mRWaffles: There's no such thing as taking advantage of a willing consumer. A consumer consumes. You cannot force consumption. If I'm willing to pay 10 bucks for five hours then the option is mine. If you don't want to, then don't. You are not entitled to anything. Sure, CD Projekt can give us free DLC. Awesome, but don't cross the line to entitlement.
Yes there is, (
But from a seller's perspective more than the willing consumer) Ticket scalpers have been doing it for decades! Entitlement doesn't even enter into the equation as far as I'm concerned.. ;^) My point is clearly about how companies are cheating us (
Or opening up the potential) by selling a lesser product for a higher price, when advertizing a better product. From a Corporate perspective, consumers are easy pickings (
Mainstream that is) because that they are not the most discriminating group of folks around and will buy just about anything that has a "shiny new package" or gives them a status of "cool."
Perfect example, was a man who actually sold rocks as "Pet rocks" not to mention a man who sold "Copper miniature portraits of Abraham Lincoln" for a dollar they are the suckers in which Barnum & Bailey first described in their most famous of quotes!
Yes, while it's true that people have the choice in whether they purchase what amounts to a 2-hour session with an SDK can produce if they want to or not, (
DA2 & ME2) in the long run it will simply will drive your company into mediocrity by giving your company a green light in order to fleece your complacent customer base for some short-term riches with inferior products, and you still might be able to run that business while coasting on $10 stir-fried shit, well...Up until the point when a real competitor comes to take your place with better product/prices and drives you out of your own market. Which, admittedly, is not such a bad thing, until the business that replaces the latter goes down that same road...Which we all seen before, which brings me to my next point...
The reason most are up in arms about this particular subject is that most have a stark basis of comparison as to how their hobby of choice is getting ripped off, and cheapened by shoddy production efforts for higher prices as in sharp contrast to the gaming bliss 10 years past.
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Tes 3 had a lot of free content while Tes 4 had horse armor- didn't bother me 'cause Beth's a great company and they gave us NOTN!),
Don't get me wrong..I am not saying that paying for DLCs are the sign of Satan defecating on Christmas, but more to the point I'd rather see great content for a good decent price! IE: Oblivion's Knights of the Nine was excellent content for ten dollars because it added extra content for game-players as well as a modder's resource, but paying ten dollars for a sword, or a re-textured piece of armor with the same mesh is defiantly not because it adds nothing in comparison! (
IE: Photoshopping a DDS file which anyone can do!)
But I am also wary of how this practice can be abused as Bioware was an excellent company much like CDPRed! In a matter of fact I will be purchasing both DLC's for FO New Vegas even though I could DL a mod or even Mod my own level/Quest, because it adds something substantial to the game.
So yeah, I would LOVE to keep on receiving free DLC from CDPRed, (
And an SDK is just the cherry we need on top!) but if they sell quality DLCs then Hell yeah, I agree with you 100% But not so, if the product is cheap...