A lot of you weighed in on what version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 I should buy this year, and I took that all into account. I was ready to head down to my local Best Buy and pick up the game last night… until I saw all the DLC released for the game. Don’t get me wrong, I love when developers support their games with DLC. But releasing a new course for $7.50 and more cheat-codes-for-money than I can count? That’s not something I want to support.
It was a big deal before, and I spoke with my wallet by not buying those cheat codes for previous Tiger Woods games. This year, I’m speaking with my wallet even further. I refuse to buy the game. Charging gamers $3.75 to get Max Stats on their golfer or $1.99 for Expert Wedges (and Irons, Fairway Woods, Drivers, and Putters) is bullshit. They’ve turned it up a notch this year with how much and the amount of cheat codes you can buy.
If any of you feel the same way, I encourage you to not buy the game as well. Let your money do the talking and don’t give it to EA.
When the New Xbox Experience was announced earlier this year, one of the first things that came to my mind was how Microsoft would be monitizing the Avatars. I caught some flack for the article and people in various forums called me stupid for assuming Microsoft was going to rape our wallets to dress up our Avatars. Guess what? They will be.
An Avatar Store will be coming next spring to your local Xbox 360. You’ll be able to buy all kinds of new clothing and accessories to spruce up your digital self. Want that new Burberry bag or Sean Jean t-shirt? It’s going to cost you. Ultimately, I think many people will opt to not purchase anything and you’re going to see plenty of avatars all wearing the same clothes.
To everyone that said I was a “dumb fanboy” for thinking Microsoft would charge for this stuff, let’s see what you have to say now.
Just when you thought it was safe, Sony drops a hammer. Starting tomorrow on the PlayStation Store, you’ll be able to get some “Premium Themes” that you get to spend money on. Haven’t we established that paying for themes and avatars is a just plain dumb?
The new Premium Themes will have previews so you know what you’re getting. But, seriously, who’s paying for this stuff? I’ll stick to the free themes or just roll my own wallpaper, thank you very much. See that premium theme pic up there? That’s what paying for this type of shit makes me want to do.
Are you going to buy any of these? Please tell me no. Please.
Do you have more than one person using your PS3? Do you each have your own PSN name and account on the system? You might be a bit upset to hear that Konami is exploiting these users by charging you to create multiple characters for Metal Gear Online.
You get one free character per PS3 and can purchase an additional 3 characters for $6.99. That’s a bit much, in my opinion. Why even have this limit? No other game does anything like this either offline or online. If you have your own system profile and your own PSN name, that should be enough. There should be no penalty to having multiple users of a PS3 in the same house. That’s essentially what this is, a penalty for those people.
So don’t waste your time with the ridiculous Konami ID creation for a second user. If you aren’t ready to shell out even more money than you just spent on the game, you’re stuck with one online character for everyone in your house to use. Bad move, Konami. Bad move.
[Update] For anyone disagreeing that you can have multiple characters per system, check out screenshots stating you can’t here. I also created a new PS3 user account and PSN name as well as a new Konami ID to test this.
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