#4404861 - 02/13/18 04:20 AM
Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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Every once in a while something will catch my eye on Steam but once I see the massive list of DLC for it, I pretty much blow it off. Latest example? Total War-Warhammer. on sale for 20 bucks but 70+ dollars worth of DLC available. I know if i wait 6 months or a year I'll get the "gold" version with all of the DLC on sale for 15 dollars... it's not like there's a shortage of entertainment software out there.
Even a game that I absolutely love like Galactic Civilizations 3 has a bunch of DLC for it- haven't bought any of it - just playing the base game
Anyone else of the same mindset?
I'm pretty sure the last DLC I paid any money for was Arma3 something or other...maybe Apex?
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#4404873 - 02/13/18 08:06 AM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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DLCs are less of an issue to me than loot boxes or pay to win schemes as observable in World of Tanks these days. Of course, it always pays off to study carefully what you'll get for your money, so an inflationary number of DLCs is more likely to make me give up analyzing the title, and therefore to not buy it in the first place. And yes, I tend to wait for "gold" versions, although these are becoming less prominent with Steam. From a publisher's point of view, retail sales are a (potentially big) flash in the pan, Steam offers a fat tail (extended sales periods with slower price decay, a trend with which I'm absolutely okay). Well, Steam also largely eliminated the second hand market for PC games, something that I see more critical. But apparently not enough people seem to care about that.
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#4404874 - 02/13/18 08:06 AM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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Being a fan of paradox games i can't escape dlc. But i always buy them during sales, at least 50% off.
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#4404875 - 02/13/18 08:38 AM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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I avoid any of those like the plague. The only exception I can think of was Rise of Flight, i happily purchased most of the DLCs, even the useless ones .
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#4404923 - 02/13/18 02:01 PM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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but that is the new model. Yup. The game development/publishing business has changed in that it's no longer enough to just release a game and then rely on the one-time revenue they get from the purchase price of each copy. Games now have to generate a constant revenue stream.
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#4404947 - 02/13/18 04:37 PM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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Most dlc these days is related to MP so it doesn't apply to me. Season passes, loot boxes etc are annoyances but usually don't matter. If it's SP dlc I pick it up when on sale to breathe new life into the game.
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#4404955 - 02/13/18 05:08 PM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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I agree with PM..Games with numjerous DLC's are just cash cows ..Although I did go that route for Matrix games Panzer Corps and order Of battle Pacific and Civ VI I would argue that Panzer Corps and OOB were DLC done right. Particularly OOB were the base game is now free. In both cases, if you enjoyed the base, the DLC were practically whole games in themselves--especially PC's DLC. Plus they were all gameplay related--no giving unfair advantages to multiplayer, no silly reskins.
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#4405044 - 02/14/18 01:01 AM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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I refuse to spend money on loot boxes and pretty much haven't played a game with a loot box other than a few f2p games that I play whenever I'm standing around after "hurry up and wait".
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#4405046 - 02/14/18 01:38 AM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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Put me into the "I don't mind paying more as long as its fair value" camp.
Games cost the same to buy as they did decades ago and yet most of them are vastly more expensive to develop, something has to give.
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.
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#4405052 - 02/14/18 02:00 AM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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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.
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#4405068 - 02/14/18 04:41 AM
Re: Do you avoid buying games with lots of DLC available?
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Normally it would be a turn off for me, however, I mainly just play Rocksmith2014 with my Fender Stratocaster HSS now and look forward to DLC every Tuesday. New songs! I have over 400 songs to play and have been buying DLC for a few years for it.
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