Don't you feel ripped off as a console gamer?

[Flying Coffin]

Best thing about this thread is it concerns itself with whether console gamers feel ripped off but nobody seems to want to mention the 360 DLC "download" clocking in at only 140kb ... which indicates an unlock code for content that's already on the disc.

Why is everybody being so coy about mentioning the holding back of game content so the publisher can charge for it later? It's the biggest rip off on the 360 no matter what company is doing it.

What else is on the disc that people will have to pony up for I wonder?

And when publishers complain about modded consoles and pirated games that have all content cracked and open for use I really don't feel any sympathy when I see mercenary shit like this going down.

[JG27CaptStubing]

You get what you pay for... If the numbers are there that support this type of behavior then the best bet is not to buy anymore games...

[InfiniteStates]

Originally Posted by Flying Coffin

Why is everybody being so coy about mentioning the holding back of game content so the publisher can charge for it later? It's the biggest rip off on the 360 no matter what company is doing it.

Because that is covered in other threads. And it's on the disk because it was rewarded early to people who pre-ordered.

Originally Posted by Flying Coffin

And when publishers complain about modded consoles and pirated games that have all content cracked and open for use I really don't feel any sympathy when I see mercenary shit like this going down.

And it's exactly this attitude that forces publishers to charge more for games and devise this "mercenary shit". Games are not cheap to make, and pirates do to the games industry what the a-holes that drive around without car insurance do to your car insurance premium.

[juz1]

Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Because that is covered in other threads. And it's on the disk because it was rewarded early to people who pre-ordered.


And it's exactly this attitude that forces publishers to charge more for games and devise this "mercenary shit". Games are not cheap to make, and pirates do to the games industry what the a-holes that drive around without car insurance do to your car insurance premium.

amen to that...
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[Riceball]

Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Because that is covered in other threads. And it's on the disk because it was rewarded early to people who pre-ordered.

FYI: Only parts of Europe recieved content as a pre-order bonus.

[InfiniteStates]

Originally Posted by Riceball

FYI: Only parts of Europe recieved content as a pre-order bonus.

Unlike code, art assets are hard to conditionally add to a build on a build switch (#define), so I wouldn't be surprised if the actual disk contents were the same for all regions, with just the code modified via localisation switches to access different assets. I wonder if all the European language files are on every region's disks also?

[Ancient Seraph]

Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Unlike code, art assets are hard to conditionally add to a build on a build switch (#define), so I wouldn't be surprised if the actual disk contents were the same for all regions, with just the code modified via localisation switches to access different assets. I wonder if all the European language files are on every region's disks also?

There was a post about a German guy buying the UK version, and found his BoP was completely german until he switched his PS3 language to english.

[Benrizz]

Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Unlike code, art assets are hard to conditionally add to a build on a build switch (#define), so I wouldn't be surprised if the actual disk contents were the same for all regions, with just the code modified via localisation switches to access different assets. I wonder if all the European language files are on every region's disks also?

Personnally I bought my game through Ebay in the UK to pay 20% less thanks to their currency.

And I had the surprised to have the game In French (Which is terrible due to the false English/ Soviet accent of the actors lol)

So I guess European games do have all european languages on the disk

[InfiniteStates]

With all due respect, you're missing my point

I already know that all EU languages are on the EU version's disk. What I meant was, I wonder if all EU languages are on a US version's disk. You probably won't be able to test it though, because a US build of the code will disregard the bit in an EU build that reads the system language and loads the appropriate files accordingly.

I don't think I made that any clearer lol. Oh well...

Suffice to say, I'm not surprised the DLC content is on every disk despite it only being an unlock in the EU.

[Raw Kryptonite]

Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Games are not cheap to make, and pirates do to the games industry what the a-holes that drive around without car insurance do to your car insurance premium.

That's a good way to put it.
However, the pirating is 99% on pc games, which are cheap and console players pay the premium price (in general). It's more like people without car insurance cause the stable individuals with homeowners insurance to pay more.