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Nintendo stands against DLC
Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo has just stated why their games don’t provide DLC:
“When we sell a game, we want the consumer to feel that they’ve had a complete experience. We’re unwilling to sell a piece of a game upfront and, if you will, force a consumer to buy more later. That’s what [Nintendo representatives] don’t want to do, and I completely agree. I think the consumer wants to get, for their money, a complete experience, and then we have opportunities to provide more on top of that.”
Nintendo seems to be one of the very few that understands the most of consumer in this field.
On the other hand Nintendo (and other gaming companies) is a primary sponsor of SOPA (H.R. 3261), the internet censorship bill in the USA…
Source: GamersXtreme
How EA sees a game
Source: reddit
Battlefield 3: Lets boycott the shit out of this!
As most of you know, EA recently announced an exclusive DLC for preordering BF3. If you don’t purchase the pre-order or limited edition version of BF3, you will have to pay extra for the Karkand Expansion Pack. Karkand Expansion Pack is some guns and ammunition, which will create an unfair advantage people who pre-order. As well, charging people extra to play maps available on day one.
This was a decision made by EA, and not DICE. DICE and all of us need your help to get EA to wake up and change their decision. Please remember to be POLITE in these emails. A bunch of spamming telling them what dumb asses they are probably wont help much. This already happened once – a boycott called by Sarcastic Gamer against BFBC1, that eventually caused EA to change their mind.
The point is that we don’t want paid DLC that is going to split the community into groups of who does or does not have that DLC. You obviously can’t join a server if its running a map you don’t have. Bad Company 2 gave all its users the DLC for free. Now, I can see EAs reasoning about it from a console stand point (So that they still make a little money off of used games), but there is absolutely no reason for this on the PC. Obviously, you can’t buy used PC games. EA, if you won’t do this for everyone at LEAST do it for the PC community.
Official Twitter/Facebook pages:
EA Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ea
BF3 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/battlefield
EA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EA
BF3 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/battlefield
Important EA emails:
- John Riccitiello (CEO) – jriccitiello@ea.com
- Eric Brown (Exec VP, CFO) – ebrown@ea.com
- John Pleasants (COO) – jpleasants@ea.com
- John Schappert – jschappert@ea.com Chief Operating Officer
- Leonard S. Coleman – lcoleman@ea.com Director
- Jeff Huber – jhuber@ea.com Director
- Gary M. Kusin – gkusin@ea.com Director
- Barker, Ken – kbarker@ea.com Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
- Geraldine Laybourne – glaybourne@ea.com Director
- Gregory B. Maffei – gmaffei@ea.com Director
- Vivek Paul – pvivek@ea.com Director
- Lawrence F. Probst III – lprobst@ea.com Chairman of the Board
- Richard A. Simonson – rsimonson@ea.com Lead Director
- Linda J. Srere – lsrere@ea.com Director
Copy and paste this to your "send to" bar to save time: jriccitiello@ea.com,ebrown@ea.com,jpleasants@ea.com,jschappert@ea.com,lcoleman@ea.com,jhuber@ea.com,gkusin@ea.com,
kbarker@ea.com,glaybourne@ea.com,gmaffei@ea.com,pvivek@ea.com,lprobst@ea.com,rsimonson@ea.com,lsrere@ea.com
Phone numbers for EA Games:
650-628-1500 – Redwood City
310-754-7000 – Los Angeles
EA support page: click
Link to original post on BF3 website: http://www.battlefield.com/uk/battlefield3/blog/battlefield-3-limited-edition-physical-warfare-pack-available
Link to the poll on EA forums: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/6801802.page
If ANYBODY gets a reply from EA, let us know what was said.
Big sites talking about it:
Source of the whole thing Reddit.
Dragon Age II is not out yet but you can already buy DLCs?
Dragon Age 2 official US launch date should be today, 8th March, and in Europe 10th March, but isn’t it strange, that game that costs $59.99 / £29.99 / 49.99€ (whoa, a fair price! :D) has already DLCs, that costs 560 + 800 BW points?!
But there is a good thing too, you can download a High resolution texture pack for the PC version, so you can run it in DirectX 11 mode.
The end of the DLC’s?
Gamespot revealed scary statistics – only 15% PC and 6% of console consumers buy DLCs. And this may be end of the DLCs and rise of the prices and sequels or new name with re-skinned game (if you know what I mean … ;D)
And here is the article:
Industry-research group finds small minority download premium content via Xbox 360, PS3, or Wii over three-month period; 15 percent got content online via PC or Mac.
