BioWare Plans Two Years of DLC for Dragon Age: Origins

[Pillypill]

Bioware, fuck your-selves. Really go grab a penis pump and sodimise your-selves. Just put the DLC in the fucking game!

If anyone ever makes a game, then while making the game plans ,in advance, DLC. They should rot in a horrible place similar to hell. Because that's withholding content, then making people pay twice as much for the whole fucking game.

 

[obisean]

I still can't get over the fact they plan on releasing DLC (the kind you have to pay for) on launch day.

inb4 "youre just a fanboy"

I thought the same thing at first. Upon further reflection and knowing a bit of the development cycle, I changed my mind. I'll explain what I mean.

The game was originally a PC exclusive due sometime in EARLY 2009. Then the game went multi-platform, with the PC version still on it's original release date and console versions coming later. The original release date for the PC then got pushed back to the console release date, for a simultaneous launch on all platforms.

So if you look at it like that, DLC on launch for a game that has more than likely been done for a few months now isn't all that bad. Yes, they could have included it with the game, but if the game launched when it was supposed to, and the DLC followed a month or so later, nobody would have noticed anything fishy and just gone along with it. I'm happy that I won't have to wait for DLC to be put out, especially when you consider the release date fiasco this game went through. Besides, just buy the digital collectors and you get the DLC for free. It's meant to off-set the fact you wont get the cloth map, metal box, or discs. You get everything else they get, which is all a bunch of DLC items. After a period of time you would care less about your cloth map, where as DLC will entertain you as long as you play the game.

 

[cainx10a]

Release one DLC every 6 months, and I'll be happy.

 

[Vierran]

Makes buying this all the better.

 

[Flamezdudes]

'Drools'

Thankyou Bioware, i love you so much. The game looks like it will be one of my most favourite games ever. I'm so hyped up >_>.

 

[Amnestic]

This makes me wonder why the didn't make DLC for KOTOR and Mass Effect.

I'm probably going to end up getting this game now.

They did make DLC for Mass Effect. Two pieces.

KotOR was before the 'age of DLC'. There were plenty of mods out there though.

 

[Ham Blitz]

Er....Mass Effect DLC anyone? Two of which only 1 was any good. Promises are easy to make.

This is basically my thoughts. The Mass Effect DLC's were pretty dissappointing, and I even got the first one for free.
I'm still probably going to get the game, since the non-DLC Mass Effect was pretty good, and every other Bioware game I have played seems to serve me quite well.

 

[UnravThreads]

Ooo, this is good news.

Good job I went and preordered the CE today

 

[brewbeard]

Depending on the quality this could be good or bad. Not to say I don't have faith in Bioware, but I never felt compelled to give Mass Effect's DLC a try. In any case, the launch-DLC is yet another step towards the DLCification of games on the whole, and that is something I truly dread.

 

[FloodOne]

Bioware, fuck your-selves. Really go grab a penis pump and sodimise your-selves. Just put the DLC in the fucking game!

If anyone ever makes a game, then while making the game plans ,in advance, DLC. They should rot in a horrible place similar to hell. Because that's withholding content, then making people pay twice as much for the whole fucking game.

Ease off the cocaine brother. I don't want to wait two more years for this game, and you don't have to buy it if you don't want to.

 

[Poopie McGhee]

Man, I have one hell of a choice to make, This or AC2... (maybe I can get this as a christmas gift early)...
Here's to hope :~)

 

[Flamezdudes]

Man, I have one hell of a choice to make, This or AC2... (maybe I can get this as a christmas gift early)...
Here's to hope :~)

Well, i'm getting Dragon Age on release and Assassins Creed 2 in December

 

[Poopie McGhee]

Man, I have one hell of a choice to make, This or AC2... (maybe I can get this as a christmas gift early)...
Here's to hope :~)

Well, i'm getting Dragon Age on release and Assassins Creed 2 in December

Good plan, but I'm a sucker for pre-order crap (and collector editions) and am afraid that if I do that they will be out of "The Master Assassin" Edition... So I'm torn... Maybe I can get christmas money pooled together though...

 

[dishwasherwong]

As long as they don't do what Bethesda did with Fallout 3 and make DLC every 1-3 months variable, I'll be happy. That DLC swallowed up a lot of my cash, and my wallet won't take it .

 

[Meado]

If Mass Effect is any indicator, they're going to release two add-on packs over the two years; one will barely be worth the money to buy it, while the other will be a piece of crap that gets released with no hype.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Ugh. Couldn't they just make the whole game and then release it?

They've said this game will take average players 50-70 hours to do one play through. Because of the different origins, classes and all the choices you make, lets assume your average guy plays through twice. That's around 120 hours of play. 10x more than your average FPS gets, even if the developer adds DLC to it. 120 hours, and you're complaining that it isn't finished? Jesus.

This is a great thing for them to do. They've finished the game and they can't add this crap in unless they push the realease date back at least another year. No-one wnats that. This is stuff they came up with when the game was finished and the writers and designers had fuck all to do. Why the hell are people complaining about two years of post realease support?

 

[Jandau]

I would have preffered regular old-school expansions, but I guess they'll eventually bundle the DLC and sell it separately (for a much lower price than buying it all individually when it comes out), so I guess I'll just have to wait a bit to get it at a non-ripoff price...