Why can't we have our cake and eat it too.

On 03/03/2016 at 07:11 PM by vesper27

This year with the release of Star Wars Battlefront it is all to apparent that games THIS year are having troubles.

And not troubles in the sense that there is no funding. Troubles as in what in the fuck? Why can't we get a ful game.

I am sick of the seaon passes, the half-baked games and the excuses. I am tired of half baked games. We need full games.

Even Hitman will have a season pass. That is atrocious. Farcry has it as well. And you know COD has been doing it a long while. My perspective is that this shit needs to stop . We want full games for 60 dollars or maybe 65. This is ridiculous. I have never be a proponent of DLC because of the charge. Sure there's cosmetic stuff going on.

And yeah I am recycling this idea that GI did with my own spin. We need to not cater to this tripe! I am so angry with developers. The guiltiest one to date that half-baked a game was SF5. I will not buy the game till it gets a singler player mode and other modes. Are we that picky?

Hell yeah we should be. We should demand more and better from these companies. They no better and try to say look we will offer you a half piece of pie instead of the whole damn one.

Anyone with me? Do we have diverging opinions on the matter?

Games I am playing : CS: GO and Project Cars.

For three days I will be at the red conference at my church. I am stoked and don't know what to expect. I am also going to a musical my friend is in. So this week is very busy. But please don't hesitate to comment on this dire situation the game industry is facing and has faced.

Thanks.

-V

Cary Woodham

03/03/2016 at 07:33 PM

Yeah I generally won't buy games with all that stuff and problems. Not saying I always do that, but I try not to. That's why I mostly play Nintendo games right now.

KnightDriver

03/04/2016 at 01:52 AM

Those season passes just price me right out of it. They want a hundred bucks or more for a game? Sorry. No can do.

Machocruz

03/04/2016 at 05:58 AM

Been gaming since the 80s. I am used to and expect a complete game for my money. How the hell can we have complete HItman games 10 years ago but today we have to buy it in pieces. Are these companies going broke? The hell out of here with that shit.

Super Step Contributing Writer

03/04/2016 at 09:11 AM

Actually, that's what I'm afraid of ... these do seem like desperate measures to fund gaps in sales figures ... 'cept even then CoD would have no excuse.

03/04/2016 at 09:14 AM

With Season Pass, I actually wasn't that upset with the core game of Arkham Knight because everything I expect was already there. I was upset I paid $40 more for what I felt were just minor extras. A lot of minor extras, but to me a few racing levels, some more fighting levels and a handful-of-hours continuation of the story wasn't worth it. The game itself was worth $60 though.

I rented SFV and was like ... this still the beta? As someone who plays single player a lot (yes even fighting games), I'd have felt majorly ripped off buying it day 1.

transmet2033

03/04/2016 at 11:14 AM

I don't necessarily agree with everything that is going on with games right now, but I have some thoughts.

From what I understand, Street Fighter V is set up as a platform. Instead of ever seeing Super Street Fighter V and Ultra Street Fighter V a couple years down the road, you pay for the game once and all those upgrades come down the pipeline. From everything I have heard so far, SFV probably should have shipped with a few more features.

Far Cry Primal apparently has one peice of announced DLC, but I heard that there is no season pass.

As for Hitman, from what I read, the game is the season pass. You pay $60 and the game is released as peices over the next year.

I completely agree that Battlefront should have had more to the base game... At the very least a single player campaign.

I can understand why companies are doing the season passes and DLC and all that. Development costs have gone up, but the price of the games has stayed the same. It just helps them recoup some of the costs so that they can give us another game instead of having to close their doors.

To be CLEAR, I rarely buy DLC because I do not want it, but I understand why it is there.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

03/04/2016 at 06:06 PM

I'm with Transmet, I'm not opposed to these types of transaction and versions of games (though Battlefront sucks -- and sold a lotta copies!) but I don't like DLC personally and don't spend money on it. I want to buy a game that's a full game. I think it's cool to have add-ons if you want, but the idea of a game being nothing but add-ons kind of sucks. I'm willing to give these companies the benefit of the doubt when they don't act like jerks.

PixlBit