noman wrote on Feb 25, 2012, 02:32:
With the exception of few titles, EA games are on Steam as well. The ones that are not there, are forced out due to Valve's policy of controlling how you can acquire the DLCs after buying the main game. Valve wants tighter control.

Creston wrote on Feb 25, 2012, 01:23:

Ruffiana wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 20:52:
How a developer opts to monetize the content they've paid to create is their business.

Absolutely. And, on the flipside, how people choose to perceive that monetarization is, crazily enough, their business. Just as Bioware has every right to do this, people also have every right to be pissed off about it, or even boycott the game because of it. They don't really "need" to get over their stigma. If they choose to feel ripped off because of it, that's their right.

Creston

Sepharo wrote on Feb 25, 2012, 02:12:
Get over it Creston...
And all you whiners stop posting.
Positive excited comments only.

The ones that are not there, are forced out due to Valve's policy of controlling how you can acquire the DLCs after buying the main game.

Ruffiana wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 15:58:
There's no deception going on here. Here's the game, in the box...no Prothean. $60. Take it or leave it. Get over it. Buy it or don't buy it. You didn't pay for the development of this game...you're entitled to jack-shit.

EA games are not exclusive to Origin.

"Requires Origin account for installation and activation."

Dev wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 14:55:

Kajetan wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 11:05:

Verno wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 10:27:
ME3 won't be on Steam

Not right now, but later they will, after ME3 is not attractive anymore to lure potential customers to Origin.

You mean like they've done with their other pulled titles for steam after time went by?

Oh wait...

Ruffiana wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 20:52:
How a developer opts to monetize the content they've paid to create is their business.

eRe4s3r wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 20:37:
How would a Prothean be relevant to the end of the galaxy by the Reapers, apart from the "bad example" on how not to fight the reapers. They lost in a pretty epic way you know....

And their "last" project was to try to hide and hope the Reapers go away. Thats the only viable Intel you will get from that guy. So lets be realistic, Protheans are a dead race and they lost the war, a living one just makes him a rare specimen, a curiosity. And for that to be optional actually makes sense.

If you do what the Protheans have done you'd lose the game

You're forgetting that it's only because of Vigil that you actually are capable of thwarting Sovereign's plot at the end of ME1. In fact, without the Protheans, Sovereign would have commanded the Keepers to open the Citadel relay, and the Reapers would have again wiped out the galaxy.

So while they were exterminated, the Protheans were eventually the ones who managed to break the cycle. (albeit with a bit of help from a gal named Shepard. )

Possible Spoilers...

And their "last" project was to try to hide and hope the Reapers go away. Thats the only viable Intel you will get from that guy. So lets be realistic, Protheans are a dead race and they lost the war, a living one just makes him a rare specimen, a curiosity. And for that to be optional actually makes sense.

RollinThundr wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 19:24:
In the case of Day 1 DLC it's bullshit. Sure things get cut all the time from games in development all the time, but if you honestly believe for one second that 4 releases in a row from Bioware, just happened to have "extra" content DLC ready for launch day on a whim, I have a bridge to sell you really cheap.

Ruffiana wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 19:14:

briktal wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 16:30:

Beamer wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 16:16:
Do we know this is content?
If this stuff is half-baked it isn't content. If having this extra companion, even if they're an extinct species, adds nothing to the game (no quests, no special dialogue, nothing other than really something that looks different and yells different things during combat) I'd argue that it isn't content.

The real problem with these day one DLC characters is that they become half integrated into the game. They'll probably have as much personal quest stuff as the other characters, but they can't be as involved in the main plot of the game as the non-DLC characters, because the game has to work without them.

Why is this a bad thing? It might slightly diminish the quality of the DLC itself, but that's not an inssue with day-one DLC specifically...that's an issue with any DLC that has optional characters. Or really just a problem with non-universal content. Nothing in DLC can be "critical" to the core game.

The other thing with this day one DLC stuff: maybe they did work on it after the game was sent of to cert and blah blah, but it was almost a given, based on past games and industry trends, that there was going to be day one DLC made. If they didn't work on it until the "core" game was finished, did they talk about it before it was done? It might not be actual finished content cut from the main game, but it very well could be content they decided to schedule as day one DLC and not part of the "core" game.

So? You think every bit of content talked about, planned, or even started for a game either makes into the "core" game or is released as DLC later? A lot of the content of any creative endeavor like this ends up cut before a game is "done"...in various stages of completion. Again, what you buy as a game is what you get...not what you don't get, what the developers have decided to sell seperately, and certainly not a perpetual license to any future content.