Mass Effect DLC Bundles?
I know Mass Effect 3 has been out for about two nears now. The DLC has been made, released, and is now just sitting around. I recently got the Mass Effect collection, containing Mass Effect 1, 2, and...
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If you want a rational discussion about this, I suggest you head over to Bioware's Mass Effect forums.
There are far more users over there, far more informed people, far more diverse range of opinions, and therefore: far more productive discussion.
The only thing there, is more of the same as here.
Lots of people have lots of opinions, but that's all they are; speculation and wishes. The only opinions that matter are those of the EA/BioWare Marketing and Accounting Departments. Neither of which are commenting about this topic in public forums.
Lots of people have lots of opinions, but that's all they are; speculation and wishes. The only opinions that matter are those of the EA/BioWare Marketing and Accounting Departments. Neither of which are commenting about this topic in public forums.
@ThandalNLyman wrote:
The only thing there, is more of the same as here.Nope. There are a great many people having discussions over there about this. All offering different points of view. All doing so because they are interested in conversation, in being social and friendly. Ie. They are not just saying the same thing over and over because they covet meaningless XP. They are actually invested in being part of a meaningful community.
Same thing going on here. We (the players) want to pay less than we currently must for EA's products.
All the arguments come down to two:
1. "It's an old game, the base game goes on sale, so why not the DLC? I don't want to pay so much for add-ons."
2. "Discounting the DLC will [somehow] increase the overall profit for the company by increasing sales of that, (or some other) product to such an extent that those profits will exceed the profits received from DLC sold at the current prices."
All other discussion is just a variation on one of those. The first is just childish whinging. And to be successful the second would have to be demonstrably true from the publishers' perspective. They have incredible amounts of data regarding the purchases of their products, so if this were the case it would already be well known to them. The people making those decisions are business people first and foremost. It is, in fact, their job.
Here, and on the BSN, we're just talking to ourselves, (and mostly sounding incredibly naïve.) There's almost no hard data being provided, (or even available to anyone on the "outside") and what few numbers are thrown around are not reliably sourced. Just lots of anecdotal assertions and wishful thinking.
@ThandalNLyman wrote:Same thing going on here. We (the players) want to pay less than we currently must for EA's products.
All the arguments come down to two:
1. "It's an old game, the base game goes on sale, so why not the DLC? I don't want to pay so much for add-ons."
2. "Discounting the DLC will [somehow] increase the overall profit for the company by increasing sales of that, (or some other) product to such an extent that those profits will exceed the profits received from DLC sold at the current prices."
All other discussion is just a variation on one of those. The first is just childish whinging. And to be successful the second would have to be demonstrably true from the publishers' perspective. They have incredible amounts of data regarding the purchases of their products, so if this were the case it would already be well known to them. The people making those decisions are business people first and foremost. It is, in fact, their job.
Here, and on the BSN, we're just talking to ourselves, (and mostly sounding incredibly naïve.) There's almost no hard data being provided, (or even available to anyone on the "outside") and what few numbers are thrown around are not reliably sourced. Just lots of anecdotal assertions and wishful thinking.You don't have to insult other users, they're just giving their opinion on the topic whatever that might be. Personally I do believe all the story DLC costing more put together than the main game negates the benefit of the main game being on sale. e.g a recent sale on PlayStation Store had several games and their DLCs on sale together which is what people would like to see more of. Not a The Force Unleashed type of situation where the DLC stays at its original price (overpriced imo) many years after the game has been released.
Game of the Year/Complete Editions of games at least sell well enough for companies like Bethesda to keep doing them so the idea of having the game + DLC be available together for less than the original game's price isn't new to them.
