Apparently EA might actually start charging for game demos. They're calling it "premium downloadable content", but I think it's obvious what their intent is.
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Pachter wrote, "The PDLC would be sold for $10 or $15 through Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and would essentially be a very long game demo...
...has 3-4 hours of gameplay, so [it has] a very high perceived value...
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! Since when did EA hire comedians!!!! The only people more stupid than EA would be those who would purchase such a demo!!!!
Really?If you were to get a discount from the full game later on (full game price: $40, demo price: $15, full game after having bought demo: $25) then this wouldn't strike me as such a bad idea…
Really?
Consider this: let us assume, having completed the demo, that you don't like the game and have no interest in a full purchase. What then? You're out the $15 with absolutely nothing of worth to show for it.
That is the problem: you are not purchasing a game, you're purchasing a demo. That is, a fraction of the game. Try that with any other medium and you'd be booed out of business.Though I don't really see the big problem you seem to be seeing. If I buy a game I don't like then… I've wasted the money, yes.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. This is a fact of life...see? I can also add completely irrelevant "facts of life" to a discussion concerning EA's ridiculous business practices.Pepole sometimes buy things they end up regret buying. That's a fact of life.
Bravo, I say, bravo!I am boycotting EA and this surely does not make me stop. ( yes that means I will not be playing dragon age or ME anytime soon )
That is the problem: you are not purchasing a game, you're purchasing a demo. That is, a fraction of the game. Try that with any other medium and you'd be booed out of business.
Imagine, paying for the first chapter of a book alone, the first ten minutes of a film, half a banana…it's little more than corporate greed.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. This is a fact of life…see? I can also add completely irrelevant "facts of life" to a discussion concerning EA's ridiculous business practices.
I can name a number of concepts that are, strictly by virtue of not appealing to me (or any other rational individual), thereby rendered both stupid and immoral. I trust you can come up with some on your own. Where I'm concerned, this is among them.If you don't like paying part prize to get part game then don't do it. I know I'm not going to, but I also know that the whole concept isn't stupid/immoral just because it doesn't appeal to me.
No, mate, it's really not. I addressed that with the term "irrelevant."The difference between what mosquitoes are attracted to and my example is that my example is relevant to the discussion at hand. If you buy the demo and end up not buying the game then you made a mistake buying the demo, just like any other thing you buy that you don't end up using enough for it to be worth the prize.
Brilliant! I imagine door-to-door salesmen adore customers like you.Why not? It's not like they're fooling me into believing I get the full thing. You'll also be allowed to buy the full thing straight away if you want to.
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Disregarding that if you'd bought the full game instead you'd be $40 short with nothing to show for it instead of $15.
I can name a number of concepts that are, strictly by virtue of not appealing to me (or any other rational individual), thereby rendered both stupid and immoral. I trust you can come up with some on your own. Where I'm concerned, this is among them.
No, mate, it's really not. I addressed that with the term "irrelevant."
Case in point: somewhere, in this great big world of ours, someone is contemplating this offer to purchase demos from EA while consuming a banana. That person is now considerably more attractive to mosquitoes…and now it's relevant. Why, because there's an obvious link and I said so.
See how it works? Irrelevant is irrelevant, no matter how you stretch things. The discussion is not about the poor judgment people demonstrate in life, but the practice of demanding money for what, essentially, is an incomplete product.
Brilliant! I imagine door-to-door salesmen adore customers like you.
Rape…I acually can't since there's nothing that's wrong for the sole reason that pepole doesn't like it. In fact, wether someone likes something or not is irrelevant to how moral said thing is.
Thanks for the "morality and ethics for preschoolers" lesson, much appreciated, mate.Morality isn't based on what we like, it's based on how it affects us. It's not that we dislike something that determines if said thing is wrong or not, it's why we dislike it. If we dislike it because of some lame, arbitrary reason then we're the problem, not the thing we dislike.
Apparently where you're coming from that's true, frankly, I could not care less.No, the discussion is about paying for things that risks not benefiting you fully. Like when you buy a game you never finish. Or a book you never read. Or a piece of clothing you never wear.
Hello, brick wall! Didn't I just run into you with my last post?None of those cases bothers pepole so why should this one?
Rape…
Slavery…
Genocide…
Need I go on?
Apparently where you're coming from that's true, frankly, I could not care less.