Biower Pls, MEA:MP only for half price

^^^ You solved nothing for me.

This is a discussion forum. I started a discussion on a topic I was interested in, namely as alanc9 noted - this is an argument against "bundling" and the result that bundling has on consumer choice.

That so many have been triggered by my hyperbolic yet mostly accurate OP, is sensational.

You said in the OP, and I quote, "The MP is a familiar vestige of what I enjoyed... Sell it to me cheap. At least you get some money, and by sales numbers you can tell how royally Mac & Co have schmucked the SP game up, since the MP only version would vastly outsell your 5 year epic shitfest."  Then you stated in this thread "I made my decision a long time ago to no longer support EA, and by extension Bioware or any other company under their umbrella, for reasons that are sufficient to me."  So your original post is at odds with your other post.  You can't say "At least you get some money" when you clearly state you won't buy the game in a fashion that will give EA and Bioware money anyway, because that would be supporting them.  These two statements are in opposition to each other.  If your point was that it would be nice if some games allowed for separate cheaper purchase of the multiplayer by itself, not bundled with the single-player, then that would have been a basis for discussion.  However your post suggests that the only way EA/Bioware will get your money is by splitting the multiplayer off and selling it cheaper, but then say you wouldn't buy it anyway because of "reasons that are sufficient to me."  

So your OP is just a lie, then.  Clickbait?  Trolling?  I don't know.  But you clearly wouldn't buy the MP and support EA/Bioware anyway, so there is no good solution to your OP question.  

I'd forgotten they did that. But apparently you can only return within 24 hours of first launching the game, so I'd have to clear a large chunk of time one day. Regardless, I'm thinking maybe second week purchase to put it outside the important first week sales frame.

Maximusarael said...



It is not a lie. I would consider buying the MP only, despite my boycott of EA and my sense of WTF with Biower, were it an option. At full price, because it would be fun for at least a couple weeks at minimum if it sucked, for shitposting ammunition... And if it was good, I would play it more, and likely be convinced that despite my boycott, the game is just too good and I must be Ryder now. I would buy the SP portion, eat crow and be happy about it.

How likely is that?

7 pages, maybe we can go even further...

look at my old BSN join date, my posts there, and the BioWare games I own and have played. I modded KotOR, and was well-known in that modding community.

Never played any MP before ME3, never intended to play that MP except to get the optimal ending that was only available originally by playing MP. Ended up loving it.

I have no intention of buying another Biower game for the SP unless this one absolutely, no-holds-barred blows it out of the stratosphere.

I bought BioWare games for the SP. They are not the same company, but maybe you haven't noticed.

By the way, we are posting on a fan forum, because... Biower loves u

Wait, are you now saying you would buy the multiplayer at full price? So $60?

What if the full pro-rated price was $59.00?

Well you have to understand that most of the materials used in the single player apply to the multiplayer as well.  Character models, weapons, textures, buildings, voice actors, animations, etc.  So everything they develop for the main game that is used in MP would be included in the price, since you can't just separate that out.  Those people who did the art and all that for the SP game that is used for the MP game get paid the same.  There job was to make a salarian model, so they did.  You can't separate out the MP part of that.  Also remember that the MP ties in to the SP with the Strike Team missions, so that cost is added, etc.  In the end, after adding in all the cost of shared resources and time and the interplay between SP and MP, then understanding that profit needs to be made and cutting off MP and SP into two separate games is OBVIOUSLY not a good market strategy because the companies who are out to make as much money as possible in this field don't do it that way, and they spend shit tons of money on market research and have teams of people looking at charts and graphs and statistics as their full time job then you probably are saving about a dollar.  $59!  Unless you think that somehow you are better at marketing and selling games than one of the largest games producers in the world?