Catwoman locked out of Arkham City unless you have the "Online Pass"
"But wait," you may be asking, "aren't these 'Online Passes' usually meant for, you know, online stuff? Multiplayer and all that?" Well, apparently not, because all of the Catwoman content is locked out, including the stuff in the actual single-player campaign (people who claimed to have played a leaked version are saying there are some Riddler trophies that are "Catwoman-only" and that it prompts you for the code if you try to pick them up without it), as well as whatever challenge maps and such, unless you have the Online Pass. You get this "free" only if you buy the game new. Or, for whatever strange reason, if you buy the game used from Gamestop (at Gamestop's usual inflated, near-new prices, of course). Buy it used anywhere else, however, and you're SOL if you want to play as Catwoman, unless you cough up some extra money.
I'm sorry, but this whole "Online Pass" crap is yet another thing that is getting way out of hand. It was retarded back when it was called "Cerberus Network" in Mass Effect 2, and it's still retarded now. The fact that you could play as Catwoman was featured prominently in all of the pre-release news about Arkham City, and yet, now they have gone and cut all of that content out of the game and made it into DLC. The fact that it's DLC that is actually packed in with the game (if you buy it new) just makes it that much worse. This isn't stuff that wasn't finished and just "needed a little more time" to get it right (as is usually the lame excuse for Day 1 DLC). No, this is stuff that they just arbitrarily decided to cut out of the game for the sole purpose of being able to charge extra money for it later on. It's not even the first game to do crap like that, not by a long shot, but Arkham City is shaping up to be one of the more egregious offenders of late.
*weary sigh*
But look, even with all of that said though, I'm not going to delude myself or anyone else here and say that I'm not going to be getting Arkham City over this. I already have it pre-ordered from Amazon, and I'll be playing it come the 18th, including the Catwoman stuff. Unlike other cases, while this does still piss me off, it doesn't piss me off enough to not get the game. If it's anything at all like Arkham Asylum, it's still going to be awesome, for the most part. That's what makes it so galling that they're pulling this kind of crap with the game: because they know for a fact that they can get away with it. This, of course, just makes me part of the problem in this case, in that I'm not willing to straight-up boycott asinine crap like this, as I will be with other similarly asinine crap. There are times I do wish I had owsf2000's greater willpower to avoid things like this, though.
I'm sorry, but this whole "Online Pass" crap is yet another thing that is getting way out of hand. It was retarded back when it was called "Cerberus Network" in Mass Effect 2, and it's still retarded now. The fact that you could play as Catwoman was featured prominently in all of the pre-release news about Arkham City, and yet, now they have gone and cut all of that content out of the game and made it into DLC. The fact that it's DLC that is actually packed in with the game (if you buy it new) just makes it that much worse. This isn't stuff that wasn't finished and just "needed a little more time" to get it right (as is usually the lame excuse for Day 1 DLC). No, this is stuff that they just arbitrarily decided to cut out of the game for the sole purpose of being able to charge extra money for it later on. It's not even the first game to do crap like that, not by a long shot, but Arkham City is shaping up to be one of the more egregious offenders of late.
*weary sigh*
But look, even with all of that said though, I'm not going to delude myself or anyone else here and say that I'm not going to be getting Arkham City over this. I already have it pre-ordered from Amazon, and I'll be playing it come the 18th, including the Catwoman stuff. Unlike other cases, while this does still piss me off, it doesn't piss me off enough to not get the game. If it's anything at all like Arkham Asylum, it's still going to be awesome, for the most part. That's what makes it so galling that they're pulling this kind of crap with the game: because they know for a fact that they can get away with it. This, of course, just makes me part of the problem in this case, in that I'm not willing to straight-up boycott asinine crap like this, as I will be with other similarly asinine crap. There are times I do wish I had owsf2000's greater willpower to avoid things like this, though.