Do you buy DLC? POLL

[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"]

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"] 3 maps isn't worth any money? The dev's should make them for you for free right? Just because they like you?KingTuttle

[QUOTE="Zassimick"]

I haven't bought any DLC yet. I just don't want to put in the money to purchase it. Maybe if it offers enough and I want to continue with the game I'll get it someday, but so far I haven't gotten any yet.

Considered the Fable 2 and Mass Effect content, also The Shivering Isles pack which is something I really want. But its still $30 on PSN and I'm not dishing that much for it.

KingTuttle

On PSN it still is. I have the PS3 version of Oblivion, the first game I bought with the system, and I rather not sell my copy to get the GotY edition which I can probably get for less than $30. :(

That's one thing I've wondered about DLC. Has the content been stable in price or have many things gone down in price over time? I understand special deals and I know the map packs of Halo 3 have gone free after a while, but do some of these things drop in price ever? If not, annoying! :P

[QUOTE="heretrix"]

[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"] Most DLC is like 1/2 an expansion pack, well ok 1/4 of an expansion pack in most cases and about 1/16 in other (im looking at you Halo 3 maps). Most of this stuff was free in the past and it has only become paid for content due to the closed nature of services like XBL. Most of this BS is free on the PC (one way or another....)BoloTheGreat

second option! I'm not a big "DLC's" fan

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"][QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"] VALVE manages it alsmot weekly.

R4gn4r0k

[QUOTE="R4gn4r0k"]

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"] As a business Valve actually has another revenue steam ahem stream that produces revenue. BoloTheGreat

[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"]

[QUOTE="R4gn4r0k"]

So because they have steam they offer DLC for free ... I don't see the connection.

They offer it for free because:
-it keeps gamers playing their game
-it attracts more gamers to buy their game

Valve has seen the win-win (developer-gamer) situation in DLC, most companies just see the money in it.

KingTuttle

[QUOTE="R4gn4r0k"]

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"] As a business Valve actually has another revenue steam ahem stream that produces revenue. BoloTheGreat

It is a big rip-off.

Only occasionally.

I mostly buy it when it comes on a disk though, like the Mass Effect special edition and Fallout 3 GOTY edition.

[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"]

[QUOTE="R4gn4r0k"]

So because they have steam they offer DLC for free ... I don't see the connection.

They offer it for free because:
-it keeps gamers playing their game
-it attracts more gamers to buy their game

Valve has seen the win-win (developer-gamer) situation in DLC, most companies just see the money in it.

MJPK

It is a big rip-off.

[QUOTE="KingTuttle"]

[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"] People don't seem to think over $5 for 3 maps is a rippoff. I beg to differ.

BoloTheGreat

[QUOTE="vashkey"][QUOTE="Hanass"]

I guess it's OK to blow up the White House then. As long as I don't kill more people than the World Trade Center, I should be fine.

KingTuttle

Ithink I understand. Overpriced is a bad thing, just like killing people. If this gen is less overpriced than previous gens (and I've been gaming since around 1988 if you want to ask, so I know what I'm talking about here) it doesn't matter since overpriced is still overpriced and that's still a bad thing. Hence the metaphore of killing people: it doesn't mater how many people you kill, killing in itself, just like being overpriced, is bad mmmkay.

As for games being overpriced, I'd say there's something to say for that too. Games generally have budgets that are much lower than those of movies, but still buying a Bluray movie will cost me about half of what buying a game would cost me. Relatively speaking games have been overpriced since the moment they got mass apeal, and maybe even before that (wouldn't know about that). He (Hanass) has a point if you ask me.

I tend to buy DLC. Lately though I've only been buying the ones that are worth their price tag.

I share it on PSN rather than pay money for content that should have been on the disc.

I download everything that is free though.wooooode