10 bucks per DLC, Really?

Post » Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:08 am

So I bought F:NV for 50 or 60 bucks as a download, which should be discounted since there's no CD, jewel case, or printed manual included, and now it's $10 per DLC on top of that? The objective seems to be to squeeze $100 per gamer per game these days, am I wrong? I'm a loyal, paying customer yet I have to shoulder the so-called burden or piracy, and the costs of developing anti-piracy techs, and then get stuck with having to deal with those protections each time I use the game. I admit that last burden is less noticeable or more automated these days, but you realize it's there when your internet is down in a real hurry.

So I finally finished F:NV, and I can spend another 40 on DLC or 60 for RAGE. OK, you're getting the money either way :) but I'm just writing you to tell you that at half the price I would've bought the DLCs & RAGE. Greed has failed you.
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Post » Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:59 am

So I bought F:NV for 50 or 60 bucks as a download, which should be discounted since there's no CD, jewel case, or printed manual included, and now it's $10 per DLC on top of that? The objective seems to be to squeeze $100 per gamer per game these days, am I wrong? I'm a loyal, paying customer yet I have to shoulder the so-called burden or piracy, and the costs of developing anti-piracy techs, and then get stuck with having to deal with those protections each time I use the game. I admit that last burden is less noticeable or more automated these days, but you realize it's there when your internet is down in a real hurry.

So I finally finished F:NV, and I can spend another 40 on DLC or 60 for RAGE. OK, you're getting the money either way :) but I'm just writing you to tell you that at half the price I would've bought the DLCs & RAGE. Greed has failed you.


Yeah, a bit pricey when considering the ammount of time you can spend on the core game is alot, the DLC's are limited for playability. 10 bucks it too much.
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Post » Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:24 pm

O...kay
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Post » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:39 pm

No, ten bucks per DLC really isn't too much. Not for the amount of content you get.

It's not as much of a value as the core game, but I can't think of a single addon for any game ever that is.

When most DLCs in the wider world are crappy "two bucks for an alternate skin" or "five bucks for two new guns", ten bucks for several new guns, hours of new quests, and a new location is pretty darn cheap.

Even GRA gives you more value than your average DLC, since it gives you more than a dozen new unique guns, and truckloads of new useful ammo types for only $5.
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Post » Thu Oct 06, 2011 12:10 pm

Every Fallout 3 and NV dlc except for Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, the Gun Runner's Arsenal and the Courier's Stash is on sale for $5.00 (400 points) on Xbox Live right now.
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