ME DLC costs on Origin

As promised in the other thread I'm showing you what Origin, in fact EA, is doing to fans.

A few days ago, MEs were on sale on Origin, I can't remember all prices, but the package called ME Trilogy (all three games) was 30€. Trilogy pack, as stated, also gives this:

PLEASE NOTE: Mass Effect Trilogy includes Mass Effect Pinnacle Station and Bring Down the Sky

Pinnacle Station, when bought separately costs 5€. On PC, Bring Down the Sky is free however. Those are DLC for ME (first game).

Regular price of this pack is 50€, so it looks as a nice bargain, right?
Well… Not exactly.

DLC for ME2 and ME3 is not all free. Not just that but I can't remember Origin put that on sale ever. Some of DLC is free, I won't show all of those, but let's see the prices on those DLC that are not free. As screenshots from within Origin malware.
ME2: http://i47.tinypic.com/qrhwrr.jpg
ME3: http://i49.tinypic.com/jq0unc.jpg

Calculated in that fraudulent currency, assuming you want the full experience and all DLC, that's 3440 (for ME2) + 4480 (for ME3) = 7920 of so called Bioware Points.

Of course, the bank or exchange office is the Origin malware. No, you can't exchange your national currency in a legal bank or exchange office, you MUST use the malware for the conversion. Avoiding taxes and money laundry by Origin, or probably EA(C)(R)(TM) patented con art means that for 100 Bioware points you have to pay (currently though) 1€:
http://store.origin.com/store/eaemea…e/direction.up

No you can't buy actually 100 Bioware points, you may buy either 800 (and pay 8€) or 1600 (and pay 16€). Assuming you want all DLC, you need to buy 8000 Bioware points. That's 5*1600 Bioware points, in fact 5*16€=80€.

Yes, you pay 80€! For just a few hours long a few DLC! And a package of dozens of hours long three full games on sale were 30€. Where's the logic?

After you get everything you'll be left with useless 80 Bioware points not possible to use anywhere else as there will be no more ME series DLC. That's an additional part of the fraud which brings more meaning to microtransactions, imagine a sum they can get when million of DLC buyers gives them 0.80€ and gets nothing for it except some nonexisting crap called Bioware points in amount of 80).

Now, may I remind you that EA promised a free game to all that preordered SimCity because of the launching disaster? Of course they'll give a free game, they can give them all for free anyway since the real cash is being grabbed on overexpensive DLC!

Yes, I despise EA. I can't even describe the feeling in my stomach when I see "EA" written somewhere. Their milking schemes are IMO worse than ebay "sandwich Britney Spears chewed" frauds.
But don't get me wrong. I'm still buying their games. Just games. Any kind of DLC they can stick into their *choose yourself what goes here*.

Why would you buy all the DLCs? Only Lair of the Shadow Broker is worth it and that only if you like Liara as a character…

Good question. Why would I? Why would anyone? Still, it's selling like a cure for cancer. Both are something that doesn't exist in reality, both are a fraud and both are unbelievably expensive.

You're acting as if they're being forced upon you.

I agree that they're overpriced, but none of them are crucial to the main games.

I'm not actually acting like that. This is a protest on prices, on monopol, on buying nonexisting currency fraud. It's not a protest on some force, there is no force involved anywhere in this matter. Except… If I've written all of this on EA forum, it wouldn't surprise me that my Origin account gets banned permanently.

I typically buy all the DLC available for a game. It's typically at a premium price, but I can live with that. I'd rather have EA and others have their own storefronts available where they can set their own prices than just give all my money to Steam all the time.

Vote with your wallet, then. Don't buy them.

Originally Posted by Trelow
I'd rather have EA and others have their own storefronts available where they can set their own prices than just give all my money to Steam all the time.

Huh? So you'd rather have less options and pay more?

Originally Posted by JDR13
Huh? So you'd rather have less options and pay more?

I'd rather have more viable storefronts than just one even if to do so I have to pay more on occasion.

It's not really a issue to rage over. It's fine. People and companies have the right to charge what they want and distribute their product how they want. I don't agree with controlling what someone does with it after they've bought it though. But that's another story for another time. I'll concede the buying points to pay is crap and is only done for the simple reason of it's easier for people to spend points than dollars. The exchange rate screwing is just tough shit I reckon unless enough people vote with their wallets.

I still haven't got answer for my question…….. so how much is this stupid citadel DLC in AUD?? >.>

I would look at up but I'm at work >.>

Originally Posted by purpleblob
I still haven't got answer for my question…….. so how much is this stupid citadel DLC in AUD?? >.>

I would look at up but I'm at work >.>

It cost $15 in us currency. So covert it into AUD you get 14.59. I don't know how much tax to include or inflation.

Originally Posted by joxer
Of course, the bank or exchange office is the Origin malware. No, you can't exchange your national currency in a legal bank or exchange office, you MUST use the malware for the conversion.

If I ever manage to develop my own game, I should call it "Malware".
THEN, people are FORCED to use Malware if they want to play my game ! Muahaha !

ROTFL

No, a malware is a piece of software that's running in the system presumably doing nothing and in fact you don't know what is it doing at all and why it's set to start automatically by default since you don't use it all the time.

In case of your game, well… It's a game. Not some lurking AI that, sorry for paranoic thoughts, that perhaps is spying on what you're doing all day long, sniffs your passwords and records keypresses on entering your credit card data and then informs EA on your behavior. Oh, it doesn't do that? Really? Prove it. Besides, if it doesn't spy on you, wtf is it doing all that time when you're not playing EA games?

Someone could mention a similar thing called uPlay but if we dig more, there is a big difference between Ubisoft and EA. uPlay isn't set to start by default but activates only when you're going to play a game DRMed with uPlay.
This of course doesn't mean uPlay is great, it's not, it sucks and it's a crap strategy when it comes to singleplayer games. But at least it's not a suspicious piece of software, you know why is it there, what exactly it's used for and it's not "hidden" in tray while you're not playing Ubisoft's games.