Rainbird on 18 November 2011
| DeadEye said: It's sad to see a great developer like Ninty succumb to the disease of dlc. Th fact is 99% of all dlc is stuff that should be (and can be) included on the disc but is withheld to extort more money from the consumer. The only dlc that has ever been justified is Undead Nightmare and The Lost & The Damned/The Ballad Of Gay Tony. Shame that not even Nintendo is safe now. It's not Nintendo's fault I guess, they are a business and they need to survive. But in 10 years we'll be paying for extra side-quests in zelda, extra courses in mario kart and having to download patches to fix bugs in the latest metroid. I could tolerate the extra items in animal crossing, they are small things that add small value. This however opens the floodgates. Maybe it won't even take 10 years. |
Relax, DLC is not a disease. Yes, there are a some instances where DLC has been used wrongly, but there are plenty of cases where DLC is actually something that enhances a game after its release with content that wasn't built when the game launched. Burnout Paradise had great DLC, LittleBigPlanet 1 and 2 have seen great DLC, Mass Effect 2 had some great DLC and the list goes on.
DLC is a great thing so long as it is used right. Some companies have abused DLC from time to time, but many companies know how to create good DLC as well.
