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The great DLC debate (add your own stories)

Discussion in 'Video Games' started by TotalAaron, Mar 10, 2013.

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  1. TotalAaron

    TotalAaron The Oracle of Awesome

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    Not EA= i lovvveeee microtransactions in games like when i payed $110 (AUS) for simcity to find out that

    A= every new building is DLC and B= it has DRM

    what are your own horror stories?
     
    #1 TotalAaron, Mar 10, 2013
  2. TheStalker

    TheStalker Dragon Slayer

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    Bioshock infinite. Yeah canceled my pre order for the GOTY edition.
     
    #2 TheStalker, Mar 10, 2013
  3. Bamul

    Bamul S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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    The new SimCity sounds like an absolute disaster... it's a shame, since it used to be an interesting franchise. :(
     
    #3 Bamul, Mar 10, 2013
  4. cerberus

    cerberus Well-Known Member

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    Gloves off, shit on the SimCity players for supporting a game with always-on DRM. They knew the game shipped with it so they've got no one to blame but themselves for their misfortunes. Especially after Diablo III's Error 37, one would've thought gamers had learnt a valuable lesson the hard way?!
     
    #4 cerberus, Mar 10, 2013
  5. Von Streff

    Von Streff Well-Known Member
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    DLC can be good: Alan Wake had excellent, and cheap DLC, which was replayable and really worth it.

    But yeah, I'm against most money-making DLC which offers little..
     
    #5 Von Streff, Mar 10, 2013
  6. cerberus

    cerberus Well-Known Member

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    Just remembered my DLC horror story: Sinclair Solution Test Pack for Bioshock 2. Back then, early 2010, DLC wasn't as big of a problem as it is today and I didn't pay much attention to the specifics either because I rarely bought it. But when I noticed that the pack was a 128kb unlock key for on-disc content, I was furious (spent a lot of money on the Special Edition already), it completely changed my disposition towards DLC. After having spent the remainder of my Microsoft Points on a handful of various DLC packs for other games, my MSP balance finally reached 0 and I haven't bought any DLC since (late 2010). Instead, I patiently waited for GOTY editions and that's something I still do.
     
    #6 cerberus, Mar 10, 2013
  7. Skaara Dreadlocks

    Skaara Dreadlocks Tha Baws

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    I don't think I've ever bought any DLC at all, ever, to be frankly honest.
     
    #7 Skaara Dreadlocks, Mar 10, 2013
  8. vitormaduro

    vitormaduro Well-Known Member

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    I only bought 1 DLC in my entire life, the Wolf Pack DLC for PAYDAY: The Heist, it was cheap, and I really enjoyed the game, so I bought it
     
    #8 vitormaduro, Mar 10, 2013
  9. Shurfire

    Shurfire Well-Known Member

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    I never really buy DLC. Last one I bought was for WaW and that was map pack 3 so I could get der reise.
     
    #9 Shurfire, Mar 10, 2013
  10. TotalAaron

    TotalAaron The Oracle of Awesome

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    i myself bought a dee ll cee pack for borderlands but could not download it for the files where all corupted so i had wasted $90 (AUS)
     
    #10 TotalAaron, Mar 11, 2013
  11. Shurfire

    Shurfire Well-Known Member

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    Where did you buy it from? If you got it from steam then you could always reinstall.
     
    #11 Shurfire, Mar 11, 2013
  12. TotalAaron

    TotalAaron The Oracle of Awesome

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    It was the playstation network which is kinda crap because i asked for a refund and never got anware but i shall keep my nuke (The WarZ) for another time child
     
    #12 TotalAaron, Mar 11, 2013
  13. Bamul

    Bamul S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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    Ha! I wish. :p
     
    #13 Bamul, Mar 12, 2013
  14. cerberus

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    It already was, wasn't it... I really have to think hard to pinpoint the exact moment when DLC truly became a menace. I was late to the current-gen party, having only bought an xbox 360 elite back in september 2007 which functioned as an offline system only until late 2008. Which, incidentally, I remember to be the year where EA screwed us over with costume and weapon packs for Dead Space.

    Blimey...
     
    #14 cerberus, Mar 12, 2013
  15. Shurfire

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    Like I've said I really haven't bought DLC in a really long time. I'm planning of buying Skyrim on PC since I borrowed on 360 from a friend and I wanna play it with all the mods and on max graphics and no loading times, but I'm either going to wait for a GOTY edition (which should be soon) or wait till Skyrim and its DLC go on sale. I hear all the DLC is pretty cool and I wanna play Dragonborn.
     
    #15 Shurfire, Mar 12, 2013
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    Bamul S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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    I joined the current gen pretty late as well, in December of 2009, when I got a PS3 - but I'd heard about the DLC plague before since most of my friends had Xbox 360s since launch. You can even look back at games released a few years ago and find DLC packs for them. :( Mass Effect, originally released in 2007, already had DLC. EA really convinced BioWare into absolutely flooding Dragon Age: Origins with DLC in 2009. I can't remember when this messed up DLC craze started, but it's definitely something that began with this gen of gaming.
     
    #16 Bamul, Mar 16, 2013
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    TheStalker Dragon Slayer

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    It's not hard to pin point what started it. The almighty dollar :p
     
    #17 TheStalker, Mar 16, 2013
  18. Bamul

    Bamul S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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    Yeah, but we're wondering when it started. :p
     
    #18 Bamul, Mar 16, 2013
  19. Darkbringer

    Darkbringer Huntsman

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    Civilization-series have always had legit dlcs. They add all kinds of new things to an already well-done game: Religion, new civilizations, new city-states, they update the unit HP system, etc. Really worth the 20$.
    BF3 Premium I am a little split about, because they actually add a lot of cool stuff and it isn't expensive compared to buying the map packs separately; However, they almost force you to buy it by putting you back in waiting queue for dlc's as well as when joining servers and thus destroy some of the gaming experience for non-premium users.
     
    #19 Darkbringer, Mar 16, 2013
  20. Bamul

    Bamul S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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    I didn't know that the Civ series ever had DLC... I thought they used expansions instead. :p I can definitely remember that Civ III and Civ IV had some badass expansions (I don't remember playing an expansion to Civ II though), but I haven't played Civ V so I'm not up-to-date on all that.
    That does sound like some really shady business. :(
     
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