In-home streaming is a little laggy. The potential solution to both of the above problems is to simply stream games to your Steam Machine from a Windows-enabled PC, but I’ve now used the feature in two different houses with high-speed Internet, and I’ve still encountered noticeable framerate drops and stutters. Using…

No, that is pay to win, because the competition for drops and items leaves you behind in the rat race for high end fights.

Read the penultimate paragraph. First they start with cosmetics. Then they roll out the mostly harmless power leveling. Then with everyone softened up they roll out the P2W. Now maybe they won’t ever do that, but you’re trusting Activision not to get greedy, and that’s what worries people.

You’re not looking far enough ahead. It’s the principle. Now that they’ve implemented the store, sure it only sells dances... for now.

Because it’s a step beyond cosmetic. First you have then dances and then potentially those. It’s the old slippery slope argument proved true.

It’s standard pay-to-win. You release microtransactions that allow you to “speed up” progress, then programmatically throttle down the rate at which a player can progress through free-play.

Man, even $60 for video games sucks, and I make great money. I hate dropping $180 in a month only to get half of 3 games unless I spend $30-50 more each on a season pass. $110 for Battlefront?? Fuck that.

Ahh okay. That to me is disappointing because they’ve basically gouged out parts of the normal Lego content and locked it behind the toys. I can understand that for the Adventure worlds as a way to tie in to the toys you could buy, but it should have been left out of the main story levels IMO.

I completely and totally agree. That’s why I have never made DLC for any of my games, and when I work with larger studios I always insist on it.

Back in the good old days, all you needed were cheat codes to unlock content, or better yet, you had to beat the game!

It’s not Lego I was talking about. It’s this whole “Toys as on-disc-DLC and overpriced as fuck” thing that’s the mania. Lego is just the latest one to jump onto the ship, and it’s frankly pretty horrible. I don’t like badmouthing a toy-maker I grew up with.

The difference is that before, they at least tried to make it seem like the DLC was something they worked on after they put all the content into the game, not launching an incomplete game so you have to buy packs to get everything out of it

“Whole Lego set” is a bit disingenuous. The Portal Lego pack has 85 pieces at $30. That is not a traditional Lego set, that’s a tiny scene and a couple multi-brick characters.

Kids don’t know what they like or don’t like. They see something on TV and they must have it, because they assume, all the other kids will!

Yeah that bothers me too. You get a fraction of a normal lego game for almost double the money. Then Mike the reviewer defended the game in the comments saying “don’t like it, don’t buy it”. It’s funny, when it comes to REAL consumer issues, it’s all “don’t like? don’t buy it”. But when it comes to imaginary issues…

It sounds like the trophies are all obtainable from the base game, but you can’t 100% the game without the extra toy packs.

You remember Shovelware games? Those games that were made on cheap to capitalize on the popularity of a product, like video games that are movie-tie ins? Those games are reliant on parents who aren’t really into video games looking through the store for a game to buy for their kid. They don’t really know anything…

This is beyond fucking disgusting. And worst of all, Disney Infinity and Skylanders have proven that kids and their parents are retarded enough to make it a success.

not rich, but 4 generations of skylanders has run me out of shoe boxes.

its generally differnet people. in fact you are conflating a large number of groups that are at odds with each other into one homogenous group. there are people that hate all dlc, there are people that like some dlc but are heavily skeptical about it being overused. there are people who rather like dlc but are still…