Dark Souls DLC is fine to me. When you have a fully complete game, especially one that's supposed to be the last in the series (as with DKS3) paying 20 bucks for a true add-on to that game is worth it in my eyes.DLC like Destiny had on the other hand, which is basically just selling cut content, is a shit anti-consumer practice that needs to go extinct.
Quote from: Aether on July 03, 2018, 03:00:31 PMDark Souls DLC is fine to me. When you have a fully complete game, especially one that's supposed to be the last in the series (as with DKS3) paying 20 bucks for a true add-on to that game is worth it in my eyes.DLC like Destiny had on the other hand, which is basically just selling cut content, is a shit anti-consumer practice that needs to go extinct.so you think that DLC was worth 33% of the entire base game experience
Quote from: Verbatim on July 03, 2018, 03:04:53 PMQuote from: Aether on July 03, 2018, 03:00:31 PMDark Souls DLC is fine to me. When you have a fully complete game, especially one that's supposed to be the last in the series (as with DKS3) paying 20 bucks for a true add-on to that game is worth it in my eyes.DLC like Destiny had on the other hand, which is basically just selling cut content, is a shit anti-consumer practice that needs to go extinct.so you think that DLC was worth 33% of the entire base game experienceIt has to be good enough. I was fine with paying 20 bucks for The Ringed City DKS3 DLC because it was full of good content to me. Ashes of Ariandel was good too but was a bit short. I figured it would've been priced better at 15 bucks.
Quote from: challengerX on July 03, 2018, 02:37:01 PMSay I'm a game developer, why should I be obliged to create free content or otherwise make another gamethey aren't obliged toyou make it if you want toand if none of them ever want to because they know they won't make money off it anyway, then good, fuck themQuoteThe game is a complete product, DLC expansions are just that, extra content. lmaoIf a game has DLC, it seizes to be a complete game until it's installed. You can't have a completed game be more than complete. That doesn't make any sense. Completed means finished, it's done.QuoteAnd games may seem overpriced but the developers aren't exactly making a killing off of it, they only make a certain percentage. I don't careQuoteYou don't HAVE to buy anything.If you want to have a complete game, yes, you do.
Say I'm a game developer, why should I be obliged to create free content or otherwise make another game
The game is a complete product, DLC expansions are just that, extra content.
And games may seem overpriced but the developers aren't exactly making a killing off of it, they only make a certain percentage.
You don't HAVE to buy anything.
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Quote from: Dietrich Six on July 03, 2018, 10:41:30 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 03, 2018, 02:59:20 PMseizeswhat are you trying to point out hereoh, you think i'm confusing it with "ceases" because you're stupid and you don't realize that both terms work in this context
Quote from: Verbatim on July 03, 2018, 10:44:53 PMQuote from: Dietrich Six on July 03, 2018, 10:41:30 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 03, 2018, 02:59:20 PMseizeswhat are you trying to point out hereoh, you think i'm confusing it with "ceases" because you're stupid and you don't realize that both terms work in this contextSeize and desist
Quote from: Dietrich Six on July 03, 2018, 10:47:43 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 03, 2018, 10:44:53 PMQuote from: Dietrich Six on July 03, 2018, 10:41:30 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 03, 2018, 02:59:20 PMseizeswhat are you trying to point out hereoh, you think i'm confusing it with "ceases" because you're stupid and you don't realize that both terms work in this contextSeize and desistit's called an eggcorn
I just see DLC like a dessert Do I still feel hungry after the main course? If not, cool. I've had my fill, I'm content. Do I want more? Okay, let's pay a bit extra.
Fuck people who want to make money off something they created for you to enjoy? Why should they do it for free? Why are you dooming them to have to work somewhere else that they hate and not be able to make money off of games? Isn't this one of the things you hate the most about the world, about how (you think) you can't make a living off of writing? Why should DLC be free, apart from you basically saying you don't want to pay for it?
It's extra content. A cheeseburger is complete with meat and cheese. Ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, peppers, and so on are extras.
You should care, because you're acting like developers are these greedy assholes who who just want to screw us out of our money for no reason when they're the ones getting the shit end of the stick on profits.
Nope. The game is complete at launch.
I'm not going to have a discussion with you when you're just playing devil's advocate. People that believe this are dumbasses. Everybody deserves to be able to make a living, THAT'S life.
How is the consumer being screwed? If it's good DLC that's priced fairly, what's the problem? "Preying" on dumbass people who buy gun skins is a myth and the only people to blame are the consumers. Why shouldn't people make money off of stupidity?
We absolutely do need entertainment. That's how life works. There's nothing wrong with being passionate about what you do and wanting to make money, too. It's a product, why should it be exempt from having monetary value because it's art?
Because a cheeseburger is just that, meat, cheese, and buns. Pickles are basically DLC.
Wow ok Tarantino. Hahaha come on dude that's not even the point. I agree devs should make more profits but it has nothing to do with DLC being free or not, because the profit margins aren't all that different.
So a game on launch day is incomplete even if DLC hasn't been announced?
Dude it's a fucking video game about a magic zombie jailbreak. It's not that serious.
This utopia you're dreaming of is never going to exist, and if it does it'll be long after we're dead. It's pretty tiresome that you rely on this and use it as a crutch in very argument.
