2012-05-25, 08:38 | Link #3101 |
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If that's a husk, then it's of a type that's never been seen ingame before, not even in singleplayer. It is a new enemy no matter what anyone says (unless it turns out to be static decoration).
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2012-05-27, 04:19 | Link #3105 |
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That actually looks like a type of armor you can equip on Shepard. Probably some reaper-tech organic though i'm pretty sure they covered all the main organic life-forms in ME. Honestly doubt they want to make a 4. ME3 had that crappy ending because either they where rushed or didn't know how to properly end it. They basically tried to give a lifeline to the game and milk it by promoting their multi-player. They'll always be making stuff for multi-player if people are playing and paying.
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2012-05-27, 07:08 | Link #3106 |
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I've seen a lot of husks in ME3, and none of them look that large or that fat and heavily armored (armored husks ingame have fleshy bits as seen with the cannibal on the same pic, not metallic armor). It frankly does not look like anything we have seen ingame as of previously.
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2012-05-27, 13:04 | Link #3107 |
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I have no idea what that thing is, but I am still kind of reeling at how big and brass EA's balls are to fuck with their customers this bad and still get away with it.
Here's some free DLC. Except it's not free, because if you actually want the content (also known as "the DLC") you have to buy their stupid booster packs. Wow. Look how free that is. So free you have to pay money to get it.
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2012-05-27, 13:09 | Link #3108 |
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You don't have to. I've gotten all MP DLC content I wanted without paying a cent
You can purchase in game packs with game money or real money, but packs give rewards at random, so it will take a few tries. People who are impatient will just spend real money to speed up the process. It's kinda like what Valve is doing with their treasure keys IIRC There are enough impatient people that do this to feed Bioware's revenue, so they can release more free DLC in the future So I thank all of you out there who spend real money on this
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2012-05-27, 14:13 | Link #3110 | |
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And guess what? I paid $0 to get them. I do not have the ability to make purchases online, and so I can't get Bioware points at all. Yet I still got all the content for FREE. How? I simply played my ass off and farmed ingame credits to get all of those.
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2012-05-27, 22:37 | Link #3111 |
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Sounds very much like the typical operating procedures of your average F2P MMO or Facebook social game, which again doesn't really shock me that they'd be trying business models that work well on Facebook and iOS in other places.
Granted it can be free (as people have mentioned) but personally I'd rather pay 5 or 10 bux for a DLC and get everything right out of the starting gate.
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2012-05-28, 01:10 | Link #3112 |
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It's not "it can be free", it IS FREE. The only thing necessary to unlock the items for the DLC is to sink some time into playing the game and buying the reinforcement packs with ingame credits - no hard cash required. You only pay with real money if you're so inclined to do so and think you have enough money to throw around (which many people do for convenience, which is the psychology being banked on here). I don't hear people complaining that they have to sink hours into getting an RPG character to maximum level whether singleplayer or multiplayer since they don't have their abilities "right out of the starting gate", so it's not like players aren't known to be averse to effort = reward.
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2012-05-28, 01:23 | Link #3113 |
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I don't even know why you'd think it's "right out of the starting gate", since even when paying with cash, the rewards are random. You may and can as well be stuck still at the starting gate even when you pay. You get more chances from the get-go, sure, but that's really it. And I really find no need to feel insecure about those who pay cash, since the multiplayer experience is cooperative, not competitive. Unless you have this really, really compulsive indisposition for jealousy, which we then have nothing else to discuss.
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2012-05-28, 01:39 | Link #3114 |
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I'm saying I'd rather pay for the DLC and get the DLC without having to rely on a RNG. I don't have a problem paying for DLC. Bought tons of it for FO3 and FONV, no problem at all.
The whole discussion is academic anyway because I thought ME multiplayer was the world's largest bonehead idea to begin with.
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2012-05-28, 01:48 | Link #3115 | |
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But seriously, I wonder if they had just focused on single player, might they have avoided the bad ending debacle?
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2012-05-28, 03:05 | Link #3116 | |
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In fact, Mass Effect 3's multiplayer is looking to be ME3's most successful component if the player numbers are anything to go by - heck, I was who initially ambivalent at the concept now enjoy ME3 MP than the SP, and I'm primarily a singleplayer gamer.
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2012-05-28, 04:33 | Link #3117 | |
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Probably. Unfortunately, the drive to play it is beginning to flag on me - there isn't much incentive to play other to get the new stuff (characters, primarily), but I mostly never change into the new stuff so there we have it. |
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2012-05-28, 04:50 | Link #3118 | |
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This business model isn't that bad. Indeed, I myself prefer it. With the option for players to buy packs with real money, the DLC itself can be free while still being profitable. |
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2012-05-28, 04:51 | Link #3119 |
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A fellow I know theorized that ME3 was shoehorned into competing with Diablo 3, and the tacked on MP mode of ME3 does resemble the public game system of D3.
Bottomline however, someone said something and ME3 has now got to do somersaults where it didn't before. Some people find that an improvement, others would disagree. I don't have a stand myself, thanks to the lack of time to even play the hours needed.
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2012-05-28, 06:51 | Link #3120 | |
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Also, I kinda take offense at the MP being called "tacked on", since the MP is a fully functioning, if rather basic, feature that's actually quite enjoyable.
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