Upgrading Dragon Age: Inquisition from Standard to Game of the Year Edition
I have already voiced my questions about this with the EA support chat and was told that currently there is nothing in place that would allow this but I should voice my concerns here and hopefully something will be implemented.
My problem is this. I bought DA: I Standard for around 50 Euro back 2 weeks or so before it's release. That was almost a year ago. I did not wait for reviews or the likes because I am a huge fan of the Dragon Age franchise and Bioware and enjoy their games tremendously. Now however I am faced with something of a kick to the balls, if you excuse my french, financially because I basically was a moron. Dragon Age: Inquisition was just released as a GOTY Edition 2 weeks ago which includes all DLC (including the major ones). The same package would cost me 65 Euro (14,99 each for the 3 major DLC's, 5 for the smaller ones plus another 10 to upgrade to the deluxe edition) bringing my total spend for the game to a whopping 115 Euro. I think that is unacceptable.
So I would strongly ask for EA to offer an upgrade to the GOTY version for people who purchased the standard version of the game. I don't expect it to be free, I don't mind paying the difference of 10-15 Euro that it has to the version I originally bought. But it can't be EA's policy to treat customers that way and say: Well it's your fault that you bought the game pre-release or shortly after the release and believed in us and what we do and spend good money on it, we will now make you pay through the nose to get what anybody else who waited a year get's for what you spend a year ago plus 10 Euro. That is not fair, that is not right and that is not how customers should be treated.
In closing I would like to say that I really hope someone from EA reads this and that there will something be done about it because otherwise I will have to strongly consider ever buying any EA game pre-release again and rather wait a year for the GOTY edition.
This has been how EA has worked for a long, long time. This is why a lot of people wait a year or so to buy a game, so they can get the bundle/GOTY/whatever at a better price. This is also why EA is one of the biggest gaming companies left, they make money and use it to buy smaller ones who might not use such greedy tactics. Also, I doubt Bioware has much say in such things.
Also, these forums are probably not the best place to get EAs attention, they're for players to help out other players with the game, even most of the moderators are volunteers not affiliated with EA.
There are no plans (nor are there likely to be) to offer an upgrade to GOTY edition. Looking back at their older games, you should see how this has never happened. It's unfortunate, but not surprising.
