The damn DLC evolved to something worse.

Capcom has to spend extra money to painstakingly study the metagame and test patches. The companies who own the consoles charge money for studios to patch their games. They can not always be free. If you can not disable gems in SFxT then that is disgraceful.

 

Sirlin has a nice article regarding gems specifically, and talks more generally about DLC in competitive gaming: http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2011/10/25/banning-gems-in-street-fighter-x-tekken.html

Competitive games are different from single player games when it comes to this sort of thing.

 

After reading that and more about SFxT I have to say its too messy if used in a championship. The gems can easily make a character OP and makes balancing that much harder. I bet that Capcom gave up trying to achieve perfect character equality after trying all those character and stat buff combinations. The stupid gem system is there to get a bit more money out of people and to artificially make noobs better. As a casual game I can recommend it but only as that.

 

My next game is going to have a kickstarter incentive to let people preorder the early access DLC...

 

I like the way you think! Capcom could make good use of your business practices!

You know what kind of DLC is the worst to think of when imagining how it will go offline at some point? Full games/Arcade games.
You know what else sucks cock? I can't fully play any of the Arcade titles I paid for, because I no longer have internet at home. It converted all of my downloads to trial versions. Talk about shit, I had no idea that the 360 even had such a "feature." It doesn't stop pirates. It forces piracy. I feel ripped off.

 

It's not supposed to work like that, you can play downloaded games without being online if their licenses are linked to your console. Seems like you need to link them to your console: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-...load-content#cd6d5b5f2dc24c3bb86e8320d48413a7

 

I wouldn't expect it to work like that either, especially since I've seen no uproar over it out the Internet. I'll try to resolve this DRM issue, but I've never had another 360 since when it worked & never popped my hard drive in another, so I am extremely curious as to why it's locking me out.

 

Issues like these, but specially the original X1 policies made me ditch M$.

 

Don't ditch anything based off of Internet recounts such as mine. The 360 is a great system, the fact that DRM "must" exist is a sad fact. I don't doubt that I somehow mixed up the licenses linked to my console, I just want to know how it happened. & you might think, "well having to deal with that at all is BS," I'd agree, yet I don't see how you could plan on escaping such a possibility in this day & age.

 

It's a widespread thing, but I've heard that it only does that for some games, and not all, but I don't know.

 

Funny thing is some gamers will complain about money greedy DLC practices, but will play mobiles games that are pay2win or have other types of shitty micro-transactions. Thanks to people falling for that some of the shady mobile practices there are migrating to other systems.

 

The LEGO Movie: The Video Game takes this sort of stuff to the extreme. You have to buy actual LEGO sets (4 different ones) to get codes that you input into the game to unlock special stuff. That said, if you are the sort of person who likes LEGO (like I do) the 4 sets in question are mostly cool in their own right and worth buying even without caring about the codes

 

That reminds me of all the NFC stuff on the Wii U. But I guess buying a pokemon figurine to boost your in game character is better than having nothing in the physical to show for it.

I guess it's kinda like tabletop gaming in a way.

 

some do play mobile games (and i make NO distinction between friend or foe, mobile games or handhelds) actually, most do.
i on the other hand won't.
...
see enough of it in public, zombies tapping telephones next to each other. (text is the intercommunication, use actual voices at own peril)
bad news on buses, i ask the driver or conductor to clear the back end of bus for me, if it's possible. (not a packed bus)
drives me lunatic hearing all the phone pings, and when somebody does try to speak using mouths, they get grief..sometimes worse.
thanks DLC'ers, if you wonder why two or more can stand aside each other, one falls over of a heart attack and the other stares/not cares, there's your answer.
if you love tech that much to destroy our humanity, be it on your own heads.
a lot of us are due to pass anyway, safe to say, i won't be leaving anyone or anything behind, my earthly business was concluded in my teens, just winging it til the piper demands payment IN FULL!
handheld games are obviously different in context (and content) but for the purposes of this response, they're the same. (gaming is like masturbation. you DON'T do it on a busload, you DON'T do it in public. completely private affair, and contrary to popular belief, a lot hate it, but they're good folks by weathering the assault saying nothing. facial expression tell another story, looking dog-ugly/gurning is our right from birth)
folks also wonder where the 'humanity' went, there's your answer, YOU! YOU'RE AT FAULT FOR BUYING INTO...(it's a way of life, like it or?)
times are changing, and not all change is for the best. (only those who say 'keep up/adapt or die' are in a cushy position, same for the ones saying money is the source of all evil, they have it. yet to get that line from a truly objective source)
if i come across as a dinosaur, it's because i am.
that said, i don't get on with other dinosaurs.

at least i've been able to save some cash, still a LONG way to go...

 

At least you don't have to buy a special expensive "portal" to put the figurines on.

Man I can't wait for Skylanders to die.

 

Was going to say, Skylanders is the worst (but best for the company, seeing how much they've made) - 4 iterations (or is it 5 now?) with a whole bunch of characters that get re-released and cost a ridiculous amount of money, and then there's the special editions which I've seen some go on eBay for over $500 a pop! Le fuck!

 

Oh, now we have "elite, premium" Skylanders.

http://kotaku.com/these-arent-old-skylanders-theyre-eons-elite-premium-1610101050

My guess is by the end of next year that bubble will have burst.