First post, by Kerr Avon
The upcoming game The Callisto Protocol will be available in two versions, the normal edition for £49.99, and the Deluxe Edition at £69.99
And among the extras that come with the deluxe edition are a dozen new death animations. Yes, pay extra and you get a few extra death animations (which may or may not have been part of the base game originally, I don't know).
How much longer before we get a game where you have to pay extra to activate the "Load Save Game" prompt? Or pay a one time fee and you can access the game's options menu just as often as you like. But only up to four times per month, anything more and you have to repay the fee. And we'll probably see game over screens where the "Load Last Saved Game" prompts is time-locked for two minutes, unless you buy the company's special "VIP pass" that prevents you from having to wait for those two minutes.
And we stupid, stupid gamers, will support all of this by buying the games instead of boycotting them.
I wonder if we will ever reach the point where something a company does is so ridiculous or unscrupulous that we gamers actually act together as a group and refuse to buy a game that we previously wanted to buy?