If DLC is so bad, people wont buy it and developers will stop making it.
End of story.
The gamers have only themselves to blame for things like this becoming mainstream. Blame the casuals if you want, but they are gamers too. Its not the corporations fault for wanting to make money.
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Market cap is the share price times the number of shares outstanding. A purchase of merchandise is not "added to market cap."
For one company to buy another, they need to buy a commanding chunk of shares and vote their people into management. This number can be anything (depending on the company and the types of shares) up to 50.1% where 50.1% is guaranteed ownership. They do this by buying back shares from the general public or taking command of their...
Its not saying 90% of DS OWNERS. It says 90% OF DS GAMES. I don't know if you've seen the website that has DS roms but it has a giant torrent of HUNDREDS of them. I know people with R4s who have hundreds of games just to have them. Most of them they don't even play them. 90% is completely reasonable if you take into account that most pirates download tons of games.
wake me up when this is in mass production and/or available at stores.