Look at the new Lumines Live on the Marketplace. For 1200 Points you get the game. But after a while you need to spend 600 more just to enjoy that the new version of Lumines supports new tracks and backgrounds and stuff. The full version just lets you play it with the standard content which is quite lame when you think of all the publicity the game got just because it has such a huge amount of new tracks and images.

For the sake of saying something rude: Bullshit!

People pay tons of money to play a game and now they have to pay more? I thought of getting TW:PGA..now I don't think I will. Now will I be getting NFS Carbon, it's also EA.

By the way, not to be a pest, but Firefox (Mac version) says that you need to spell acceptible like this: acceptable.

The real issue is the future; borders are crossed all the time, progress never stops. Right now EA is charging for "cheats" and unlockables. 10 or 20 years from now, they might be charging for something thats fundamental for gameplay. When that day comes, I hope we can all agree that we wont buy their product in the first place.

I'm pretty sure there was never a cheat code you could put in to Tiger Woods to just automatically unlock stuff or get a ton of money to buy all the extras in the game or whatever.

Remember when someone would pay 70 dollars for a Game Genie?

It's the same thing pretty much.

I love Burnout but EA ruined the online experience in Burnout 3. The latest one is awesome like all the Burnout games. I maybe just hate EA too much to appreciate the good work Criterion did here

@Jer.: I can't wait for Contra to hit the Marketplace to try that out. You know it'll work!

@Gavin: No sir, we definitely would not. The big problem here is that they've put a price tag on content that is normally free and has been freely available for years upon years.

I don't think the magazine comparison is quite the same thing. Or maybe it's exactly the same thing and the reason we have an issue with this now is because it's the first of its kind?

@Georges: You sound all bitter at EA, like me! Have you heard the latest? Hehe…

I have to ask you… how did the Burnout series get worse over time? Burnout 3 blew my away and I'm still playing Burnout Revenge and it (along with GRAW) was the first game I bought for the 360.

Even the Burnout Series get worse since EA buyed Criterion some time ago.

What will be next? EA will surely buye some other great devs in the future. In my opinion, EA is the worst thing ever happened to the gaming industry.

I certainly understand your hate Matt

Having said that, you can buy magazines that include game saves, so is that the same or a different matter to being able to pay for and download a key that will unlock all levels?

Just like how people want to buy top level WoW characters.. there may be a small % of people that will want to do the same for this.

It's low cost for EA to do this, and its not like its what they are doing with Gran Tursimo 3 for the PS3 (you actually have to BUY the content), they are just giving shortcuts to the less hardcore.

And you know what — I'd consider to pay to get my gamer score past yours, just to rub it in your face:)