Batman: Arkham Knight's Premium Edition is priced at a cool R1200 for console

[gr33nFIEND]

Batman: Arkham Knight's Premium Edition is priced at a cool R1200 for console

By cool, we mean that it's expensive.

[mottamort]

Sounds like standard "I'm an idiot" tax to me

[AlienTaker]

I already got me a limited edition i'll buy the season pass on a later date

[PsychoFish]

Bleh, will wait for the R299 GOTY edition

[Tom]

Iv never understood what the "season Pass" thing is?

I Can see it working with a subscription game, but is it basically like access to free DLC they release for the first few months?

[matt]

Dayam! If the PC version costs that much, I shudder to think how much it'll be on console

[mottamort]

Dayam! If the PC version costs that much, I shudder to think how much it'll be on console

?? It quite clearly says R1200 for console. I'm confused now.

[matt]

?? It quite clearly says R1200 for console. I'm confused now.

Ah my bad, clearly I wasn't paying attention when I read it. I think I skimmed over it and somehow got the idea that this is the PC price, and that it's coming out on console later.

Still, very expensive

[diabolus]

Iv never understood what the "season Pass" thing is?

I Can see it working with a subscription game, but is it basically like access to free DLC they release for the first few months?

Yes, it was actually used more for games like CoD/Battlefield where you had to pay for the map-packs and for expansions . The season pass would basically include it, but in those games case you generally have a fairly good idea of what you will get and that you most likely will need to get it to continue playing in said game . So it works for certain types of games, but in this games' case, there is opinion that this is rather absurd :

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/04/2...pass-is-absurd

I don’t believe that the existence of DLC content will necessarily diminish the quality of the $60 version of Batman: Arkham Knight. After WB’s recent announcement of a season pass, it remains one of my most hotly anticipated games of 2015, and I intend to play the hell out of it. That said: what the hell is this?

For $40, Warner Bros and Rocksteady promise us the following:

“This season pass for Batman: Arkham Knight delivers new content every month for 6 months, featuring new story missions, more supervillains invading Gotham City, new legendary Batmobiles, advanced challenge maps, alternative character skins, and new drivable race tracks.”

As a huge Batman fan, that strikes me as completely bonkers. Even if some of this extra content ends up being great – I do love Arkham challenge maps, and I might even spring for a well-done Animated Series Batman skin (yes, again) – there’s virtually no way all of it will be worth paying for. Who in their right mind would buy a bundle of vaguely described DLC all at once, especially sight unseen, at two-thirds the price of a full new game?

[PsychoFish]

Yes, it was actually used more for games like CoD/Battlefield where you had to pay for the map-packs and for expansions . The season pass would basically include it, but in those games case you generally have a fairly good idea of what you will get and that you most likely will need to get it to continue playing in said game . So it works for certain types of games, but in this games' case, there is opinion that this is rather absurd :

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/04/2...pass-is-absurd

So this will probably happen

DLC - Month 1 - New story mission adding 30min of additional gameplay introducing a new supervillian
DLC - Month 2 - New story mission adding 30min of additional gameplay introducing a new supervillian
DLC - Month 3 - Replicas of 1943 Batmobile, 1949 Batmobile, 1965 Batmobile, Batman returns batmobile, Batman forever batmobile, etc
DLC - Month 4 - Challenge maps
DLC - Month 5 - Characters skins *yawn*
DLC - Month 6 - Race tracks

Congrats on wasting money on rubbish, they might have an "ultimate season pass" waiting to appear by month 5 though