Dead Space 3 microtransaction prices revealed

So much whining about the game for the dumbest of reasons jfc.

I'm going to buy the game tomorrow and enjoy it. I can easily ignore this.

So much whining about the game for the dumbest of reasons jfc.

I'm going to buy the game tomorrow and enjoy it. I can easily ignore this.

timmy00

[QUOTE="timmy00"]

So much whining about the game for the dumbest of reasons jfc.

I'm going to buy the game tomorrow and enjoy it. I can easily ignore this.

Pete-B

[QUOTE="QuebecNationale"] If people buy Dead Space 3, they're saying It's ok for these kind of shady micro transaction schemes to continue. megadeth1117

Which it is.

[QUOTE="moistsandwich"]

The best thing EVERY gamer can do, is to not buy the game. THIS NEEDS TO FAIL!

GAMERS UNITE and send a message. We have to draw the line somewhere.

megadeth1117

I thought a comment with this level of stupidity would only be found on YouTube. 

You're stupid.

[QUOTE="Pete-B"][QUOTE="timmy00"]

So much whining about the game for the dumbest of reasons jfc.

I'm going to buy the game tomorrow and enjoy it. I can easily ignore this.

timmy00

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="StrongBlackVine"]You play COD so you have horrible casual taste any way.StrongBlackVine

Playing COD for the campaign shows even worse taste.

Playing COD for the campaign shows even worse taste.StrongBlackVine

I thought the campaign in Black Ops II was quite excellent. Treyarch, for the first time in the COD franchise, really nailed the whole "summer blockbuster" feel.

You're stupid.McStrongfast

How is this any different than buying skins and extra weapons? This isn't the first time they(or any other company) has done this. :roll:Pete-B

Check out the full microtransaction details below.

• Bot Capacity Upgrade $4.99
• Bot Personality Pack $4.99
• First Contact Pack Free
• Marauder Pack $4.99
• Sharpshooter Pack $4.99
• Tundra Recon Pack $4.99
• Witness the Truth Pack $4.99
• Bot Accelerator $4.99
• Epic Weapon & Resource Pack $2.99
• Online Pass $9.99
• Ultra Weapon & Resource Pack $1.99
• Resource Pack $0.99

Read more at http://www.destructoid.com/dead-space-3-microtransaction-prices-revealed-243522.phtml&nav=mobile&mode=mobile#gp5mu9Dq4ekWOkod.99

In a statment of why these microtransactions were introduced Viscerals John Calhoun stated.

"Theres a lot of players out there, especially players coming from mobile games, who are accustomed to micro-transactions. Theyre like I need this now, I want this now. They need instant gratification. So we included that option in order to attract those players, so that if theyre 5000 Tungsten short of this upgrade, they can have it."

So aperantly the reason that we have to pay for these microtransactions is because of these mobile gamers:roll:

Shielder7

Bollox, if I want somthing in a single player game now! I'll download a trainer or editor from cheat happens ;)

[QUOTE="Shielder7"]

Check out the full microtransaction details below.

• Bot Capacity Upgrade $4.99
• Bot Personality Pack $4.99
• First Contact Pack Free
• Marauder Pack $4.99
• Sharpshooter Pack $4.99
• Tundra Recon Pack $4.99
• Witness the Truth Pack $4.99
• Bot Accelerator $4.99
• Epic Weapon & Resource Pack $2.99
• Online Pass $9.99
• Ultra Weapon & Resource Pack $1.99
• Resource Pack $0.99

Read more at http://www.destructoid.com/dead-space-3-microtransaction-prices-revealed-243522.phtml&nav=mobile&mode=mobile#gp5mu9Dq4ekWOkod.99

In a statment of why these microtransactions were introduced Viscerals John Calhoun stated.

"Theres a lot of players out there, especially players coming from mobile games, who are accustomed to micro-transactions. Theyre like I need this now, I want this now. They need instant gratification. So we included that option in order to attract those players, so that if theyre 5000 Tungsten short of this upgrade, they can have it."

So aperantly the reason that we have to pay for these microtransactions is because of these mobile gamers:roll:

GarGx1

Bollox, if I want somthing in a single player game now! I'll download a trainer or editor from cheat happens ;)

[QUOTE="megadeth1117"]

[QUOTE="QuebecNationale"]No it isn't.

[QUOTE="megadeth1117"]

[QUOTE="moistsandwich"]

The best thing EVERY gamer can do, is to not buy the game. THIS NEEDS TO FAIL!

GAMERS UNITE and send a message. We have to draw the line somewhere.

McStrongfast

I thought a comment with this level of stupidity would only be found on YouTube. 

You're stupid.

oh god... have you people really sunken down to gradeschool insults.....?

"YOURE STUPID!"

"NO, YOURE STUPID!"

grow the **** up....

Bot personality pack ? So we have to pay for characters now...Pharenheit

[QUOTE="Pharenheit"]Bot personality pack ? So we have to pay for characters now...Shielder7

We paid for "From Ashes" in ME3 to unlock a character that was fairly important to the story. Did you cry about that?

