| Zekkyou said:
It's all a matter of choice. A matter of how long people are willing to wait, and what sort of practices they are willing to participate in. I'm not going to criticize a company for the choices of their customers, not as long as those customers had a choice in the matter. As long as that choice remains, i couldn't give two shits what [x] or [y] do. If i don't like it, they don't get my money. Simplez. |
Like I said, in a vacuum I wouldn't really care (mostly for the reason you stated). What I don't like about it is that it instills a mindset of "wait and save" in consumers (like Steam has done, and equivalent to the problems Apple now faces with its app-store from all the "free conditioning" they've put their consumer base through) and are on the flip-side of the same coin of publishers also gutting games with pre-order "bonuses" or "exclusives" to get you to pony up early or risk not getting the "complete game" (especially not if you buy it used) unless you wait XYZ time to buy the "complete edition". They're incentivizing and chasing two polar opposite things, while conditioning their consumer base for the worse.
Now if we want to talk specifically about this title... ND has been pretty iffy in my eyes with this and the remaster, and how they launched DLC shortly *after* the remaster so that it wouldn't be included... and now we have another GotY thing, given on another platform. A lot of Uncharted 2 level bullshit from them recently. So color me sour.
