{"id":954,"date":"2016-07-06T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2016-07-06T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T21:38:44","slug":"dlc-on-videogames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/2016\/07\/06\/dlc-on-videogames\/","title":{"rendered":"DLC on Videogames"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has become standard practice for some companies to ship out games that are not complete and the missing features are added later as DLC. You may ask; “What’s wrong with that?” There’s actually plenty of wrong with it. Here’s a fun analogy to put things into perspective:<\/p>\n

Imagine that you go to your favorite pizza shop. You glance at the menu, and you decide on a large pepperoni. They even give you a free drink with it! They hand you the pizza, pay your $12, take it home and enjoy it. That’s how many of us used to buy any type of game we wanted, and it was perfect.<\/p>\n

Today, you go to your favorite game store retailer and you\u00a0pay your $59.99 price tag to take it home. Now let’s use the same pizza analogy when you try to play your game:<\/p>\n

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  1. Day one patch, downloads the entire fucking pizza so your disc is useless. Even then, the dough is\u00a0not fully baked.<\/li>\n
  2. An upcoming patch in 3 weeks will fully bake your dough.<\/li>\n
  3. Cheese is DLC.<\/li>\n
  4. Pepperoni is DLC.<\/li>\n
  5. The sauce is full of clumps. The next update removes it, and is now DLC.<\/li>\n
  6. The free drink featured in the ads is for pre-orders\/early access only and you can’t have it.<\/li>\n
  7. Two months later and another $50 worth of DLC, that pizza wasn’t that good anyway and you didn’t even finish half of it out of frustration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Okay maybe is not THAT bad. Except EA, they\u00a0really are that bad. But do you remember when you used to beat a game to get your “DLC” at no cost to you? Get that extra character costume, or find the secret silver coins to get even more fun stuff like a Crystal sword or some fancy paint job for your shiny tricked out car.<\/p>\n

    Nowadays you have to fork out more of your hard-earned cold cash to get just about anything and in my opinion, is become worse and they are ruining the industry. Is it just me that thinks this way?<\/p>\n

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