[QUOTE="McStrongfast"]

[QUOTE="megadeth1117"]

I thought a comment with this level of stupidity would only be found on YouTube. 

Geminon

You're stupid.

oh god... have you people really sunken down to gradeschool insults.....?

"YOURE STUPID!"

"NO, YOURE STUPID!"

grow the **** up....

No yougrow up!

[QUOTE="Miketheman83"]You don't have to buy them dude. They are optional. Options are good.Sushiglutton

Same here was gonna get DS3 but after this came out that's 60 bucks I can save for something better.

[QUOTE="Shielder7"][QUOTE="Pharenheit"]Bot personality pack ? So we have to pay for characters now...Geminon

Wait, really? That sounds f**king hilarious. 

[QUOTE="Shielder7"][QUOTE="Pharenheit"]Bot personality pack ? So we have to pay for characters now...StrongBlackVine

We paid for "From Ashes" in ME3 to unlock a character that was fairly important to the story. Did you cry about that?

[QUOTE="Sushiglutton"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

A fool and his money.

It doesn't have to affect you if you don't want.

Cherokee_Jack

That's a flaw with the game's design, not the microtransactions themselves.

They could design it so that the game is perfectly fine without buying anything.

[QUOTE="RR360DD"]If all they've done is add this as an option, then its fine. What annoys me is when you play games that make it so hard / time consuming to unlock items through normal means that it practically drives you to pay for it. crimsonman1245

I agree that the idea of DLC/Microtransactions is not bad, but think about whos utilizing it, EA, Capcom, Activision, do you trust these people to use it responsibly? I dont.

You don't have to buy them dude. They are optional. Options are good.Miketheman83

I dunno this seems very similar to diablo 3, "where you didn't have to ues the auction house" but in reality the game was designed around using the auction house to buy good gear which was nigh impossible to get through grinding.

The fact that EA is involved makes me ultra suspicious as well. Micro-transactions in dead space will definately be game breaking

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

[QUOTE="Sushiglutton"] We don't know if it will affect us or not. They may have designed the resource gathering to be slow enough to encourage people to pay to speed it up. If so those who don't buy suffers. psx_warrior

That's a flaw with the game's design, not the microtransactions themselves.

They could design it so that the game is perfectly fine without buying anything.

They're needed to jack up the average revenue per player, because EA isn't confident in the core game's sales. Same reason collector's editions exist.

Unless the game was planned from day 1 with microtransactions as the focus (more likely EA randomly told them to do it in the midst of development), it's very doubtful that the experience would be much worse without them. They aren't going to bother molding the game around the people who buy MTs, because it benefits them a lot more if the maximum number of players enjoy the campaign.

Watching the Giant Bomb quick look. Resource gathering is restricted by a 10 minute cooldown which it appears you can lower with what they call an "accelerator", available only by paying. Brad does say he didn't run into any issues of resources being scarce, which would effectively get Dead Space 3 off the hook. But that is the kind of thing I'm concerned about. Because that just sounds like complete s*** doesn't it? You can easily see where this could take a wrong turn.McStrongfast

All signs point to Visceral doing a fine job of mitigating some extreme damage EA tried to inflict with a lot forced in additions.

[QUOTE="psx_warrior"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

That's a flaw with the game's design, not the microtransactions themselves.

They could design it so that the game is perfectly fine without buying anything.

Cherokee_Jack

They're needed to jack up the average revenue per player, because EA isn't confident in the core game's sales. Same reason collector's editions exist.

Unless the game was planned from day 1 with microtransactions as the focus (more likely EA randomly told them to do it in the midst of development), it's very doubtful that the experience would be much worse without them. They aren't going to bother molding the game around the people who buy MTs, because it benefits them a lot more if the maximum number of players enjoy the campaign.

even though these are opitonal, it is opening the door to devs starting to make games where the game is a boring slog-fest if you don't. We all slam War Z for obnoxious micro transactions, but imo devs like EA will push as far into that direction as they feel they can get away with it.GunSmith1_basic

And people will stop buying those games, if they pay $60 up front only to have a bad experience...

The consumer is not as infinitely pliable as you all seem to think.

[QUOTE="StrongBlackVine"]

[QUOTE="Shielder7"] It seems like it.Shielder7

We paid for "From Ashes" in ME3 to unlock a character that was fairly important to the story. Did you cry about that?

Planning to buy Dead Space 3, and still pretend that microtransactions don't even exist. Its that optional.

Who's going to buy them anyway?

This whole microtransaction business with DS3 was such an overblown piece of malarkey...  this game is no different than any other game with Day 1 "packs"...  in no way is anything held back from your classic Dead Space experience.  If you liked DS2 you will like DS3. 

Why would I buy a 60$ game that wants to charge me for cheat codes?

Person would have to be really stupid to support this type of game development.

That final boss was a gimmicky waste, your typical squid monster once again.

the games good until you make it to the machine, then it's just the same old **** and they make you go through it twice more or less.

The side missions use the same assets, your basically trecking through the exact same underground compounds which is honestly a wasted opportunity.

Overall the game was good but it really starts f*cking up towards the halfway point, I would have prefered them to keep the tense nature the first half of the game had.