Sakurai calls DLCs these days a scam

[Cloudman]

spemanig said:

Cloudman said:

Yeah, agree with you on your points. I guess it`s better than releasing it early on, day one DLC, or even as a pre-order bonus, but I agree it doesn`t make it much better. I think the content can be done well in this case, but the pricing is terrible. That`s the unsettling feeling I got when they announced Lucas for DLC. 20 dollars for 5 characters would be terrible and also guilty of taking too much money for a small about of content. They should make it much cheaper, or just announce a pack for a fair price. Hopefully they do one of those options.

A well priced pack will do it. Every character should have come with an accompanying stage, so that's laughable right there. MK8 should be what they strive for. Let's say they end up with 10 DLC characters. It should be 10 characters, and 10 new stages to accompany them, and the Mii costumes for $15.

This is Capcom-level bullshit. Like Killer Instinct sold it's season 2 pass for $20, which consisted of 8 DLC characters, but Killer Instinct can do that because it's fucking free. I don't know how many characters they plan to release, but they seriously need to be transparent with all this from the offset. Mewtwo didn't even come with a stage or something. Just a plain, not even new, character for $4.

How Smash goes from having an insane amount of value for $60 to hemeraging the player for $4 is beyond me.

I don`t know if KI`s structure is that good either to be honest. It sounds like you have to pay a lot to get the complete deal, and characters on their own are more expensive, at least based on info I found.

Idealy, packing characters and stages together would be the best option. I wish they would at least announce a pack like MK8 did. That was presented as an excellent deal. I guess it wouldn`t work for Smash if they want to `surprise` people with new characters and stages, although that would be kind of dumb. I feel maybe a pack will be possible once they release more characters and whatever they have planned, but I would hope they`d do it like MK8.

I guess considering how much work goes into making one character, 4 dollars is not too bad, but that price will build up a lot of characters are purchased seperately... As much as I`d hate to sort of devalue the work of the team, less than 4 dollars would be a better sell.