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SoulCalibur IV - Limited Edition content arrives at a high price

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More costume content has arrived on the Live Marketplace, setting you back 200 points. The download is 108KB and therefore is most likely already contained on the disk.It's actually only some of the Limited Edition content so be warned. Namco is obviously attempting to fleece the fans.
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Published: 501 days 14 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
 
 

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Irving - 501 days 17 hours ago
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1 - Sigh
Scamco living up to its name.
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SCThor - 501 days 12 hours ago
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1.1 - The next Soulcalibur will have only 5 characters...
and they'll make you pay for the others, mark my words. This have to stop somewhere, starting with me don't buying it.
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consolewar - 501 days 10 hours ago
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1.2 - Exactly ......cut the "_____" sucks crap.
lets start with the man in the mirror.
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shadowmask - 501 days 17 hours ago
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2 - Scamco
Very funny!
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sinncross - 501 days 17 hours ago
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i cant believe they r making us pay for content thats on the disc... goodness, this is y DLC sucks so much.
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ExcelKnight - 501 days 9 hours ago
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This is what happens when DLC goes wrong.

Sometimes DLC can be very right, like what happened with Burnout Paradise: A year's worth of updates coming, all of them should be free. They basically tripled the game's initial size as of right now.
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shadowmask - 501 days 17 hours ago
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4 - Total rip off
This is only part of the content that came with the LE version (five items in total). 200 points is like £2.00.
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Alexander Roy - 501 days 16 hours ago
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Stuff that's on the disc but needs to be bought in order to be used = BULLSH'T.
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boodybandit - 501 days 15 hours ago
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6 - Unless the content
includes more characters, levels or new modes? Namco can keep it.
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darkpower - 501 days 12 hours ago
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7 - Hmmm...
...may get it anyway when it appears on the PS Store (that would equate to, what, 2 bucks, possibly?). If they priced it at about 5 or 10 bucks I would be able to see the issue in that, but c'mon...2 bucks...do we b!tch about paying 99 cents for a song on iTunes, as well?

Though I see the good point about having to pay for stuff on the disc (albeit it was only an assumption made by the site, not a confirmed fact, though it's a damn GOOD assumption). You shouldn't have to, but still, 2 bucks (assuming it's even THAT) isn't as bad as it looks.
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Sitdown - 501 days 12 hours ago
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7.1 - @darkpower
"but c'mon...2 bucks...do we b!tch about paying 99 cents for a song on iTunes, as well"

Not saying this applies to everybody......but I think that I would get more use out of 99 cent song that I can listen to at home, in my car...and just on the go in general.........where this $2.00 package is pretty much only good when I am playing the game. Now while I got the limited edition to begin with......I think it is hard to equate the DLC with that of a song.
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darkpower - 501 days 4 hours ago
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Well, I know that opinion isn't going to be too popular, but it's just what I think: People are really too cheap when it comes to this stuff. If you got enough money to buy the game, you make enough money to get a few things of DLC if it's as low as this is (this is why I don't get the hatred of Rock Band DLC: You get alot for what you pay). People were so unhappy about having to buy horse armor, but it didn't cost that much (less than a RB DLC track pack), so I was wonder why were we b!tching (people wanted it, but didn't want to pay for it).

Also, though the stuff may very well be on the disc anyway, this article had no right in just writing that point as fact.
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Panthers - 501 days 12 hours ago
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only 5 female items? No thanks. I find that I like my female characters with as little items as possible. Thanks.
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ParanoidMonkey - 501 days 12 hours ago
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See, the first wave of DLC didn't bother me. Sure, it was close to the game's release which beckons the question "why the hell wasn't this on the disc when I bought the game?", but it's one of those "don't like it, don't have to buy it" situations. This is different, I've technically already purchased this content, and now they want me to pay for what already IS on the disc. Incredible.
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Cusco - 501 days 12 hours ago
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You people fail at logic.
The content needs to be on the disk, so that everyone has it when you play online. If the content wasn't on the disk, you'd have to download endless patches which do nothing (unless you pay for the content to be unlocked). I don't understand, there seems to be more than enough costume parts in the game, like 30+ characters, and different game modes. Just because you *could* have something on top of that, doesn't mean you need it to fully enjoy the game, and it's not like not having this extra costume parts is going to ruin your experience. Have you guys even played this game? It's off the hook!
cheers
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ParanoidMonkey - 501 days 12 hours ago
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It is you who fails at logic. If Crackdown and Test Drive Unlimited have the ability to share, and show paid content without the DLC being on the disc, why should Soulcalibur? A patch isn't that big of a deal.
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DJ - 501 days 11 hours ago
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10.2 - Yeah, patches aren't a big deal.
The Motorstorm patches included DLC content so that people who hadn't purchased/unlocked it yet could see new vehicles during matches.
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shadowmask - 501 days 12 hours ago
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£2.00 per five items and there are over 350 in the game as standard. If you were to break down the 350 items into groups of 5 based on the same economic scale and charge £2 for each group of five items, how much would the cost of the game be... £140 - That's almost $300 for Americans. This is also not including the actual game mechanics itself.

Namco's business model is really not giving a monkeys about the fans of the game, and is playing on the number of casuals who don't look at the bigger picture when they say that £2.00 is a small price to pay.
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DJ - 501 days 11 hours ago
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12 - Oh my god!
I don't know who's going to pissed off more. The people who bought the normal edition and are getting fleeced (content on the disc already? wtf?) or the people who spent so much money on the special edition.

There needs to be a policy against this kind of behavior from developers and publishers.
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God of N4G - 501 days 11 hours ago
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13 - Meh
If you don't want it, don't buy it. I love SC4. If the content sounds good enough (like the last $1.49 CDN) I'll buy it. If not, screw it. That simple. Good game.
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wessly - 501 days 10 hours ago
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equipment pack 2 is not out I just freakin' checked., this game is perfect I would like to see a more stages.
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Panthers - 501 days 10 hours ago
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I want more Star Wars characters. I mean they go though the trouble of adding the Star Wars universe to Soul Calibur and only have 3 characters. Lets see some Darth Maul!

Plus, I would like to create characters with the lightsaber and SW cloths.
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MC_KOOL_K - 501 days 9 hours ago
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new characters / levels ok {new costumes WTF}
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JadedWriter - 501 days 9 hours ago
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First they fleece us with aircraft skins in Ace Combat 6, now they're doing it with Soul Calibur 4.
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wessly - 501 days 7 hours ago
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still not out yet.
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Jongs - 501 days 7 hours ago
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If the content is on the disk, why are they trying to sell it to me? That totally defeats the purpose of downloadable content. I don't care if it is "only" 2 bucks. I shouldn't be nickeled and dimed to death for content I already purchased and have a right to use.
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wessly - 501 days 7 hours ago
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What are you guys arguing about as of now only content that is out is equipment 1 as far as we all know no body is paying for jack since there is no content to be downloaded. it's not even out. WHO HAS IT! eh who in here has it. is to out so this article is bogus. you all BLEW IT.
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shadowmask - 501 days 2 hours ago
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The content is available in Europe as of yesterday, I assume NA will get it very soon.
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Strife Lives - 501 days 6 hours ago
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21 - I sensed the force! !
I just know Darth Vader is hiding in there! Damn you Namco! ! First you rip us off with Ace Combat DLC,now this.
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bumnut - 501 days 3 hours ago
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i heard yoda is only for 360 and vader only for ps3, is this true?

namco can stick the game up their ass sideways if that is true
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