[QUOTE="Gargus"]
I never approved of this business practice.
I understand why microsoft does it, they buy the timed exclusive dlc rights to garner more attention. Its just business. Microsoft does it because they want their console to sell more than anyother.
But developers and publishers sell games to all gamers, not just gamers of one specific console. I dislike them doing this practice because all they are doing is punishing their customers who dont own a specific system. "Hey gang new map packs are out! Congrats to all the people who own this one paticular system, the other guys youll have to wait awhile then we will let you buy our products from us then". They should be wanting to please all of their paying customers as best they can and as equally as they can instead of favoring 1/3 of their customers for some quick cash. Bottom line is if if someone buys BF4 on the pc, ps4, or xbox one then they still bought a EA game and supported them financially, kind of a dick move for EA to make anyone not playing on a specific system to sit and wait despite the fact they were a paying customer of theirs.
When I see developers and publisher do things like this all I see is them telling consumers "Hey please buy our games, but sorry 1/3 of you arent as important to us really because we like having exclusive rights money more than treating all of our customers fairly"
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"It's also a blow to Sony, which had a timed-exclusivity agreement with EA on Battlefield 3 DLC."
Everyone does it brah, its just MS is better at it than Sony
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As I said, I know why microsoft does it, its business. I made no qualms about it. What I had an issue with is the publishers and developers that are willing to show a large portion of their customer base disregard for some quick cash.
Microsoft doing it is trying to cater to their customer base which are xbox owners, it makes sense. But for publishers/developers to do it means they are only catering to a portion of their paying customers since they have customers buying their products across multiple systems. Playing favorites among your paying customers isnt a good practice.
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