[ALL] how long before you stop caring about DLC?

[EmpireWF]

Have never given a single damn about DLC.

 

[Aso]

They make the game and then take out a part of it and sell it for additional money. I won't stop.

 

[SethMode]

They make the game and then take out a part of it and sell it for additional money. I won't stop.

This is untrue in almost all cases.

 

[SethMode]

It all depends on the game. Multiplayer-centic games like Battlefield can easily get away with releasing maps and modes for a game well over a year after release. It takes a special single player (or co-op) game to get away with that policy. But if you're going to do it and be successful you need an approach like Borderlands where you release the first content with a month or two after release and keep the content evenly spaced out.

Games like Bioshock Infinite and Last Of Us have really dropped the ball. Nine months to a year after the initial release of the game? Give me a break. A very small percentage of people are going to give a shit. While I was thoroughly unimpressed with Infinite and wouldn't have cared either way but I absolutely loved LOU and at this point I still don't care about the DLC that finally released today. I'm sure I'll get it when it goes on sale but had it released within three months of the game's release I would've been salivating over it. I understand why because a development team like Naughty Dog is sacrificing all of their resources on two games, LOU and Uncharted, so it probably isn't even possible to start work on DLC until after the main game is complete. Although, from what I hear, the LOU DLC is a pretty significant chunk of gameplay, more in line with "expansions" like the PC world has had for ages. Releasing a major expansion for a game in nine months seems pretty acceptable. Whereas you have the Burial At Sea expansion for Infinite, which appears it should've been ONE piece of content that they separated into TWO and is still only about three hours of gameplay, is not acceptable in my opinion.

There may be no real solution for teams like ND, which is unfortunate.

Unacceptable? It's additional content. You didn't even like the game...just don't buy the content...

 

[jms493]

This is untrue in almost all cases.

DUDE! Long time man...we miss you here.

 

[Twigg4075]

Unacceptable? It's additional content. You didn't even like the game...just don't buy the content...

LOL. Do you have a Google alert set up for any time I voice my dismay over that extremely overrated game? Yes, I think it is unacceptable that a company charges $30 for three hours of content. But the best part is that they try to disguise it by saying that Burial At Sea is actually two parts. Pathetic.

 

[SethMode]

LOL. Do you have a Google alert set up for any time I voice my dismay over that extremely overrated game? Yes, I think it is unacceptable that a company charges $30 for three hours of content. But the best part is that they try to disguise it by saying that Burial At Sea is actually two parts. Pathetic.

I was just in the thread. The point is, the game was complete, this DLC is purely additional. I can at least understand usage of the word unacceptable when it's arguably adding to or changing the overall game. This is not that. No one is forcing anyone to buy this DLC to get the most out of Infinite, so I don't understand your argument.

Just don't buy it.

 

[Twigg4075]

I was just in the thread. The point is, the game was complete, this DLC is purely additional. I can at least understand usage of the word unacceptable when it's arguably adding to or changing the overall game. This is not that. No one is forcing anyone to buy this DLC to get the most out of Infinite, so I don't understand your argument.

Just don't buy it.

I'm not going to. But it's preying on the hardcore fans of the series. I hate when companies try to fuck over their biggest fans. The dlc bridges the gap between the first two much better games and this one. So then the biggest fans think they NEED to get it to get the full story. Then they plunk down way too much money to get three hours of gameplay in two installments. Had it been $10 or $15 and one piece of content then I wouldn't have an issue with it. All they were doing was trying to make their pathetic Season Pass look better.

 

[RyanLeaf16]

Depends on the game, but, I never get too worked up over DLC. The only game where I get excited for DLC is UFC. The additional fighters are important to me. Hopefully we also get a fighter share this year where fighters that are uploaded don't have their attributes reset to zero.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

I bought the Season pass for GOW3. There extra levels and map packs are I guess technically worth it but I had lost so much interest in GOW3 once I saw how awful the online setup was. I officially said FU when that half game prequel Judgement came out and maps and levels were so obviously limited just to sell DLC.
Pretty sure I stopped playing midnight club when I realized I had to use actual money not in game money to unlock all the cars.
All I can do is laugh at EA when they want me to pay for there players / teams / courses etc.
DLC was supposed to extend the life of games...but as predicted its simply a means to shortchange a launch title and nickel and dime for things that should already be or previously were included.

 

[RyanLeaf16]

I think the worst example of DLC for a game is with the Tiger Woods franchise. That shit was ridiculous. It was like buying an extra game or two just so you could have more than a handful of courses to play at.

 

[Buzzman]

I'm not going to. But it's preying on the hardcore fans of the series. I hate when companies try to fuck over their biggest fans. The dlc bridges the gap between the first two much better games and this one. So then the biggest fans think they NEED to get it to get the full story. Then they plunk down way too much money to get three hours of gameplay in two installments. Had it been $10 or $15 and one piece of content then I wouldn't have an issue with it. All they were doing was trying to make their pathetic Season Pass look better.

If the hardcore fans are happy with their $30 investment, who cares?

 

[spursup]

I don't think I have ever bought DLC before. Just haven't been interested enough in anything that's been offered to pay more than the price of the game itself. I don't really play much of anything besides sports games though so usually DLC wouldn't do anything to my experience anyways.

 

[Twigg4075]

If the hardcore fans are happy with their $30 investment, who cares?

If anyone is happy spending $30 for maybe three hours of a game, any game, theyneed their fucking head examined.

And not to mention that if enougnof those fans exist, that company will continue that shitty practice, and probably others too. It's not like we're talking about some podunk developer here. So yeah, I care a great deal.

 

[Twigg4075]

I think the worst example of DLC for a game is with the Tiger Woods franchise. That shit was ridiculous. It was like buying an extra game or two just so you could have more than a handful of courses to play at.

I always thought it was hilarious that the Wii version of, I think Tiger '10, had like three times as many courses as the 360/PS3 version and had extra modes like frisbee and mini golf. Swinging with the Wiimote was quite fun too.

Of course those courses did come later to the other versions...as expensive dlc.

 

[j.hen]

Just wait until they come out with the GOTY edition that has all of the DLC on the disk. :troll:

 

[Buzzman]

I will say this is one thing I hate. Twigg will agree with me. The price of the DLC should drop as the game ages. Why is DLC to a game 3 years old, still $10? Enslaved is a perfect example of doing it right on the PS3. The DLC was $10 at launch and then at some point almost 2 years later they dropped it to $5. Twigg and I both bought it. If more games did this, they would make more money because no one is paying full price DLC to a game thats MSRP us cheaper then the DLC itself. (Assassins Creed)

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

If the hardcore fans are happy with their $30 investment, who cares?

I laughed aloud with the thought EA makes any effort to make hardcore fans happy.
I would love to see some info graphics on who buys DLC.

 

[buckeye]

If anyone is happy spending $30 for maybe three hours of a game, any game, theyneed their fucking head examined.

And not to mention that if enougnof those fans exist, that company will continue that shitty practice, and probably others too. It's not like we're talking about some podunk developer here. So yeah, I care a great deal.

Or they can take that $30 to go see a 2 hour movie... $30 for 3 hours isn't horrible

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[buckeye]

I laughed aloud with the thought EA makes any effort to make hardcore fans happy.
I would love to see some info graphics on who buys DLC.

Casual gamers rarely buy DLC.

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