Too Much DLC?

George Washington · 2012-12-09T05:37:02

Every time I am on the GDnet "around the web, most recent" page looking for something interesting, I am inundated with the fact that it seems now every game (AAA and also some indies) seems to have DLC (Downloadable Content) . Its like the development team makes a core game, and saves half of their best ideas and effort for DLC, which are already set in stone for a month or two after the games initial release. In my opinion, a game should include every idea and all the content that the development team can create in a reasonable span of time, and DLC should only be planned for whenever the audience completes and exhausts the game and also is willing to spend more time and money in it. Another more recent feature, season passes, is even more ridiculous. It is almost like you are paying for the game, but you have to buy something else to get the rest of it, which you only get over time, and whose content is probably mostly finished off by now. That is just my opinion. Do you think that DLC (especially on-disc DLC) is almost overuse of a franchise, and also in a way ruins the value of a game?

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Started by MrJoshL December 05, 2012 12:23 AM

27 comments, last by way2lazy2care 12 years, 2 months ago

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December 09, 2012 05:37 AM

Looking at credits for Black Ops, I'd estimate around 100-150 developers for roughly the same duration.

I betcha lots of those werent working on the core game but filler polish
eg cgi films, voice work, soundtrack etc
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you'd be surprised. Iterative titles have a crapload of developers just because they have such small turn around time. I actually feel like 150 is probably at best a modest estimate.

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