Socom fans rejoice yet again:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3159608

1 socom this year and socom 4 next year amazing very good...

Its sad that you are happy about the hole sony nickle and dim bullsh*t. http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=2071&start=0#end

1.  Rainbow Six Vegs
2.  Ninja Gainden Sigma
3.  Lair
4.  Heavenly Sword
5.  Assassins Creed
6. WarHawk
7. Socom Confrontation
8. Devil May Cry 4
9. Grand Theft Auto IV
10. Uncharted Drakes fortune

socom makes my list of ps3 must have games for this year

In all fairness, MS is the king of nickel and dime bullshit.

$10 for a map pack? Are you f***ing kidding me? 

i agree with that notion microsoft took sony's spot a long time ago as the king of nickel and diming

Several years ago I thought that Episodic content was a fantastic idea, after all part of the reason games like Unreal Tournament were so interesting was that there was a constant flow of new (player generated) content; if a developer could keep a reasonably constant flow of interesting new content I wasn't all that conserned about spending money for it.

Things started to change as I heard how many developers planned to implement micro-transactions and episodic content ... Racing games with $2.50 cars,  RPGs charging $5 for horse armor and $10 for a 15 minute quest all started to seem like a way to screw over your dedicated fan base for a little extra money. I'm expecting that in the near future several games will become far more hostile towards player-generated content because it limits the potential profit for the developer.

They all nickel and dime in one way or another.

Nintendo wants $10 for N64 games and $8 for SNES/Genesis games, some of which don't even have all the features as the original games. Sony, on the other hand, charges all of $6 for PS1 games(from the same generation as the N64 games) which have all the features as the originals.

To me, DLC is broken into two categories:

1. Crap

and

2. Not Crap

It's that simple. Horse armor? Crap. Charging for map packs? Crap. Adding significant content a la Crackdown? Not crap.

I don't mind paying extra for single player content that adds to the game. In fact, I like it. If they charged $10 for a 30 minute level of Gears, I'd buy it. And I'd probably replay it several times.

But charging for features like extra guns, armor, or even maps is complete bullshit. I stopped playing Gears online entirely because of that damned map pack and I used to invest 10 or more hours a week on it. You already got me for $60 when I bought the game, don't charge me for BS that should be free. Extra levels, good. I'll pay for them. But not a freakin' map. 

PennyArcade: Nickel-and-diming? Well technically we're already sixty-dollaring you, and then five-and-ten-dollaring you on top of that, but you've got the general idea.