DLC on xbox market place BUT no title update

[Ancient Seraph]

Originally Posted by House MD 221B

Sorry Seraph but here I disagree with you, the game was priced at full price £40 GBP here. THAT is why some have a problem, others got it alot cheaper. THAT'S why ANOTHER £5 is an insult.

£40 = €43... that's normal for you guys? Lucky bastards..
Still, it's optional, won't impair gameplay if you don't buy it, and has nothing in it that's necessary to have in any way. I can imagine you're pissed (ok.. I can't, but I'm not judging you on that or anything) but there's not really a reason to start flaming this DLC, and the release of it.

[House MD 221B]

Originally Posted by Ancient Seraph

£40 = €43... that's normal for you guys? Lucky bastards..
Still, it's optional, won't impair gameplay if you don't buy it, and has nothing in it that's necessary to have in any way. I can imagine you're pissed (ok.. I can't, but I'm not judging you on that or anything) but there's not really a reason to start flaming this DLC, and the release of it.

Don't get me wrong, I want it, I want the P-47 and the TA-152, i just don't see why it should cost me MORE than a full price game, to have what everyone should have. but £40 is alot for me and my girlfriend at the minute, (Thank god its my birthday next week so that I could use the opportunity to acquire Modern Warfare 2 and Operation Flashpoint 2) every other console game with Pre-order stuff allows you to unlock it or GIVES it you a few months later. They don't make you pay for it. And I'm curious about the bastogne missions, I have great interest in the battle of the bulge. I'm not flaming, I just think they're really taking the piss, be it Microsoft, the devs, or the publishers, whoever is responsible for it. (And I didn't know that DLC was done well before release date, like Anton said, that's new, but it does make sense) And I don't even care that its out before the TU, I don't care cus the TU will fix the plane issues etc. it's all gravy, it's SOLELY the price that peeves me. JUST that, NOTHING else.

[Lexandro]

If you guys paid £40 you bought it at the wrong place. Tesco had/has it on sale from Release day at £30. I get all my games at Tesco now simply because Game/Gamestation are taking the piss on prices and on trade-ins.

[House MD 221B]

Originally Posted by Lexandro

If you guys paid £40 you bought it at the wrong place. Tesco had/has it on sale from Release day at £30. I get all my games at Tesco now simply because Game/Gamestation are taking the piss on prices and on trade-ins.

I may have to start doing that, partly cus ive run out of games I want to trade in now :S they are piss takers. the only reason I could get BoP was to trade hence why i used gamestation.

[Lexandro]

I was in Gamestation yesterday picking up an MS racing wheel (another story) and I spotted that they wanted £50 for the new Marvel game, £45 for DiRT2, and had a shelf space with pre-order markers for Forza 3 price set to £50.

Now thats seriously taking the piss. And IIRC it might actually be illegal for them, because back in the 90's the EU passed a law stating that no computer game could charge above a pre-set maximum price and it could ONLY charge the max if the game contained new technology. Hence why some games made on pre-made engines (Unreal Engine etc) are cheaper to buy new.

[beaker126]

Could one of you English fellows please explain what the phrase "taking the piss" actually means? I've heard it used in several different contexts here and in books and I'm confused. Just curious is all.

[Lexandro]

Its along the lines of "You are making fun of me".

[ontheborderland]

I'm definitely going to buy it. I don't really get the hostility.

The developers spend a certain amount of time and money making a game. You choose to either buy it or not. If you buy it, you're buying exactly the game that they made and are selling you at that time, not everything that they may make for it in the future, or everything that you believe should have been in the game to start with.

[juz1]

both planes a big pile o poo...although the p47 does have monstrous bomb/rocket capability..

anyone care to chime what the missions are like? More of same?
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[PurplePenguin04]

Originally Posted by House MD 221B

every other console game with Pre-order stuff allows you to unlock it or GIVES it you a few months later.

I'm just curious, What games and DLC are you talking about here? Would you mind naming a few?

I didn't find out about BoP soon enough to take advantage of any preorder bonus, is what's in the DLC the exact same thing as the preorder goodies?