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Originally Posted by Stephen
The $5 difference is nothing. Frequently buying parts of something costs more than buying it together.
Also if it's not out till March but you can buy it in November then surely you'll be helping fund it and gauge interest. Its been delayed from November till March to give them longer to work on it.
I love the Hitman games but will wait till at least June when all content should be out and no doubt it will be on an Xbox deals with gold offer at some point.
You are paying for early access.
Nintendo did that with the Mario Kart DLC. Buy them separately for 9.99 each or buy both for 14.99 early even though the first wasn't out and the second was about 6-8 months away.
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You can pre-order any game in advance though, this isn't a kickstarter, it isn't a funding cycle, surely you've read those last paragraphs, admit it, it's a good theory
The $5 difference is everything, they add up and as above, it'll still help the game turn profit whilst releasing free DLC.
I'd completely agree with what you're saying with early access and splitting it if they hadn't made the effort to acknowledge future patches and DLC for the game after those initial releases would be free, with that in mind surely that theory makes sense? There's simply no way to release free DLC without pulling a trick, this has to be that trick.
The only other way would be to literally clone Rockstars technique bit for bit and have in game micro-transactions.
Right, People like me and you will buy the full game at it's retail price. People that are iffy or weren't even considering might just turn their head for a $35 punt. That $35 was money they were never going to get off said person and thus allows free DLC! Anyone that was going to buy the game at full price still will, they've lost nothing but gained a way to make DLC without charging.
It's genius
So you understand where I'm coming from, it looks like early access from a normal perspective but if you take into account the possibility of above, then it's not early access, it's a reason to split the game into two versions. People that buy the full version are happy. People that weren't going to buy the full version may now buy that Intro pack and basically fund free DLC. The only way they could achieve that was to split the game and release it at different times, you couldn't split it and release it on the same date because it wouldn't work and releasing one part gives them an idea of how they're going to fair with a free DLC model.
Crazy? Just wait till I start defending the lack of single player story mode in RB6: Siege.