All software does this too. You are not buying the software, you are buying a license to use it. The code belongs to the development company. You can possess the code, but you can not use it until you have the licensing. If you want to "own" something, ok, you own the little round plastic disc, but the code on it, belongs to the delvelopment group. You have to pay to be able to use it. So, you get to use it, when the owners of the code gives you that right to do so. So, legally and ethically, it is right for them to give you the little plastic disc with code on it free, but charge you to access the data on it when they see fit.. That simply is just how the software industry works..
An example: When you buy the book "Huckleberry Fin". You spent $7 for the book. Does that mean now, you own the story of Huckleberry Fin? No, you do not. It is a copyrighted story. You simply bought a bunch of little paper pages, with the story written on it, and bought the right to read and enjoy the story, but you do not own the story. It belongs to the writer and/or publisher. Not the best example, but the closest I could think of.. lol
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Originally Posted by Yossarian
Usually they don't attempt to sell extra content until a patch has been released so as to stop the inevitable 'OMG how dare you SELL us content before you've fixed you LOUSY BROKEN game' sort of stuff.
Expect DLC to go live as soon as the patch is live. Although the content obviously lives on the disc as I have played in a server where the host was using the P47, so I must have the files, I just cannot access them.
Hopefully they might open the content for everybody in the patch, I don't like paying for content I already bought, I own the disc with the files on I don't think I should be charged more to unlock things already on the disc.
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10-02-2009, 12:16 PM
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