Re:Episodic content isn't new (Score 2, Insightful)

The thing with expansion packs is this: the full retail game usually offered closure, if it didn't, people were dissatisfied and especially dissatisfied if it didn't offer closure by the next iteration. Expansion packs may have continued the story of the previous but you could still be satisfied with playing the original game on its own. Not necessarily as much the case with episodic content. I won't bash them however, they have their pluses asnd minuses and we will see where the market takes them. I do think it's harder to market episodic games (people like hard copies of the title they are buying, not always purely digital versions). Even if they box the individual episodes in stores there's always more cost for extra packaging and advertising for *each* episode...that equals less net profits. I think episodic games have great potential but we'll just have to wait and see how the market responds. Just my 2 cents.