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Is the DLC too expensive?

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umegames on 14 June 2015
archer9234 said:
umegames said:
I think if any of you had a sense of what it takes to make 1 character, balance him and put in the detail that we know sakurai for, you would appreciate the price, it should be more.
other games charge for already finished content, content as simple as maps or extra missions.
now I'm not sure why an n64 stage is $2 but a miiverse stage which is doing more work is free, but...

People don't care about that. What people see is half the price of the game. Gets you 5 characters. But $60 game gets you the game engine. 40+ characters, skins, etc.

The DLC is too much. And I have no problem not buying any of them. None of them are my favorite. And the Mii stuff is really not interesting.

I'm not sure it matters what people "care about" or "see", the truth is fact, its not free to add content months after a game has gone gold, hit the market and been out for several months close to a year. 

Truth: as smash bros fans we can wait 5-7 more years for (hopefully) another smash bros on a new system that we'll have to buy, or spend $ on our current smash bros, thats adding a substantial amount of content

Truth: The $60 charged for smash bros doesn't honestly justify the amount of work put into smash bros, and that can't be said for alot of games retailed at $60. There's a reason it's won so many awards across wii-u and 3ds, as consumers we're always demanding quality, but we never want to pay for it. Some on here are saying nintedo is greedy, but really? nintendo gives us the quality we deserve in games and goes above and beyond to get licensing deals (which are not cheap or easy) to add sonic, megaman, ryu, etc, including stages, art and music, yet we don't want to pay for their work. 

the next smash should not have any DLC at all, free or paid. It's to much to spend $30 to appreicate and purchase respectful DLC, but no problem spending that amount on others things that don't last past 24hrs.



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VGPolyglot on 14 June 2015
Nem said:
VGPolyglot said:

Street Fighter X Tekken, the one that everyone hated for the DLC characters, had 12 for $20.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/210113/

I doubt that Nintendo will have 12 characters in a bundle for $20.


Err... yeah, and they were locked on the disc. Don't go there.


Doesn't downloading the update pretty much make them locked on the console?



bunchanumbers on 14 June 2015

If I owned SSBU (won't buy unless they add Toad) I wouldn't buy it. For less than the price of the SSBU DLC I bought L4D2, Castle Crashers, The Orange Box, and other various indies at Steams sale. Its heartbreaking to see I bought Trine Enchanted for $12 on Wii U when I could have bought it on Steam for $1.50.



Nem on 14 June 2015
VGPolyglot said:
Nem said:


Err... yeah, and they were locked on the disc. Don't go there.


Doesn't downloading the update pretty much make them locked on the console?


The update is free.



Poli_Games on 14 June 2015

This makes me a bit sad, Nintendo has always been pretty good when it came to DLC. Yet 6.99 for Ryu is soooo expensive! I'm buying my Wii U this week with Splatoon and Smash Bros after falling in love with Splatoon on my brothers console. It is going to be painful enough but, i will end up buying Ryu.



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Cloudman on 14 June 2015
Hiku said:
Would be nice if you put tje prices in the OP so it's easier to understand.

I wasn't aware that Ryu costs $6.99. That's unusual. I don't usually see fighting game character dlc for more than $5 / 600Yen. But then again, that's only if you want him for both systems. If you just want him for one system, it's $5.99.

Prices for Lucas and Roy seem fine at $4.99 each for both systems, and $3.99 for one.
The rest looks ok to me, except the Mii costumes are a bit steep. But luckily you can buy the separately.

I'll add the prices in the OP in a lil while then ; )



 

              

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archer9234 on 14 June 2015
umegames said:
archer9234 said:
umegames said:
I think if any of you had a sense of what it takes to make 1 character, balance him and put in the detail that we know sakurai for, you would appreciate the price, it should be more.
other games charge for already finished content, content as simple as maps or extra missions.
now I'm not sure why an n64 stage is $2 but a miiverse stage which is doing more work is free, but...

People don't care about that. What people see is half the price of the game. Gets you 5 characters. But $60 game gets you the game engine. 40+ characters, skins, etc.

The DLC is too much. And I have no problem not buying any of them. None of them are my favorite. And the Mii stuff is really not interesting.

I'm not sure it matters what people "care about" or "see", the truth is fact, its not free to add content months after a game has gone gold, hit the market and been out for several months close to a year. 

Truth: as smash bros fans we can wait 5-7 more years for (hopefully) another smash bros on a new system that we'll have to buy, or spend $ on our current smash bros, thats adding a substantial amount of content

Truth: The $60 charged for smash bros doesn't honestly justify the amount of work put into smash bros, and that can't be said for alot of games retailed at $60. There's a reason it's won so many awards across wii-u and 3ds, as consumers we're always demanding quality, but we never want to pay for it. Some on here are saying nintedo is greedy, but really? nintendo gives us the quality we deserve in games and goes above and beyond to get licensing deals (which are not cheap or easy) to add sonic, megaman, ryu, etc, including stages, art and music, yet we don't want to pay for their work. 

the next smash should not have any DLC at all, free or paid. It's to much to spend $30 to appreicate and purchase respectful DLC, but no problem spending that amount on others things that don't last past 24hrs.

No matter how hard someone works. It still has to fall in the budget that the consumer base accepts. So while I commend when people work hard on anything. Weather it's for a movie or game. You still have the price wall limit. It's still a vaild arguement that DLC that's barley nothing of content is half the price of the game.



alternine on 14 June 2015

Things are starting to get shady yeah. It was only a matter of time though.



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VGPolyglot on 14 June 2015
Nem said:
VGPolyglot said:


Doesn't downloading the update pretty much make them locked on the console?


The update is free.

But you have to pay top play as the characters, which basically makes them locked on the console.



Nem on 14 June 2015
VGPolyglot said:
Nem said:


The update is free.

But you have to pay top play as the characters, which basically makes them locked on the console.


That is ridiculous. Don't download the update if you don't want, don't play online if you don't want. They are locked because you didnt pay for them, but they werent in the disc you payed for at launch, nor are you forced to get them.