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"EA further penalizing people who buy Mass Effect 3 second hand."

Over the past year or two there's been a trend emerging of penalizing people who buy second hand copies of games. Typically this involves giving people bonus downloadable content if they buy a game new, via redemption of a code. Or - and this is a bit more unethical - withholding the multiplayer portion of a game unless you buy a new copy or spend extra money to buy a multiplayer code.

However, EA - who coincidentally have been nominated for The Consumerist's 'Worst Company' award - have taken things a step further with Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect 2 gave you a bunch of extra bits and bats if you bought the game new or purchased a 'Cerberus Pass'. Mass Effect 3 doesn't have this option - instead, if you buy the game second hand you have to pay extra to get access to the game's online features of the game.

So how is that new? After all, Mass Effect is largely a single player experience. The difference is that to get the best ending in Mass Effect 3 - although I could make a separate post about how poor the endings are - you need to have an in-game military strength of 5000. This means completing a bunch of side quests etc to raise your military strength to this level. But your ending is also affected by the in-game 'galactic readiness' stat. If you don't play the online portion of the game, this is set at 50% which means that your military strength is halved.

What this really means is that if you buy the game second hand, it's twice as hard to get the best ending. Having a new purchase only multiplayer portion isn't all that new, but Mass Effect 3 actively penalizes people who bought the game second hand, making it harder to properly 'win' the game. Which given that, either way, you've paid money for the game, is a hell of a thing to do.

Pretty sure that Tekken X Streetfighter will be far better than Streetfighter X Tekken.

God bless EA

chasfh wrote:
Dr. Garin wrote:
[i] Street Fighter x Tekken patch causes game breaking bug

I suppose Pete is going to deny having anything to do with this as well.

There will be dozens of games devs running around like headless chickens trying to prevent "Pete Damage" now....[/i]

Ha ha, very good! :)

Seriously though, could Capcom have actually screwed up the release of this much anticipated title anymore? It's actually quite sad to see this once great developer making total fools of themselves. Not only did they stupidly overprice the 'full' game of Streetfighter X Tekken, it doesn't look as though the damn thing even works properly! I'm really glad that I bought Namco's Soul Calibur V instead, it's a great game that I believe gave me excellent value for my hard earned cash and it works exactly as I expected it to, fully intend to stick with that.










*just about manages to stop inserting any Crapcom/Streetfailer gags into the the above post*

Dr. Garin wrote:
Street Fighter x Tekken patch causes game breaking bug

I suppose Pete is going to deny having anything to do with this as well.

There will be dozens of games devs running around like headless chickens trying to prevent "Pete Damage" now....

Thanks DrG and now over to you pete ;¬)

Street Fighter x Tekken patch causes game breaking bug

I suppose Pete is going to deny having anything to do with this as well.

The world couldnt cope with 2 Garins. Although it would undoubtedly be a better world.

Are you guys talking about the same Garin who suggested that we should compare a legendary Japanese games developer to The Third Reich? or even the same Garin who believes that my comments on this very thread have somehow been directly responsible for the disappointing global sales of the Streetfighter X Tekken video game?

Perhaps there are 2 Garin's.........? :P

Dr. Garin wrote:
Maybe?

Garin is always right, chas ;¬)

Maybe?