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[KelpPlankton]

This used to bother me, but as time's gone on I find myself purchasing DLC less and less anyway, and the idea that I need a "complete" version of the game including a ton of content I'll never touch seems silly to me now.

It's funny you bring up Fire Emblem, because that series in particular is what broke me of the "buy all the DLC or dont buy the game at all" habit. The 3DS games have a ton of superfluous stuff just designed to let you make the game easier, or story content that doesn't even use your actual main roster, and I just don't care about that stuff. I'd never play it. Why should I buy it?

It feels very freeing to just not care.

 

[Jo Shishido's Cheeks]

Only DLC I accept is stuff like Mario Kart or Zelda: BotW where it's developed after the game's development and release and arrives months later.
Anything with 'day 1 DLC' or pre-order DLC or whatever I pass on, in terms of the DLC, but will most often just skip the game outright too.
Rip-off tactics that I'm still floored gamers on the whole embraced.

 

[Fuchsdh]

I've found this to be the case with Games with Gold. It's clear a lot of games are "free" in that they want to entice you to buy the (very rarely discounted) DLC. Assassins' Creed III is now free, but buying all the DLC would come to $38. More than four years after its release.

 

[Waji]

I feel the same. There are games I avoid because of DLC.
I'm really glad when there's none in games I want to get.

 

[Dark Ninja]

Are you talking about Fire Emblem Warriors because the base game will be at least 200 + hours of content. Same with Hyrule Warriors there's almost too much to do in those games. Don't play any modern games because you wont ever get everything in the game.

 

[ffejeromdiks]

It sucks how acceptable the practice has become. These companies are not your friends. They do this because they want more money out of your pocket and into theirs.

The horror!

 

[KennyL]

DLCs make complete games incomplete.

 

[Lightning Lord]

Out of all the Fire Emblem DLC I have purchased, none of it has ever felt necessary.

 

[Bronetta]

Excessive DLC can be offputting, thats for sure.

 

[Deft Beck]

DLCs make complete games incomplete.

Wait for the complete editions.

Out of all the Fire Emblem DLC I have purchased, none of it has ever felt necessary.

It's all bonus dungeons and such, right?

 

[13ruce]

The Hyrule Warriors dlc adds 100s of hours of gameplay tho but the fire emblem dlc is just cash crabs most of the time.