In the old days, game companies made EXPANSIONS. What essentially is a couple years' worth of today's DLCs.Foolproof said:Yeah, the difference was we never got the DLC in the first place.Irridium said:This is not a bad thing. I doubt he meant it as a bad thing, but I really want to just state that in the old days when you bought your game and owned everything on the disk is not a bad thing. There were plenty of bad things about games of old, but this was definitely not one of them. I miss the days where we weren't charged money for DLC that's on the damn disk. Though to be fair, it doesn't happen in much games. Still, it's a dick move.Grey Carter said:"I think people are worried gaming is going in a different direction than they were used to with N64, Sega Mega Drive, PlayStation and PlayStation 2," he said. "Everything was dominated by consoles. Pretty much everything was offline. You bought the game. You sat down. And you played the game until you got tired of the game. It was all on the disc."
Give me one good reason that having extra gameplay available for purchase is somehow worse than not being able to get that gameplay under any circumstances.
No, don't go into your fantasy about how if DLC wasn't a thing, developers would have totally included the content just for kicks, stick with reality.
Except we did, they were called expansion packs. It was a good time, when we got more than cheat codes or skin packs for our money. I even hear tales of when map packs were not called map packs, they were just new maps, and they were free.Foolproof said:Yeah, the difference was we never got the DLC in the first place.
Give me one good reason that having extra gameplay available for purchase is somehow worse than not being able to get that gameplay under any circumstances.
No, don't go into your fantasy about how if DLC wasn't a thing, developers would have totally included the content just for kicks, stick with reality.
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Neverwinter Nights, World of Warcraft, Warcraft...Foolproof said:I don 't recall GTA III, Fallout 2, Spider-Man or KOTOR ever offering expansion packs. Meanwhile the series that actually did offer DLC? Starcraft, The Sims, those gmaes? What a fucking coincidence, they have expansion packs that are still $40 a pop, same as they've always been.Fr said:anc[is]Except we did, they were called expansion packs. It was a good time, when we got more than cheat codes or skin packs for our money. I even hear tales of when map packs were not called map packs, they were just new maps, and they were free.Foolproof said:Yeah, the difference was we never got the DLC in the first place.
Give me one good reason that having extra gameplay available for purchase is somehow worse than not being able to get that gameplay under any circumstances.
No, don't go into your fantasy about how if DLC wasn't a thing, developers would have totally included the content just for kicks, stick with reality.
Swing and a miss.
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i don't consider the "we wouldn't have this if it wasn't dlc" to be a valid argument as i have not seen evidence that such a thing is or isn't possible without the presence when compared to the actual game's value, unless the game has so little content to begin with (coughsaintsrow3)Foolproof said:Yeah, the difference was we never got the DLC in the first place.
Give me one good reason that having extra gameplay available for purchase is somehow worse than not being able to get that gameplay under any circumstances.
No, don't go into your fantasy about how if DLC wasn't a thing, developers would have totally included the content just for kicks, stick with reality.
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Warcraft 3, Morrowind, Thief... There's lots of old games that had expansions, I'm sure there's more but I cant think of them right now... Tired.Foolproof said:I don 't recall GTA III, Fallout 2, Spider-Man or KOTOR ever offering expansion packs. Meanwhile the series that actually did offer DLC? Starcraft, The Sims, those gmaes? What a fucking coincidence, they have expansion packs that are still $40 a pop, same as they've always been.Fr said:anc[is]Except we did, they were called expansion packs. It was a good time, when we got more than cheat codes or skin packs for our money. I even hear tales of when map packs were not called map packs, they were just new maps, and they were free.Foolproof said:Yeah, the difference was we never got the DLC in the first place.
Give me one good reason that having extra gameplay available for purchase is somehow worse than not being able to get that gameplay under any circumstances.
No, don't go into your fantasy about how if DLC wasn't a thing, developers would have totally included the content just for kicks, stick with reality.
Swing and a miss.
Got anything else?
Yo, forget all that noise. When people want more from your franchise, YOU MAKE SEQUELS. That's what happens when the material's popular enough. You make new games, and that's how it should be. Forget all of your prepared nit-pickery. The name of the game is finish the product (and I mean finish it) and get it out.Foolproof said:-Snip-