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#4405070 - 02/14/18 05:23 AM Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available? [Re: Nixer]  
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Originally Posted by Nixer
I am so happy I don't have a clue what a loot box is.



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#4405104 - 02/14/18 11:44 AM Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available? [Re: Crane Hunter]  
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Yes but they also sell vastly more copies and since a lot of it is digital there isnt any overhead so overall game companies make more money today than they did years ago.


Not sure if that's enough to offset the huge amount of resources now required to develop and market a major title.

According to my video game developer relative, who's worked with nearly all the major gaming companies, today's big games require huge teams and a lot more time to produce than they once did, to the point where the pool of talent becomes a limiting factor.

There's only so many people with a really effective skillset and hiring and retaining them long enough to complete a title is a big issue.




All you have to do is watch the ending credits sequence after you finish playing a major title game and you'll discover that the number of people involved is almost as much as the cast and crew for a major film production.


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#4405105 - 02/14/18 11:45 AM Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available? [Re: Nixer]  
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Originally Posted by Nixer
I am so happy I don't have a clue what a loot box is.



That's because you are not in the target demographic for those games Nixer. smile


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#4405122 - 02/14/18 01:27 PM Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer


All you have to do is watch the ending credits sequence after you finish playing a major title game and you'll discover that the number of people involved is almost as much as the cast and crew for a major film production.



I did that, for the first time I can recall, after completing "Wolfenstein The New Order". It is AMAZING how many people were involved.

But again, wasn't "Strike Fighter" and "X-Plane" the work of one person, for a long time at least?


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#4405124 - 02/14/18 01:30 PM Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available? [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Originally Posted by F4UDash4


But again, wasn't "Strike Fighter" and "X-Plane" the work of one person, for a long time at least?



Yes but I wouldn't call those "major title" releases.


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#4405125 - 02/14/18 01:40 PM Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
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But again, wasn't "Strike Fighter" and "X-Plane" the work of one person, for a long time at least?



Yes but I wouldn't call those "major title" releases.



Not in the overall gaming market, but within their genre they are. X-Plane has a legitimate claim to being the best civilian flight sim available.


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#4405186 - 02/14/18 07:37 PM Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available? [Re: Clydewinder]  
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I dont normally do DLC stuff with a few exceptions. Normally I buy whichever version is cheapest or on sale then play the game and by the time I would get to the DLC im done with the game anyways. Some games it'd different. For AC I bought most of the DLC and still use it weekly. I guess iRacing has DLC which I have a lot of... biggrin I've got several of the DLC planes in Rise of Flight and BoS and DCS biggrin

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