@HipHopBeats I wouldn't put it in a better way, bro. And what's funny those stuck-up corporate suits will never wake up to the fact that there are potentially millions of us. In other words they lose milions of potential buyers during the first year throwing around their smug news about planned DLC.

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I also have a pass for WB. Actually two. One like in "I'll give your game a pass" and another like in "I think I'll pass on that game" I just can't get over how much Brits and Americans ruined the industry by allowing their games to come in pieces and falling for the crap that paid DLC is good for them. Developers often treat you guys like free beta testers. First the impatient early adopters in those two countries fall all over themselves to pick up and play the latest big thing that is often buggy as hell, unoptimized, with pieces of content blatantly missing or downright cut out. Gamers in poorer countries,like mine, have more respect for their hard-earned money. For us, in Poland (or even Spain or Portugal) no full disc version of the game means no buy at all. I make it a point of mine to hold off buying games when half a dozen DLCs is announced months before actual release. I get them a year later when a full version comes out. In this way I became a happy owner of about 50 goty/complete/ultimate game editions for ps3. Nothing makes me happier than getting my hands on a new copy of , for example, Bioshock and Bioshock II on one disc with all the additional content for about 30 bucks. You may call that cheap. I call that frugal. Comments most welcome.

Best article ever on any gaming site. My respect for Gamespot has been partly restored. ( Thank goodness it still has editors like Tom Mc Shea, who have the guts to call a spade a spade). I live in Poland where people earn on average about $500 a month but games cost the same as in the west. Nevertheless, I bought two copies of DS Prepare to Die Edition to show my respect and gratitude to From Software for being one of the very few companies who still treat gamers and especially their fans seriously. I'm getting more and more disgusted with today's console gaming : day-one patches, day-one DLC with content crucial to the main story (in other words, simply cut out of it) , omnipresent greed (in-game stores for virtual goods), bugs, releasing games before they are truely finished, five-hour campaigns, treating single-player in shooters as something extra and not vice versa, pushing for digital-only distribution, games like DIABLO on an on-line leash, fragmented special content in dozens of different special editions and so on and so forth . In short, if gaming continues along these lines I'll probably find myself a different hobby. With growing tendencies like the ones above this will probably be my last generation of consoles that I buy. Oh, and one more thing, all those who in any way justify the above mentioned practices (like those that say that, for example, Bethesda's games must be buggy just because they are big) are brainwashed morons, and I pity them.