I think that there's a very valid pattern of complaints over DLC.
Not all of it is portable between different machines (the new Halo 2 maps are an example). While, from a strict licensing standpoint, you're not supposed to share your game content with your friends, I believe everyone has let someone borrow a game or taken a game over to someone's house. Portability and borrowing game content is strictly limited.
None of it has any resale value at all. If you buy a disc-based expansion pack for a game, that disc has resale value, whether to a private consumer looking to buy your games or to a GameStop/EB. You cannot sell DLC at GameStop.
Durability of individual HDD/memory card content is not as reliable, and companies may not host that content forever. What if you buy an extra CoD2 map, and then give your Xbox 360 to a cousin five years from now and the HDD fails. If the map is no longer hosted for download (given that you've already paid for it), how can you retrieve the data? Doesn't work that way for a disc.
It's not that DLC is valueless. I've purchased my fair share when I thought it was justified. But $2 a song is significantly overpriced to me when it's over a DLC medium. I wouldn't pay $2 a song if I were buying it on a disc - why should I pay more for a worse delivery format?
Yeah, it's a hard break. But then, he's also among the NFL elite in terms of total divisional championships won, and never having an elite QB to do it with.
I think that if Ben can become a QB along those lines, and we'd have better support on thet front, Cowher could break out of the shadow of one-and-done Marty.
So generalizations that get modded insightful are groovy as long you include a disclaimer? That doesn't really make the post particularly insightful. Just guilty of perpetuating things that don't need to be perpetuated.
And there can't be coincidence in the two areas?
Let's see... I have every game console out there, I've got about 160 hours into my WoW character, I've played D&D and work with databases for a living. My friends are all like that to varying extents.
Yet I'm still a crazy sports fan that was devastasted on Sunday after the AFC Championship game and still like to go out and play sports with my friends. And all of my friends are like that.
It's people that restrict themselves exclusively to some sort of "geek mantra" or "jock mantra" that cause the stigmas of both identities.
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I think that there's a very valid pattern of complaints over DLC. Not all of it is portable between different machines (the new Halo 2 maps are an example). While, from a strict licensing standpoint, you're not supposed to share your game content with your friends, I believe everyone has let someone borrow a game or taken a game over to someone's house. Portability and borrowing game content is strictly limited. None of it has any resale value at all. If you buy a disc-based expansion pack for a game, that disc has resale value, whether to a private consumer looking to buy your games or to a GameStop/EB. You cannot sell DLC at GameStop. Durability of individual HDD/memory card content is not as reliable, and companies may not host that content forever. What if you buy an extra CoD2 map, and then give your Xbox 360 to a cousin five years from now and the HDD fails. If the map is no longer hosted for download (given that you've already paid for it), how can you retrieve the data? Doesn't work that way for a disc. It's not that DLC is valueless. I've purchased my fair share when I thought it was justified. But $2 a song is significantly overpriced to me when it's over a DLC medium. I wouldn't pay $2 a song if I were buying it on a disc - why should I pay more for a worse delivery format?
Yeah, it's a hard break. But then, he's also among the NFL elite in terms of total divisional championships won, and never having an elite QB to do it with. I think that if Ben can become a QB along those lines, and we'd have better support on thet front, Cowher could break out of the shadow of one-and-done Marty.
So generalizations that get modded insightful are groovy as long you include a disclaimer? That doesn't really make the post particularly insightful. Just guilty of perpetuating things that don't need to be perpetuated.
And there can't be coincidence in the two areas? Let's see... I have every game console out there, I've got about 160 hours into my WoW character, I've played D&D and work with databases for a living. My friends are all like that to varying extents. Yet I'm still a crazy sports fan that was devastasted on Sunday after the AFC Championship game and still like to go out and play sports with my friends. And all of my friends are like that. It's people that restrict themselves exclusively to some sort of "geek mantra" or "jock mantra" that cause the stigmas of both identities.