http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/if-...s-made-in-2010

 

some truth to this, sadly

 

hehehe

 

nice

 

nice

 

whoops, unintended comment.

should have said "that's pretty neat"

 

These pics must have been the inspiration behind paper mario

 

One of my biggest pet peeves is being charged for extras for a game that they already charged me $60 for. Granted, it costs tons of money to develop a game but at $60 a pop when it only takes less than $5 to manufacture them, they're making that money back pretty quick I'd imagine.

Microsoft is the worst about this, selling a game and then expansions for it and online maps that you have to buy to play online. I know they're not expensive it is still stupid to me.

 

there's a simple reason they've been doing this. Gamestop realized that they could become a middle man for used games and make ridiculous profit off of it. The game studios are seeing all their $$ going to gamestop and are tired of it, so they're finding ways to bring that money back in house.

If people bought games new, or if people would at least buy used from friends and craigslist instead of gamestop, we wouldn't have this problem.

plus if you really don't feel like spending the money, wait all of a year and the 'full gold whatever' edition will come out with all the downloadable stuff included

 

That's what I do, but it still frustrates me. I refuse to shop at Gamestop partially for that reason, I either wait until the price drops on a game or get it off craigslist. But Playstation still manages to stay afloat and doesn't even charge for online accounts or DLC, only for full games that you can download. Wii is the same way, I don't play mine much but I don't think they charge for all that crap.

Granted Xbox has a much, much, much larger online community so I'm sure it costs more to run but most of it is hosted from console to console so I don't see any kind of massive server maintenance or anything justifying the costs that they "pass on" to gamers.