My Rant Against EA

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

While I agree that that type of price gouging is pretty weak and ultimately utterly lame, Microsoft (via XBL) does it all the time, and it's no big deal by anyone. Granted, EA bought the rights to the NFL games, however they definitely didn't "start" the price gouging. They just joined in. Take games like Halo (just for example). How many map packs and add-ons go into games like that? While you may sit there and say "But yeah, that changes the game, and adds a new element", I will counter that with "The create-a-play mode also entirely changes the game and adds an element to it."

Glad someone bought up Halo, which IMO goes a step further into DLC bullying.
As it currently stands, I believe you can only play 2 online modes if you do not have 3 of the 4 DLC map packs released with friends, and maybe 3 by yourself.

Forcing you to buy some combination of the 3 to get access to the majority of modes.

Originally Posted by TheGame

But on Ps3 out of the box you're getting a good wireless controler, 120 Gig HD, full internet features, a wireless router, and a Blu ray player (which for the sake of comparision, lets call it a "HD Movie player").. All of which I utilize. And all of which come in the $299 package.

If I bought a 360 with all of those features, I'd be spending over $500 to get it rolling, then another $50 per year.. Not that I think its horrible to buy a watered down package to make it cheaper, but when Ps4 ends up being worse then Ps3 out of the box to make it cheaper.. we can't really blame Sony.

Well, you are looking at it in the current spectrum, but you got to realize in order to get all those features, the Ps3 had to come out 200-300 dollars ahead of the Xbox.. a year after the Xbox released.

So now it looks like a fine package, but up until the start of this month, it would have pretty much even out.