Gamers have every reason to be pissed about this kind of crap, and this is where Moore’s explanation fundamentally misses the point. It’s a blatant attempt to wring money out of gamers and increase the earnings potential of an utterly mediocre, forgettable game. If you wanted all of the available content released via pre-order, you had to buy four separate copies of the game.
It’s based on Watch Dogs, a title Ubisoft published: Preorder bundles and “bonuses” have become crazy enough that Kotaku created a comprehensive chart to illustrate the problem. The concept of DLC is often tied to pre-orders, as many of the item packs or new skins that are available for purchase after the game is launched may be included for free if you order the title in advance. EA included slightly faster weapons as a Dead Space DLC add-on, but players had to pay $5 to gain access to the faster-firing weapons. From horse armor to paying to unlock visible nipples in The Saboteur (an EA-published game), far too many game publishers have loaded titles with terrible DLC. Seen from this context, DLC can help games and, by extension, gamers.įor every great DLC package that adds real value or advances the storyline, however, there’s a dozen cheap cash-ins. If a game doesn’t sell extremely well, a publisher may not be willing to fund the additional expense of developing DLC from scratch after launch running the projects simultaneously helps ensure that at least some additional content will be available.
That’s not to say that other studios or new teams can’t produce excellent, thematically appropriate DLC, but it’s still an additional hurdle. That means the secondary production team will be assembled either partly or wholly from new developers, who may or may not be familiar with the game world or the previous content. Under the “Ship all core content and develop DLC afterwards” model, most of the people who actually created the initial game are gone - either fired or moved to other projects.
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