fable wrote:Well, yes, who doesn't, but you know why it isn't, don't you? So they can slice off more content and throw it at you later, and you'll end up paying far more than you would consider with one purchase. It's clever, but when you compare it to the original Bioware's attitude of giving you as much as possible for your money because they love roleplaying games and want to share their enthusiasm, this accounting-driven stuff just falls flat for me.
Think I'll just wait on Indie games being done by people who still have that enthusiasm Bioware lost when its owners individually left.
Considering how much I pay for other sorts of entertainment in forms of music, movies and books - and the fact that I buy perhaps a handful of games of the shelf per year - my "would consider" is pretty high for solid computer games I actually enjoy
I'd never purchase a computer game I don't think I would enjoy and even then I at times end up with a game I dislike ..... but when I find a game I truly enjoy - paying for DLC is pretty much a non-issue for me if I think I'll like the DLC and feels it will add something to my enjoyment.
I'd much rather pay more (even if via DLC) for a game which IMO has qualities, then pay less for a game which is dumped down or only has graphical fluff. And if looking at the mainstream cRPGs which have been released over the last couple of years - it seems very much that it is a tradeoff between the two so far. And indie games can be okay at times, but therein is also a lot of weeding out to get the quality crop.
Xandax wrote:Considering how much I pay for other sorts of entertainment in forms of music, movies and books - and the fact that I buy perhaps a handful of games of the shelf per year - my "would consider" is pretty high for solid computer games I actually enjoy
I'd never purchase a computer game I don't think I would enjoy and even then I at times end up with a game I dislike ..... but when I find a game I truly enjoy - paying for DLC is pretty much a non-issue for me if I think I'll like the DLC and feels it will add something to my enjoyment.
So if it's a non-issue for you, how much would you be willing to pay, and for how much added content? In the end, would you pay $100 for a game that was as long as DA:O, with 15 additional hours of content? Because we're moving out of a traditional model of "X amount of content for X amount of cash" into an area where neither is defined. What's "too little offered for too much money" for you?
To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe.
hedgewizard wrote:I'll not be getting the DLC. Fable brings up a good point in suggesting that BioWare/EA merely left out some goodies from Dragon Age to throw them on the sale table right after its release. Perhaps if the the DLC gets packaged altogether for a low price, or a truly worthwhile expansion comes out, I'll buy that.
I find the very notion of DLC repugnant, after having purchased both the Keep and Stone Prisoner, and not being able to make either work, and EA's customer support being likewise incapable, have finally resorted to referring me to their forum in case this issue of usable/unauthorized/undownloadable DLC is resolved there.
Give me the blasted content I already paid for in a CD that is not depe3ndent on having to be logged on in order to use them.
There are so few rpg's out there that anything that I can get works for me. wish they came out with these things every two months. So if I can get more why not? I do not go to movies since most of them are lame, I do not buy music. This is my entertainment. And I consider $20 cheap.
endboss wrote:Is there an in-game person to tell me about the DLC? How will I know it exists and how to buy???
Endboss, I noticed no one had answered your question yet. All you have to do
is go here Dragon Age Origins - Addon and it will walk you through the purchase process. It also lists DLC that is or will be soon available.
