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Is Exclusive Content Bad For Gaming?
ShadokatRegn | 11:34 AM on 10.12.2009 7 comments




Image compliments of BAPengin at Co-optimus.com - it makes me laugh, a lot.

Recently I've noticed a disturbing trend in the gaming market. It is the addition of game-altering exclusives with nearly every pre-order on the market, primarily at Gamestop. Yes, this is a bit of self-whoring, but I am pretty sure this subject effects the community here, as much as where I originally posted it (sorry, can't copy paste from there, it's against the rules.)

Over at www.co-optimus.com I delved into this trend a bit to spark some debate; does game-altering exclusive content available by pre-order only effect the way you feel about games, developers, or publishers - or are we just overreacting when we say we don't get the "full experience" if a piece of the game is cut out for everyone else?

This is where you chime in. Head over to co-optimus.com and throw a few verbal tomatoes.

(Is Exclusive Content Bad For Gaming?)



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Mike Moran's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/12/2009 17:14
Mike Moran
Would have been better off if you weren't plugging your article from another site. Couldn't you just bring the debate to us instead of requiring us to create accounts for your website?
ShadokatRegn's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/12/2009 19:28
ShadokatRegn
I can't, sorry buddy - They own the rights to the writing, so I can't just "steal" the whole article and paste it here. I wish. There's like 3 pages of debate in that thread, though.

Also, I don't require anything, I simply gave the option to go visit and put in your two cents. By all means, go read it, then come comment here if you like.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/12/2009 19:33
Sharpless
Bad for gaming? I don't think so. Bad for gamers? Yes.
ShadokatRegn's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/12/2009 20:14
ShadokatRegn
I heard an advocate for exclusive content say: "Just pre-order your games, it's not that hard..."

But when you think about the sheer number of games that come out at once, you generally have to pick and choose which you can buy (if ANY...$60 a pop, ouch) and which sit on the back burner...
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/13/2009 04:06
pedrovay2003
When the exclusive content is nothing but maybe a new costume or different gun, then that's all well and good. When it's a huge chunk of the game that's only available at certain retailers, or on certain consoles, then we start having problems.

Exclusive map packs, campaign areas, and downloadable content that will never be made available to the public forces the hand of the consumers, and that's not cool.
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/14/2009 17:15
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@Wry Guy
People do that all the time here. Hell, staff does it. At least she took the effort to have a bit of a discussion here, as opposed to a certain someone who just posts a link to his shitty Escapist articles telling us to read it.
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