The feature is still inside the game regardless, and is available when the player finally wants to use it. Better to not need something to have it, than to need it and not have it.
"Better to not need something to have it, than to need it and not have it." How does that have anything to do with MM9 or MM10? You do have it and you have the choice of buying it or not buying it at any point. "The feature is still inside the game regardless, and is available when the player finally wants to use it." Yes, this is exactly the case with MM9 & MM10. The bonus features are still inside the game and are available when the player wants to use it, but Capcom actually gives you an option NOT to buy it, to actually save your money. Just because it's already in the game, I really just don't see it as a bad thing. Especially for a $20 game which gives me more than that $50-$60 games of the past.
pretty much. If it is something that is already in the game when you buy it, then it should either be sold as part of the game, or not included at all, and sold separately like actual DLC.
Again, I disagree. Bonus content is bonus content.
See above. Yes. [parasitic bomb] is called "DLC" for a reason. Its "downloading bonus content that was not in the original game, but which developers decided to add later." Not "buying an unlock code to play a part of the game that was already there to begin with"
See above.
Let me put it this way. Like the picture I posted earlier. the way say, LoS does it is sell you extra pie once you have finished the whole pie. The way MM9 and 10 do it, is sell you the whole pie, but once you have eaten half, if you want to touch the other half sitting in front of you, you have to pay up for pie that was given to you WITH the initial payment. If they are going to charge me for half my pie, then best they not give me the whole pie to begin with, and just give me the half and later offer me the option of actually buying and having anpther half broght to me.
Oh boy.
Now clearly, this is where you and I differ as consumers, cause I like, nay LOVE, saving money, not to mention having choices. Let's use a Pizza Pie as an example. Say you buy a whole pie. It costs $14 and you know everything you're getting with it, you eat 2-3 slices of it, but after eating it you don't actually like the pie. Now you've paid full price for a pie for those 2-3 slices of this pie, and instead of saving the remaining 4-5 pieces of pie for later, you're going to throw them out and you've essentially wasted your money.
Now, say another Pizza Place comes along and offers you a choice; They tell you the pie is going to be $14, but they say you can pay half price now, with the option that if you like the pizza, you can pay the remaining cost for the remaining half. This actually gives you a chance to think about it. Did I like the pizza? Am I still hungry for more? You still know what you've ordered with that full pie, you know how much it's going to cost in the end, but now you actually have the chance to think about spending the money.
Judging by these discussions, the problem isn't that they're charging for bonus content or how they sell it to you, but that YOU SEE IT. You see it in the game, and you HAVE to have it no matter what, no matter if you're going to use it or not. You have to have it for the SOLE reason that it's there, and you'll pay whatever the cost to get it just so it can be complete. If the bonus content, and again only the bonus content, is not in the game it's okay, but if you see it there, then suddenly it becomes a problem, regardless of whether or not they are trying to possibly save you money.
MM9 and MM10 let you know fully well before hand everything you're getting with the game, thanks to the glory of the internet. So beforehand, you know that the complete package will be $19-$20 (I forget the exact price after everything). However, they give you a choice to pay $10 now for the full adventure 8-Bit MM aspect of the game, then pay the remaining $9-$10 later for the bonus content, in sections. Now, say Capcom added in an option to just let you pay the full $19-$20 up front and you automatically just get everything. Honestly, I would just do that as well, because I'd want & use everything with MM9 & MM10. HOWEVER, I like, in fact I REALLY LIKE the fact that Capcom actually gives the consumer a choice in the matter and gives them a chance to actually save their money, regardless of whether or not the content is included in the game or not. Should they include a "just buy it all now" option for MM11? Why not! I'd pay it all upfront and just get it over with. But I like and respect the fact that I am given a choice and if they just included that "just buy it all now" option, that's exactly what it would be. Another choice.
that is actually not quite the same comparison. Lexus does not include the GPS into the standard package but have you "pay to use it at all". it is an actual addition to the car- which is added IF you want it. Much like the way DLC should be. An addition that is only added IF you want. Notincluded with every verison of the package but "unlocked" by paying extra.
So actually, the car comparison works more in our favor than in yours.
Yes and no. You're right that it doesn't include the GPS in the standard package, however the screen that uses the GPS is more or less still there due to other functionality of it. But what if the GPS was there? What if the GPS in the car was already there and was literally a switch they just had to flip and flipping that switch would cost $100 more? Knowing full well that it was in there but you had no intention to use it, would you still pay that $100 more just to have it because it was there?
See now THAT is an idea. make a version of the game that does not have that feature at all. but that kind of version separation would be just silly for a downloadable game, and it would not quite be the same as selling you PU with the Level editor locked until you purchase an unlock for it.
Wait, what's the difference again? Just because it's downloadable vs. a UMD?
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