Warning: New Beautiful Katamari DLC is a Ripoff

Gaming Today reports a ripoff and advises you not to buy Beautiful Katamari and encourage this kind of business practice:

Beautiful Katamari's "downloadable" content includes four new levels, each costing 200 Microsoft Points. The problem: the content is stuff that is already on the disc, only you aren't able to access it until you fork over even MORE money than you already have paid for the game.

i.e., You're paying additional money for keys to unlock the content that is already on the disc. Four separate keys, each costing 200 points.

[gamesR4fun]

maybe not but still pretty low $#@$%% devs think were gonna take that bs bad enough charging through the nose for new content but the fact you made it and prepackaged it on a disk you sold is 2 much. How about giving the fans some value and actually packing that (erm 40 dollar disk with some playable content not crud you got to pay more 4

[original seed]

But i hate the idea that its already on the disc.

[sanderFVCKINcohen]

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[CyberSentinel]

It's an interactive screen saver.

If this is what we got to learn from "the japanese" then, I will stick with Halo 3.

http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

@1.4: Then you would have to call it Metal Gear 4 Online, because thats exactly what Konami wants you to do. Pay for the game TWICE since online is NOT included. Bungie puts it all together in 1 package, with Konami you pay for the same game twice. Xbox Live costs less then 1 game and provides coverage for EVERY games online capability. PSN's solution is to divide the game, and make lemmings pay for the same game TWICE. I guess its not so "FREE" after all.

L@L.

@1.5: It DOES NOT come with the online game, it comes with a (demo) "starter pack", and NO decision was made as to "pricing" yet, get your facts straight lemming.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3...

Blind Lemmings, You "Believe" The "FREE" Hype.

[neogeo]

Halo3 should have the single campaign free but, $10 to unlock multi player, $10 for the good ending, $5 to unlock the weapons already on the disk,

And $25.00 to upscale the 640p to 1080p

BELIEVE..

[DrPirate]

1.3, please tell me you're joking and that your only pretending to be retarded.

How is this Sony's decision? If you follow the Kojima report: Metal gear Solid 4 DOES come with Online play, then later on in the Year, Metal Gear Online will come out as a PSN download for 20 or so bucks.The download is basically an expansion packs with more maps, gamemodes and character customizations.

How is this the "PSN" solution if plenty of games aren't divided between singleplayer - multiplayer.

[TrenchaunT]

That's pretty stupid--but what do you expect from a game that looks like it took a good two days to make anyways?

[chanto23]

LMAO!!!!

[InMyOpinion]

Looks like a PS2 port.

[jackdoe]

That is lame.

[kooplar]

thats why it is 40 bucks

[jackdoe]

I thought it was 40 bucks because it looked just like the PS2 version...

[Alcohog]

lol

[gogators]

be buying your game then, Namco.

[SEAN1617]

LOL THAT PRETTY FUNNY, and yes if you bought windows vista home premium, all components are already there to upgrade to ultimate, but you must pay an upgrade fee. lol so when in ROME

[Shaka2K6]

Best played on Sony PS controlers though.

[Megaton]

Ewww, blind consumer exploitation.

Always been a cult classic of a game anyways. Never thought it would really do well among the 360 owners in the first place. Judging by a lot of the posts I've seen around here in Katamari threads, you guys think you're "too mature for a game like this" which is hilarious on many, many levels.

I wouldn't boycott it because it is a fun series. I'd definitely boycott the extras though. That kinda money grubbing garbage needs to be stopped dead in its tracks.

[solidt12]

I agree. I wouldn't buy the extra. But Hopefully someone will find a way to crack the keys to unlock the extra content. I see a hack on it's way.

[jackdoe]

MS is stingy with the banhammer so it would probably check for hacks like that and ban you from Xbox live for life, which would suck infinitely.

[ParaDise_LosT]

Your gonna miss out on tekken then xD

[gogators]

Namco to do this kind of stuff (it's nice to know that EA can influence other publishers), I will still buy their products, like Ace Combat 6. Which, I am not passing on. I would have dropped the dimes for Katamari; just because I haven't played any previous renditions and want to see what this knid of game and fuss is all about. This behavior makes it a pass, now.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

I think it just sucks because PS3 owners would have enjoyed it more with the sixaxis.

IT'S COMMON SENSE!

[TheHater]

I hope no One buy this game, just for this fact. Ripping people off like this is just wrong.

[Ri0tSquad]

those bastards

[Bnet343]

and barely anyone is playing online right now except for Japanese people. I'm not buying that new content

[MK_Red]

Wow, this is simply bad. Good find though.

And I thought EA was the worst...

[original seed]

Im in no way going to buy the DLC

[Fux4Bux]

"Premium" content is on the disc and the game is prettymuch the same as the original PS2 version that released for $20. Seems like a nice big rip off all around.

[ben806]

i hate these microsoft mini transactions, im not against paying for virtual content but all the items strike me as overpriced for what they are. not something i have ever done on my 360,

[Ignorant Fanboy]

Its the developers that did this not MS, where do you get these ideas?

[MikeGdaGod]

well, they do set the prices for whats on their network

[games4fun]

so what happened with those upadates for gears of war that epic wanted to be free but microsoft made sure they charged for, what? what?

[segasage]

for the longest time is this MS's doing or the Game developer?

How does this DLC work between them both?

[dfcm2003]

You got to love MS, Hey I say keep buying their stuff, and lets see what else they will do to us........................

[TrenchaunT]

MS is evil, and yet we need them. Pretty soon they'll be charging us to use the toilets in our own houses (which will also crash most of the time mid-flush) and yet we will still buy their products.

[ElementX]

This is Namco not MS. Anyway, where would we all be if MS didn't exist and everyone used Macs or Linux?

[ElementX]

Katamari is a fun game, I played a bit on PS2, but this is definitely a bargain bin or ebay purchase for me.

As for the extra levels, I won't be unlocking them.

[teto83]

This is a rip off.

[mirroredderorrim]

Well, as a PS3 owner I am waiting to see what they will do with the Katamari game planned for PS3.

[bootsielon]

paying Bethesda for horse armor, or being 5 and 10 dollared by EA. But this is the lowest. Nobody should buy this, EVER. Screw Namco.

Edit:

Even worse is the fact that they'll be saving money, what with fewer costs of data sent through Xbox LIVE. So, it's win-win for them, lose lose for us. Fvck em. That coupled with accepting bribes for timed-exclusive games that appeal to JAPAN is unacceptable, and I'm not gonna buy any sh1t from Namco until they hit decent prices and multiple platforms.

[Boink]

you don't like the price of the content, don't pay for it.

I fail to see why this made news...

[kooplar]

cheap b@stards

[drsfinest72]

would sony ever do that to their consumer?......nawwww neverrr. it shoulda been a ps3 exclusive.

[ElementX]

Namco would do the same on PS3.

[gogators]

though they do have control over what is and isn't available for release regarding down-loadable content it's still Namco's decision in the end to go through with something underhanded like this. I can only assume that, by taking a page from the EA handbook, Namco is testing waters here. Hopefully they get a resounding negative response to their actions.

[darthv72]

To pay for the unlocked levels is for people who cant unlock them through regular gameplay. I have seen other games sell you content on the disc where if you played it and played it well, it would unlock as a bonus. This is just a lazy persons way of opening up the full content of the game.

[ROCCOZILLA]

lmao,dont u get it,xbox can only make a good shooter.anything else is garbage!

[Pugovitz]

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!1!