I don't understand why art and money are mutually exclusive to you and you're acting like money is disgusting and below art. I guarantee you all the great artists who died poor and have their art selling for millions in snooty art galleries would've preferred to have had that money while they were alive. The term "starving artist" isn't a badge of honor, it's a criticism of a deep flaw within our society where we don't value art enough and don't encourage it so artists can be successful and also make a living.
A lot of these decisions to sell gun skins etc aren't made by the people who actually even make the game most of the time, it's usually the suits around who say "hey this is making money we should do it too".
There's plenty of DLC that's worth it. Way back to the first Ghost Recon, Desert Storm and Island Thunder were true expansions packs with like 8+ mission campaigns and new multiplayer maps with new weapons. Or just recently Nioh, which has 3 great expansion packs with a ton of work put into them which I might add were free for those of us who bought it on Steam. But that's the developer's choice, or sometimes it's out of their hands. Like Bungie who got forced by Microsoft to make ODST into another (half ass) game when it would've been awesome as DLC.
Or maybe realizing he'd starve to death would have to put his artistic talents to the side while he does something else for money. Of course artists still want to create art even if they won't get paid, the point is they should be.
"BURN EVERYTHING DOWN BECAUSE DLC IS ABUSED SOMETIMES"
Yeah no offense to indie developers because they make great games on a limited budget, but I like big budget games.
I don't see why the video game industry should be destroyed and reduced to sidescrollers because you now have an unfounded hatred for DLC. I mean, by this logic, all games should be free too. In which case nobody would ever make money so it'd be like 10 years until a game comes out and it'd drive the industry back decades. There'd be no new consoles, no controllers, no innovation of any kind.
So we agree. The video game at launch is simply a cheeseburger, pickles cost extra. Some places give you pickles for free, but that's up to them. The past of me is about dietary shit, I don't want a whole new industry anyway. And you had the entire cheeseburger for free.
It's content they worked on after completing the game. It doesn't come included because it is EXTRA CONTENT.
There's no line to draw. It's literally extra content. It's like saying the cheese pizza you ordered should have every topping on it for free. It cost the pizza place money to stock pepperoni, why the hell should they give it to you for free?
YOU are the one drawing arbitrary lines based on a whim hahaha what the fuck is this.
They want more money and there's nothing wrong with that.
They don't make that much more profit on DLC.
You don't have to buy DLC, you do have to tip unless you're an insane asshole. Not tipping a waiter isn't gonna change the world and have their boss start paying them more. That's ridiculous. Do you have any idea how much that wouldn't work? Like at all?
Wrong. DLC is extra content, you don't need to buy it. If you can't afford it, tough shit that's life.
I couldn't buy almost any DLC for years, you don't see me complaining. You don't see me saying the entire industry should bend and warp to my every complaint and want.
What the fuck? Did you not see the backlash the Fallout 4 Creator Club got and how people were saying it's Oblivion horse armor all over again?
There is literally nothing wrong with DLC. Unless it's a shady developer that puts good ideas on pause to be sold as DLC later
I never feel like I NEED DLC for any game I own. There's like 4 DLC expansions for ARMA 3 I don't have and they're overpriced garbage. I could make better missions myself in a few hours on the editor or even download some for free on the Workshop.
If you see DLC like that, simply don't buy it and don't show any support for it, or buy it on sale.
That's the only way to make sure we get good DLC that's priced fairly. This is simple shit, I shouldn't have to tell you this. You can't blame all DLC because some devs are greedy.
No, it's that you act like the world is either complete trash or it has to be a utopia.
Agreed, devs should have much larger profit margins.
My point being you're blaming the devs when it's usually Activision and Microsoft pushing this shit.
QuoteHow many mission campaigns were in the base game of the first Ghost Recon?15 I think
How many mission campaigns were in the base game of the first Ghost Recon?
Who the hell is gonna pay them, then? Are they supposed to just get money for free? They have to make and sell their product, that's how it works.
So developers have found a way to make more money because game sales really don't make them that much. How horrible.
Except it takes a big budget to push the envelope.
You can make a great game for a few hundred bucks, but it's the same tired old 2D adventure. It gets old.
"I'm fine with thousands of people being out of work and a thriving industry dying because some price adjustments need to be made"
Except it's a complete game. A car is complete when it's built, seat warmers and Bluetooth capabilities are extras.
That's your opinion. Plenty of people like pizzas with a lot of toppings.
DLC is an extra.
But you still fail to refute even the most basic point I've made, that DLC's are extras and not necessary.
So you admit it isn't about greed.
Why would I pester you to buy the DLC if I know you can't afford it?
Back in the day we just probably would've never had the content.
wtf nigga we're the same age
You are paying for the work the chef does, the rent, the cost of upkeep, payroll, everything. That's what goes into pricing the food at a restaurant.
No it isn't smart. Don't buy bad DLC that's overpriced. Good DLC is a way for us to get more content they'll never make and put in the game before launch.
You act like you're being screwed out of something. You're not.
No, I shouldn't be, because that's childish behavior. I'm a victim of what lmao?
A lot of us saw this coming. There's just a lot of people who seem to have no problem with microtransactions.
I agree. But there's not really anything we can do.
There's no need to be an extremist.
Proof?
Complete what? What is this obsession with completion?
No, that's bullshit. But it doesn't mean video games should be nuked.
I'm telling you to buy good DLC.
They're not, they're just trying to make some money like everybody else. Waiting until they can make another game (if they even get the go ahead and the funding) is ridiculous.