@DocSeuss: 200,000 is definitely under-performing, especially for the otherwise-hottest selling game of the year.

meh, it's not much different from the Cotton Bowl stadium where just about any seat under the overhangs has columns obstructing at least part of the view. When I was in one of those seats at the Red River Shootout two years ago, everybody in my section would move several seats to the right or left depending on where…

@NoelVeiga: pepper spray wouldn't leave any lasting evidence, since he was apparently locked up at least overnight, there wouldn't be any evidence after, and even if there was, pepper spray isn't exactly over-kill for subduing someone.

@NoelVeiga: I can't find anywhere where even Watts says he was so much as bruised.

@NoelVeiga: This is exactly what I'm talking about. You don't know anything about Mr. Watts other than that he is a Canadian SF writer, nor anything about the Border Guards. Nowhere can I find it written that the border guards were 'not worse for wear' nor that Mr. Watts himself in particularly poor shape other…

@Terrorsaur - Five Six: buy 27 million of them and I'm sure you could get a bulk discount too.

@Leanid: you don't know that he didn't actually assault the border guards exactly as they claimed.

Hah, justified!

It's pretty obvious when you think about it.

@EloraHRanma: already discussed the RE5 'multiplayer'. the prince of Persia epilogue is an even more clear cut case of DLC though. It's not an end, the story in the game has a pretty good end, the epilogue is exactly that, an epilogue, an extra bit on the end of the story that is completely unnecessary. It's not even…

@siliconAvatar2: Adding extra content that was partially developed before the game's release, and releasing an unfinished product while expecting gamers to pay for the rest of the game, are two completely different things.

@siliconAvatar2: I'm not espescially familiar with the RE series, or RE5 in particular, but some quick wikiing indicates that RE5 was the first game in the series to feature any multiplayer at all, so it's not like multiplayer was essential to the experience (it's not even mentioned in the resident evil wiki).

@Railgun5: considering we now have airblasts, urine jars and Forces of Nature which can all rat out spies, the flame check is hardly 'necessary'.

@Starshock: can you offer any examples where DLC has been 'held back' from a finished game? As BGSS mentioned, there have been many examples of free DLC at launch to encourage legitimate purchases, as well as paid DLC created exclusively as such. but as far as I know, there have been little to none DLCs which are…

I fully support the idea of trying to combat piracy with extra content as opposed to extra inconvenience.

@Poul Wrist: Not really, it's like saying an R rated movie is art.

@Zarkumo: Ummm... Strafgesetzbuch § 86a still bans the display or use of Swastikas and other Nazi symbols...

Ummm... Just because the government made the laws 'back decades' ago and is too apathetic to change the way the classification rules can be ammended so that the rules can more easily keep up with the needs of the populace and the industry doesn't somehow magically make them not to blame for the current ratings SNAFU.

@Tre_Green: Actually, this system seems a bit more complicated than just a 'one button'. it takes into account where the player is looking as well, so where in Mirror's Edge you would use either the up or down buttons to determine how you move past an obstacle, here you look up or down and hit the single button to…

@I_Like_TDs: There wouldn't be any spallation, because there wouldn't be any shockwaves, because there' no medium to transfer shockwaves from the explosion to the space craft. Unless the ISS was well within the atmospheric fire-ball radius of the bomb, there wouldn't be enough energy transfer to cause catastrophic…