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pokoko on 06 February 2013
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the_dengle said:
pokoko said:

If there was a disagreement, it almost certainly was over the same issue EA had with Steam, which was about EA wanting the functionality to sell DLC from inside the games themselves and Valve not wanting to give up a share of the profits from said DLC.

Isn't DLC already sold within the game on the eShop? That's how it works on 3DS.

I doubt it's about profits from digital sales, since so many smaller developers have heaped praise on the eShop for how indie-friendly it is, right down to being more profitable for them. Unless you think Nintendo was trying to force higher rates on bigger publishers, but then why would only EA balk?

I don't know how it works on Nintendo's network, to be honest.  Someone else is going to have to answer that.  All I can say is that the problem Valve had is that they were getting no slice of the DLC pie if a person bought DLC from inside the game via Origin.  They'd still get money if the DLC was purchased from Steam, of course, but what EA was doing was circumventing that process.

When you buy something from inside the game on a 3DS, is it from Nintendo's eShop or directly from the publisher via the web or a separate program?