What if they gave you the option of both at the same time?

You act as if of these 4 parts are going to be content rich. Why in the hell would I pay 15 bucks to potentially play a couple of levels? For this to even make sense for me is if the overall game is 20 hours+ and each installment is 5 to 7 hours. This is a big problem this gen. Stop announcing games so damn early and announce them when they're 4 to 6 months out so we can avoid rubbish like this. Keep supporting practices like this and sooner rather than later you're going to see more studios do this, but at the end the final game will be missing content found in the previous 15 dollar iterations and you'll be paying 60 bucks for it.

Oh come the hell on

We game in a time where industries like EA, Square, Capcom, Ubisoft and the like are always thinking of new ways to shorten development times and cut corners but still make us pay the same if not more.

I bet my entire life savings that if you take Hitman, the recent example, and you finally get all the episodes together you would have paid the same for a shorter overall experience which is mostly full of repetitive gameplay and so called free updates which give gamers the illusion that we are getting the same or more

Let's not be stupid and naïve we know what this industry is like and for once it's go damn time to be a realist and look at they are most likely TRYING to do rather then what you HOPE they do. Optimism is wasted these days and something companies exploit because they don't want you to know the truth

Overall episode based AAA games will end up being shorter at its core but you've paid the same for a full AAA game which should have been longer

In years past development was much cheaper. While games got a lot more expensive to make the retail price didn't change much. The games are still being released as full games just with the difference that additional content is being planned out earlier in the development cycle.

I love as example the old LucasArts adventures, look at the credits and you see how small the teams had been and there isn't much difference in retail price on release between that game and games now and they had been dirt cheap to make conpared to now where even indie games can cost a lot more to make and require bigher teams.

@orange powerz. I don't disagree with what you're saying at all. So like I said, charge me up front, or find a way to make games cheaper. Which is a concept every other industry in the world has followed. These new ideas aren't just about development costs, although I believe it is a part of it. But more a way to bleed people of their money.

Every game that's eaten up with half the content, or has an inflated season pass, or makes a bundle on microtransactions, is a step in the wrong direction for gamers. We are encouraging by buying in to it.

If they want to charge more for games, fine, I will pay if the games worth it. But developers/producers/whoever makes marketing decisions, are no longer concerned with making good games. They just want to push a product out the door regardless of quality or content. Gta5 has made outrageous money. Yet no single player dlc. Multiplayer dlc is free. And microtransactions only elevate the grind for money. Why? Because it's a great game, so people bought it.

Then look at battlefront, and almost anything from ea and ubisoft recently. Clearly rushed, half the content, season passes that cost almost the price of the game, and even microtransactions sometime. Then make it a yearly release, and they're left wondering why sales figures are plummeting below expectations. It's simple. They want to make a product for a consumer. They don't want to make a game, that is enjoyable.

But if you believe it's simply development costs, be my guest. I think they should look at the quality of what they're putting out personally. Many examples of quality games reaching far above expected figures, and hyped trash falling in to the waste basket where it belongs.

Narrative was not important to Hitman until Absolution and we saw how that turned out.

Again, not quite the point I'm trying to make in regards to Hitman specifically having narrative. I'm trying to point out that doing this sort of thing and having it be successful will most likely be applied to other games. That will then affect those that have a stronger focus on narrative.