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Attoyou on 18 February 2010

oh great...more and more often devs are cutting things they would have given us , and then selling it as "dlc" .



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Hisiru on 18 February 2010
Severance said:
Hisiru said:

"PS3 version could have contained the full experience right off the shelf, but it seems I'm going to have to spend more to get DLC that would have all fitted on the Blu-ray in the first place. FFS."

Do you really believe on that? Really? Why would they cut the content from the PS3 version too? Why wouldn't they make the game in 2 DVDs (which is not necessarily a bad thing)?

It's just an excuse to make more money.

its a shooter game, i don't think you can swap disk everytime you want to play a level , especially online.

Well, you can finish the first part of the campaign and use the second disk for the second part and multiplayer. Driver 2 (an old shooter game for a less capable machine) had 2 CDs.

 

@wholikeswood

I still think that it's an excuse to make more money, but you have a good point that I can't deny.



makingmusic476 on 18 February 2010
starcraft said:
In fact, they don't explicitly say that it involves the Xbox 360. Given the port job Capcom did on Lost Planet for PS3, it is entirely plausible that they had to duplicate too much data for the PS3 given it's Blu-Ray drive's slow read times.

Ultimately though, we know what this is. Hisiru pointed it out. They are just finding ways to make money. If they really made stuff THEN cut it they would offer it as free DLC. But they will actually have set out to have DLC from the beginning.

Certainly by all accounts it is inexpensive to have a game with two discs, Microsoft only charges substantial costs for three or more.

I don't see how anybody could possibly keep their face straight and hand steady enough to actually type out something so ridiculous.

Yet you managed pull of such a feat with surprising success.  And that's why we love ya. 

Good ol' starcraft.  :P



thetonestarr on 18 February 2010

It's obvious they wanted to release the game as barebones as possible, then make all sorts of extra money on DLC.



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wholikeswood on 18 February 2010
Seece said:
wholikeswood said:
Seece said:
Oh for god sakes, you're so transparant, anything to take a dig at Microsoft.

Blame Capcom if you want to blame anyone, they could put this on the bluray disc and offer it as free OR paid DLC on Xbox live but no ...

It was Capcom I was blaming.

As starcraft said, it's relatively inexpensive to spread a game over 2 DVDs so, regardless of whether Capcom were too cheap to use a second or too greedy not to go down the 'pay us $60 for the disc now... and $10 again down the' road (or both!), they've still compromised the game's experience off-the-shelf and that angers me as I got quite hyped for purchasing after trying out the demo.

This had nothing to do with taking a dig at Microsoft or the DVD format, yet predictably you tried to spin it as such. Urgh.

Bullshit, you only posted this because it puts the Xbox in bad light, you're the predictable one.

But it puts Capcom in a bad light (for being cheap, greedy, or both) and that's who I'm complaing about, don't you see?

(Well, clearly you don't; you have your head down, charging at me - "wholikeswood be trollin' Microsoft grrrrr!!!!111". Yawn...)



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Seece on 18 February 2010
wholikeswood said:
Seece said:
wholikeswood said:
Seece said:
Oh for god sakes, you're so transparant, anything to take a dig at Microsoft.

Blame Capcom if you want to blame anyone, they could put this on the bluray disc and offer it as free OR paid DLC on Xbox live but no ...

It was Capcom I was blaming.

As starcraft said, it's relatively inexpensive to spread a game over 2 DVDs so, regardless of whether Capcom were too cheap to use a second or too greedy not to go down the 'pay us $60 for the disc now... and $10 again down the' road (or both!), they've still compromised the game's experience off-the-shelf and that angers me as I got quite hyped for purchasing after trying out the demo.

This had nothing to do with taking a dig at Microsoft or the DVD format, yet predictably you tried to spin it as such. Urgh.

Bullshit, you only posted this because it puts the Xbox in bad light, you're the predictable one.

But it puts Capcom in a bad light (for being cheap, greedy, or both) and that's who I'm complaing about, don't you see?

(Well, clearly you don't; you have your head down, charging at me - "wholikeswood be trollin' Microsoft grrrrr!!!!111". Yawn...)

Don't be playing all innocent and naive. It put's them both in a bad light, you're one of a few posters on this site that will post anti Microsoft news any chance they get, this isn't any different.



 

wholikeswood on 18 February 2010
Seece said:
wholikeswood said:
Seece said:
wholikeswood said:
Seece said:
Oh for god sakes, you're so transparant, anything to take a dig at Microsoft.

Blame Capcom if you want to blame anyone, they could put this on the bluray disc and offer it as free OR paid DLC on Xbox live but no ...

It was Capcom I was blaming.

As starcraft said, it's relatively inexpensive to spread a game over 2 DVDs so, regardless of whether Capcom were too cheap to use a second or too greedy not to go down the 'pay us $60 for the disc now... and $10 again down the' road (or both!), they've still compromised the game's experience off-the-shelf and that angers me as I got quite hyped for purchasing after trying out the demo.

This had nothing to do with taking a dig at Microsoft or the DVD format, yet predictably you tried to spin it as such. Urgh.

Bullshit, you only posted this because it puts the Xbox in bad light, you're the predictable one.

But it puts Capcom in a bad light (for being cheap, greedy, or both) and that's who I'm complaing about, don't you see?

(Well, clearly you don't; you have your head down, charging at me - "wholikeswood be trollin' Microsoft grrrrr!!!!111". Yawn...)

Don't be playing all innocent and naive. It put's them both in a bad light, you're one of a few posters on this site that will post anti Microsoft news any chance they get, this isn't any different.

Looking at the threads I've created for the past 6 months, I see just one topic that was Microsoft-critical and that was a hands-on with ODST back in September that described the game as "underwhelming" and indeed the game wound up with a Metascore of 83 (and criticism for providing a 5 hour campaign, just 3 new multiplayer maps, and a horde mode - all for the price of a full game), so the article was hardly far off the mark.

This thread is about Capcom, not Microsoft, so let's not derail it. Chilled!



Skeeuk on 18 February 2010
wholikeswood said:

Capcom has publicly lamented having to cut large amounts of content from Lost Planet 2 in order to fit it onto the Xbox 360’s piddling DVD capacity without the game turning into a swapfest, but promises users will be able to buy everything they cut as DLC.

Speaking with rag Famitsu about the production of Lost Planet 2, now in the fine-tuning stages, producer Jun Takeuchi complains of the constraints imposed by Microsoft’s refusal to employ Blu-ray; in previous interviews he made much the same comments about Resident Evil 5, saying he would like to see a “complete” version on the PS3…

Did the development go well?

There weren’t any big problems. More troubling than any development problems was having to keep cutting out content.

We included a lot in this release, and by the end it became a battle with the disc capacity.

Truly, we were weeping as we were forced to cut stuff.

That stuff might be available as DLC in the future – look forward to it.

Buying content which Capcom couldn’t fit onto the Xbox 360’s DVD as DLC – certainly something to look forward to.

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/02/18/capcom-xbox-cuts-made-us-weep-enjoy-buying-dlc/

PS3 version could have contained the full experience right off the shelf, but it seems I'm going to have to spend more to get DLC that would have all fitted on the Blu-ray in the first place. FFS.

unfortunatly multiplat games have to do this there is no other choice, you have to get the game on 1 dvd



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donsterydo2 on 18 February 2010

Wow, what a pile of bullshit :D



Bamboleo on 18 February 2010


If this is a 360 problem, Capcom should not screw PS3 owners.

the extra content could easily be on a Blu Ray disc.
But you'll have to pay for what should already be in the game. This generation is the most expensive one.