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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.

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Published: 801 days 23 hours ago | News | Xbox 360

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gamesR4fun - 801 days 23 hours ago

1 - all time low

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

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original seed - 801 days 23 hours ago

1.1 - Actually the "Disc" only cost 40 dollars

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

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sanderFVCKINcohen - 801 days 14 hours ago

1.2 - Do we look like JAPS!!! FOOL ME ONCE....

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CyberSentinel - 801 days 12 hours ago

1.3 - This Is Not A Game

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.

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neogeo - 801 days 11 hours ago

1.4 - Heres an idea

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..

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DrPirate - 801 days 10 hours ago

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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.

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TrenchaunT - 801 days 23 hours ago

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

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chanto23 - 801 days 22 hours ago

2.1 - Agree...

LMAO!!!!

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Jenzo - 801 days 15 hours ago

2.2 -

Looks like a PS2 port.

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jackdoe - 801 days 23 hours ago

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That is lame.

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kooplar - 801 days 23 hours ago

4 - maybe.....

thats why it is 40 bucks

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jackdoe - 801 days 23 hours ago

4.1 -

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

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Alcohog - 801 days 23 hours ago

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lol

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gogators - 801 days 23 hours ago

6 - Well I guess I won't

be buying your game then, Namco.

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SEAN1617 - 801 days 23 hours ago

7 - SO IT'S LIKE MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007&WINDOWS VISTA

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

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Shaka2K6 - 801 days 23 hours ago

8 - Good game.

Best played on Sony PS controlers though.

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Xiphos - 801 days 23 hours ago

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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.

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solidt12 - 801 days 23 hours ago

9.1 -

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.

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jackdoe - 801 days 23 hours ago

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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.

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ParaDise_LosT - 801 days 23 hours ago

10 - @gogators

Your gonna miss out on tekken then xD

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gogators - 801 days 23 hours ago

10.1 - Though I believe it's very wrong of

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.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 801 days 23 hours ago

11 - well

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

IT'S COMMON SENSE!

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TheHater - 801 days 22 hours ago

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

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Ri0tSquad - 801 days 22 hours ago

13 - RIP OFF

those bastards

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Kigmal - 801 days 22 hours ago

14 - I rented it

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

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MK_Red - 801 days 20 hours ago

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Wow, this is simply bad. Good find though.

And I thought EA was the worst...

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original seed - 801 days 20 hours ago

16 - I have it and i love it. But...

Im in no way going to buy the DLC

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17 Fux4Bux | 801 days 19 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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ben806 - 801 days 17 hours ago

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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,

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Ignorant Fanboy - 801 days 10 hours ago

18.1 - This game is not made by MS,

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

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scottie2521 - 801 days 10 hours ago

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

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games4fun - 801 days 1 hour ago

18.3 - @fanboy

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?

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segasage - 801 days 14 hours ago

19 - For that I hate MS

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

How does this DLC work between them both?

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dfcm2003 - 801 days 14 hours ago

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

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TrenchaunT - 801 days 13 hours ago

20.1 -

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.

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ElementX - 801 days 12 hours ago

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

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ElementX - 801 days 12 hours ago

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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.

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teto83 - 801 days 11 hours ago

22 - If you buy this game you deserve this!

This is a rip off.

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mirroredderorrim - 801 days 10 hours ago

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

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Boink - 801 days 8 hours ago

25 - If

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

I fail to see why this made news...

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kooplar - 801 days 8 hours ago

26 - those

cheap b@stards

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drsfinest72 - 801 days 5 hours ago

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

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ElementX - 801 days 5 hours ago

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Namco would do the same on PS3.

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gogators - 801 days 2 hours ago

27.2 - I don't understand why people are blaming MS on this,

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.

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darthv72 - 801 days 5 hours ago

28 - I am betting...

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.

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Pugovitz - 800 days 23 hours ago

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RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!1!

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