Do you support DLC?

I've never purchased it, and never will because i know that there are publishers like EA who are just cutting content out of the game and selling it as DLC.

Just like there used to be good and bad expansion packs, there's good and bad DLC.

I don't see DLC in general as a negative. Thanks to digital distribution, it's easier for developers to get "expansion packs" to consumers than it used to be when expansions were in physical form. That's a good thing. You don't have to buy the DLC but now it's more readily available for people who are huge fans of the game.

Depending on the content and price, I'm fine with it. Some is better than others though. I don't approve of these $15 map packs for FPS games or characters for fighting games.

DLC is great sometimes, but other times just awful like on disc dlc or horse armor. Then you have the good like GTA expansions, Fallout or Elder scrolls.

I support good DLC.

I very rarely buy DLC for any game, and even then I mostly wait for GOTY editions to buy all of the additional content in one package.  I also tend to only get it if it is more like an 'expansion' that adds extra locations, missions, characters, story, etc.  For future games that plan to have DLC, I will just wait for GOTY versions.  If the DLC is multiplayer content, I never bother with it anyway.

I buy it very rarely and usually regret it.  The only DLC's I've ever purchased that I considered to be a good deal were the Broken Steel pack for Fallout 3 and the Legends DLC for Shift 2:  Unleashed.  There have been a couple of others that were acceptable price-wise, but most were just total wastes of money.

Depending on the content if it is basically an expansion pack and adds to the story than yes I would support it or if it just adds about half the ammount of content as the original game I support it.

If it is purely cosmetic I don't purchase DLC.

I do not have many problem with them. Greedy gamers does have a large amount of anger to them. I do not want another comment about how they should be in hte game from the start.

I haven't bought much -- only instance I can remember is the Dark Souls expansion -- but there's certainly a lot of DLC I'd like to pickup at some point.

F*** DLC. 99% of it is absolute horseshit.

I only spend time and money on DLCs of games I particularly like and on condition that it will add new quests, characters, story. Weapon, outfit or map DLCs do not interest me.

Downloadable content? If handled properly I am okay with it. 

Disc-locked content? F*ck that BS.

The more I think about it, the more I miss proper expansion packs. :/

If it is good. Mostly just steam sales, etc.

I'm ok with it for the most part. Though you can easily tell when some of them don't have much effort behind them or are just there for a quick buck, there are some good ones out there, especially if you get them on sale. Good ones that come to mind (at least for me): Borderlands' Secret Armory, RDR's Undead Nightmare, Dark Souls' Artorias of the Abyss. Felt like I got my money's worth there.

 

The only case I'm paying is when all games are distributed digitally instead of physical copies and the DLC is like the updates we get for games on smart phones but they better not be flash or low budget. The DLC/update has to be essential to completing the game.

I rarely buy DLCs since most of them are bad.

Some of them are good though.

I've never bought any digital dlc, only time I get it is if it's on a GOTY edition disc like RDR - Undead Nightmare and ES: Oblivion - Shivering Isles etc.

If I think it's good, then yeah. At the same time, if I'm enjoying a game, I'll likely buy it just to have more content.

It's not just a yes or no question. It depends entirely on how much a DLC's content is priced at and the perceived value of the content by the player. Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare was a fantastic DLC expansion that almost felt like an entire new game for $10. 

Just like there used to be good and bad expansion packs, there's good and bad DLC.

I don't see DLC in general as a negative. Thanks to digital distribution, it's easier for developers to get "expansion packs" to consumers than it used to be when expansions were in physical form. That's a good thing. You don't have to buy the DLC but now it's more readily available for people who are huge fans of the game.

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As with all things, you can't just make a blanket statement about all DLC being bad or good.  Just like with the retail games themselves, there's bad and good DLC.

Certain companies have a track record with DLC.  Gearbox has had some of the best DLC packs I've ever seen in Borderlands 1 & 2, offering a LOT of content for the price.  Bethesda has (mostly) done good with Skyrim and Fallout in terms of DLC. 

Then on the opposite side of the coin, you have companies like Activision, EA, and Capcom.  Activision DLC while isn't bad quality, are questionably priced, Call of Duty offering a $15 map pack consisting of 3 maps?  EA like to microtansaction you to death, just look at Dead Space 3 or The Sims 3.  Capcom loves to sell on-disk content that was completed before the game was even released, content that greatly affects the core game itself (Street Fighter X Tekken anyone?)

In short, the companies that realize DLC is a means to extending the life of a game by offering additional content over months or even years tend to make good DLC.  The companies that treat it as a sleazy cash grab tend to released bad DLC.

yea.. some games have good DLC like Fallout 3 and lair of the shadow broker was great too

If it provides value to a game and its not day one DLC or contect that exists already in the disc I dont mind.

No

Not all DLCs are bad.

I would only purchase a DLC that is worth the money. For example, all Fallout DLCs are worth it to me since i am a fan of the series and their combine playtime is more than 30-40 hours! I would never buy a multiplayer DLC - one that provides just a few exptra maps or what not...

The Sims 3 titles are not DLC, they are expansions, there is a difference.

If you take a DLC and an expansion as the same thing, I doubt any fan of a game wouldn't buy a "DLC". There are some stupid DLC's out there though.

To the guy who was complaining about DLC(was it the OP).. If you would rather pay the full price of all the content as once, feel free to contact game companies and suggest that. If you want to pay for the main and most important part of the game first and then decide if you want to pay for more, be satisfied.

If the DLC is good like a DA:O Awakening, then i am all for it, but there is just so much crap for games right now that i have my doubtsThe_Last_Ride

Awakening was more of an expansion, though. A lot of the DA DLC was an absolute rip-off...either armor packs or single sidequests. In general, BioWare's DLCs were terrible up until Overlord, which was semi-decent. And they've released a few goods ones since then.

But generally, if the DLC ads content proportional to its price tag, I'll give it shot. I think Bordlerlands really set the bar this gen with the first sets of expansion content that were worthwhile.

And then there's games like Skyrim where I bought the Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLCs because I wanted to use mods that required said DLCs. And I know I'm not alone in that.

Depends. If it's say, an expansion pack and it's worth the money, then yes. If it's an on disk character or dungeon and it was released on the same day as the game just so they can milk the buyer for more money, then no.