While I would prefer no more DLC, or Patches whatsoever, it cannot happen.
My ideal reality is one where a game is fully realized, fully tested and tweaked, and fully supported as a stand alone, self-contained vessel of its creator's intent and a scale by which to measure their abilities for any future projects.
If they want sales, they need to put out a solid product, that runs perfectly without needing a dozen patches to fix stuff that never should have made it past pre-alpha testing, and to have all the modes, items, skins, maps etc. that the team can possibly come up with within the set development cycle.
If they want to make another game, they need to make the first one solid from DAY ONE not push out something "acceptable" and then rely on what are essentially microtransactions to get the revenue to tip the scales on getting a new project greenlit.
You don't make a chess game, and offer Queens as a pre-order bonus, or a brand new checkers mode 30 days later. You expect to buy the finished game, with all the pieces, with one purchase. You shouldn't have to wait for a patch to allow your knights to finally stop killing themselves and turning over the board so to speak.
And any ideas that were any good, that somehow didn't make it into the game would be good sequel material.
I know this fantasy world, which actually used to exist prior to the current (undying) console generation, is horribly archaic and unreasonable to most people.
I understand the huge benifits to the current system, when utilized properly. For every 30 crappy DLC offerings to Capcom, Koei, and NIS games that ammount to pure cash grabs on content already realized and coded into the fucking game you already bought, we get the occausional Shivering Isle or Mechromancer DLC.
Games that have glitches can be fixed, and usually its a minor thing or a balance tweak or just a temporary event or something fun. In a few cases it can be a year later and the updates can not only fail to fix much of anything, but actually BREAK things that WERE working.
But its better to have the option right? To have the option of letting companies release garbage that doesn't work on day one because they can theorectically, and with MAJOR time/money investments fix it at some undetermined time if at all? Instead of, ya know as consumers and share holders etc, to hold them accountable to SOME kind of quality standard like in pretty much every other kind of business.
Sure, we may get the occausional unfixable game like Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled that will have its glitches forever, but I'd rather have an awesome game with a few minor bugs that never crashes to a game that sells me the ending, half the cast, half the map, and half the items as DLC and only runs whenever the fuck it feels like it.
