Okay, going a little deeper than that. I'm currently on the fence about download content in games. If it truly adds something to the game, I think it's a fairly good idea; for example, the DLC being released for Fallout 3. But on the other hand, you're paying $10 a pop for maybe 5 hours of gameplay. Fallout 3 is/was $40-60, and has DOZENS if not HUNDREDS of hours of gameplay by itself. Now here comes Mr. DLC to add a small piece of that on top of the original, a tiny fraction. And it's not really anything that different from the regular game in the grand scheme of things. Does this add up? I admit to having paid quite a bit for entire 5 hour games before, but I have to call this a different situation. And don't even get me started on the stupid shit that is "new costume DLC!" or "horse armor"....
On the other hand, I can see DLC being a good incentive for companies to use for people to buy their games instead of pirating them. Use a simple serial key that comes with the game, no DRM, and have free DLC released later that requires that serial key to download. Of course, the DLC could then be shared by less savory characters, so maybe require the key be verified every time you start from then on? But now we're getting into DRM territory again, so.... back to square one. Egosoft, the makers of the X series of games does something like this with their patches, requiring people to register their games on the website to download them. I have no idea how successful this is, however.
Finally, the true terror I foresee and pray every day will never happen. Companies use DLC to release a half-assed game, then sell the DLC to "complete" the game. Hopefully this practice would be completely nuked off the face of the planet by we savvy consumers, but in this age of casual players and people that don't really pay attention to the games they're playing who knows what companies could end up getting away with?
Greetings Diablofans, my name is Iggy. Okay, it's really not, but wouldn't it be interesting if my parents had named me that? Well, that would probably mean they were stoners (no offense to any stoners in the crowd), but anyway. What was I doing? Oh yes, some history. I was a fan of panda bears in video games before it was made "cool" by Blizzard in Warcraft 3. Iggy the panda bear was originally the mascot of my Quake I clan, Pandemonium. None of you have heard of this clan, because it was mostly my friends and I was the only half-decent player of the group (and I say that with no ego, they were just that bad). It has stuck with me as my user name on pretty much every website I've ever been to. I'm 27, male, taken by a cute girl (sorry you nice Diablo girls), and incredibly sexy (but pudgy in the belly, like a panda!). I have come to bring love and peace to your forums, because the world is far too violent and everyone must bring change, one moment at a time. I also play video game, almost to my detriment (that's addiction to most people). I personally believe that I am long-winded and verbose when I write or type messages, but this is to make up for the fact I'm not very social in real life. Anyway....
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Okay, going a little deeper than that. I'm currently on the fence about download content in games. If it truly adds something to the game, I think it's a fairly good idea; for example, the DLC being released for Fallout 3. But on the other hand, you're paying $10 a pop for maybe 5 hours of gameplay. Fallout 3 is/was $40-60, and has DOZENS if not HUNDREDS of hours of gameplay by itself. Now here comes Mr. DLC to add a small piece of that on top of the original, a tiny fraction. And it's not really anything that different from the regular game in the grand scheme of things. Does this add up? I admit to having paid quite a bit for entire 5 hour games before, but I have to call this a different situation. And don't even get me started on the stupid shit that is "new costume DLC!" or "horse armor"....
On the other hand, I can see DLC being a good incentive for companies to use for people to buy their games instead of pirating them. Use a simple serial key that comes with the game, no DRM, and have free DLC released later that requires that serial key to download. Of course, the DLC could then be shared by less savory characters, so maybe require the key be verified every time you start from then on? But now we're getting into DRM territory again, so.... back to square one. Egosoft, the makers of the X series of games does something like this with their patches, requiring people to register their games on the website to download them. I have no idea how successful this is, however.
Finally, the true terror I foresee and pray every day will never happen. Companies use DLC to release a half-assed game, then sell the DLC to "complete" the game. Hopefully this practice would be completely nuked off the face of the planet by we savvy consumers, but in this age of casual players and people that don't really pay attention to the games they're playing who knows what companies could end up getting away with?
Ideas? Comments?
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tl;dr Screw you, I'm new to the forums.
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Doesn't look good.