Its like this.

I saw a commercial for God of War 3. I saw all the cool new stuff for it. It got me hype. I knew of God of war before, but I wasn't interested until I saw God of War 3. Now I want to play it.

I just bought the game. I just got back home, and now I'm about to start playing.

a message appears on my screen.

"You must purchase and play through the other 2 console games, plus all the PSP games before you can play God of War 3"

The next day I returned God of War 3.



If SE doesn't find a way to get new players all the content they will be advertising in the coming months, and all the content all the current players are hype to play, it's going to isolate them.

If they are forced to play through loads of old content that may take more than a month or 2 to finish, just to get to the content that actually made them want to buy the game in the first place, they aren't going to stick around. Guaranteed.