BioShock Challenge Rooms priced Comments by Robert Purchese
One PS3 package for six quid.
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kangarootoo
03/11/08 @ 16:36
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Hard to make a call based on a loose description. 1 hour of gameplay for £6 doesn't sound that great on the face of it, so it all comes down to the replay value I guess.
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Monkey_Puncher
03/11/08 @ 16:42
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Great game, but that extra content sounds like a load of shit to me. What made Bioshock was the atmosphere, setting and story, this content sounds like it has none of those things. Oh and £6? What a ripoff! The content should have been in the game in the first place for PS3 owners to make up for them having to wait a year to play it.
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FUCK. OFF.
I was always under the impression we were paying new price for a year old game because these were on the disc. Then it was made clear they're DLC, but of course after the wait they could make us pay for them. Of course they're also a business, so a token fee wouldn't be out of the question. But £6.29? More than Super Stardust HD? More than any PSone game? More than the majority of full PSN games? I'll repeat my first sentiments - FUCK OFF. |
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I wouldn't bother with the game at any price but this seems like the new horse armour. What a bunch of greedy bastards. First taking money to postpone the release of the game on PS3 for a full year, then releasing the old game at full price and then, to add insult to injury, charging a ridiculous amount for some 'exclusive' DLC.
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I thought the original idea was that the challenge mode was supposed to be included for free.
I was always planning to get the PS3 version of Bioshock, but this philosophy of deliberatly holding back content for the purposes of paid dlc means they've lost a sale. I'll just pick up the PC or 360 version instead for about half the price. |
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balsaboy72
03/11/08 @ 18:58
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Robbing cunts i thought all this was free dlc i paid £39.99 for mine plus another £6 for this its a disgrace ps3 didt even get a steelbook or big daddy figurine im writing to watchdog.
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SpaceMidget75
03/11/08 @ 19:47
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This should have been included gratis, given that the dev costs on this version are less and they are still charging full whack. If they want the extra cash charge the 360 owners for the extras and give it to PS3 owners for free as part of the full price tag.
Oh and Les, do you have to put a fanboy slant on even PS3 posts? You know for sure that MS paid to keep this off PS3 for a year? |
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cthulhu_steev
03/11/08 @ 20:02
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The cheeky bastards, like others have said this should've been on the disc.
Also, I'm really glad I spent the money I was going to use for Bioshock on Dead Space because the game is bloody brilliant.
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SpaceMidget75
03/11/08 @ 20:30
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"I know i'm over exagerating prices/time scales a tad.. but my point stands.. "
LOL. Obviously not. |
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michaelius
03/11/08 @ 21:22
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Sounds like first class ripoff.
Grand total of 1 hour of gameplay for "only" 6,50 pounds is close to price of good arcade titles like SSHD |
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"I dont get why gamers moan about 6 quid for 1 hours of content.. But dont moan about paying 50 quid for 8 hours of content (fable 2/bioshock/etc)?"
Because the extra content costs far less then, lets say 1/7 of the full game, to develop because it uses almost everything that was developed for the original game. |
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makeamazing
03/11/08 @ 21:48
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I think its bad to have a situation where everyone thought it was going to be free and now they are charging for it... bad show. Oh i didnt think PS3 bioshock was full price, wasnt it £29.99 thats not a full price PS3 game price... usually its £34 ish.... or am i wrong (havent checked the prices, just what i understood the price to be and thats what its on play).
Still releasing this DLC so close to release and when it was talked about as being part of the release is just very poor of them. |
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"does anyone think if we don't show the demand for this that 2k will lower the price?"
I think if it doesn't sell well they will assume there just wasn't a demand for it and may not create anymore, which may be an incorrect assumption. If they lower the price at a later date I still wouldn't expect it to sell too well as they'll have missed their marketing opportunity. I think this may be a case were they'll make less money in the long run by being greedy initially. Of course this is all guess work on my behalf but that's my 2 cents. |
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@DaemonB
NO! Hot shots DLC is done differently, you download the courses/characters via the latest patch and unlock them with a 100kb key in the PSN store, that's why patches take so long to download and that's how people who havent bought the DLC can see and hear the new characters in matchplay/stroke matches. |
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3william56
04/11/08 @ 06:31
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Pfft - it's still a lot cheaper per hour than a movie or pint.
Question is, is it any good? |
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Les isn't a fanboy, he just can't stand Bioshock!
Gotta give it another go Les it really is a good game that draws you in. As for the challenge rooms, I thought that was a free extra. A bit naughty that. If it were me I wouldn't bother out of spite, still buy the game itself PS3 owners it's worth it just ask Les! |
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"Gotta give it another go Les it really is a good game that draws you in."
I have given the PS3 demo a go (had played the PC demo already) and it does absolutely nothing for me, except for the audio. It's a clumsy FPS with a setting that I don't care about. I'd rather re-play HL2 or Resistance if I have to play a shooter. But that's just my opinion. |
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Maybe it's just me, but I'm fed up with people crying "The DLC was finished at the same time as the game, it should have been included for free!"
I'm not arguing for or against the price of the game or DLC, but the developers/publishers are entitled to charge what they feel is justified for their products, regardless of when they were created. Equally, you have the right not to buy what they produce if you feel it is too expensive. |
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FrankCannon
04/11/08 @ 12:45
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All the PS3 downloadable content is expensive to make up for the fact that PSN is "free".
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makeamazing
04/11/08 @ 17:52
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I dont think its that Frandroid, everything i read suggested that the extra stuff was going to be included with the PS3 version CD for Free.
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daz_john_smith
05/11/08 @ 17:13
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I was under the impression that this stuff would be free since Bioshock was released on 360 and PC 12 months ago and this was added content to make the game more appealing
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