DLC is making me angry

I bought Tiger Woods 10 the day it came out and the day it came out there is a new Course that costs 600 Microsoft points. I can't believe I spent 60 dollars on a game and they couldnt of included a course, and they are trying to make me spend another 10 bucks to get it? Also, in career mode you can buy high level clubs early without unlocking them with microsoft points. EA is stupidmeisterr

I know, think thats bad, when they released Resident Evil 5, they said there was to be a online mode also. Thing was you had to then pay more points on top of $60 and get this online, and the content was already on the disc. It's a disgrace.

hurr durr ea being cheap and releasing un finished games news at 11Vashn

IMO the biggest rip offs are DLC map packs.

hurr durr ea being cheap and releasing un finished games news at 11Vashn

Don't buy the DLC then.

Don't buy the DLC then.

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I agree that its maybe a bit silly moaning that stuff you can earn in game can be bought, because if you don't want to buy it then you don't have to. What frustrates me is useless DLC. I enjoy playing FIFA, I like to play virtual games of football on my ps3 or xbox. What I don't like is EA coming out and saying "We've got this amazing new thing...its exactly the same as the old thing, except it's like a trading card game...oh, and we'll say its free but actually it is £7.99...and we know you pay £39.99 year on year to buy yet a new, updated version of the same old game but, rather than work to make that expensive thing good, we'll develop some other money making scam."
OK, so, yeah maybe I don't have to buy it...but if I've paid good money for a game, and intend to continue paying good money for the series, I damn well expect little things like that to be free.

And don't get me started on map packs...I'm sick of being called 'cheap' or 'poor' by my friends on xbox because I haven't got the map packs on Call of duty...No, I don't, because I begrudge paying money for something that has, for all intents and purposes just been left out of the game in the first place to make money!

Either include it on the game, or make it free! There's a difference between DLC like GTA: The Lost and Damned (i.e. same city, but entirely new scenario) and a couple of maps, or a card game gimmick for a samey football game.

I do partly agree DJ, and indeed, I am perfectly happy that map packs exist, and that, especially with CoD, they allow the opportunity to skip maps if you don't like/have that map.

But for every good set of developers working on maps for the current game there are a) said developers not working on the new games, and b) companies charging the same money for unlock cracks to stuff already available on the disc.

Plus, how much of the money for these things actually makes it to the devs? I'm pretty certain they're salaried and, the change from offline to online gaming, and the subsequent increase in downloadable content did not lead to a proportional rise in developer salary.

Don't buy the DLC for X-MEN Origins: Wolverine (800 MS) for Arena X-Total waste of money

I've made arguments about the whole map pack thing. I look at it like this. The development of the game is done, over, finished and it's released. You have your campaign and you have your multiplayer component. Lovely. Most games give you enough content to be content with for a while. But, everyone gets tired of the same locales of course. Now people expect and demand that more content be available for online play. So now the developers have to go and put in more time and work to develop completely new environments for your game to work in. It isn't an overnight process. That's their job. So they have to be compensated for that. You've seen the regularity at which map packs are released. Every few months maybe, depending on the game? Maybe I have a soft spot for the devs since I'm a Java developer and know what the process is like. And the stuff they do is freaking complex. Bugs happen and have to be fixed. Then there's testing. I don't expect all that work to be free. It doesn't bother me to drop a few bucks to get new maps for a game I enjoy. And again, you have the option to not buy and still play the game.DJ_Magneto

you dont have that option when it comes to halo.. one of the biggest games on the 360, because without the map packs you cant play some of the best playlists... all DLC is stupid and the people saying "you dont have to buy it" are missing to point. a game like resident evil 5.. this one boggles my mind the most. they released the game then charge you to unlock a VERSUS mode.. something that should have come with the game.. instead of these people robbing us of all our money they could actually just make the game 100% the first time so everything is included and we dont have to go spending over 90 dollars for a game+dlc

I've made arguments about the whole map pack thing. I look at it like this. The development of the game is done, over, finished and it's released. You have your campaign and you have your multiplayer component. Lovely. Most games give you enough content to be content with for a while. But, everyone gets tired of the same locales of course. Now people expect and demand that more content be available for online play. So now the developers have to go and put in more time and work to develop completely new environments for your game to work in. It isn't an overnight process. That's their job. So they have to be compensated for that. You've seen the regularity at which map packs are released. Every few months maybe, depending on the game? Maybe I have a soft spot for the devs since I'm a Java developer and know what the process is like. And the stuff they do is freaking complex. Bugs happen and have to be fixed. Then there's testing. I don't expect all that work to be free. It doesn't bother me to drop a few bucks to get new maps for a game I enjoy. And again, you have the option to not buy and still play the game.DJ_Magneto

Map packs are fine, there is no problem.The problem comes when developers charge for content that is already on the disk that you paid for or when they release an incomplete game and then charge you extra money to get a finished product.

We have to make sure that developers and publishers don't become too greedy and that we allow them to release incomplete games as a norm.