Sin Episodes are no more

Just found this article at Bit-Tech.net.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/12/20/SIN_episodes_already_cancelled/

I must say, although I only spent only 20 bucks for approx 1/9th of a game, which was in fact great fun, they've cancelled the series, and now I kinda feel robbed.

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Quote from God....Nietzsche is dead

The fall of episodic content?

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It sure isn't off to a great start, is it? I'm sure it could work, but it might be a painful process to figure out.

I never liked the idea of episodic content and I guess rather many other potential buyers thought likewise. With all the overhead coming from marketing and distribution I'm prone to think that splitting a came into cheaper episodes is going to cost more to the gamer than buying a full game.

Look at it this way: Let's say you get same amount of gametime out of three Episodes than you get from a full product. The full product costs 40 to 50 euro(multiply by 1.3178 to get the price in dollars). You pay 20 ? for each episode, thus even if you'd have to 50? from the full game you'd lose 10? less money compared to buying three Episodes.

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I still haven't bought HL2 Ep1...

Hoping to get it cheaper in a bundle with Ep2. Besides Ep2 a) actually has some new textures & content and b) comes with goodies like TF2 that I actually want as much as the 1player content.

The problem is time. With years in between releases it's getting quite tedious. A trilogy in cinema consists of 3 full movies. A trilogy of game "episodes" is like a movie split in 3 half-hour segments played with 1 year in between. I'd rather wait 3 years and get a full game than 1 year for one 3rd of it. Plus I get all the polish of the experience from episode 3 for the content of episode 1. By the time episode 3 comes out E1 will feel a bit dated.

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