Scoobes said:
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ah thanks for clearing tha tup for me. I don't mind this concept of small item microtransactions.
Now I know what he meant by EA and ACTIVISION milking it. They literally release an incomplete game and sell you about 7GBS of addons, hence the dilema people seem to have with the WiiU with its builtin 8GB SD FLASH only.
Call me crazy but personally that kind of stuff pisses me off on consoles as ideally I would like to be able to reinstall the addons at a later date, perhaps 10 years from now (like people do with zelda or goldeneye) just to see how the game stacks up for them, bu tthere is no gurantee that these patches/updates will be available on the next gen online system from the console makers. Even buggy console games piss me off. as an example, how will I patch skyrim in the future? epsecially the PS3 version, since it is so busted. PC is not so bad because the patches will always be there.
One good example of this for me is TRIBES on PC. A classic game. everynow and then I install the old one and download all the addonds created. I doubt I would be able to do this so simply on a console as the online service probably would be shut down.
The reason I played console games is because I enjoyed the convenience knowing a game will work out of the box. The mroe advanced the tech gets and the more milking they do the less reason there is for me to buy multiplatform games which IU can also get on PC.
I think nextGen for me will most likley be buying console exlcusives only.
To sum it up, I hope consoles don't end up suffering to much from this concept. I rather pay upfront for a nice single campaign game knowing I can replay it then have an incomplete multiplayer experience relying on paid addons to get the full benefit of the game. I am happy to buy small additional game items 9such as those you mentioned) that don't prevent me enjoying the game to its full if I chose not to have them,
