Warner Bros. Insists that All Catwomen Be Paid for New and Be Connected to the Internet

When are publishers going to stop all this cowardly manoeuvring and just issue CD-keys with console games? It's obvious to anyone that's the direction they're moving in.

the only way this garbage stops is if you all agree not to buy the game and we all know that will never happen

Fine by me.

I was under the impression that Catwoman was incorporated into the main campaign? If so this is very odd.

It does make the choice simple for non-online gamers though, just buy the game used instead and save a few bucks.

if it's on the disk, and i buy the disk, then i should have access to it. period. if they want to restrict then just make it $10 DLC. how about they make their beef with used game sales companies rather than with customers. buttholes.

People who buy used games can probably afford to wait a few weeks/months to play games at the rate at which retailers are discounting new titles. So much stuff comes out with coupons or promo credit that it kinda makes the online pass thing silly - my incentive to buy your game new is not necessarily the content I'm missing out on if I didn't, but the song I can get it for.

You know, Warner Brothers, I hear Batman fights crime and injustice. So if you find yourselves haplessly wandering under some kind of gargoyle............

Shocking that they would add a way to discourage used sales onto a game with no multiplayer mode.

I am shocked.

Shocked.

I'm not selling this one, am I?

Sucks

Sucks for people like me who wanted to rent it....

I have no problem with paying money for Catwoman.

Whoa! Alex getting a little political at the end there.

I've never been more angry about anything in my entire life!

I doubt this will effect Arkham City, but if anyone tries this with a Non-AAA title, I'm guessing it will tank like the Exxon Valdez.

PC gamer says "what's a used game?"

Why does catwoman hate our freedoms?

I AM ENRAGED!

I need play the first one, I heard it was really good. lol

As if Warner Bros. hasn't made enough of a sport out of trying to baffle the consumer with its utterly bizarre and incomprehensible pre-order schemes for Batman: Arkham City, we can now add one more bat to the consumer's skull (albeit a far less confusing, far more obnoxious one) courtesy of Batman's publisher.

This latest moment of consumer grudge humping comes via today's news that the Catwoman missions contained within the game will be locked behind an online pass. Despite WB's constant hyping of the Catwoman bonus missions, you won't be able to freely access them unless you have a new copy of Arkham City, as well as an Internet-connected console. If you do pick up a copy used, you'll need to pony up $9.99 to gain access to these missions.

While the Catwoman missions aren't required to get through Arkham City's storyline, I can say having played as the character in preview builds that they're actually fun, and most definitely a perk of the game. Gamers without Internet-ready consoles are fewer and further between nowadays, but they still exist, and shockingly enough, some of them might want to play Arkham City--as Catwoman, even. As for the used players? Well, you're probably getting used to this sort of thing these days. I ask you: Where's your Occupy Wall Street movement? Where's your protest march? Where are the jobless college kids acting on your behalf?

Of course, the answer is "playing video games and writing enraged Internet comments at nobody who can actually affect change." Right then. Carry on.