EA: all our games will have micro-transactions

Fire Emblem Awakening is how ALL games should approach DLC. Lots of it, supports the main game rather than being a part of it, and it's fairly cheap.

I like the way Orcs Must Die did it. Extra levels and extra weapons in the same package; what more do you need?

The way EA handles it can go die in a pit though. I don't WANT to pay for extra advantages. If I like a game, I'm not going to shell out cash to get through it faster. I'd pay for it to last longer instead.

I feel it's worth pointing out, since I don't think it's been mentioned, that in Dead Space 3, the game that as far as I can tell has really kicked this whole thing off, at least some of the content can be purchased using items collected in-game, you do not actually have to pay cash for it. Admittedly, the items in question seem to be time-consuming to acquire, but the option is still there.

Just to reiterate, I am against the idea in general, but I do think it's getting rather blown out of proportion.

thats actually a common practice in those sorts of f2p. The idea is to make real money more convenient than grinding for it.

The thing that makes this really silly though is that microtransactions are really worthless in a game like Dead Space. The game has a definitive end. It's not an open-ended grinding-heavy game. All the microtransactions will do is literally remove most of the point of playing the game.

Well, they could do something like let you play through with a neat hat or something.

Or as with the Saboteur game released a while ago, have a paid DLC where you go to a Bad Guy Bar and watch a burlesque show. Just sayin'

Apart from that, most DLC can die in a fire.

I'd complain about the amount of DLC in CKII, but I got it and much of the DLC on sale.

Also, it's at least pretty expansion pack-ish.

edited 4th Mar '13 9:29:44 PM by Balmung

I only got the DLC for Deus Ex Human Revolution and Saints Row the Third on Steam because of the massive discounts on them during the sales so I know how you feel.

So, from what I can tell, and don't quote me on this, it's EA being EA.

Pretty much. This is only an issue because once one person starts doing it, every ultra-corporate game company will jump on board. Otherwise I'd say EA's just digging their own grave slowly but surely. Since we just know others will leap head first into this, they're digging others' graves too.

It's like there's this list of corporate evils that all the companies want to do, they just don't want to be the first. EA's jumping on that grenade for them.