Guys, DLC has always been a way to make extra money off the game, that isn't the problem. The problem is the quality of said DLC.

Take for example, Call of Duty. Pay $15 for a map pack, of which you'll probably only like one or two anyway, and there'll normally be three or four per game. The sad part is, many players who can play it on PC can get community maps for free (This goes for most PC games as well) so this is a pretty cheap way to create new content, but it's still content.

Then you have guys like Valve and works like TF2. The items you see in the store, 95% of those you can get on your own, WITHOUT buying them. If you do buy them, it's just an easier way to get something you want at less time, for a price. There's also items such as Keys and Tickets needed to get special items, but they certainly aren't required, and you aren't missing much if you don't get them. You can take it or leave it, and there's no real harm either way.

Finally, there's people like Bethesda, and I'm talking DLC the likes of Fallout: New Vegas. These are literal game expansions, creating both more story, characters, locations, weaponry, enemies, and the like. A more recent example could also be Dawnguard for Skyrim. This is where it's like you're buying a mini-video game, and if done right, can easily be well worth the price, or more.

So, yeah, some DLC is just bullshit developers push for extra money, and sometimes it's something amazing you wouldn't wanna go without.

DLC should NOT, however, be something that's required to play the GOD DAMN GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Anyone here thinks that EA shitted on BF3 by trying to imitate COD. I wanted bad company not some pussy shit. I lost my shit when i found out you cant even destroy buildings.Fucking COD and its gold made the BF team cock hungry. Turned a great series into shit for the sake of a gun game

Game-$60
Elite-$60
Xbox live subscription-$60
about 200 dollars,for a 60 dollar game.
I'm not saying I hate it,but I think they're money whores.

This DLC is making me hungry.

Now they got "Season Passes" which usually involve releasing about 4 pieces of dlc and you can pay 30 dollars before hand or buy it individually for 40 dollars that probably should have been put into the game in the first place.

100 dollars per game.

I DON'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM BECAUSE VALVE IS AWESOME ! FUCK YEAH VALVE !

<Couldn't help but think of this.

Worst 60$ spent ever

shit, man...

i'm still scared as all fuck from that ice cream cone

My game is not edible.

I really don't know any games like that.
Any game is still playable without DLC, the DLC is like the toppings on a pizza.

Hearthfire may be interesting, and creative, but it's a load of shit. Dawnguard was let-down too. Where's the next Shivering Isles? Where's the DLC that gives you an entirely new world to explore? They've got all that misty empty space on the edges of the map and the Cyrodiil area south of Skyrim. Fucking use it.

tl;dr Skryim is now Sims.

how fitting that the add was for BF3 premium DLC when i opened this page.
BF3 (at release) = $59.99
BF3 Premium DLC = $49.99
BF3 Total = $109.98

Conclusion? Fuck you EA, FUCK YOU

Kinda hard what to say on this, with the ability for gaming companies to just update their games, think of it like WoW, it's a continuation of the story, but they've got the basics perfect, now I'm not saying how good a game WoW is, but just how it's being operated

With online games specificly, either they keep updating it or they make the other stuff into a seperate game, which would also split the online audience and pretty much kill one of the other games in the process

But also an other thing I noticed, games are made in a short time span after each other, which makes the graphical difference smaller and smaller, if not invisible and you start to question, why not just make it into the original game

The thing is.. We've never tried this before, what, not even doing it for 10 years, it's a new era and the basics are still being made, goes for alot of things lately, Bruce Willis reason to consider sueing Apple, Megaupload and so on.

I'm just hoping this comes out okay these things, in a way that'll benefit the the costumers without destroying companies.

So DLC should be healthy for you?

The fact that developers don't release the whole game, pisses me off. I have just payed $60 for a cake that's only 30% there. When I buy that cake, I expect the other 70%. I want to enjoy the whole game, not go out and buy 3 hours worth of game play 6 months later. When I purchase DLC, I want another whole chapter into the game (Dawngaurd). When you make an online game, you don't break it up in tiny pieces and overprice a small piece of cake, you give the buyer what they want: A chilled black forest cake complete with Hershey chocolate shavings, and chocolate chips (Skyrim). Not some shitty carrot cake with deer poop laced with glitches that ruin the game for everyone (BF3,MW3). Whenever you release a very successful game in a series, you have to iron out all the bugs before the game is released, it doesn't matter how many teams you use, make the game playable when it comes out.

TL;DR Developers need to get their shit together.

More developers need to learn to DLC like these guys.