http://www.pcgamer.com/ubisoft-to-stop-selling-compulsory-dlc/?platform=hootsuite


Ubisoft has announced that they will no longer sale dlc that would be considered core to the game. This includes content such as expansions and map packs. They will now be included in free updates. They will however continue selling customization DLC for characters and weapons that are not considered apart of the core experience.

As it always should've been...

That sounds interesting

That's cool of them to do. They'll make a [censored] ton off the people with the customization dlc anyway.

I'm just hoping other companies follow suit.

That would be cool. One of the things I love about Bethesda is all there DLC is actually DLC and not just cash grabs

About time those ass hats learned, but good on those ass hats for doing that I guess. They're still ass hats though.

Now for EA to stop selling "premium passes" that cost as much as the game itself.

Yeah, hiking the price of the "Fallout 4" season pass was a very generous thing to do.

Glad Bethesda are different and not interested in money grabbing right?

The figures are speaking for themselves.

People are getting fed up with being short changed so they're not bothering with the DLC and in some cases they're not even bothering with the game.

It was fun while it lasted but people are wising up to this poor practice and voting with your wallet is actually working.

Nice to see.

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Yeah, I immediately thought of EA while reading this. Premium passes and zero-day "DLC"... really?

Well I can't say much about fallout 4 (I've never played it) But I think the Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim DLC was great! (Just my opinion)

Expansions like Dragonborn or Nuka World I'm fine with paying for because it's a new land mass. I'm not saying this specifically to Beth bit to all devs in general.

I have a feeling Ubisoft will just make the expansion into another game and sell that for full price.

Interesting move.

Well that's good news.

Indeed, it was generous for them to give everyone two weeks to buy the season pass at the original price even though the expanded content warranted a price increase. I'm glad they did, I took advantage of the opportunity.

I liked it at least. I basically bought Far Harbor for $25 and the rest of Fallout 4's DLC for just $5. I knew I was at least going to play Far Harbor so why not.

Yeah I was surprised they even told us about the price increase in advance and didn't just raise the price when they announced it. What that did do though is give some of us who were on the fence about buying the Season Pass (such as myself) a shove so that we fell on the side of buying the Pass before the price went up. So it was still a business maneuver on Beth's part, not something they did out of the kindness of their hearts. Well played, Bethesda. Well played. Lol

Morrowind did not have DLC, it had expansion packs.

Now if Activision would stop selling map packs for their Call of Duty video games.

Which will never happen.

70% (mostly negative) reviews on Steam

It's an age old marketing tactic that worked on you and a number of others.

Possibly even prompted because they were feeling not so much the pinch of a decline in sales, but rather the failure to see forecasted high profits.

It wasn't that "Dead Space 3" sold badly that closed Visceral Montreal. It was the failure of micro-transactions to ape the profit margins they were making off micro-transactions for their App Games for their mobile phones.

I voted with my wallet and if Publishers like Ubisoft are starting to take notice hopefully Bethesda will eventually follow suit.

I think that Watch Dogs was what did it for them. They were hit so hard by low sales figures that they wanted to do something different. I approve of this, I may buy Watch Dogs 2 afterall, maybe.

You know, this is great and all, but I'm still kinda salty about premium microtransaction crap for aesthetics.

I recently got Rainbow Six : Siege and some of the cosmetic stuff is only obtainable via R6 Credits. These should be unlockables for levelling up (as they would've been before 2010) but ever since shameless stuff like the skins in Gears of War 3, it's really caught on, and it's still irritating and somewhat pathetic today.

You know, those Gears 3 skins were originally just unlockables for levelling up, but a last minute change turned them into "DLC". As for who's to blame, well, that's one question that has many answers, all of which are true.

Skins aren't core gameplay elements. It's just cosmetics. They're perfectly justified in selling these.

It did have DLC in the sense that there was content to be downloaded. It's just they were free, and nobody called it DLC back then.