Homey C-Dawg wrote...
This excessive DLC trend is so annoying. I hope people get tired of paying $100+ for their video games soon so publishers stop with the nickle-and-diming and get back to a more honest business model.
That's the thing, though, Homey C-Dawg. As you yourself admit in the very next paragraph, "there are a lot of rabid video gamers out there these days" that like this kind of thing and will pay for it. Sure, you can disagree with it and not like it, but you can't tell me that you are authorized to tell other people how to play their game or what to buy or not buy? Or that your preferred way of gamingis somehow objectively better or superior to the way someone else plays the game?
Unfortunately there are a lot of rabid video gamers out there these days who will take it in the behind and ask for more, because VG's are like crack for them. That's the only way it could have gotten this excessive to begin with.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with ignoring all DLC and just playing the base game that comes out of the box. While developers and publishers do like DLC, they can't and don't count on everyone choosing to buy it so the base game still has to be seen to be of value and worth the purchase price.
As much as you might
want all the extras, I think that as long as the game out of the box is still significant and can be taken in and of itself, we as a gaming populace are still in a good place. Absent all DLC, if a game gives you a good play experience, has an ending to the story presented in the game, and leaves you satisfied, it should still be considered a decent game.
Then, if you really want
more out of your game, there's replays or, if you want to spend the money, bonus/extra DLC available to continue or enhance the experience.
that's one way to look at it.
Retour en haut
