june gloom on 27/7/2012 at 20:21
This business of having exclusive DLC depending on where you buy the game has got to stop. I'm just grateful they didn't include story DLC this time.
SubJeff on 27/7/2012 at 20:50
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Wait, so the actual RPG part is choosing where to buy it? I'm thinking of giving this a miss for now.
Ha ha. Yeah, I'm giving out a miss and just waiting til I can get a "regular" version.
Digi - wtf man? It was going to sell well enough anyway. Any insight into the thinking behind this?
june gloom on 27/7/2012 at 20:51
Publishers yo. Business and all that.
henke on 27/7/2012 at 21:41
Retailers want people to buy the game in their store, so they pay the publisher to supply their version of the game with a little bonus. And a gamer about to preorder a game is more likely to get it from the place where you get the bonus stuff, rather than somewhere else.
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This business of having exclusive DLC depending on where you buy the game has got to stop.
It'll stop when publishers no longer want to make money, retailers no longer want to make sales, or gamers no longer want free stuff with their preorders. Don't hold your breath.
Dresden on 28/7/2012 at 01:55
From the sounds of it, you're better off not getting any of this DLC. It's all just stuff that imbalances the game. I can't wait for Thief 4's DLC. "50% noise reduction on metal!"
Volitions Advocate on 28/7/2012 at 02:45
I agree with Dresden. I got the ubersuper auto shotgun in Metro 2033 and it ruins the balance of the game from that point on. I never strive to get the exclusive DLC in anything anymore. I'm partial to artbooks, but not the crap DLC.
demagogue on 28/7/2012 at 02:48
Yeah this is the publisher's call, not the devs, and run of the mill for them at that.
I'll be happy with vanilla as well, for all the reasons you guys mentioned.
... Except that the tarot set sounds interesting. I'll admit I'm a tarot fan. As long as they don't contract it out to people who have no idea what tarot is and you get something like the Carnivale tarot set which licked ass for such a potentially cool concept.
demagogue on 28/7/2012 at 08:31
Edit: Sorry, I followed the first link and skipped over the actual forum you linked to. Ok, so it's its own kind of tarot-inspired mini-game... But anyway, the whole scene is rife with tarot variations as it is. So that's not any big deal to me that this is a variation. I'm still interested in it.
The only thing is, if that one card is anything to go by, if it's just screenshots of NPCs and game scenes, that's not as creative as it could be. But if they actually worked out a game to go with it, and it's actually a well-thought out one, then that makes up for it. I actually like tarot variations & games...
I intended my original worry not to be that it might not be authentic, but that it might not have any thought put into it. A well-thought out variation could be just as cool as a well done traditional style. Carnivale was like every card just having a mask and number on it; couldn't have been less creative if it tried.
Edit2: Yeah, I'm definitely not like that Xydowegds purist guy in that thread that drank the koolaide and gets offended by people making tarot variations. FFS the biggest distributor of tarot these days is Hasbro. There's a Hello Kitty set. Yeah, if you're going to do divination the "right" way, you need a traditional set, but that's not all you can do with tarot and hasn't been forever... But honestly, I don't like traditional divination anyway... I couldn't keep a straight face that it's literally saying something about your future. I've always taken the psychological interpretation, that it's really reading things deep inside people's psyche and bringing it to the surface, which is cool & esoteric in its own right without being all voodoo.
Yakoob on 30/7/2012 at 04:58
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ShopTo.net customers will receive the Backstreet Butcher upgrades, which increase the damage dealt by sword attacks and whisky bottle explosions.
LMAO, config.cfg tweaks as DLC. GG capitalism...
