I couldn't care less about DC Comics games. The only reason I have any respect for WB is for rescuing Mortal Kombat and maybe publishing The Witcher on consoles in the United States.

I think his negativity in the video is justified. $40 for season pass should give content at least 50% the size of the original game. 50% extra story, 50% extra gameplay, 50% extra locations.

DLC should be priced relatively in comparison to the actual game and price.

For years I've always seen WB as being up there with the likes of Acti, Ubi, Cap and EA, only now are people starting to see it and I feel that it's a good thing because they really need to get ragged on now rather than much later on down the line, the more you let them off the hook the more they will keep testing your limits.

For those who "hate" Jim or the news he brings you can simply just not comment here or not watch him in any way, I find people that stick their fingers in their ears going "lalalala" all day to be part of the problems of why things continue to go bad because they factor in with those that don't care, by not caring (clearly you do when you're commenting here in the first place) you allow the problems to spread unchecked instead of standing your ground for the common good.

Just don't forget reality is not and never will be sunshine and rainbows so stop trying to think you can focus only on that, it only makes coping with reality much harder down the line.

Anyway god bless Jim "fucking" Sterling son.

I find Jim Sterling's videos entertaining, but all of his videos have the same solution: don't buy the game.

I continue to not understand why people apparently upset about season passes still buy games from that publisher.  Mario Kart 8 looks like a fun game but it has a season pass so I have committed to not buying it.

Funny - the more I think about it, season passes (and to an extent, preorders) are similar to kickstarter funding. Only one is considered okay for big companies to use, and one is not. Hmm.

MKX seems to be the current low point for this sort of behavior. You don't just cut out a character from a fighting game to spice up preorder sales.

Eh? Mario kart 8 has the best value per price of any DLC in the market. That is the one you should be buying, if you like the game. 

There is one big difference though: Without sucessful crowdfunding these games will not exist as the developers lack the funds to make them (there are exeptions now due to Steam greenlight, but I don't think I'll need to tell you how these generally look and play).

Season passes on the other hand, are meant to cash further on the games' sales which could and would also be developed without them. I see them more as a continuation of the expansion packs which existed during the 90' and early 2000 on PC, just cut up into smaller packages, advertised and produced along the main game instead of afterwards and rebranded to it's modern name.

As for this Video (and generally on Jim's views on the industry tbh), I can't agree more to what he's saying. Most Season passes are just cut-away content reinstated behind a paywall and thus not worth it's price, as it should be included in the main game proper. Both Season passes and DLC can be fine if made after the main game is done to expand on it's gameplay and priced right, but exaples which do this well are, sadly, very rare

The worst in my opinion are however pre-order bonuses and shop exclusives, especially if there's no way to get them afterwards, as this leaves you with an unfinished game no matter what. Here in Luxembourg for instance, we don't have any Videogame retailers like Gamestop or Best buy and our supermarkets and general stores generally don't take preorders. So guess what happens with all those preorder and shop exclusive content? Yep, we're shafted

Bandai namco would have published it anyways like they do in europe

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