Batman fans and video gamers, I set up this petition to fight against a plague which soils for already a few years the world of the video game: the price of additional contents.
Here, we are currently fighting against a particular case: it's about the Season Pass of the eagerly awaited Batman Arkham Knight.
For those who don't know exactly this concept, a Season Pass is no more and no less than additional contents to the original game.
Additional contents which it's thus necessary to pay besides the original game.
If some of you think it's normal, it's necessary to know that the problem resides above all in the price of this Season Pass: $40 (that is 33£ and 40€). The price in itself hurts, but it's also necessary to know that it represents approximately 75% of the price of the original game (for all supports).
The question is: Do you think it is normal that we impose us additional contents at a price representing 75% of the original game?
It's exactly when we tolerate what is in the standard that we are in denial because we think that it is normal, while in the end we are being taken for fools.
You shouldn't fall in this trap, otherwise you will eventually accept anything just because it's in the standard.
Let us remain honest with ourselves: $40 (that is approximately 75 % of the price of the original game) just for additional contents, it's clearly not acceptable or excusable.
AS CUSTOMERS, WE REQUIRE RIGHTLY A DECREASE OF 75% OF THE PRICE OF THE SEASON PASS OF THE GAME BATMAN ARKHAM KNIGHT.
Don't be blind: the contents of this Season Pass will never be big enough to justify such a price increase, and many gamer have neither the means , nor even the desire to pay out such a sum.
And that’s not all, there is another problem which comes from the fact that if the first problem exists, it's because way too much gamers invest blindly in this kind of traps.
To these people I want to send a message: stop being fooled, stop injecting your money(or your parents’) into extremely expensive additional contents just to satisfy your gamer’s fantasies, stop being fooled and feeding this capitalist system.
I have a lot of respect for Warner Bros., but it doesn't mean that I am going to accept everything from them.
The publishers play with our expectations and use it to create this kind of disgusting concepts.
They use what people like to attract them in this system: creation of desires in the player’s mind + price increases+ disintegration of the unity of the complete game = incitement to consumption.
I know that many of you think the same thing, and you are absolutely right to be fed up with this.
So, I suggest you to sign this petition and to share it on the maximum amount of sites, forums or other social networks.
We have this power, through this petition, to say "NO!" to this kind of purely lucrative concept to which we are exposed.
Let us show to the publishers that we, their customers, hardened gamers, are fed up to pay a fortune for additional contents.