People need to remember that Defiance is TRANSMEDIA

Bla bla bla blindly defend Defiance bla bla bla?


thats what i heard

Actually, the title of this thread should read:

"People need to remember that Defiance is a VIDEO GAME."

Honestly people put too much value in "$10.00" today..."im not gonna pay $10.00 for blah blah" what are we talking about here people 2 gallons of gas? a pack of smokes and maybe a twinkie?...I understand the sentiment but jeez.$10.00 isnt a fortune these days people.

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Originally Posted by Smogg

Honestly people put too much value in "$10.00" today..."im not gonna pay $10.00 for blah blah" what are we talking about here people 2 gallons of gas? a pack of smokes and maybe a twinkie?...I understand the sentiment but jeez.$10.00 isnt a fortune these days people.

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Exactly. This reminds me of the new players on Steam who bury a game they've bought for 5 bucks. I always tell them I spent more $$ on a sandwich... But you know, "paying customers" and their sense of entitlement.

It's just a video game - followed by two comments of "It's just 10 dollars."

The defenses of this content-less DLC are getting better and better.

LOL

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Originally Posted by Manstan

...If the writing and directing of the series doesn't improve drastically in season 2 there wont be a season 3...

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The show is one of Syfy's most popular shows irrespective of what you personally think about the quality of the show. Practically the only things that matter regarding the viability of a television show these days is how well it does in the ratings and what the production costs are which is why low quality pseudo reality shows pervade the airways while quality television series often don't survive past their first season and rarely make it beyond few more than that.

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Originally Posted by Manstan

...Now this is the first game I have played that was actually connect to a TV series, and some what backed by the company producing that series...

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The game actually has no direct backing from the producers of the show. They share a common ultimate parent entity but the subsidiary that invests in Trion Worlds (Comcast Ventures) doesn't have a majority stake in the company and hasn't shown any inclination to invest any further money in the company. Like all VC funds its focus is in maximizing ROI and since the transmedia aspect of the show and game apparently hasn't yielded any income producing synergy from a practical point of view they're stand alone products with the failure of either having marginal impact on the viability of the other.

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Originally Posted by Overtkill21

It's just a video game - followed by two comments of "It's just 10 dollars."

The defenses of this content-less DLC are getting better and better.

LOL

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Oh no please. That answer is totally relevant to all the "I don't get enough content for my $$$" reactions. You might disagree, but don't dismiss it.

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Originally Posted by Overtkill21

It's just a video game - followed by two comments of "It's just 10 dollars."

The defenses of this content-less DLC are getting better and better.

LOL

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Hope this isn't directed at me, because I've never "defended content-less DLC" in the past. Point I was trying to make is people sure get their undies in a wad over pretty much nothing these days.

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Originally Posted by Smogg

Honestly people put too much value in "$10.00" today..."im not gonna pay $10.00 for blah blah" what are we talking about here people 2 gallons of gas? a pack of smokes and maybe a twinkie?...I understand the sentiment but jeez.$10.00 isnt a fortune these days people.

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The amount of money isn't the issue. The reasonable expectations for what you get from Season Pass DLC is. It's reasonable to expect to get a large cappucino and some pastries from your local Starbucks for ~$10 and it's reasonable to refuse to pay the same amount for just a small regular coffee from the same place for the same price. While the volume of the content and quality of DLC can vary wildly in the video game industry (my allusion to the Horse Armor DLC for Bethesda's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in another thread about DLC 3: The Seventh Legion is an example of one of the worst ones which people are still buying) there are minimal standards and reasonable expectations for Season Pass DLC packs in the industry and generally speaking they've always included storyline missions (e.g. BL2 Season Pass DLC), and when they don't have them they deserve to be harshly criticized as lousy DLC releases.

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Originally Posted by Escyos

Yes, it is rumored, or confirmed, or misdirectionally confirmed to throw us off, that the DLC has no missions in it. I have seen talk of people complaining about their being no real story behind the DLC, yet these people simply do not remember that Defiance lore is transmedia - we have the show, this site and various others that put out information from the Defiance universe.

Don't get me wrong, it sucks if its true that we get no new mission, of course it does, but complaining about a lack of story is simply wrong.

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I don't remember anything about the 7legion in the TV show, and I doubt they will talk about it in the next season.
Also, no matter what, a lockbox and an outfit is not what I call a paying DLC. Having a few emergencies that are not new to complete in a row is not especially "new".

I don't care if there is a story in a DLC or not. Sure I like story, but I like content (story or anything) above everything. This DLC is empty. The background is a joke (yeah! Canadian Samurai), and there is not even a story to explain why Canadian Samurai suddenly decide to move to the Bay. And why my character should care.

And no amount of transmedia will change that.