| Torillian said:
To some it isn't the type of content that matters, it's that the company sold you a disc and put on that disc something that you have to pay for to unlock. They just don't like that conceptually, it's like if I bought a backpack and it came with a sticker, but in order to use the sticker I would have to send the company an extra 50 cents. Sure the sticker doesn't really matter and the backpack does not need the sticker to function, but it's how it's packaged that people take issue with. On the point of most of the DLC wouldn't exist without amiibos, I think lots of DLC is extra like that, and it's unfortunate that many gamers have gotten kind of greedy and want anything that releases for a game for free or they deem the original release as unfinished. Simply judge a game based on what it is at the time of your purchase, if you don't think it's a good enough value than don't purchase it, but don't let the presence or not o extra DLC somewhere taint your view on the product in front of you. |
I can only speak for myself, but my problem isn't so much that it's not free. I've said many times that I'd buy Amiibo cards if they were cheap enough. I'd pay like $15-$20 for a deck of cards with all the Smash Amiibo. My issue is that there is absolutely no cheap alternative for people who don't care about the toys. I get why they are $13. I'm sure the Amiibo are worth $13, but the content, which is the only thing someone like me is interested in, is absolutely not worth anywhere near $13.
I'll never be a collector and I grew out of toys. I'll never be interested in figurines, but I'll always be interested in game content. I don't like that for someone like me, I have to spend over $200 just to get something as miniscule as a full set of costume DLC in a Mario Kart game. That's rediculus.
I can stomach spending $15, $20, and even $30 on a deck of Amiibo Cards I'll never have to look at so I can have access to all the ingame content I'd have missed. The problem is that I can't, and have to spend hundreds of dollars to have access to all the content I'd have missed. Again, that's rediculus.
