DLC Prevents Piracy All of the Sudden

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Internet | Posted by Max at Oct. 13, 2009 - 11:48 pm

With Dragon Age: Origins' November 3 launch less than a month away, developer BioWare has unveiled its initial downloadable content plans for the game. Unlike with the role-playing game developer's previous project, the acclaimed sci-fi adventure Mass Effect, players won't have to wait long to expand the upcoming dark fantasy.

They won't have to wait at all, in fact.

BioWare today announced that Dragon Age: Origins will get its first downloadable expansion on day one. Called the Warden's Keep, the DLC will add a dungeon-based quest to the game along with six new abilities, a variety of items, and a base where players can trade with merchants. It will feature a supernatural storyline set in an ancient--and possibly haunted--fortress once used as a redoubt by the Grey Wardens, the ancient order at the center of Origins' main storyline. (A magic suit of Grey Warden armor will be one of the items in the add-on.)

Since when is preventing piracy such a benign reason to reign in content that people don't even bat an eye? Or in this case, endorse it?

First of all, it has nothing to do with piracy. It has everything to do with sales. Dragon Age will be available for consoles, right? Consoles don't have activation schemes, because people are accustomed to the idea that a game is theirs to own and re-sell, like it was a cartridge.

Which means that you can take them to GameStop twelve hours after you buy the game, because, let's face it, you can beat most games in twelve hours nowadays. Piracy? HA. Bioware doesn't want you to give the game away when they can sell two copies, or three.

That's all DLC is about.

[Read Full Story at Gamespot]

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