Mass Effect 3

Kiith

Fair play to Bioware, another free multiplayer DLC. They are decent sized as well, and i've seen smaller dlc's being charged for in the past.

noodler

Kiith wrote: »

Fair play to Bioware, another free multiplayer DLC. They are decent sized as well, and i've seen smaller dlc's being charged for in the past.

I hate to be a cynic, but didn't they just hold back on characters, classes and maps that were already in the main game?

Kiith

noodler wrote: »

I hate to be a cynic, but didn't they just hold back on characters, classes and maps that were already in the main game?

Probably, but it doesn't stop most other companies from charging for it.

Dave_The_Sheep

They have to make up for the shocking SP ending and Day 1 DLC in people's eyes, perhaps. Maybe they feel they can't get away with charging for it.

Zillah

Don't be naive, they are absolutely raking it in with people paying real cash to unlock new packs. People would stop buying packs without new content so it is in their best interest to keep making new DLC.

Dave_The_Sheep

Perhaps. You're probably right. Ah well, just as well I stopped playing... I'd feel terrible to be used by a corporation to make money. Now, back to Diablo and that real money auction house...

Gunmonkey

Well since you can pay to buy the random item packs, they could have felt releasing the DLC free would prolong the MP and garner a bit more cash that way. And without splitting the playerbase like paid DLC maps always does.

noodler

I feel sorry for anybody who ever spent s real euro on the multiplayer for packs.

Jester252

noodler wrote: »

I feel sorry for anybody who ever spent s real euro on the multiplayer for packs.

I dont get why people would spend money on that sort of stuff

ShiverinEskimo

Because they are rich and have high disposable incomes.

hooradiation

noodler wrote: »

I feel sorry for anybody who ever spent s real euro on the multiplayer for packs.

Please don't feel sorry for me. It's unnecessary.

Zillah

hooradiation wrote: »

Please don't feel sorry for me. It's unnecessary.

*strokes Widow X*

Gunmonkey

Meh, had 320 points resting in my account after buying Shadow Broker years ago so used em on some packs, not bought any purely for getting ME3 MP packs though.

Varik

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Meh, had 320 points resting in my account after buying Shadow Broker years ago so used em on some packs, not bought any purely for getting ME3 MP packs though.

Got 80 left over on mine, don't think i'd ever use it on packs as playing geth gold only takes a short time, and there's bound to be paid DLC in the future.

hooradiation

Zillah wrote: »

*strokes Widow X*

I dunno how much I've dumped into buying the packs, it's not huge money but when the match making system is pairing me with people who seem to be missing most of their frontal lobes it's a decent work around.

Also, you know, I consider it encouragement for bioware to keep pumping resources into the MP stuff.

noodler

hooradiation wrote: »

Please don't feel sorry for me. It's unnecessary.

hooradiation wrote: »

I dunno how much I've dumped into buying the packs, it's not huge money but when the match making system is pairing me with people who seem to be missing most of their frontal lobes it's a decent work around.

Also, you know, I consider it encouragement for bioware to keep pumping resources into the MP stuff.

Sorry if I sound like a dick but I feel even sorrier for you now!

I don't think BW need you to spend money on packs when all they are doing is using maps and classes from the game. I am sure the 3m+ sales of the game more than compensated for that.

hooradiation

noodler wrote: »

Sorry if I sound like a dick but I feel even sorrier for you now!

No need to apologise, I'd have to respect your opinion first in order to feel like you're being dickish to me.

noodler wrote: »

I don't think BW need you to spend money on packs when all they are doing is using maps and classes from the game. I am sure the 3m+ sales of the game more than compensated for that.

You... look, I'm not really going to get into this, because this forum turns into a running gun battle with fucking stupid bullets when it comes to how anything in the real world works, but I like ME3's multiplayer, I want it to continue being supported.
That'll only happen as long as it's profitable, so throwing bioware a few quid on a semi-frequent basis helps with that.

It's not a complex equation nor a massive investment on my part, so what's the problem*?

* = Please note: this is rhetorical, I don't care what you think the problem is.


And on topic:
Banshees appearing all day every day no matter what the opposition? Fuck you bioware, you evil bastards.

noodler

Yeah, you are getting a little emotional for somebody who does not care what people think.

If you need to tell yourself that ME3's (already fairly repetitive at this stage) multiplayer will stop being supported 2 months after release and after the game shifted more than 3 million copies if people stop buying weapons packs then that is fine. Whatever you need to justify it to yourself.

(You know, despite the fact far less popular games are still running online years after their release).

I seem to have touched a nerve though and I apologise. Back on topic indeed.

hooradiation

noodler wrote: »

Yeah, you are getting a little emotional for somebody who does not care what people think.

If you need to tell yourself that ME3's (already fairly repetitive at this stage) multiplayer will stop being supported 2 months after release and after the gamne shifted more than 3 million copies then that is fine. Whatever you need to justify it to yourself.


(You know, despite the fact far less popular games are still running online years after their release).

I seem to have touched a nerve though and I apologise. Back on topic indeed.

Please, you haven't touched a nerve.
You're just consistently wrong every time you open your mouth.

noodler

hooradiation wrote: »

Please, you haven't touched a nerve.
You're just consistently wrong every time you open your mouth.

Hey, maybe you need to take a step back here.

You are responding with insults rather than argument to defend your opinion and it kind of damages your "I am not getting emotional" stance.

Chill out.

promethius42

Just finished the game, my reaction:
（╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

J. Marston

promethius42 wrote: »

Just finished the game, my reaction:
（╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Just go with that. It's the least mind-fúckish option, in my opinion. Although the DLC will clarify everything...hopefully.

promethius42

Hope so, I will be most disappointed if they only slightly change it because the game itself deserved a far better ending.

hooradiation

noodler wrote: »

Hey, maybe you need to take a step back here.

You are responding with insults rather than argument to defend your opinion and it kind of damages your "I am not getting emotional" stance.

Chill out.

What's left to defend? Continued support isn't without cost and it's that's something I'd like to see so I give them money on occasion.

It's simple regardless of how much you want to dress it up.

Are you done now?

degrassinoel

J. Marston wrote: »

Just go with that. It's the least mind-fúckish option, in my opinion. Although the DLC will clarify everything...hopefully.

His Hair... it's Hypnotic!

Eggy Baby!

Hooray for Vorcha! I'm still waiting for my Volus biotic god though- imagine him somersaulting over cover.

promethius42

I seen somebody had modded the volus in on the pc version.

Gunmonkey

Its Hanar or nothing for me.

Gbear

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Its Hanar or nothing for me.

"This one has forgetten whether it's heat sink is over capacity.

It wonders whether the criminal scum considers itself fortunate"

:pac:

Gunmonkey

Gbear wrote: »

"This one has forgetten whether it's heat sink is over capacity.

It wonders whether the criminal scum considers itself fortunate"

:pac:

*sigh* How come he wasnt a party member in ME3