Comment by Erik Sundström on February 23, 2013 at 12:52pm

I am! I'm tired of dlc str8 up. Although I bought a season pass for Borderlands2 :/

Comment by Mincho Hristov Ivanov on February 23, 2013 at 1:08pm

If you are tiered why do you still buy it???Dont just talk...DO NOT BUY!!!

Comment by Docwoor on February 23, 2013 at 1:09pm

I am so tired of dlc, its almost never worth it. now they are asking you to pay in advance for it not knowing what you are getting... no thanks. no more

Comment by Amrit Randay on February 23, 2013 at 1:25pm

@Mincho Hristov Ivanov I haven't bought it, and don't plan on buying it.  What made you think I bought it?  I just wish more gamers would not buy it because that's the only reason any of this continues.  

I'm just saying, it doesn't matter who the developer is, we should try to stop buying into this season pass nonsense.  It's basically saying, "for just $30 more, you can have the full game."  

Comment by Mincho Hristov Ivanov on February 23, 2013 at 1:56pm

@Amrit Randay well i was talking in general but i see that i could have said it better :D well admirable of you :D all we have to do now is convince more ppl not to buy it as well...i know that none of my friends buy DLC...i mean irl friends...

...but here we dont have a consumer culture like in the USA...ppl there cannot controll themselfs...they all ride the hype wagons like theyve never been burned by bad content...
preordering games...buying day one DLC...paying for season passes...
Seriously..not one of the ppl that are my friends irl has ever bought a DLC pack unless you count the DLC you get when you buy game of the year editions..

Comment by DrKilljoy on February 23, 2013 at 2:54pm

I'm tired of all the bullshit tropes of this gaming generation. I see it only getting wostevin the years to come. I miss putting a game my console and just playing a game.

Comment by Amrit Randay on February 23, 2013 at 3:04pm

It's not even to mention that the season pass is full of DLC that no one has any idea if it's good or not, or exactly what kind of content it is.  I wish publishers would stop demanding so much trust from us and expecting us to drop money on shit we know nothing about, and instead earn our money and trust.  They just keep expecting more and more from us, and it's all getting to be a bit too much.  

If we would all stop pre-ordering games for bullshit extra guns, or map packs, or extra armor sets and the pre-order bonus business would dissapear too.  Lots of careless consumers that just don't seem to have any self control really..      

Comment by Mincho Hristov Ivanov on February 23, 2013 at 5:01pm

Remember the good oll days when we got Expansion packs...pfah...well blizzard is still doing that but i wont touch a new game of theirs even if it is wrapped in tits...online all the time..no lan... pfah...their loss...(no its not my loss i will simply not support any developer who trys to pull this shit on me)

Comment by Docwoor on February 24, 2013 at 1:33am

blizzard is doing expansion packs? The last one they did was "frozen throne" in 2003. Wow doesnt count since you have to pay a monthly subscription and the content packs. Which is a total rip off imho. Starcraft is going down as a trilogy of full games. Ripping us off again, what diablo will do i dont know. I simply dont care about blizzard anymore. 

But to get back on topic. I bought a season pass once, for BF3 because of friends, out off all the content packs that were released in the season pass, i like only one. and i feel ripped off beacause of that. they changed the gameplay to something thats not battlefield imho, and i did not know that in advance. im never buying season passes every again.

i have mixed feelings about individual dlc, its mostly bad... but i got most of the story dlc for the mass effect franchise. i like the setting, i've read most of the books played through every game at least twice and i wanted more story. but paying 15-20€ for a 2h long mission is unacceptable. dlc is so overpriced imho.

same goes for microtransactions, in the beginning microtransactions used to be just that, you pay a little something and thats it. now you have to pay 7€ for a gun thats unlockable for only one character, or 2€ for another quickbar slot, thats again available for only one character... unless you subscribe... 

i will not subscribe to games, ffs i dont have time to play that much... i play very sporadically, not even every week...

i want to pay for the game like i used to and then play on my own time.

screw that im gonna go read a book. 

Comment by Rialce on February 24, 2013 at 3:31am

@Docwoor Wings of Liberty released at $60. Heart of the Swarm, and likely Legacy of the Void, will be releasing at the expansion price of $40. HotS requires Wings of Liberty, no less.

As for season passes, they're with my stance on DLC. If I have no interest in it or am uncertain of its worth, I don't buy it. But I understand others may find worth in it, and they get a discount on DLC they'd eventually buy. Think Call of Duty; most of its players will buy the map packs just to keep up with friends that buy them, so buying the Pass saves them a bit of money.

In example, I've purchased a few Season Passes: one for Gears 3, one for Battlefield 3 and, just recently, Borderlands 2. Only Gears 3 was before the day of release, and it served me very well. Every one came with something I liked and used, as I expected it to, but I'm also a die-hard fan that's gone so far as to read all of the books. BF3 and BL2 were after multiple packs were already released, and at a discounted price. Got Halo 4's for free with the LE; didn't buy the LE for the Pass, so it's not so bad that I've used it less than expected.

I didn't buy Assassin's Creed 3's because I figured I would drift from the initial game anyway, and I unfortunately did. I won't buy Infinite's until I play the actual game, same for Tomb Raider. Not that I fear they'll not deliver, just that I assume their initial offerings will be enough to satisfy me. Plus, March is too packed with releases for me to expect much time with them to begin with, let alone with extra content.

That said, I've played dozens of subscription MMOs (sometimes simultaneously) for over a decade now, so paying for something upfront for future benefit doesn't sit as sourly with me as it may others.

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