http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=185988

Square-Enix has released a new version of its WiiWare title Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, which incorporates a downloadable content store selling a bunch of new additions for 1400 Wii points (£10).

The game, which already costs 1500 Wii points to download, now charges 800 points for three new races, 300 points for houses that produce new quests, 100 points for new outfits, 200 points for a shrine that buffs warriors and 100 points for a house that people can live in.

According to Game Life, the amount of memory blocks required by the content also calls into question how much of it is already built into the game.

A new outfit takes up three blocks, for example, but an entire race of people needs only one.

Will Europeans face the same pricing structures - which seem steep if you take into account how much the original game costs - that the Japanese are dealing with at the moment? Or will Europeans even get the opportunity to play a WiiWare title this year? As always, a release date for the service has yet to be announced.

Uh-oh.

Square Enix has caught EA.

Good to have for the people who want it, I'm guessing this is their way to try to dodge the 50-block max, and they have to pay a fee for each sale, so it gets expensive. They couldn't have put it in the game itself, so having it as an addition is just a bonus, not a penalty, you should be happy not upset.

Its getting out of hand when the extras cost more than the game itself.

So the DLC = Cost of the game?

Didn't notice.

I was worried this would happan with WiiWare, especially ther bigger greedier companys. It seems game companys extorting money from customers for what should be standard content is now inevitable.

Guess that makes sense. We slowly buy what we want from a game instead of a getting a complete package. Would be cool to only pay $30 for the multiplayer portion of cod4. That is the future!

but..but.. if you don't buy it, you won't get the 'full experience of the game'. ;)

Sounds familiar? Don't be a hypocrite now, for all who have been saying that for MONTHS now.

I don't think I'll be buying this... Project O seems more interesting. Plus it's a FULL game.