XCOM: Enemy Within "too big" to be DLC for 360 and PS3

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pokoko said:

binary solo said:
So they keep saying the same thing about 3 times in that article but fail to actually give an explanation. WTF does "too big" mean? It can't just mean number of GB to download given there are 25GB DLs on PSN.

I like Enemy Unknown a lot, though "story" is exceedingly weak if it can even be called that. But damned if I'll be re-buying the main game just to get the expansion.

Publishers pull this shit, then turn around and cry about used game sales. They want to force me to keep the original title at the same time as re-purchasing it? OK, you gonna sell it to me at just the DLC price?

TBH I'd rather get the DLC on disc as I have no space left on my HDD, but as a stand alone expansion like Dragon Age Origin's Awakening, not a bundled "ultimate edition".

All will be forgiven if they release the DLC on its own (on disc) as well as an ultimate edition.

That might be true about the DLC size thing.  BioWare said that Microsoft had a size limit on how big DLC could be.  I don't know about the PS3.

However, I don't understand why it couldn't be an expansion, though I don't know what kind rules exist for that.  Regardless, this still seems fishy to me.

Ah, is that it. Sony and MS impose a size limit to DLC, meaning anything bigger must be either a stand alone game, or an expansion like DA:O Awakening. OK arse to Sony and/or MS for doing that, though somewhat understandable. But doesn't mean Firaxis aren't arses for only releasing an ultimate edition on console.

@ homer: $10 is $10, and besides it's the principle of the thing. Publishers can't bleat about used game sales and then pull stunts like this...well they can (do) of course but its hypocritical and I won't buy into it. Plenty of other stuff to play.