Yeah, it's getting a little bit ridiculous, but fortunately I'm not really buying any of the games where they are doing that crap. While I'm pretty sure that I made a post on here once saying that it wasn't really that big of a deal, selling the costumes for Street Fighter IV was especially ludicrous. They are taking the kinds of things they use to make money in free-to-play games and making them cost extra in in regular retail games now as well. It's pretty disgusting and I refuse to support it, especially when some of the prices are ridiculous relative to the content. The reason I had said it didn't matter much in that case was that it doesn't actually affect the gameplay at all, but it's still pretty ridiculous.
What is really bothering me even more though is exclusive content, such as content exclusive to a particular retailer, or to people who pre-order a game. That garbage seriously needs to stop. It's probably not going to, unfortunately. When they have different exclusive content for different retailers it's even more annoying. No matter how trivial some of the bonuses might actually be, it's like they are just trying to piss people off who want to have access to everything in a game or something.
I just want to buy a game and be done with it. I don't want to deal with all this convoluted nonsense. All it does is turn me off of a game altogether. If they want to sell additional significant content, like what they are doing with GTA IV for example, that I have no problem with, but some of this stuff like extra units for Empire: Total War and multiplayer mode for Resident Evil 5 (which probably nobody cares about anyway) being DLC is just ridiculous and asinine. In fact, that crap they did with Empire: Total War completely turned me off to the game. I don't want to deal with a company if that is how they are going to treat their paying customers. It really says a lot about where they stand and what one can expect from them in the future. What belongs in collector's editions is figurines or art books or maybe even crappy night vision goggles, not exclusive in-game content.
What they did with Resident Evil 5's versus mode is kind of mindbogglingly dumb, because let's say there are a few people who would enjoy it: Well, it would probably be kind of hard for them to find a game in the first place even if everyone with the game had it, since it would probably still be rather niche. The fact that most of the people who own the game probably don't buy the DLC makes it even harder for the poor saps who DO buy it to find a match.
Basically, I refuse to buy games where they pull these kinds of stunts, period. I might buy them at a later date if I can get them really cheap with all of the DLC included, but I'm not going to buy 98% of a game at the store and then have them try to sell me the other 2% for half of the cost as the game proper. If that is the direction games are headed in then they can all go to hell because I'm not buying 98% of a game. I have precious little tolerance for bull**** cost-hiding marketing (free cell phone!) and I'm not about to encourage this trend to turn every game into something with recurring fees. If they want to sell their games for $70 for $80 outright with everything included, then by all means they can go right ahead, but if they're going to be all sneaky and devious about it then by all means they can kiss my ass.
Sorry, but anyone who paid $20 for the additional Street Fighter IV costumes is a ****ing moron and I seriously hope they quit playing games and go take up some other hobby that I don't partake in. People are just encouraging game companies to keep pulling **** moves like this by actually buying this stuff. Twenty dollars. The actual game itself was on sale for that much a few weeks back on Steam. Yep, additional costumes are worth as much as the game itself. (Okay, half if you go by the game's normal price.) Yeah, that makes ****ing sense. You know what? Screw you, Capcom.
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