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Cheap shot: paying for extra items in The Godfather

Posted Oct 24, 2006 at 07:36PM by Victor B. Listed in: Xbox Live, The Godfather, Games, Opinions & Analysis Tags: Electronic Arts, Downloadable Content
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I just don't know how to quit you...


This was supposed to be a news article, but what the heck, let's go crazy like a "First Post WOOT!" posting spree. We've said once before that Electronic Arts is embracing the Xbox Live Marketplace by offering downloadable content, but you have to agree that there's a difference between embracing and putting something in a stranglehold.

The first time people had some kind of an issue with this was with Madden NFL 07. That's mostly because they were selling tutorial videos for the game on XBLM. Look at the leap, however, from Madden to their Xbox 360 version of The Godfather. While most games wouldn't mind having hidden cheat codes or hidden missions to unlock special freebies, EA has used XBLM to offer the option of uber-izing yourself for twice the price.

How? Before you can buy one of their special items, such as the ultimate versions of the in-game guns, you have to purchase the RIGHT to buy those guns. Now that you have the right to do so, you also have to cough up 750,000 in game money to actually buy their super Tommy gun. If you don't have the cash, what do you do? Simple, pay EA even more real-life currency to get in-game moolah.

Sure, the prices for all these things aren't that prohibitive, with a 100-150 point cost and a one-time offer to prevent excessive buying, but come on. Multiply those miniscule figures by the number of gamers who want to get everything the game has to offer, and you realize that EA is milking people for something they should have put in the game to begin with. Can I get an "Amen" from all the outraged folks out on the internet? It's serious business.
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   by MagicZipper (Unregistered) - 2006-10-24
 » "Amen"
"Amen!"

   by Phantum Zero - 2006-10-25
 » AMEN
Amen brother Victor!


   Re: Victor B. (QJ. NET Staff) - 2006-10-25
 » AMEN!
And Hallelujah to you, my brother!
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   by Khyron (Unregistered) - 2006-10-25
 » Amen!
Stop it EA! Or lower the price of the game itself to make up for it.

   by xbox 360 owner (Unregistered) - 2006-10-25
 » boycot
microfoft need to discourae developers of giving us the short hand of the stick..boycotting those items should make them dissapear from future games...DONT BUY THEM


   Re: bobomb (Unregistered) - 2006-10-25
 » nooooooo!
this stinks... i am not buying ea games if this is how they treat us. ea is becoming too big of a monopoly now and the games they produce (mostly anyway) are below the standard of others... sequals upon sequals pushed out with little to no additional content.
shove this...
   by Pyroice0 (Unregistered) - 2006-11-07
 » Amen!
Kwanza!



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