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No. 147782
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Yeah, I have to disagree with TB here. His statement in this video seems to be that it is morally wrong for developers to offer exclusive content on-release if it significantly alters gameplay or required significant time or effort to produce. I just can't seem to find any rational reason to hold this moral statement as true.
>Without the DLC, the game is incomplete.
This is an assumption on TB's part. He has not played ME3 or the DLC. He has no idea how much of the narrative is changed without the addition of the DLC party member and mission. He assumes that, because the party member is a Protheon, the DLC must offer some pretty radical new information. But this is still an assumption made without all the data. For all he knows, the DLC may offer no new information and could be entirely superfluous to the plot.
Personally, I find it highly doubtful that Bioware would keep key information out of the public release. I'm willing to bet that any plot-related revelations will remain intact, even without the DLC mission and team member.
>If the DLC additions are complete at launch, they should be in the standard release.
This is a business decision and one the game's makers will have to answer for one way or the other. They spend more time (and therefore more money) before the game was launched to make this exclusive content, betting that people would be willing enough to pay extra to get it so they could make up for their investment. Whether this was a smart business move is another matter, but you can't say that it was morally wrong to do so. You aren't owed more content by being forced to wait longer for the release. You aren't the one paying them to make this game.
>EA forced Bioware to cut out finished content and make it DLC-exclusive.
I haven't seen any evidence to support this assumption. Unless you show me a quote from Bioware confirming this, this claim has no weight. It could be that the DLC content was always intended to be such and was never planned to be in the standard release.
>This is just a money-grubbing tactic to get more profits at the player's expense.
Stop trying to make this an us vs them battle and look at the transactions on the individual level. Either the player thinks the extra content is worth the price increase and buys the deluxe edition, or he doesn't and he buys the standard. This should be a simple matter, but people are getting all emotional at the idea that, unless they pay more money, they aren't getting everything they could be getting.
Somehow people have the notion that if they aren't satisfied with their purchase, it must be because the seller is doing something wrong. But making people unsatisfied with paying less is just marketing. If you let it get to you you have no one to blame but yourself.
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