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Forums - Gaming - Pick your poison: Timed DLC vs Timed Exclusivity

 

Would you rather wait for:

DLC 47 67.14%
 
Full Game 23 32.86%
 
Total:70
KiigelHeart on 05 October 2017

Timed dlc is worse. I usually buy dlc so it sucks to wait longer when you have already played the game. Much rather wait for the whole game and play something else while waiting. Both are bad though.



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SvennoJ on 05 October 2017

I don't buy DLC except in rare cases (Wipout HD Fury was technically DLC I guess) so the choice is easy.

Even if it's free DLC I never bother with it, too many games to play to turn back. The only exception being DriveClub and possibly GT Sport.



ThisGuyFooks on 05 October 2017
shikamaru317 said:
pokoko said:

What are the differences with Microsoft's practices?

MS hasn't bought timed DLC since Phil Spencer took over to my knowledge. CoD Ghosts and CoD Advanced Warfare timed DLC deal was part of a multi-year CoD deal made last gen. The Division, Evolve, and Battlefield 4 timed DLC deals were made when Mattrick was still in control afaik. We haven't seen timed exclusive DLC on XB1 in a year and a half now, basically ever since Phil said it was a practice he didn't agree with. Sony on the other hand has done timed or fully exclusive DLC for AC4, AC Syndicate, Watch Dogs, Destiny 1, Destiny 2, Far Cry 5, Arkham Knight, Call of Duty (Black Ops 3, Infinite Warfare, WW2), and MvC Infinite so far this gen, possibly more. 

I would like to know how cost effective is to the brand to buy exclusive rights for DLC.

All the games you mentioned (i think) were bundled with a PS4, so there has to be something more about the deal.

Maybe it is me, but i dont give a shit about DLC.

Unless it is a proper Expansion of the game, like Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine Expansions for The Witcher 3.

But a skin? A side mission? A map?

Like...who cares?

For example, last gen when Microsoft secured The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned for GTA IV.

THAT was the scummiest move ever, specially because GTA 3 was exclusive for Playstation 2.



irstupid on 05 October 2017
ThisGuyFooks said:
irstupid said:

Full game.

If I buy something, I want the whole thing, not just a part of it.

Would you like it if you went into a store and purchase Spiderman Homecoming and the movie stopped halfway and you had to buy the rest a few months later. Or would you rather just wait those few months for the whole movie at once.

Me, I would personally wait. Timed exclusive it just like waiting for a movie to come out on DVD versus seeing it in theaters. I can wait.

I look at it like you are buying Spiderman Homecoming.

You are getting the whole movie.

There is one version that include 15 minutes of deleted scenes and a bloopers reel.

The other not.

I would watch the movie Day One.

The extra content is not worth the time that i will have to wait while others are enjoying the game.

In your point though, you are making the DLC irrelivent. In most cases it is, but I'm saying the DLC is important stuff. Stuff people want. I believe this topic was made due to the Destiny DLC being finally reelased for Xbox like 2 years later. Stuff that was missing was more than just cosmetics or bloopers.

Lets look at recent movies. Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad.

Both had extended cuts. Suicide Squads extended cut was superficial and what one woudl consider just cosmetic pointless dlc. Batman v Superman was quite substantial dlc that improved the movie vastly. Those who waited for the BvS DLC to watch the complete edition were the lucky ones. Didn't matter what version of SS you watched, you got the same experience.

Or think of FF15, which kind of reminds me of BvS in that regard. A good story and game, yet with huge chunks missing. I wasn't a fan of FF15, but I would recommend the complete edition whenever that comes out to someone. Right now, I would say wait, and I wish the game was still not out. The game took like 10 years to come out, I coudl have waited another 3 years for it to be finished. I would have liked to play the game when it is complete. Now though, having played the incomplete version I really don't have a desire to play it again. Rewatching a movie is one thing, replaying a 60+ hour game is another.

But I've quit buying season passes or DLC packs early. Not because I don't see them as being worth it. Many times they are worth the price, but because most of the time by the time they release I no longer care about said game and I ended up paying for some DLC i never play. Hell I'm 99% sure I am going to play the Zelda DLC, but I finally did what is smart and have waited for it to release before I purchase, meaning I have yet to purchase. On other hand, I did purchase FF15 season pass. Haven't even downloaded a single one of the DLC's that came out yet and have no desire to. $20 down the drain.