Bamba wrote:
AtrocityExhibition wrote:
Done properly I don't think there's anything wrong with a Season Pass, and conceptually it makes sense where it's a game you're sure you'll like and would buy all the DLC anyway, so it's logical to want to save a few quid in the process.
Right, but that only makes sense if as you say (a) it's a game you're sure you like and (b) you would buy
all the DLC anyway. It's literally impossible to be sure of all those things at the point of buying a season pass, and you've been proven wrong on that a couple of times thus far, so you're not making an informed decision to exchange money for goods of an equivalent value you're just gambling your cash against a whole load of unknowns. Which is bonkers enough as a one-off, but every time you do it you send the message to publishers that you'll bend over for the same weird arrangement in future. I mean Christ, we've even now got a situation with season passes which
don't include random bits of DLC!
I kind of take your point but it's not something that overly concerns me, there are far more sinister transgressions in the world of capitalism to worry about than paying a bit too much for some games via uncertain season passes.
Besides which I'd say that buying a PS4 or an XBone is a bit of a gamble at the moment, you're effectively paying top price and laying out hundreds of pounds on the expectation that some decent games will be along in due course, sending the 'message' that it's OK to release consoles with barely complete operating systems and unfinished rehashes of last-gen games that need 10GB+ day one 'patches' (I mean, really, 10GB must be the entire fucking game downloading again) - and no one seems overly bothered by that.
That said I am far more wary about them then I used to be, and I certainly can't see myself pre-ordering and/or getting a season pass for games in the future, but for dead-certs like the Battlefields and the next Borderlands, I probably will. (I know the Season Pass didn't include EVERYTHING for BL2 but it did get you four sizeable chunks of really high quality DLC (entire new zones) along with the level cap increase, anyone who felt short-changed by having to pay extra for the mechro or psycho classes or further extras needs to have their greedy goggles readjusted a bit.)