Any pc gamer gets crazy at the amount of dlc these days?

We went from 4.99 to 9.99, after COD MW 14.99 is legit, now 29.99 for DLC max! worth 14.99.

CIV5 Brave new World 29.99, LMAO this joke for an add on, beside the multiplayer is bugged as f*ck, major bugs just fixed resently.

Creative Essamble releases Rome II 3 years to early and comes with greek culture pack dlc day 1, I knew from thad moment they dont understand the game and didnt bought the game (thank Odin)

Anyone else is tired of buying incompleet games on steam every time again?, even if its ultimited edition...still some extra dlc beside it....lol

Brave New World is practically CIV VI, though. IT males CiV V so much more enjoyable, fluid and exciting that it's ridiculous. 

30 dollar expansion packs are usually terrific by my standard. Usually, you get a similarly sized game for roughly half the price. 

There's a lot of DLC I don't buy, even for games I love. But that's not really the point, either. DLC enhanches the publishers the ability to do price discrimination. Take Mass Effect as an example. The people who find Mass Effect to be the greatest game series of all, can buy all the DLC, pay over 100 dollars and get a bigger game than they ever could without DLC. 

Meanwhile, players who aren't as crazy about ME can buy just the game, and possibly a few core DLC, paying 50-60 dollars and getting a game as large as - or slightly larger than - what they would have been able to without DLC. 

Finally, people can buy the game long after launch, at a low price, paying as little as 10 dollars for the entire game. (This has nothing to do with DLC, but it's part of my point anyway). 

Being able to make people who love a game pay more for it is a huge boon both for them and everyone else. If you' think economically, you can get away paying a fraction of the cost - a great boon to consumers - and DLC makes game enthusiasts get more of the game than they otherwise would. 

DLC is a fantastic concept for gaming, and while not all DLC is as appealing, the great thing about it is that you only have to buy the ones that truly are appealing. 

I'm pretty sure we used to pay high prices for that for Expansion Packs.. in the time that DLC still came on a disc..

Bought CIV V BNW during this last sale (and it was like 33% off only), totally worth it.

It's pretty much an expansion as others have said.

As far a civ5 addons, I usually wait for the steam sale bc $30 is rediculous for extra features which dont really add awhole lot to a game like that anyways, more like extra things to deal with.

Ive been successful waiting for sales for these things, I recently grabbed the season pass from steam for borderlands 2 for $10 a while ago.

I dont think I ever bought COD packs, if i did its been a real real long time ago in MW2. I did get bf3 premium for $20 at xmas that was cool alot of extra content that was worth it.

Also alot of the time when a game goes on sale, the addon stuff is also on sale and/or sold together as a bundle for cheap on steam, I usually just try my best to wait till summer sale and the holiday sale on steam and clean house.

Not sure why you are singling PC out DLC is standard across all gaming now and will keep getting more expensive as long as people keep buying it.

My biggest concern with DLC isn't its price per se, as some pointed out we had expansions before that usually were half the price of a new game.

My problem is that before all the games that had expansions got a GOTY or Complete editions that, for the price of a full game, included the game and all the add-ons. Those were the editions worth buying. Nowadays we barely get those editions anymore and of the few we get, many still lack some content.

I only buy free DLC.

In all seriousness though, I only buy DLC for a game I actually enjoy. I would be broke otherwise!
The Civilization expansion being a prime example, it's worth the $30 for the amount of extra hours that will pretty much vanish in your life.

I think everyone who plays CIV5 knows BnW is great fun, but 30$ for game add-on like G&K...no, I bought all DLC with the Gold edition for 10$ thinking I got the full game, and they come with BnW(the catch) 1 DLC for 30$.

All my favorite games getting swallowed by DLC, CIV5, Shogun, Warhammer.....
I just stop playing these games because I dont feel in touch anymore with this greed game from the publishers.

I hope something will change in about 15 years, because we have a long way to go from here imo.

(Good old dreams about the what would gaming look like in 2010:O back in 1997, it turns out to be the biggest nightmare in the roots lol)

Why is Brave new world for Civ 5 so great? Does it make the game more like Civ4 (whatever that means)?