Why I Hate DLC and patches?

[The_vagabond7]

Words Of Wisdom said:

The_vagabond7 said:

Do some companies take advantage? Absolutely. But to assume that all our games now would've just shipped with all the DLC you find on the PSN is ignorant. Those are the things that normally got cut from games, not included in them for free.

Which is why I have never made that assumption.  It's ironic that in calling me ignorant over an assumption that you're the one making an assumption.  

Unless you work for the company yourself, chances are that you'll never know if DLC on a game was withheld to become DLC or is genuinely content made available only after release.  Even in the latter you have to wonder whether or not they should have waited to release the game until all the content was finished. 

That last part is why I don't like so-called "director's cut" games.  At worst, it's gouging the real fans of the game by making them rebuy it.  At best, it's shoddy development as you're releasing the complete product you should have released in the first place.  At least games like Gran Turismo are honest about it when they tell you more or less upfront that the Prologue is a small sample of the full game.

So when You said

"It's not about the content.

It's about the fact that it was withheld from the original game/purchase.  Do you not understand or do you not want to understand?"

 

Or

"So, rather than pay $60 for the full game and all its content, you would rather pay $90+ for the game and large portion of its content as DLC?"

 

You didn't actually mean that the content would've been part of the game for free if there wasn't a possibility of DLC? You didn't mean that it was removed so it could be charged for later?