[QUOTE="homegirl2180"] Are you doing shift+enter or just enter? Do just enter and it should be fine. It could also be due to your browser. it seems my posts are somehow being made into raw html format. so I have to type html tags to make paragraphs.
that was wierd. sorry to double post, but I need to comment on that. i see the two line breaks has worked correctly. but i went onto the next line with the final short sentence and that has not worked.
edit: and i used many linebreaks in this post and it never worked. just testing to see if html makes any difference.
html seems to be working here. so I am posting in raw html format? is that normal? or has my account glitched somehow?
Hi, having a bit of trouble with all my line breaks being thrown out. maybe i'm missing something major but i don't see any formatting problems. in my settings I see there is an option for wysiwyg editor, but I don't see any buttons or anything. then when i post, my entire post structure is lost and all my words get pushed into one paragraph with no line returns. it's frustrating because other posters are blaming me for having bad writing skills. I've checked that noscript is not blocking anything important. I've checked peerblocker. I';ve checked adblocker. nothing is being blocked. yet it doesn't work properly. even this post was written with lots of linebreaks, but just look how it will come out. >:(
Well, people buy it so there's no reason for companies to stop selling it. If it was really too much money then we would probably be seeing a price drop by now. Granted, I usually can't justify it for most games, but I do get it for some games. Rockstar and Bethesda usually have substantial DLC since they still follow the expansion pack approach. I know we all seem to say map packs cost too much, but it is easy to argue that $15 for a few maps and weapons isn't that bad of a deal if you end up playing it in your online map rotation for 20 hours or so.
Basically, as long as the DLC isn't part of the game intentionally taken out to be sold at a later date, I really have no major problem with it since nobody is forced to buy it.
blueboxdoctor
I totally agree with you. the shimmering Isles expansion pack was great. it took me ages to get through that. Fallout 3 had good expansions too.
You ever think about organizing your posts a little more? I can't get past your cluster of text.Lord_Nas3k
I did. for some reason the forum is pushing all my line breaks onto the same line. for example, this sentence is on the next line, I bet the forum will push it onto the same line.
If you're poor and can't afford DLC, don't buy it.
AtlanticRock
I didn't say I can't afford it, I said I can't justify it. sorry if these threads are common. I tried google searching it and it didn't bring up many relevant results. I thought it was a little discussed thing.
bad value for money, way over priced, however you want to call it. the perspective i am coming from here is how much i expect to get out of the money i spend. I don't play short games. I play games with stories that I expect to keep me occupied for a decent amount f time. now, I'm not comparing one game to another, that's not fair. I'm keeping companies to their own standards. let us take my primary example. mass effect. now, I don't know what sort of game length to expect from the upcoming leviathan DLC, but I do know what we have had in hte past. I took a trip over to http://howlongtobeat.com/ and had a peek at the game length for Mass Effect 2 and it's various DLC. it turns out, the average and minimum game times for DLC compared to main game is less than 10%. so, by that logic, DLC should cost less than 10% of the cost of the full game. but this is not so. not only does DLC come out way above that mark, it also has no box, no book, no disc. it is often buggy and has less polish than the main game, and it comes out costing a fair amount more than 10% of the main game cost. on top of that, there is no way for it to become pre-owned and therefore get cheaper over time. I actually buy a lot of my games pre-owned so I don't tend to pay £40 for games. in my situation, for each Mass effect DLC, I would personally be looking to spend less than £2 for it. I'm really finding it difficult to justify DLC after doing all this investigation. I think that as soon as I get my trophies in ME3 I will be selling it. I had considered keeping it in order to play Leviathan, but I am finding myself less and less able to justify it.
I enjoyed all the responses here :) I know that my main focus i games right now is to not feel lonely. pretty telling. playing kingdoms of amalur now and it's pretty good. nice positive feeling and reminds me of WoW. I really like the comment about time markers and the emotional association. that's why i will avoid okami like the plague form now on. even though I owe a lot to it, it really helped pull me through. now it is just a reminder of tough times. it reminds me of a thing I read one time. can't remember where. a comment on an art piece or something. a person felt such gratitude for the kakariko village in ocarina of time. they said it was because it was where they retreated to when they were being constantly bullied in school. it was their personal escape and a place to feel safe. rather touching. it really inspires me to make video games. it's something i really want to do. to give people these precious moments and memories and to tide them through tough times etc.
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