Dark Souls DLC coming to Consoles this Winter

[Stripes]

This is inequality across platforms, it is not acceptable when consoles get a better deal but apparently it is when PCs get a better deal. Thats illogical, it is not hard.

Well I didn't say that, I'd say its acceptable for both if there's a time delay, after all, it's not a new game, it's a port. I'd feel ripped off if I paid full price for a port of a 1 year old game, because there's considerably less work in porting a game than there is making it.
I'd say it's even fair for the prices to be different on simultaneous releases, because there's a lot less hoops to jump through for a PC release than on console.

Effort put in does not decide the price of games, it may be a port but that doesnt change that it was made in the first place,logically that would dictate the price would be the same across the board for fair responsibility of paying the costs. My issue is that they are shifting all of the cost of the DLC onto the console gamers so that they can make good with the new PC market. They would charge the same $60 DLC or no DLC because they always do. I dont want to be marginalised anymore than PC gamers do and this is exactly that. Im paying a high price so you dont. Sorry if that offends you, gennuinely, but its how I feel about this. The amount of hostility on display here is why I am not fond of those who whine about 'consolisation' and consoles getting primacy, they are fine with inequality so long as they benefit/arent on the receiving end.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

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No you're not offending me, I'm not one to whine about consoles having it better than PC either because I genuinely feel that PC gets the better deal most of the time anyway.

I was just trying to say that they kind of still are paying for the DLC, because they end up paying full game price for a game that you can get for a reduced price on console now, so buying the console version + DLC will be the same price as buying the "GOTY" PC edition, which I don't see as a problem. The fact that PC players get the game + DLC for the initial price of the game is probably to do with the game falling in price, as well as them wanting to establish a good PC market.

 

[powerneed]

yeah

you guys forget that both sony and microsoft force publishers to charge for additional content. when was the last time you got free DLC on consoles besides patches?

I got the Joker's side mission stuff, as well as a challenge mode in Arkham Asylum for free.

Arkham City gave me a Year One skin for free.

I got a different skin for Cole's weapon in inFAMOUS 2 for free.

I was given a lot of extra features and modes for Ultimate Marvel Versus Capcom 3 without paying a solitary red cent for it.

About half the extras for Cross Edge was free.

Are you going to revise that statement to exclude minor things because they somehow don't count now that I brought them up?

yeah but from the way this sounds it is got to be a rather large download at least 1 gb. i would also be willing to pay 1600 points for it it just to bad it is coming out in winter

 

[ultrabiome]

you guys forget that both sony and microsoft force publishers to charge for additional content. when was the last time you got free DLC on consoles besides patches?

I got the Joker's side mission stuff, as well as a challenge mode in Arkham Asylum for free.

Arkham City gave me a Year One skin for free.

I got a different skin for Cole's weapon in inFAMOUS 2 for free.

I was given a lot of extra features and modes for Ultimate Marvel Versus Capcom 3 without paying a solitary red cent for it.

About half the extras for Cross Edge was free.

Are you going to revise that statement to exclude minor things because they somehow don't count now that I brought them up?

fair enough, there are exceptions but mainly cosmetic ones. are any of your free DLC actually come from a upgraded network subscription (PS+ or Gold), because if that was the case, you already paid.

the point is still valid for larger content updates, though, including the new dark souls DLC.

besides From Studios/Atlus is pretty awesome, they just extended the demon's souls NA servers again. i wouldn't mind paying for the DLC (although i'll probably end up with the prepare to die edition whenever i finish demon's souls).