Board 8 > Oh boy oh boy, who's ready for more on-disk DLC drama? (SFxT)

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Even I am running out of ways to defend Capcom's practices with this game.

If I were Capcom PR and I cared anything about what people thought of my company, I'd probably do something like two free DLC characters of your choice as a sign of goodwill. It might not solve the issue of "well they should be free anyway," but I think it would be a step in the right direction.

Then again, if I were Capcom PR, I would know that even if I don't do that the game will sell like hotcakes and the DLC will fly off the digital shelves just as fast.

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they are giving away two free DLC characters, Mega Man and Pac-Man

they're almost certainly gonna come out on 360 for free too

problem is, they f***ed up and didn't mention at all that they were DLC until weeks after they were shown off

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Yeah giving away DLC for free loses impact when everyone thought they were gonna be free to begin with, and all you really told them was they have to wait an extra week for it.

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I don't even care that it's on disc already complete DLC

I mean that sucks too, but you can expect that

the worst part is how they were like "these characters are still being worked on and we're trying to figure out how to work them into the game"

if you're gonna charge for content you cut out of the game, at least be honest about it!

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They're probably not balanced fully yet and to them that "counts" as incomplete or something

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Biolizard28 posted...
Yes, because giving it a name totally justifies locking content away from your customers when it's literally right in front of their faces.

It really is sad that this is where we're at in the industry. When a finished game has pieces cut out of it specifically to sell the pieces back to the public for what they pretend is a reasonable price. This type of thing makes literally no sense, and if you brought this idea up 10 years ago, people would think you were f***ing crazy.

Think of it in economics terms. If they put more than $60 worth of content on a disc, they have to charge more than $60 or else evil people will buy up all the copies and sell them for high prices on ebay and craigslist. But by locking out content, they can sell to people who only want to pay $60, while also being able to deliver the extra content to people who really want it.

Now, as for the question of whether anyone's actually made a game that's worth more than $60, um... maybe it'll happen someday.

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Now, as for the question of whether anyone's actually made a game that's worth more than $60, um... maybe it'll happen someday.

So in other words you just wasted your time on a moot point. Cool.

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The only thing is that it ended up being inconsequential since no one in the fighting game community was allowing the Star Wars characters anyway, and I'm not even sure that changed after they were released as DLC.

They did end up being allowed after DLC... but it didn't change anything, because Yoda is garbage tier.

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From: Rad Link 5 | #146
The Star Wars characters were console exclusive, Yoda on 360 and Vader on PS3. Then way later, they released Yoda as DLC on the PS3 and Vader on the 360. I'm not sure if either was on-disc, but that's still pretty nickel-and-dimey. The only thing is that it ended up being inconsequential since no one in the fighting game community was allowing the Star Wars characters anyway, and I'm not even sure that changed after they were released as DLC.

But yeah, that's the only instance of characters as "premium content" from Tecmo that I'm aware of.

Dampierre. Tekken 6 didn't have any DLC characters (or DLC at all, that I can remember), and all other add-ons for SoulCal 4 and 5 have been on-disc.
Also, Namco.

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