EA!!!!

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 developer DICE has pledged that it will never charge for downloadable map packs.

The news comes after Infinity Ward put a pricetag of 1200 Microsoft Points on its Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Map Pack.

IW's pack went on sale yesterday - with some complications. DICE's own VIP 2 map pack became available on the same day - without cost.

"We don't ever want to charge for our maps and insisted to EA that this attitude was crucial when it came to keeping our community happy and playing together," DICE senior producer Patrick Bach told Xbox World 360 magazine.

Bach commented that DICE had "generous" amounts of DLC planned for Battlefield: Bad Company 2's future.

He added: "We're owned by EA but we're still very much DICE."

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I wonder what DICE CEO has to say about this, esp looking at BF3/4

[Ike_009]

With all this talk and even looking back to the past, all I can say is F EA!!!!


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I wonder what DICE CEO has to say about this, esp looking at BF3/4

I sense a disturbance in our future