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Games with obnoxious amounts of DLC
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Lightbreaker
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While this game didn't have any DLC (that I could remember), the amount of online tickets you need to complete the game was quite ludicrous. The game is called Elemental Monster -Online Card Game- and it costs apparently $400 - 600 in online tickets to obtain the platinum.
Here's the guide to completing the game:
Here's the guide to completing the game:
They're digital hoarders who claim the "complete experience" is gated behind having to pay more. They're people who wish some DLC didn't exist because they feel compelled to buy it but they also don't want to buy the base game without buying it all.
I kind of understand it. It's that collector's mentality. I got caught up with it in TF2 where I was "idling" for drops way more than I was actually playing the game. Eventually the released content outpaced my ability to get it so I gave up and sold it all for a few hundred bucks.
Train Simulator is a niche product for train enthusiasts. The pricing on the DLC reflects this as they only expect a very small amount of people to purchase any given piece of it, and they definitely don't expect someone to purchase all of it.
If they charged half the price than they do now on the DLC, it wouldn't be a sustainable business.
If they charged half the price than they do now on the DLC, it wouldn't be a sustainable business.
Maintenance
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Train hobbyists. I've met a few myself, one spent the value of a couple brand new cars in model kits, railroads, etc. The Train Simulator DLC would be a drop in the bucket compared to that.
FatCatAttack
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As much as I enjoy Paradox games, their DLC policy is side eye worthy. This is especially true for EU IV. While the total cost of Europa Universalis' DLC is 'only' in the hundreds of dollars as opposed to 6000 for train simulator, the DLC features include things that simply could have been patched into the base game because they involve core functionality rather than extra stuff. For instance, the Art of War DLC which was sold at the initial price of 20 dollars adds key functionality to control your military and without it the game feels anemic.
At least with the "hat" based DLC of Dead or Alive you have something nice to look at. The EU IV DLC feels like a janky subscription service to an Early Access game.
At least with the "hat" based DLC of Dead or Alive you have something nice to look at. The EU IV DLC feels like a janky subscription service to an Early Access game.
Vigilant Walrus
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Total War:/
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Yeah Steam is generally pretty good about that, I'm more referring to consoles.
DLC for the game barely got off the ground, but I applaud how it was released. The first two characters, Kat and Emmett, were free if you bought the game within the first couple weeks. The second set of characters, Zeus and Isaac Clark, were free with the purchase of God of War: Ascension.
I was really hoping that type of cross promotion would take off. Including free DLC codes with other first party titles incentivized both the purchase of PSASBR and whatever game they were tying codes to, and if you are a fan of PSASBR, you are probably a fan of many of the first party franchises. It felt like a very generous way of rewarding fans.
Had the game taken off (or been supported with a PS4 port) we could have gotten codes for:
Joel and Ellie in copies of TLoU
Bentley and Murray with Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Iota and Atoi with Tearaway
Kutaro with Puppeteer
Knack
Delsin and Fetch with Infamous Second Son
Galahad and Daxter with The Order: 1886
Captain Qwark and Dr. Nefarious with the Ratchet and Clank remake
Aloy with Horizon
The Hunter with Bloodborne
or cool third party indie collaborations like:
Kai Tana with Velocity 2X
Juan and Tostada with Guacamelee!
Amadeus, Zoya, and Pontius with Trine 3
The Drifter with Hyper Light Drifter
The Stranger with Furi
... (I could do this forever)
I really hope, if we do get a sequel, they go back to that model. Had that been the case, I'd only have needed to buy the Bloodborne Hunter separately (since I'm not a fan of From's games).
EatinOlives
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I hate the way it's integrated into Forza Horizon 3.
DLC cars are always peppered into the store (haven't found an option to turn them off like you could in Forza 6), "Purchase Treasure Map" is a permanent button prompt in the map, Blizzard Mountain is a permanent tab in the main menu, they act like you "unlock" Blizzard Mountain in the game as you progress and conveniently don't tell you it's a paid expansion until you physically try to go there, and the radio DJs are all going like "Imma go pack up my stuff and go to BLIZZARD MOUNTAIN Y'ALL wew!!"
Skeevy as all hell, you can't play the vanilla version without constantly tripping on ads for DLC everywhere. It's a shame because the expansions I've heard are great but the way they push it is so scummy I hate rewarding that practice with money.
DLC cars are always peppered into the store (haven't found an option to turn them off like you could in Forza 6), "Purchase Treasure Map" is a permanent button prompt in the map, Blizzard Mountain is a permanent tab in the main menu, they act like you "unlock" Blizzard Mountain in the game as you progress and conveniently don't tell you it's a paid expansion until you physically try to go there, and the radio DJs are all going like "Imma go pack up my stuff and go to BLIZZARD MOUNTAIN Y'ALL wew!!"
Skeevy as all hell, you can't play the vanilla version without constantly tripping on ads for DLC everywhere. It's a shame because the expansions I've heard are great but the way they push it is so scummy I hate rewarding that practice with money.
It's not so much that, I think it's more to do with that some games (DOA5 is guilty of this) purposely show that you do not have the DLC for whatever it is. And you see it every single time you go choose a character to play a match. It's pretty annoying.
LelouchZero
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The game is absolutely amazing with the expansions, if you do want to get into The Sims 3 pickup 3 or more expansions to go with it on a sale, the "Stuff" content aren't really huge additions to the game in comparison to what the expansion packs offer.
Ambitions, Seasons and Into The Future are among my favorite expansion packs, the latter is especially really cool!
beatdowniidx
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Company of Heroes 2
Dawn of War 2
Payday 2
Saints Row 3 and 4
Dawn of War 2
Payday 2
Saints Row 3 and 4
Any games that integrate unpurchased DLC into the main game are the worst. The amount doesn't matter. The first game I remember doing so was Borderlands 2. It went on PS+, and on first boot I was scrolling through the character class selection when I came across one that I found interesting. I selected it and... was redirected to the store to purchase it. Gross.
I've seen it several times since with the most recent example being Forza Horizon 3 -- possibly the worst I've seen yet. Want to bid on this car at the auction house? Just kidding! Buy the DLC! (in addition to tons of other shit, of course)
I've seen it several times since with the most recent example being Forza Horizon 3 -- possibly the worst I've seen yet. Want to bid on this car at the auction house? Just kidding! Buy the DLC! (in addition to tons of other shit, of course)