What will you chose?

One question:
If you chose "What will you chose" i belive you don't want Dragon age as it is and you don't want a shop.
How should the production costs then be paid? Do you want to pay more for the game? or should the worker work for free(sarcasm)?

You're talking about a cosmetic shop, like Anthem, only instead of armours and helmets, you're talking about hairstyles and eyebrows and lips and eye colours etc.

I have the feeling Bioware need more money to not run after trends. DA2 action game, DAI skrym open world and DA4 online games. I know they are creative why did they do that, because someone think that brings money.

If they do this sort of nugcrap like making us pay for the features that should be a normal part of the game in a single player game, I'll wait 10 years until the game significantly drops in price and releases an edition that has ALL the features before buying it. I got fed up with multiplayer games and next to stopped paying them due to this sort of greed.

Or you could think about why people start developing such practices in the first place?

I'm sick and tired of the half-shady practices of the gaming industry these days where everyone releases unfinished, bug riddled, with not even half the content it should have products and then installs a shop in addition to a massive start off prices and charges for each little thing individually. AND to top it off - these games create a massive hype for an initial cash grab, only to never bother fixing the most important issues, for several years releasing more game shop items instead of fixing their game breaking bugs, then they dump the never finished game.

Why don't I sell you a t-shirt and then start selling each button separately at the price that's higher than the t-shirt itself?

The game developers should learn how to properly manage their budget. Which is what I'm doing with my money and my personal budget by investing into games carefully. The fact that I've developed such practice, points out the industry problems.



While I am sympathetic, I don't want them going the wrong way. DA games are on top of my list. I recommend them to as many people as I know. In addition, I bought every sequel and every item of all three games <- I feel I've done my civil duty and my best to show them support within my own budget limits. But, I can't help them with their management. That is not my mistake to pay for. And I will not support the practice I've listed above.

Oh you mean like DA2 All class item pack? (400 bio points) or DA2 All class item pack 2 (400bio points more) or all those class packs that are already sold for additional prices? The Emporium Pack? In that case, this already exists or are there more pay for additional features in your plan?






Yea, and I've been giving that something in the form of my wallet and recommendations to other players who bought DA games because of me for a long time.

That pay for mods tactics has been tried before by other games and never led to anything but scandals.

I'm happy to pay for bonus cosmetic content, as long as it's good.

I've never seen a game offering cosmetic dlc where the items on sale were of a higher graphical quality than what is available for free, I can't imagine how that would even be acheived, but then again I don't understand game development very well.

But, if it were to be done, the cosmetics available to buy would definitely be unique, with no attainable in-game equivalent. IE, it might come in a colour that is not available in the game, or you might be able to buy the iconic looks of NPCs that are not normally available.

EG: the skins available to buy in the Avengers game often have more detail/accessories, (or less in the case of stuff that makes Captain America and Hawkeye shirtless >__> ), or come in crazy, fun colours and patterns that aren't available in game and aren't canon to any appearance of the characters in any media (eg, the 'steampunk' designs currently available, which are really just old designs with some gold trim and shit on them), but I wouldn't say they're "better" than the stuff available in-game, and my favourite outfit for Black Widow is still the default one she has when you recruit her, I think most of her shop stuff is really awful.

If BioWare were to do a cosmetics shop, I would expect to see stuff like Morrigan's iconic Witch of the Wilds outfit, or her Orlesian Ballgown (Celene's too), Alistair's king armour, Cullen's lion armour... stuff that fans of the series would recognize and want to wear.