Most games are built off having to unlock stuff. In an FPS you don't get a level select when you start the game. Nor should you get the ability to buy a Audi R8 at the start of GT7 when you've only just started racing Minis, you need to work to unlock them (or in the case of R8 get enough winnings/money to buy it).

You know it all comes down to balancing it. F2p titles have excrusiatingly long grinds to encourage players to buy it instead. These get a free pass. What doesnt get a free pass is when a fully priced title acts like a f2p game. Im thinking battlefield 4 here. I cant believe everyones problems with it was bugs or framerate when all i could see was that i got nowhere into unlocking the good weapons. The game even has shortcut packs where you pay a fifth of the game to unlock a class content immediately.

Perhaps in some games it would be nice to get a bit more unlocked content from the start, take a racegame I mainly want to do the campaign but I've to go through the slow class first, the bit faster class after, then the good classes come. I don't specifically mind the slow class but why can't I do a time trial in a ferrari for fun without having spend 3 hours in the slower classes.
(Driveclub is the casus of this one still love the game though and thank god for the amg gt s dlc, so I could ride a few rounds with a fast car after beating the rookie trophy)

For Halo or god of war no just no I even hate the new story + mode with all unlocked content from the stat it is way to easy for the first 5 hours

If games didn't have locked content I probably would've stopped a long time ago.

Unlocking gives you a sense of achievement

Paying to unlock content that is already on the disc, now that I really disagree with

Never saw a game that all game is 100% unlocked from the get go.
Say to him that he should buy collection and Just read the end *no one needs to read HP 1 to 6, read last chapter of 7 and you are done. Ir buy a car in real life and complain you can't go driving it over the water around the world.

Was it AC: Black Flag that had the rope dart unlocked almost at the end of the game? that was just dumb.. I don't think i used it cause the game ended a chapter later..

Go ahead and unlock the ending. I paid for it.

Ha! I watched the ending FREE on youtube...

I absolutely hate unlocking stuff in multiplayer games like Mario Kart or Smash. I get that. If it's a game with a real campaign though, I want that sense of progression. If it's something I'll be playing with my friends, I don't need the fake walls.