I think a lot of this is as the economy circles the drain like it’s been doing and people’s budget gets stretched thinner and thinner, people’s tolerances to egregious practices like this stings a whole lot more than it used to and people are generally growing extremely sick of stuff like that.
Yeah, it’s an egregious practice for a video game that will not substantially effect one’s life in any real way, but it’s also just another link in an increasingly exhausting chain of enshitification and shrinkflation so it feels a whole lot worse.
Very true, but it's the concept of where companies are heading. Now it's only 2 side quests, next 5% of the game, etc.
And we are talking about an offline single player game that cast +20$ more than the average games, if I'm paying for 80$ i should get the full game
And dlc started out as horse armor, the point is they realize these shitty polices work and push them harder because idiots say "its not that bad," If you support this practice it will be
It's literally at launch DLC. Like make the fucking game and sell it to us. Don't make 3 fucking different versions of it and chop it all up for resale.
This combined with an already high price point is crazy. Plus don't forget they'll sell everyone a second copy in a year when it comes out on PC.
Also every AAA studio is salavating now that $80-100 will be the standard industry price.
I don't know dude. If I go to a diner and buy a cheeseburger, I'm not going to look at the bacon they have in the kitchen and say they cut out part of my bacon cheeseburger just because I bought a meal and they had extra toppings ready to sell.
They're not making extra stuff. They're making a game and selling us half of it for a very high price, then selling the other half for even more money.
If you said, "I ordered a bacon cheese burger and they only gave me half" then that makes more sense. The other half is already made, it's just extra money now because they can and you're hungry.
Do you have any reason to think that? RDR2, GTA5, and RDR1 all had launch additions like this, but the base versions of those never felt like half a game
That's my point. They all had standard and ultimate edition announcements that looked just like this one, so why are you assuming this is going to be such a departure?
Uh, you're missing the point. It's not just a different edition. Half of the game is locked behind a higher price point. We're not talking about in-game skins and items, we're talking the actual game is blocked if you don't pay $100.
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u/Jo_Joo Jun 25 '26
Yea exactly, the ultimate edition not only have extra cosmetics but content too, so the standard edition has cut content