zeldafanjtl said:Stevo6483 said:^ yep, I refuse to buy any season pass that's pretty much the same price as the base game. It's a rip off, you're not getting the equivalent amount of content. It's sheer cheek that game studios think it's acceptable.
I think what it really is is an attempt to effectively raise the price of a game. Games have been $60 since the 360 came out, and I think people would flip out if there was an attempt to raise that base price. Season passes allow a price bump while still leaving the $60 price tag intact.
I'd probably be more willing to accept an additional £5 to £10 on the price tag of the base game and put it down to inflation (as you're right, the prices have barely changed in years), and then have season passes going for less than 50% or 40% of the base game cost. But then there'll be people who aren't bothered about playing DLC so they might not like that.
At the moment the current pricing models of a lot of games and their season passes don't look good, because you know you won't be getting another "full" game's worth of content from the DLC, but you end up paying the price of 2 games if you buy the base game and season pass new.
I can't remember exactly, but for argument sake let's say SWB was £45, the Season Pass was £40, so £85 total. If they changed to something like what I mentioned above you could have £50 for the base game, £25 for Season Pass, totalling £75. Obviously this is just a hypothetical example, and devs might not think these prices are favourable, but I'd be more happy to pay something like that when buying a game and it's season pass brand new.
Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas... Whatever!