Former BioWare Goon Calls-Out Gamers For Bitching About Day-1 DLC

Here's the deal: a character who worked for BioWare (now over at Riot Games), who goes by the name of Christina Norman, has given the middle-finger (Kotaku's words, shared by me) to gamers who believe that Day-1 DLC - or, rather, the "Industry's Mushroom Print" - is a complete sham/utter disgrace to the game it's for. Pulled from Kotaku, she spoke at GDC recently:

"There's no point in releasing DLC a year after your game has come out when most people have already sold your game back to GameStop three times. That means getting it out early; that means even day-one DLC. That is a terrible thing to some players. Players rant—they know nothing about this DLC that's coming out except its name. But then it's 'oh this game must be incomplete, the game must be ruined.' Game developers are not evil. (Some are evil.) But most are not evil. We just want to release awesome stuff. Players please, give us a chance. Judge our games based on what they are. Judge the DLC based on what it is. Stop thinking you're a producer and telling us when and where we should be building our content."

There's a problem with that, something that commenter Eight-Bit Generation put in such elegant words that I'm reposting it here, with permission (the entire thread can be viewed here):

Kotaku and Next-Gen: Used-Game Prevention Tech Makes "Perfect Sense"?

Kotaku recently posted an article about this new rumor going around that the Xbox 720 would support some new tech in it that would prevent you from playing a used game, saying it makes "perfect sense". You're fucking kidding, right? Well, I figured I had to share my comment I posted outside of their world, so here's a copy/paste job:

Kotaku Readers make Heavy Rain box art magic

Another gem caught by my RSS feeds' net, Kotaku asked it's readers to submit their own 'shopped Heavy Rain box art. My favorite one? The Playboy bunnies, number 6.

Some are supposed serious renders, and others, well, obvious jokes and making fun of SCEA's decision to alter the box art to focus on tits.

[Via Kotaku]