one of the positives to being a nintendo fan - DLC is rare, and when it happens, its a banger like octo expansion

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think while it is of course not ideal, optional DLC's are still a lot better than the alternative. The price of games has been the same for decades, even though the cost of producing a game has increased by a large amount. So of course the games industry will try to figure out ways to make more money. At least with DLC's, you can still play the base game at an affordable price. And I believe if you are only willing to pay 20 % of the already pretty low price, you aren't really in a position to criticize the games industry.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

People say this but the thing is movies cost a ton of money to develop and can they afford to charge you $14 to see it in a theatre. Video games have stayed the same price because Nintendo over charged like crazy when the NES came out. They overcharged developers to produce and distribute games for the NES. Nintendo charged $35 out of the original $50 and the retail store got $5 in profit. That meant game development got $10 per game sold. Steam charges $100 to list a game and takes 30% of the price of the game. So if you spend $60 on a game, almost $20 is going to Valve still. This is a lie the video game industry has told and gamers have accepted without questioning. This is Just like how Microsoft got people to pay to play games online for no reason. And how day one patches, season passes and loot boxes became a reality. Gamers are rubes. Plain and simple. They don't take the time to understand what they are buying. The big revolution in video game development was that gamers were happy to spend $20 on a fun game with lower production costs. Turn the next revolution was that devs can give the game away for free and keep asking for money and a certain amount of gamers will always give it to them

by Anonymous 1 year ago

>People say this but the thing is movies cost a ton of money to develop and can they afford to charge you $14 to see it in a theatre. Theatre's barely make money with tickets though. A large majority of their profits are made with selling overprice drinks and food. >Steam charges $100 to list a game and takes 30% of the price of the game. So if you spend $60 on a game, almost $20 is going to Valve still. Which imo makes kinda sense considering that steam hosts and provides all the game data for people to download. >This is a lie the video game industry has told and gamers have accepted without questioning. There are plenty of people who criticize and question it, myself included. That's why I rarely buy AAA games anymore and luckily, there are tons of affordable indie games with a lower production cost and without DLC's, at least not pre-release made DLC's. But at the end of the day, if you look at the cost put into AAA games nowadays (which in many cases is unnecessary in most cases and only puts unnecessary pressure on game devs to implement pointless features that sound nice, but nobody really cares about too much), the price isn't too high imo.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The sims enters the chat.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I use eneba.com for games/dlc

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I definitely agree with you (especially for games like the sims 4), but most of the time these games are incredibly cheap after a couple of years. and it's not like the game experience diminishes over time (unless high graphics are an extremely important selling point). you don't need to ride the hype and buy the games day one, just wait until you think the price matches the experience.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's why I refuse to buy Tekken 7. The price of the *whole* game is ridiculous.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

>I hate DLC >where do I buy DLC for cheap? Hmmmm...

by Anonymous 1 year ago

He isn't saying he hates dlc's. Infact its pretty clear he is complaining about pricing right from the title. And looking at something like the Total war: warhammer series i completely agree. In order to have all the playable factions you need to own 3 base games and ~20 DLC factions that are either individual or on the rare occasion bundled with 1 or 2 extra leaders of the same faction

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Here's a really cool lifehack for this Just dont buy them if you dont want them

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I get this, especially when it's a game with a very full lore and the DLC includes lore related stuff like big pieces of information and you don't want to watch other people go through it, or if its more on the niche side and you can't find much about it, or if you simply just wanna go through it yourself because you prefer that. there's some where it's a minor expansion but there's a fairly chonky amount of hidden secrets that can at least piece down bigger things together, and especially if you're low-income or can't afford to spend much on it

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Just don't buy the DLC then 🤷‍♂️

by Anonymous 1 year ago

no one makes you buy dlc

by Anonymous 1 year ago