DLC for your hardware? It seems Intel fucking did it!
Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do. Intel is asking their customers to pay extra if they want the full power of their store-bought CPUs. Some guy was browsing through the Best Buy shelves when he noticed this $50 card that lets you download software to unlock extra threads and cache on the new Pentium G6951 processor - Intel websites confirms it. Hardware.info got their hands on an early sample of the chip and discovered it’s actually a full 1MB of L3 cache that’s enabled plus HyperThreading support, which translates to a modest but noticeable upgrade. This isn’t exactly an unprecedented move, as chip companies routinely sell hardware-locked chips all the time but they never asked anyone to pay for unlocking the hidden potential.
This new idea is more like DLCs for PC and console games that let you "download" extra weapons and features, when those features were on the disc all along (like with Bioshock 2 and Mafia 2).
Google Dutch to English translation of hardware.info Intel G6951 upgradeable CPU review
http://preview.tinyurl.com/372l5p
Source: engadget.com
New Borderlands DLC coming out on September 28th
The new DLC for Borderlands – Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution – is going to be released on September 28th. XboX 360 users will have to pay 800MS points for it which is around $10. We hope the PC price will be the same for everyone.
The new DLC will not make your max in-game level cap go higher because of the upcoming patch on October 12th is going to raise the max level cap to all players for free from 61 to 69.
October 12th is also the date of Borderlands GOTY release and all users who buy the GOTY version will receive a coupon for Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution. I wonder if it’s gonna be registerable on Steam?
The new DLC introduces 6 new locations and modified deadly claptraps. If you’ll manage to complete the DLC in play through 1 and 2 you will get 2 extra character points and 6 slots in your inventory.
Source: IGN
Borderlands – new DLC on the way?
Borderlands recently got an update which added Steam achievements and new hardware support. That update also may have laid out, in extreme, spoiler-filled detail, the next downloadable expansion for Borderlands.
The new Borderlands patch featured a folder with details about the future of the game. The next expansion appears to be heavy on Claptraps – the small, funny robots in-game. It turns out that you may be fighting them and cybernetic zombies in the game’s next add-on.
Gearbox forum members found details about the next DLC in the patch files, such as: "Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap" that leads a robot revolution against the Vault hunters. Your task in the next DLC pack is to take down those Claptraps and the re-animated human-Claptrap hybrids. Skag claptraps, Rakk claptraps, Psycho Midget claptraps and dozens of variations on the Claptrap, only way more evil, will be your enemies in the expansion, according to those update files. The DLC appears to span some 21 missions—"9 Main Missions, 12 Side Missions"—and will see plenty of familiar faces return.
If you want to know more spoilers simply visit Gearbox forums and read it. Gearbox didn’t officially confirm the DLC yet.
Shacknews Giveaway: Modern Warfare 2 DLC PC & PS3!
Shacknews has 5 codes for each platform to giveaway. To enter the competition, post a comment on this page. You may only enter for a single platform, so please only comment with the following: PC Entry or PS3 Entry.
If the Shacknews staff cannot tell which platform you are entering for, your comment will not be counted. No purchase is required, but do note that multiple posts won’t increase your chances. Also, be aware that they’re only giving away PC and PS3 versions of the add-on at this time and a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is required to use it.
Of the five multiplayer maps, three–Carnival, Fuel and Trailer Park–are all new, while the remaining two–Vacant and Strike–are returning from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
Entries will be taken until tomorrow 12:01pm CST. At that point, winners will be randomly selected and notified via Shacknews message system.
Source: Shacknews
Microtransactions Coming Soon To Steam
According to Voodoo Extreme 3D at IGN next month’s Steam client update will introduce support for much-hated microtransactions:
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Microtransactions
Want to offer your customers a scabbard for their sword? New tires? The latest in night vision goggles? Now you can through microtransaction support in Steamworks.
Your item server can now be easily integrated with Steamworks so that Steam users can buy and instantly use the items they want – all without leaving the game. Steam handles all of the billing through the user’s Steam account.
Steam Cloud
Now with a greatly expanded capacity — now 100 MB per user, per game. The Steam Cloud API allows your game to write and retrieve files for each user.
Steam Total Makeover
The new Steam client makes finding friends, tracking achievements, reading news, organizing game collections, and keeping up to date easier than they ever have been before.
Even when creating visual aids, Valve remembers to screw mainland Europe.
Thanks to Kossak for providing the news from VE3D.IGN.COM (click for full article)!
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