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IllegalPaladin on 26 February 2010
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Akvod said:
IllegalPaladin said:
Not like it's a big incentive for me though as I don't buy a whole lot of games and I mostly rent. If you're going to lock me out of content with crap like this, then I'm just going to rent your game for a short time and be done with it.

Still, I'm not really a fan of this idea and it's another way to nickel and dime DLC since I'd highly doubt they'd release all future DLC for a title for free and now you have to pay just to get access to it if you didn't buy the game new. Heck, what if a publisher like Activision gets in on this and charges $15-20 for online access to the next Call of Duty game if you bought it used? Of course, that'd already be on top of the $10 map packs and such.

Yeah, I know! How dare EA not GIVE you DLC for FREE! How dare they! How dare they give OTHER people DLC for FREE!

 

You're being deprived ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. NOTHING. If EA decided to cancel this special offer/deal, and you drag down the people who bought new copies, you STILL get NOTHING, just like you lost NOTHING.

We, the people who are buying BC2 new, are GAINING SOMETHING, because we have been given an incentive by EA to buy something in return to get something for free. EA in turn, ALSO, gains something. It's a Win-Win for me and EA. YOU LOST NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING.

 

The only way you can justify that you lost something is by proving that somehow you were entitled to have gotten the DLC in the first place (how do you even claim that, when you haven't even paid for it yet?), and that EA made up a conspiracy to withold it from you. And you must do so under NO PROOF, using complete and utter skepticism and cynicism.

I've already said that it's not a big incentive for me as I've mostly been renting a game for a while and that's it (though since it's Battlefield, I'd prefer to buy it for PC than use a controller on console).

I'm also not completely focused on this content specifically, but about where this idea could potentially go. I don't really care if it's just a bonus, I'm not a fan of this idea. Though I suppose that leads me to be curious to know if this content is already on the disk or not.