Nyotengu was a free preorder bonus, not dlc. But if the king of fighters season pass characters are only $4 each I will probably get them. 

Truth be told, I kinda love DLC--to a point. Off the top of my head, I've purchased Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Red Dead 2, and Spider-Man deluxe editions without even knowing what the DLCs were. Sometimes they were great. Other times, a little underwhelming. Up to $20 or so above retail, I'm cool. I even bought all of Valkyria Chronicles 2's dlc because the game was so good and I have the season pass for Smash Ultimate despite never really liking the series.

But when it becomes too excessive, it turns me off. Usually it's a game like Onechambara or Shinran Kagura that abuses my love for titties.

-- I also have a sore spot for DLC that is actually already part of the game but the developer locks it away and makes us pay to unlock it. Just doesn't seem honest to me.

I know several people with SFV that have all the characters and didn't pay anything for them. Which is why they've been cutting the amount of FM challenges give each week.

If the only thing you can complain about is online lobbies not being there then I would consider that a ding more than being incomplete.  Incomplete would be not having a fully fleshed out character set to play and then charging for the rest via DLC for a full price 60 dollar game.

As for DLC, the company can charge whatever they want for, you vote with your dollars if you believe the price is legit.  There must be someone out there purchasing this stuff for that price or they would never charge it.  I know, I would never purchase it but then again, I barely if ever purchase DLC anyway.  DLC should never be a requirement to enjoy the main game and should always be as it is just more content.  If the DLC is required for continuing or enjoying a game, I do not purchase those products.

Not sure how SF 4 turned out but I did not purchase it until it was complete in my eyes.  I actually enjoyed the seasons for Killer Instinct 

The locked away DLC that is on the disk I have to say is definitely shady.  If it can be released on the Disk, then it can be added to the main game.  Thats the publisher/Developer pulling a fast one and definitely garbage.

To quote Khabib Nurmagomedov: "This is number one bullshit".

I understand that many games are not profitable even at the $60 price tag, but there's ways to make DLC enticing and desirable, price point and amount of content being the most important factors. Look at Fast Racing Neo, for only $5 you can get 8 new tracks, 10 new vehicles, and 18 music tracks. That's DLC done RIGHT, even more impressive, the developers are a small team delivering a high quality and polished game. These large studios are just greedy and ready to milk their fan bases (ahem Tales Of DLC).

That's gonna be a major blow to my brand loyalty...if it's true.

You mean to say disc.  But it's not a shady practice at all.  If a company decides you are going to pay for a particular DLC, you're going to pay for it.  Since that much is known about the content, then the question becomes how to get it to the player.  If they do not have the DLC files locally, they cannot see the DLC.  If I had DLC costumes, I want the person I'm playing against to also see me using it, and not the default.  Since everyone then needs the files, that means they have to be installed on the Hard Disk or be printed directly on the bluray disc.

Most people never complain about having to download DLC to their hard drive, yet that exact same data that is needed becomes a problem when it's on the disc?  That means less data is on the server, less data needs to be downloaded, and it can be made cheaper since it's not taking up as much space on the server.  It means when you're done playing the game, you don't have the entire DLC on your HDD.

If you are not licensed to use the content, you're not licensed to use it.  Regardless of rather or not it's on the disc, that's not how the law works.  Otherwise everyone would buy the physical disc game to get the dlc for free, which wouldn't be fair to anyone who downloaded the game.  Same exact data, just stored in a different spot.

As an end user, think about it-- it makes no difference where it's stored.

That's not the only thing I can complain about, it's the only thing I chose to mention.  The game has game breaking bugs.  You can fight outside of stage boundaries.  There is no excuse for that.  Bugs happen, but if the game wasn't rushed, that would have been discovered.  Like Yoshimitsu's glitch in Soul Calibur VI.

And yes, the company can charge whatever they want for the DLC. Just like I can call them out for bad consumer business practices, charging more for 60 costumes and 2 characters, than the entire game is worth.  If other companies try this, it's bad.  It's a season pass, mind you.  In 3 months, it's going to be another 93 dollar season pass.

Look at lootboxes, EA, and star wars.  Battlefront 2 is dead.  There will be no battlefront 3.  Yeah, we voted with our wallets.  Now a game is dead.  

So, guys, vote with your wallets.  As if that wasn't what we were going to already do anyway.  Not only am I not buying the DLC, I'm skipping the entire game because of how incompetent this company has been for consumer relations.  And with an acronym like "D.O.A., it can't afford to have something like this happen to it.  This is going to kill the series.  But, at least we voted with our wallets.

OMG! You're saying the exact same bull that I quoted in my first answer. This is hilarious. Especially from a developper. 

Seriously, we buy a game 60 bucks. Anything, I mean ANYTHING, they add after the release should be free. That is a fact. Same as online. Up to anybody to be a sheep but when I see ppl saying that 30 bucks for a season pass is correct, I truly can't blame the ones saying that the community of gamers is the dumbest one in the world.

Now, a complete game, dlc included is around 100$ at least and ppl are happy with it. Even the ones who don't get everything paid by their viewers. Don't anybody say again that life is too expensive these days. And don't insult us by denying that devs think about dlc way before release. Some announce them almost one year before the release, so...

No joke, if your answer was supposed to make us think that a 90 bucks season pass is not the shameless thing ever, think again.

Hell NO!!  From your comment you have no clue what it takes to create software and especially games.  You pay for the main product and that's it.  If the main product is not worth the price for your money then do not purchase it.  You are not entitled to any extra content produced for a product as I stated before because that content wasn't made for free.  Any extra content has a team that has to make it and they make a salary, benefits etc.  The cost per head for developers is not cheap.  If they are not working and producing revenue for the company they are cut, just that simple.  Not every game recoup the cost of development just on main game sales alone.  The fact you can get around purchasing the game new even discounted affects the bottomline.  

It really doesn't matter if devs think about DLC before hand.  Actually its smart business for them to think about all aspect of the development process including what they can do once they finish the main game.  Do you think Devs just start coding for a project out of nowhere.  A complete solution design has to be fleshed out before starting a project.  The companies that do not do this probably are the ones that get into feature creep which can kill a project.  

As for price for the extra content, thats different.  Its the responsibility for the company to price their extra content right so they get the max amount of sales without deterring the customer from purchasing it.  A company can charge whatever they want for their extra content.  I as a consumer has the right to dismiss it or purchase it.  I rarely waste my time complaining and just vote with my wallet.  What I have noticed in the industry most of the early prices are for the person who pays anything when the DLC release.  After a few months the prices are reduced big time.