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10/31/2014 7:54:53 AM
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Gamestop's window signage clearly stated, Exclusive Content Released First Only On PlayStation; Dust Palace, Exclusive Exotics, etc.
It never ceases to amaze me how XBox only players are so hurt and offended that Sony got the "content first" clause instead of Microsoft this time. Why is this?
PS users had to wait until Mass Effect 3 dropped to get more of the ME1 content beyond a digital comic. How many CoD releases received content first on Xbox? So now that the Xbox players are experiencing the frustration associated with, what in my opinion is a ridiculously idiotic business practice period, of receiving delayed content, the developers are wrong to make Xbox players wait. How dare Bungie do this?
All I can say to any gamer offended by this issue is get over it! This practice will continue until we, the gaming community who encourages this practice with both our media purchases and feedback, say, "NO MORE!" Either the majority of Xbox, PS, or Wii owners stops purchasing media sold this way, thus making media developers reexamine the "exclusive" content practice; you can deal with it and continue supporting developers as the current business model supports; or make both Microsoft and Sony, and Nintendo too, all happy by purchasing both systems, and then the media for whichever system gives you the best value.
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[quote]PS users had to wait until Mass Effect 3 dropped to get more of the ME1 content beyond a digital comic.[/quote] That's because ME1 was published by Microsoft, not EA. EA had to get the rights back from MS. It had nothing to do with an exclusivity deal like this. It was all because EA acquired Bioware after they had already developed games under a different publisher. This is not that. [quote]All I can say to any gamer offended by this issue is get over it! [/quote] All I can say is that this doesn't offend you, you clearly don't understand how this effects the gaming industry and our experience as a consumer. Telling us to get over it makes you look like you are on their side, regardless of what you follow up with. You can't tell us to get over it and essentially accept it in one breath and then agree that it is a terrible practice in the next. Pick a side.
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Edited by Big_John_72: 10/31/2014 9:02:35 AMOkay, go back and reread my post and your reply. Microsoft had the entire ME line exclusive, until the EA, the people contracted through MS to develop it, said no more. EA refused to finish the series until Microsoft agreed to bend on the exclusive agreement so that the PS gamers could get the ME line. That was what the point to the paragraph that started with, "get over it," was about. That entire paragraph wasn't just the first line. The entire text laid out that we, as a community of gamers, can do nothing and, "get over it," or we can all encourage the developers to stop agreeing to "exclusive" deals, or third option, buy both systems and either the version that offers the best deal for your dollars. That third option then causes issues as well. I have PS only friends and Xbox only friends. So either I don't play with some, or buy 2 versions to play with all my friends. That only works right now because I have 18 and 16 year olds who help out so that they can use the system I am not. Practical? Hell no! So I say either we all stand up and let our voice be heard by telling Sony, Microsoft, and the developers to stop the madness; or we get over it and game on and except the status quo.
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I didn't mean to misrepresent your post and I'm sorry that you seem to have taken it that way. I'm saying that Microsoft did not have the rights to the entire Mass Effect line. They had the rights to Mass Effect 1. That's it. Comparing the two is pointless because this situation is not the same in really any way. I don't think you read what I wrote after the 2nd quote. My point was that telling us to get over it is not helpful. No one is getting over it. A Playstation owner might feel that way now, but they aren't going to "get over it" when the tables are turned, just like Xbox players had nothing to say when CoD DLC hit Xbox one month early but are upset about this now. This effects all of us in one form or another and the worst thing I could possibly think of for any of us to do is "get over it".
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You are missing my point as well, and I'm not bothered about this don't sweat that Love a good debate. All PS only owners have been dealing with the "exclusive" or "this console gets DLC first" issue for a long time. That's why I find the sudden outcry from the XBox community funny honestly.
