Here's my feeling on disc-locked content: Say you buy a book. You take it home and read it, and it's a pretty good book! You enjoy it greatly! Except for when you get to chapter 16, it's locked. You can turn past it and get to chapter 17 just fine, and you still get the gist of the plot. You can still read to the end of the book. Attached to the locked chapter 16 is a little card that you can send off to the publisher along with $5 to get a key to unlock the chapter.
People would absolutely flip their s*** over something like that. Because it's commonly understood that when you buy a book, you're buying the whole book. And the thing is, before this console generation (and to a lesser extent the gen before), the same thing was understood about video games. When you bought that Super Mario World cartridge, you were getting the complete experience, all 8 castles and everything. You didn't have to pay once for the game, then pay again for castle number 7 - it was all there.
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