Sulimo
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Story time!
So, I was bored and decided to see if I could get Dragon Age: Inquisition for a decent price with all DLC included. I downloaded origin, saw a GOTY!!11!!! edition with all DLC included and tucked in for a hundred hours of butthurt about hp-bloaty enemies and such. All was well in the world. Then I decided I might as well see if I could replay the Mass Effect Trilogy, because I haven't touched that with a ten foot pole since not removing it from the inventory back when it was released. Went to origin, saw the Mass Effect Trilogy for sale for 20 of my local currency, and then noticed the fucking DLC wasn't included.
Not falling for the bait and intrigued, I delved deeper.
I looked for the DLC on the origin store - it was not there.
I looked for the DLC on steam - it was not there.
I looked for the DLC on the googles - it referred me to bioware itself, where the DLC was available in all its glory, 4 years after release, for the same price it was back when the games were released, in bioware's special needs currency of bioware points.
I looked on reddit, where the friendly neckbeards told me the story DLC all together would cost me about 70 of my local currency, on top of the price of the trilogy pack itself. I laughed, shrugged and then decided I didn't want to pay 90 euros for three 6 year old games.
And not even that, all the DLC for ME2/3 added up costs 6480 bioware points. One can buy said bioware points in amounts of 1600, 1200 and 800. Please note it's just about 80 more than 4x1600, thus ripping you off even more and leaving you standing there with your dick in one hand and 720 bioware points that you can't spend on anything else in the other hand.
So, why would bioware do such a thing? I would gladly pay, let's say, 30 of my local currency to assuage my guilt over pirating the shit out of them in my younger days and to relive the shlock of Mass Effect, but after seeing that I suddenly don't feel so bad about stealing from them anymore. Are Mass Effect fans really such rubes that they'd allow themselves to get fucked over in the proverbial company store by paying with worthless scrip? I honestly don't get it. Either there's financial mismanagement going on over there or they can squeeze more money from their 'fans' by charging full buck for the DLC than from simply releasing a GOTY edition.
Ah well, rant over. Please tell me I am a genius/a retard/whatever, or feel free to ignore this ramble all together. Please vote in the poll though, it's important for my research.
So, I was bored and decided to see if I could get Dragon Age: Inquisition for a decent price with all DLC included. I downloaded origin, saw a GOTY!!11!!! edition with all DLC included and tucked in for a hundred hours of butthurt about hp-bloaty enemies and such. All was well in the world. Then I decided I might as well see if I could replay the Mass Effect Trilogy, because I haven't touched that with a ten foot pole since not removing it from the inventory back when it was released. Went to origin, saw the Mass Effect Trilogy for sale for 20 of my local currency, and then noticed the fucking DLC wasn't included.
Not falling for the bait and intrigued, I delved deeper.
I looked for the DLC on the origin store - it was not there.
I looked for the DLC on steam - it was not there.
I looked for the DLC on the googles - it referred me to bioware itself, where the DLC was available in all its glory, 4 years after release, for the same price it was back when the games were released, in bioware's special needs currency of bioware points.
I looked on reddit, where the friendly neckbeards told me the story DLC all together would cost me about 70 of my local currency, on top of the price of the trilogy pack itself. I laughed, shrugged and then decided I didn't want to pay 90 euros for three 6 year old games.
And not even that, all the DLC for ME2/3 added up costs 6480 bioware points. One can buy said bioware points in amounts of 1600, 1200 and 800. Please note it's just about 80 more than 4x1600, thus ripping you off even more and leaving you standing there with your dick in one hand and 720 bioware points that you can't spend on anything else in the other hand.
So, why would bioware do such a thing? I would gladly pay, let's say, 30 of my local currency to assuage my guilt over pirating the shit out of them in my younger days and to relive the shlock of Mass Effect, but after seeing that I suddenly don't feel so bad about stealing from them anymore. Are Mass Effect fans really such rubes that they'd allow themselves to get fucked over in the proverbial company store by paying with worthless scrip? I honestly don't get it. Either there's financial mismanagement going on over there or they can squeeze more money from their 'fans' by charging full buck for the DLC than from simply releasing a GOTY edition.
Ah well, rant over. Please tell me I am a genius/a retard/whatever, or feel free to ignore this ramble all together. Please vote in the poll though, it's important for my research.