| sabastian said: Weve all seen it. New game is released and along with it DAY 1 DLC. I was recently on the Playstation Network when Thief was released and again, there it was. A DLC pack all ready to be purchased along with the newly released game. Now dont get me wrong. I do purchase DLC. I once purchased the add on DLC for Uncharted 3, 3 Player CO-OP gameplay. But in reality, I mostly pass on most DLC. The Prince Of Persia Reboot DLC priced at $15. PASS The Street Fighter Character clothes pack priced at $5 each. PASS Killzone Shadow Fall Owl Skins priced at $1.99. PASS Need For Speed Rivals Car pack priced at $5.99 PASS. My questions are, Who buys these packs ? Why do you support this ? If its happening more and more, does that mean that day 1 DLC is sell great ? If a developer is releasing a add on pack at day 1, then that pack should have been included in the game, and quite frankly was cut out, so in reality, were getting less of the game and being given the option to pay more for the full experience. Should we gamer's support this money grab tatic, I know that I will not. So how about you. (1) Do you purchase day 1 DLC ? (2) If so, why. If Not, also Why Not ? |
I consider DLC to be the single worst thing to have happened to video games in the history of the media, baring absolutley-fucking-nothing. DLC has and will mark something that will fundamentally decide if I care enough to buy a game and it's made me institute my third rule on game collecting. Never buy a game on release, wait at least a year and buy the complete edition/"game of the year" edition for less money, that way you get all the DLC free and on the disc and you save money. Some prime examples of games like this have been Fallout 3, GTA 4, and Red Dead Redemption. By waiting for the Game Of The Year editions I've got the full game rather than a cut down, incomplete peice of shit; carved into peices so developers can make more money out of me.
Rule four then comes into effect. A game that requires a Day One Patch or features required Day One DLC (ie. not something incidental like character skins), to be playable is not worthy of purchase. If you can't play it from the disc, without an internet connection, it is worthless.
I am fed up of always online DRM, that's what the Day One Patch and Day One DLC is. It's always online DRM that uses the psychology of the player to make them willingly take part. I say fuck that. I collect video games, have done for years. If I put Sonic The Hedgehog or Streets Of Rage into my Mega Drive they will work perfectly every time. I expect the same from my PS3/Xbox 360 games; if I put them on in 2037 and intend to play them, they better work first time... not give me the shitty buggy beta-build of the game that passed for a retail release because the game needs a patch from an online service that's long since been discontinued, all because developers are too bloody lazy to test and finish their games first time around. If it's not on the fucking disc, it doesn't exist. Neither my PS3 or my Xbox 360 are connected to the internet, and this is intentional. I will not be their unpaid beta-testers. Give me a finished game first time round or fuck off, I say.
