Mass Effect 3 wasn't made as an artistic expression, it was created to make money. If you want to call Bioware an 'artist' because they made the game, then they are commercial artists. And one thing commercial artists seek is mass appeal, because this is art as a business. If the game industry was focused on art it wouldn't be in the state it is now, i.e. drowning in sequels and IP retreads. This is the stagnation of the art in video games because this is a business and they want to make money. There is little to no artistic merit in revisiting Mass Effect for a third time. Artists should be seeking creative freedom and an expansion of the boundaries of expression. That would manifest as new IP's, like Volume Effect, not Mass Effect for the third time. Bioware needs to show it's responsive to the fans or they will go out of business like all the defunct game companies before them.
"Should transferring MB of data to access the content instead of KB really make a big difference to the consumer?" Brendan totally missed the point here. If the content is on the disc you bought-- see, I can stop right here. YOU BOUGHT THE DISC, why spend more money to 'unlock' what you've already purchased? That is game content that was ready at release, and should be covered by the $60. This is where your outrage should begin. "As for combating used game sales, why shouldn't publishers take issue with the practice? These companies spend millions making and marketing a game to convince people to go to their local GameStops to buy the thing, only to have the retailer sell them a used copy from which the people who made the game won't see a dime." Umm Brendan, it's a used game, which means the game company got paid already. We already went through all this bullsh*t with the music industry. Go educate yourself. It's so funny watching all these brainwashed consumers nowadays. The promise of technology is more for less over time. That means as technology progresses, game prices should be going DOWN, not up. My paycheck isn't keeping pace with game price inflation, let alone exceeding it. The value per dollar in games is decreasing because of corporate greed.
Wow, it's amazing how many people drink the corporate kool-aid around here. Sony isn't your friend and Sony did NOT do a good job handling any aspect of this breach. I don't believe anything Sony tells me about the events that took place because they will lie for money. If you believe Sony when they say no credit card info was taken you're fooling yourself. First of all, why wasn't ALL of the info in Sony's database encrypted? There's no excuse for not encrypting it, it costs Sony nothing to do. And while we're talking about encrypted data, if credit card info was encrypted and it was stolen it still isn't safe. Encrypted credit card numbers don't fall into a black hole and disappear, they sit there waiting while a hacker runs a crack. No encryption currently available is uncrackable, it's just a matter of time. That still doesn't excuse Sony from not taking that precaution with every piece of information we are forced to give them. Encryption gains time if someone is determined enough to apply resources to break it. That's why Sony was negligent in not informing it's user base about what was happening as soon as they suspected an attack had taken place. As for the "please forgive us" handjob we're being presented with for this entire mess... When I checked my calendar I saw that the breach occurred in 2011, so why is Sony trying to give me games from 2009, that I already bought? That's just another illustration of how little Sony thinks of it's customer base.
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