Ransack, on 09 January 2014 - 04:00 PM, said:
Late to this party, but since it jumped to the first page, I've got to ask how it is that you can honestly compare full games a lot with DLC added in to the price of a piece of digital addon in an incomplete game?
Well, i have not started with the bad comparisons, i just corrected the original one a bit.
But to explain my thoughts a bit:
What both (Limited Editions and digital bling-bling-items) have in common is that everything you get beside the game is exclusive stuff which don't add to the actual gameplay.
Granted, the limited editions have physical objects which are better than virtual items.
But on one hand, producing this stuff is relatively cheap and by far not worth hundreds of dollars.
On the other hand all this stuff (regardless of physical or not) is nothing needed for the game itself, it's just a bonus for the collectors out there. Whoever just wants to play the game will never buy an expensive limited edition or a gold mech.
So if you deduct the game price and production cost of the physical stuff from the price of collector editions, you are often still paying 100+ dollars just on collectors stuff whose function is almost the same as MWO's gold mechs.
And in my eyes this is kinda comparable.
BTW, while we are at bad comparisons: MMO's are NEVER finished, they are always incomplete and evolving. So it's a bit unfair to compare a game which is always incomplete by definition to a 'full game'.
And incomplete or not: Which game have most of you put more time into last year? A solid AAA title like Assassins Creed 3 or MWO? For me it's MWO by a far amount. I played this game way more than all other games together (except maybe M:TG).
And i did this knowing that i really miss some things like CW. It still makes fun and that's all what matters, as incomplete as the thing is.
And i payed the same 50 bucks an average 'full' game would cost me. So personally i don't feel milked or betrayed by PGI. I just wish that PGI gets a bit more professional so i don't have to wait so long for the really good stuff.
Edit: And only very few (if any) games add interesting content DLCs to their collector editions. Most of this content is average at best and no reason to buy a limited edition. The really big DLCs like XCOM's Enemy Within or the Civ5 Expansions are almost always produced after the release of the limited edition and are sold seperately for quite some money.
Day-0 DLCs are most often useless {Scrap} to squeeze more money out of the game.
Edited by Daggett, 09 January 2014 - 05:26 PM.