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[Dasleah]

So you wouldn't be pissed if you bought a car only to find out that you couldn't change the radio station without changing the volume and AC settings too?

I would not have bought the car before finding things like this out.

you're right, but it's not as if they advertised this feature or alteration weeks if not months in advance giving people ample time to cancel their preorders or choose to play a different game

oh

wait

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

I don't even know who you're talking to anymore since your statement doesn't really apply to either of the posts you quoted... and I'm not even sure what you're trying to say.  In fact, I'm starting to think you're just trying to derail the thread because you don't like something about it.


MW2 with it's absence of a feature that is so common place is just an example of a greedy game company trying to control the product after they've already sold it.  Sure, they've learned from the music industry that suing everyone they possibly can isn't really a good idea, but they've decided instead to make it as inconvenient as possible to use the product in a way they don't intend even if that means screwing over a few customers who are using it the way they intended as well.

EA's Battlefield Bad Company 2 is a great example as well what with their DLC packs that allow you to buy what amounts to a cheat code to instantly unlock all the equipment other players have to actually play the game to get.

We can argue back and forth about the quality of modern games versus older games as is so often done with neither side ever conceding anything, but you can't argue that modern mainstream game companies aren't doing a lot more to control gamers' use of their purchased products than they used to.  Well you could try, but I can't see how you would do so successfully.