This is a huge insult. No, I'm not mad about not being able to use the character. I'm mad that you guys are doing it under these asinine conditions. Honestly, trying to make people rebuy the entire game just for a single character that people have been wanting for years? For Pete's sake, it's just a single model with a few lines of dialogue. And it's the only thing that this "gold edition" has to offer, you want people to rebuy the game for this? This is a worse deal than all of the other DLC's. And no, getting extra copies of a couple two dollar DLC's doesn't justify this.
Maybe the little fanboys around here saying "take my money I NEED THIS MODEL" enjoy being milked like cows, but anybody who isn't a consumer tool doesn't.
Remember this, John? Yeah.. I'm sorry but this is just hypocrisy. You're the one asking that developers not try to extort money from people, then your company turns right around shortly after and does it themselves. Sigh.
Not even Electronic Arts has gone as far as to tell their playerbase to buy the entire game again for a tiny nibble of content, this is just bad.
EA CEO John Riccitiello On Gaming Microtransactions - YouTube
Nobody wants to be this guy. And I mean nobody.
Stop letting the money get to your head. Businesses need funds to manage, but pulling stunts like this isn't the way to obtain them.
Tripwire, please stop before it's too late.