Ubisoft Give Free DLC?

[ninjapenguin981]

According to IGN, Splinter Cell: Conviction will get free DLC every Thursday. Now is it just me or does this not sound like Ubisoft. Are they trying to claw back some of their lost fans after the DRM debacle. What do you guys think?

EDIT:

These DLC contain new weapons/skins/maps for deniable ops.

 

[Hazy]

This further cements my theory that Ubisoft keeps it's workers chained to the basement, living off of food scraps.[footnote]This is assuming the DLC is things like new maps, etc.[/footnote]
[sub]They called me crazy, but I knew!!![/sub]

Good for all of the fans of the game, looks great. Let's hope the DLC is good as well.

 

[Zacharine]

"free DLC every Thursday" sound suspiciously like a blanket approval from the marketing team to forgo any and all quality in these potential DLCs.

There is also no meantion of for how long this shall be ongoing: just one week? A month? ten years? You see, this also means that the actual quantity of those DLCs are unknown.

So, suspect quality, unknown quantity, vague promises to distract customer attention...

Yep, it's Ubisoft alright.

 

[Chrissyluky]

"free DLC every Thursday" sound suspiciously like a blanket approval from the marketing team to forgo any and all quality in these potential DLCs.

There is also no meantion of for how long this shall be ongoing: just one week? A month? ten years? You see, this also means that the actual quantity of those DLCs are unknown.

So, suspect quality, unknown quantity, vague promises to distract customer attention...

Yep, it's Ubisoft alright.

Free dlc is still free and when it's free, why do you care?

 

[Zacharine]

"free DLC every Thursday" sound suspiciously like a blanket approval from the marketing team to forgo any and all quality in these potential DLCs.

There is also no meantion of for how long this shall be ongoing: just one week? A month? ten years? You see, this also means that the actual quantity of those DLCs are unknown.

So, suspect quality, unknown quantity, vague promises to distract customer attention...

Yep, it's Ubisoft alright.

Free dlc is still free and when it's free, why do you care?

If it's turd, it doesn't matter if it's free or not and how much of it there is.

After all, a million flies can be wrong.

 

[Chrissyluky]

"free DLC every Thursday" sound suspiciously like a blanket approval from the marketing team to forgo any and all quality in these potential DLCs.

There is also no meantion of for how long this shall be ongoing: just one week? A month? ten years? You see, this also means that the actual quantity of those DLCs are unknown.

So, suspect quality, unknown quantity, vague promises to distract customer attention...

Yep, it's Ubisoft alright.

Free dlc is still free and when it's free, why do you care?

If it's turd, it doesn't matter if it's free or not and how much of it there is.

After all, a million flies can be wrong.

Nobody said you had to download it. Though it seems the meaning of dlc has changed so much over the years. I consider dlc optional content that you can download. If it was mandatory then its a patch.

 

[Cody211282]

Will splinter cell still have that horrible DRM?

 

[Reboare]

Will splinter cell still have that horrible DRM?

I believe so.
I really couldn't care less about DLC though. They've probably just removed it from the game in an effort to say, "Hey guys, we're so nice we're giving you stuff for free."

 

[Tharwen]

Free DLC! But you have to go to an official Ubisoft DLC distribution centre in Antarctica to be given it on a floppy disk.

 

[Cody211282]

Will splinter cell still have that horrible DRM?

I believe so.
I really couldn't care less about DLC though. They've probably just removed it from the game in an effort to say, "Hey guys, we're so nice we're giving you stuff for free."

Damn it since all I have is a PC and I refuse to buy any game with that DRM I feel like the DLC is the least of my problems

 

[Zacharine]

"free DLC every Thursday" sound suspiciously like a blanket approval from the marketing team to forgo any and all quality in these potential DLCs.

There is also no meantion of for how long this shall be ongoing: just one week? A month? ten years? You see, this also means that the actual quantity of those DLCs are unknown.

So, suspect quality, unknown quantity, vague promises to distract customer attention...

Yep, it's Ubisoft alright.

Free dlc is still free and when it's free, why do you care?

If it's turd, it doesn't matter if it's free or not and how much of it there is.

After all, a million flies can be wrong.

Nobody said you had to download it.

Waitwhat?

Please correct me if I get this wrong.

Are you inferring that any free DLC, no matter how bad or pointless it might be, is a good thing by default? That we as gamers should be glad of scraps thrown to us and praise the mighty developers for these scraps whenever they are thrown to us?

That as customers, instead of demanding quality and higher value to us, we should simply look at the words Free DLC and forget all else?

I'm sorry, but if that is the case and that really is what you meant, then I really must disagree with you. Because in my mind, free or not, a poor quality DLC is pointless. A poor quality DLC would have no value to the user. Why should we take something that is junk, and be happy about it since it was free?

Of course, we don't know if these DLC will be junk or not, but I remain suspect of their quality until they are released.

Now as to the rest of your post, the term 'Downloadable content' I believe was coined fairly recently (as in during the past decade) and as such does refer mostly only to videogame content separately realeased from to main game and distributed with Internet, and it could be argued that patches are not content but rather fixes to existing content.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Now as to the rest of your post, the term 'Downloadable content' I believe was coined fairly recently (as in during the past decade) and as such does refer mostly only to videogame content separately realeased from to main game and distributed with Internet, and it could be argued that patches are not content but rather fixes to existing content.

And all that gets blurred when some publishers/devs occasionally include DLC bundled in their patches, which is kind of nice of them but can confuse some people.

But yes, patches and bugfixes are different to dlc. DLC should be additional optional content, much the same as UCC (user created content - the wanky name for mods), only made by the game's devs.