I had the great pleasure of buying the latest Tiger Woods PGA Tour game, The Masters.  For me, this was a first week buy, as I was looking for my first game of the series on my 360.  I did not check forums or anything, because I know the quality of the gameplay present in earlier games.

I started playing and everything is as it should be: good graphics, great gameplay, fun career mode and, of course, Augusta.  After a few rounds, I went on the forums and read that you can't complete all of the PGA tour season without buying the "missing courses" via DLC's.  Now, the game disc comes with 14 courses.  And, from what I have read, 16 more are available for download...  Something is definitly wrong in the gaming industry.

I mean, in the last 6 months, I bought three games that were broken on release day (F1 2010, Fallout New Vegas and Test Drive Unlimited 2).  And now, I buy an incomplete game full price that demands more money from me if I want to play it fully.  EA  is pushing this too far.  And it's not like the gaming community does not support them.  The last four games I bought were published by EA (Dragon Age Origins : Ultimate Edition, Dead Space 2, Crysis 2 and PGA Tour 12).

I have learned my lesson.  I will now wait a couple of months after release before buying a game.  At least, they got Crysis 2 right.  This is a very good game. 

lol they just sold you half a game

Sucks for you.

I stopped buying EA games completely. There's no reason to give them free money when they do stuff like that.

DLC is a joke all around. Maybe it didnt start out that way? Not sure what games used it first and for what. Anyways, its just like Mortal Kombat coming up with two people ad DLC already before its even out. People are paying for only part of a game and paying for more parts that should have and would have been in the game already in past gens. Its a huge shame really.But as long as a huge chunk of people are willing to pay it, it will never stop. Welcome to spending 50-60 on just part of a game and another 10-50 on the rest. It a shame to hear your misfortune, but not a surprise at all.

danm...that sucks

Don't you know that it must be better if you are charged for it?

This is exactly what I think.
I made a thread about my concern about this topic, but people showed very supportive of the DLC business model.

I can't believe we found ourselves speaking of paid dlc before the games even are out. That's just very abusive. I rather pay a 80 dollars price with full access to all the dlc they'll release in the future and there you go. Companies should build a name for themselves if they want us to pay more money.

EA is leading that way, which is bad news for me because they publish some of my favourite franchises.

That is why I avoid buying DLC's, some tempt me but I won't !!

For this example i agree with you. But as a whole i do not see DLC as abuse, i see it as extra. You know what you are buying before you buy and anything extra comes at a price. Which is fine by me. I just wish Sucker Punch could do the same as EA sometimes because i want some inFAMOUS DLC xD

And there's lots of people supporting DLC because 'it brings additional content'. Well, in my experience, it seems it's either content that should have been in the game in the first place (see the first post) or terribly overpriced DLC (CoD map packs).