Mirror's Edge Officially Roof-Running onto PC in January, DLC Too
Posted 11/11/08 at 09:42:10 PM | by Nathan Grayson
Slow and steady wins the race against piracy? That's probably the mantra that came of EA and DICE's recent mind-meld, in which the publisher-developer duo decided to keep lithe heroine Faith from tip-toeing across PC rooftops until 2009 -- at least two months after consolites get their fix.
Now, today, after an almost conspicuously lengthy session of nonchalant whistling and faux-confused shoulder-shrugging, EA has announced a release window for its totalitarian twist on the formula Mario laid forth.
"The PC version of Mirror’s Edge will ship in North America in January 2009," said the press release. But that's not all.
"To keep the action coming after launch, DICE is currently developing downloadable content that will be available at the beginning of the year. More details to be announced shortly."
A late release to keep pirates from affecting sales figures? A spot of DLC to make players think twice about dumping Mirror's Edge in GameStop's used games section? Sounds like EA's really playing things safe with this franchise. It's just a damn shame that we all have to suffer for it.
Actually, "damn" isn't quite potent enough to describe the shame stream that currently plagues this situation. Jump past the break to see a more fitting phrase.
"Mega-damn."
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Eh...
Submitted by Velcrow on Wed, 2008-11-12 10:08
If they're trying to avoid user reselling used copies they're taking the wrong route. Console games are the king of resell. So there's DLC? And? Creating great DLC takes time and money. I have to wonder what the formula there is for predicting how using resources for DLC will offset game reselling. The best thing to do would be to release it on PC with a great mod community. They make the DLC for you. Oh well. Besides, the truelly great games are rarely resold. So maybe they should just try to make the best games possible instead of stringing us along with DLC.
On the other hand, after the trashing they've taken on the Internet the last couple months, I suppose they want to avoid another fiasco. lol
I don't have my hopes up.
Submitted by Tekzel on Wed, 2008-11-12 08:51
I don't have my hopes up. EA sucks, and even if they DO release it on the awesome that is steam, they will STILL embed malware in it (SecureROM). When they stop trying to infect my PC I will buy their games.
Well actually Steam isn't
Submitted by s3th on Fri, 2008-11-14 20:24
Well actually Steam isn't awesome but ok, and this game looks pretty kickass
Submitted by festiva_man on Wed, 2008-11-12 01:54
Just to remind any EA executives that read comments on Max PC bulletins. Steam is awesome!!!
DICE + EA again eh? I look
Submitted by whisp on Tue, 2008-11-11 21:33
DICE + EA again eh? I look forward to playing what will be the second buggiest game ever released (right behind bf2142)
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