Mass Effect 3

[SethMode]

Thanks to you both, again. Will have to go back and try to figure out what the issue is.

[stevsta]

I hope some fucktard cancels their ce order on release date dropping an extra 10 (going to buy the dlc anyways) to get extra stuff seems like a better option

[JayDizzle]

I dig this "it should be free" business... the DLC was made after the main game was finished and is an extra file to add to the main game save.

And yes, while it's super important that the character is in fact a Prothean, the DLC's going to be just like the Kasumi and Zaeed bits from ME2.

Extra flavor for a decent story and a new crewmate to leave on the ship when you're done.

Honestly, you could not pay the $10 and it wouldn't kill you.

[Leftwich]

I can't wait to see if they show Tali under her mask.

I'm not gonna lie, i'm expecting that bitch to look like the wicked witch of the east.

[Bear Pand]

I dig this "it should be free" business... the DLC was made after the main game was finished and is an extra file to add to the main game save.

And yes, while it's super important that the character is in fact a Prothean, the DLC's going to be just like the Kasumi and Zaeed bits from ME2.

Extra flavor for a decent story and a new crewmate to leave on the ship when you're done.

Honestly, you could not pay the $10 and it wouldn't kill you.

Zaeed was free, or at least I somehow got him despite paying $0 extra. EA gonna EA end of the day.

I can't wait to see if they show Tali under her mask.

I'm not gonna lie, i'm expecting that bitch to look like the wicked witch of the east.

Nah she'll be super attractive, no way theyd make her ugly and piss people off.

[Leftwich]

Zaeed was free, or at least I somehow got him despite paying $0 extra. EA gonna EA end of the day.




Nah she'll be super attractive, no way theyd make her ugly and piss people off.

I would have never paid for that Zaeed shit. Loyalty mission was shit and he was a shit teammate.

[CCBrink]

I expect Tali to look like some sexy Indian chick.

[JayDizzle]

I expect Tali to look like some sexy Indian chick.

[Tengo Juego]

Zaeed was free, or at least I somehow got him despite paying $0 extra. EA gonna EA end of the day.

Zaed(cerberus network) was the equivalent to the online pass in ea sports titles.

[Maynard]

yeah it was free to anyone who bought it as motivation to get people to buy new. now they have gone one step further by making you buy new...plus charging you $10 for it....lol

Ugh...come on...I highly doubt that it is on the disc. That is just a silly thought. Again, 1st day DLC isn't what is wrong here...it is that they are charging those that buy the regular retail edition and giving it to the collector edition purchasers for free. Even then, it isn't as gross as it could be (based on what Bioware says) because what is on the disc is a complete game. Fucking relax.

this makes no sense. your ok with opening day DLC as long as everyone has to pay for it....why shouldnt people who pay more for the collectors edition get something for free? Its EA's way of motivating people to spend more money for that edition of the game. its basically like a pre DLC sale for them...or pre ordering. it allows them to get the money right now rather then having it trickle in as they sell it.

They push the bar a little more every year because they can. People will buy it so why shouldnt they sell it. Its not just you jhenn, its all the people in the world like you who blindly purchase this shit without even knowing if its worth it or not.

@jay...im sure we can all afford the lousy 10 bucks. thats not the point. why not just charge $70 for the game. or how about $15 for the DLC....maybe $20.....maybe we should pay $70 for the game plus $20 for that opening day DLC......im sure we can all afford that....right? cause thats were its heading

Plus, what you once paid $10 for was worth that $10...now, its worth about 10 cents, but people still pay for it

[SethMode]

this makes no sense. your ok with opening day DLC as long as everyone has to pay for it....why shouldnt people who pay more for the collectors edition get something for free? Its EA's way of motivating people to spend more money for that edition of the game. its basically like a pre DLC sale for them...or pre ordering. it allows them to get the money right now rather then having it trickle in as they sell it.

Opening day DLC only makes sense if everyone has to pay for it. If you're allowing some to get it with a "collector's" edition, you're just ripping others off (this is especially true when the collector's edition was released already and HAD a bunch of extra shit already).

I get why EA is doing it this way, but you're stupid if you think that this is the only reason that there is first day DLC.

[Bear Pand]

DLC in general is a joke. but companies keep pushing the line with it see no resistance from customers and push the line further. I really have no idea what it would take for customers to say, hold up enough with this bullshit...but i honestly think it'd never happen. Especially not when a good % of gamers will go as far as to make excuses why the DLC "makes sense" and eagerly purchase it all. Like I understand buying it, but will never understand the people who essentially argue in favor of it.

It's not even worth getting mad about anymore really. It's been made clear by us consumers that companies have a free pass to pimp as much DLC as they want. So it's not really a surprise at all that they'd try to get people to pay an extra $10 for a crew member and 1-2 hour mission to go along with him. It's obviously not "worth" it, since the other crew members in the game can't all be worth $10 with the game only being $60...but whatever.

[jms493]

I generally don't buy DLC.....they rarely are worth the extra cost.

[spiker]

Curious JHen: did your ME2 on PS3 (which is what I'm assuming you're referring to), have some pretty crappy sound sync issues? I've read some stuff from a year ago on the web, but nothing recent and playing through now on my PS3 copy of ME2...yikes. Lots of bad drops in sound.

Come to think of it, I had this problem. When I first started playing the game, I filled up my factory 40GB HDD from Sony so I had to upgrade. My first HDD upgrade was shitty as hell (320GB, 5400 RPM) and I was getting choppy gameplay and loading times. When playing ME2, I noticed a lot of choppy audio and gameplay. The most egregious "skip" in gameplay was right before a boss fight, there was a level when a giant mech gets off an elevator. Well, the game decided to skip over the whole part of the elevator opening and revealing the mech and the next thing I know, I'm getting fisted in the ass by this giant angry robot. Not cool.

So I upgraded my HDD again (500GB, 7200 RPM), it fixed 90% of the skipping issues including all of the gameplay skips, but I still noticed some choppy audio that wasn't fixed by the new HDD. FWIW, I still have that same 500GB HDD still installed and it works great, maybe even better than the factory HDD from Sony. So yeah, it stuck out to me.

[spiker]

I generally don't buy DLC.....they rarely are worth the extra cost.

Yep. The only DLC I've ever bought was for Rockband and I did that sparingly since it was so pricey.