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point I raised in the current Assassin's Creed Odyssey DLC discussion is that most of the gaming news media rarely mention DlC costs in anything beyond "item x costs y" tones; they don't criticise it because they are wary of biting the hand that feeds them.
PushSquare, the PlayStation-focused website that is part of the Eurogamer network,
has delivered an example of this just this morning. They have posted a news item headed "You're Going To Want Resident Evil 2's Deluxe Edition" and they open their commentary with "Just go ahead and call them Capgod: they deserve it the run they’re on". Crumbs! "Capgod"!? I wonder what they have done to earn such praise?
Well, to cut a long story (reasonably) short, they've held back some content from the standard edition of this PS1 remake and are making it available as part of the "Deluxe" version for an extra ten dollars. For this, the PushSquare news outlet thinks that Capcom are "gods". It's the kind of publicity that Capcom would undoubtedly pay money for if they could. Luckily for them, PushSquare are on hand to get the message across.
At the end of their report, PushSquare state "Look, we agree that all of these items would have been included in the base version of the game once upon a time, but we still reckon these costumes are worth the ten bucks.". There you go... mainstream media acceptance. It's on occasions like this where we need someone like Jim Sterling... sure, he'll go "over the top", and some will accuse him of "ranting", but don't we need that when the bigger media outlets are just sitting back and supporting these practices?
"Capgod". Bloody hell
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