Xbox Live content that's MIA...

[burgundy]

It's sorta like getting a subscription to a magazine, getting your first trial issue, but never receiving the rest of your magazines.

Not really. If you subscribe to a magazine, you expect to receive 12 issues. That's what you paid for. When you buy a game, you get your game and you go home. Like I said, if DLable content is so important to you, you should wait on your purchase.

[Bacon McShig]

Come on now. It lists Downloadable Content as a feature on the back of the box, there should be DL content. It's not that hard a concept.

I'd relate it to, say, purchasing an 80 channel cable plan. Then when everything's hooked up, you find only 75. So you call the cable company to see what's up. They say, "well, we're planning on having 80 channels soon, but that's dependent on how many subscribers we get". But they don't get enough, so they never do. But you bought the plan with the understanding that there would be 80 channels, and the cable company touted that as a selling point. Their obligation is to hold true to that.

Once they put it on the box, they should be committed to their word, sales should only be a factor if sales were 0. One person buys the game, they're obligated.

[burgundy]

So did you hit Sega up for a refund when DC games got canned?

[Bacon McShig]

How is that at all relatable?

[NoFace]

burgundy's not big on responding to arguments reasonably, he's more into saying you lack common sense and stuff like that. Just nod and move on.

[Joust Williams]

"So did you hit Sega up for a refund when DC games got canned?"

If Sega said "these games WILL be available on the DC", then I would be upset. If my DC box said "play this game on the DC" and it didn't come out, then I'd be upset.

The point is that there are tons of boxes that DON'T have that checked off, so it obviously means something, right? I don't think anyone cares if the game can theoretically handle DL content (like I said earlier, there is no way to know if it does or not until it actually gets some content)...they care about the end result. Besides, PGR is the best-selling racing franchise on the Xbox so PGR2 sold well (even though I don't have the latest numbers in front of me). I know PC games that don't get those kinds of numbers that had "DL content", and in a lot of those cases it is because it was promised.

edit: Bahn, I know that (I don't really care too much about the content cutrrently out either as it's for games I don't really enjoy), but still.

[bahn]

burgundy's not big on responding to arguments reasonably, he's more into saying you lack common sense and stuff like that. Just nod and move on.

Melf, stick to PGR2. More enjoyable.

[Melf]

I've basically played all of PGR2 that's going to be played. Online racing is cool now and then, but after about 65 hours, I'm getting a bit tired. I don't have 4 hours to spend on each platinum challenge, so I stopped playing for now.

[Mamoscott]

Where's my KOTOR content?! Where are my new cars?!

Hidden away on some PC's in a secret room, right next to the Live dedicated servers and those region free Xbox systems gamers were promised but never got.

[burgundy]

How is that at all relatable?

Consoles have game "coming attractions" on their boxes all the time. (I don't recall which games if any were on a Dreamcast box)

If I bought a Dreamcast that had pics for Propeller Arena and Shenmue II and "coming soon" notations, am I the victim of false advertising? Does Sega owe me something?

burgundy's not big on responding to arguments reasonably, he's more into saying you lack common sense and stuff like that. Just nod and move on.

You have no common sense and stuff like that.

"So did you hit Sega up for a refund when DC games got canned?"

If Sega said "these games WILL be available on the DC", then I would be upset. If my DC box said "play this game on the DC" and it didn't come out, then I'd be upset.

Sega sure as sugar said that Shenmue 2 was coming out for the DC. And I was pissed when it didn't.

But there's a big difference between being pissed about a business decision and claiming to be the victim of false advertising.

Melf, stick to PGR2. More enjoyable.

You have no common sense. And stuff like that.