BC is good for PC, bad for consoles. Lack of BC allows them to make money off of downloadable ports. For example, if my PS3 could play PS1 and PS2 games, why would i ever buy the digital games?
And that's is another issue! All mediums going digital. Music, movies, TV, games! The DRM crap with XBO upon reveal, but wait! Didn't they reverse policies? I wonder how the hell that happened?
Again, using movies as another medium. Most people have a crapload of DVDs (I do). I realize Blu-Ray is the "way-to-go," but what exactly are we getting? More content? Sure! All they did was literally compress the size of content to pack more onto the physical disc which is no smaller nor bigger than the DVD disc. And of course, the picture quality is superb for any graphics whore out there!
To relate to LR:
The two disc sets where the second disc adds just 15 mins of additional scenes. (A whole disc with just 15 mins taking out everything from the theatrical release? That's a waste of a $26 disc!) I realize things have to be cut; of course, they are for theatrical release (and content cut doesn't necessarily have to cross a line, but in the case of submission for a rating ...) Thus, we get things like Director's Cut or Unrated Versions.
The 5U disc, understandable, but it kept becoming bloated and bloated. Costumes, Patches, Stages, Characters. So, here's another disc. Yet, the problem: that 15 mins on a second DVD, with what we've been shown so far! It's a waste! Yet, folks complain when a AAA RPG comes out on multiple discs. Mass Effect 2 & 3. Two discs each and we still got a load of DLC that should have been discs 3 & 4 for each respectively! LR is nothing but DLC on top of DLC.
If they (and this is any company) released everything - regardless of how many discs - iow, no dlc BS - at least not to the degree of ugliness it has gotten to - folks wouldn't have an issue. But alas, we do. If you can get X amount of costumes for Y amount of money, just to say: "I'm a fan. I support you!" You can get a ten-disc game that includes everything for half that or less and still be a fan. It's retarded on paper, but it's better than "Get a part here, get a part there!" aka DLC! But folks do this, then get pissed when everything comes all wrapped in a bow. You can't seriously be wondering why they're upset!
I wasn't looking for a no BC reason, I used that to illustrate a point! About the bad PR. Mass Effect 3 had this problem and if you think people are losing it here, was much, much worse there!
To make a long story short, Some still say how that left a bad taste in their mouths despite a feeble attempt to quell it to say the least! It was nice, but why wasn't it in the game? But of course, you then hear nothing but rationalizations. Same thing here!
There are folks with a bad taste in their mouth right now and it won't go away whether or not LR is bought on whatever console. It is what it is. I'm sorry to say that!