Poll: Do you buy DLC?

[melikeyshootey]

I have bought all the DLCs of Halo 3 and Halo Reach,and COD 6 Resurgence and that COD 7 map pack with Call of the Dead in it. The halo 3 map packs were all fun for me at the time, because I loved the Heroic map packs foundry for forging, and I super-loved Mythic map packs sandbox for it. I liked rat's nest, too. However, the legendary map pack didn't introduce much forging stuff, but it was still good because of Avalanche. Halo Reach map packs I didn't like as much because although forge world was super mega awesome, no new forging maps and items were introduced. Some of the maps were OK, and some were really good, like that Invasion map from the first DLC.


Call of Duty maps packs, however, did not please me at all. Like I said, I had the COD 6 resurgence map pack and the COD 7 map pack I forgot the name of (it had Call of the Dead.) The Call of Duty DLCs were lame to me because not only were there no cool additions like new types of grenades or new titles and emblems (which I don't even care much about,) but the map designs were just boring. Both Carnival from COD 6 and Zoo from COD 7 were grim-looking and colorless when both maps could have been better looking. I know colorful isn't exactly COD's style, but come on! The only map I liked out of both DLCs was vacant, and that was a remake from COD 4!! The one thing they should have done in COD 6 was make included Special Ops missions. I loved those!


I may not be the biggest COD zombies fan, nor a good COD zombies player either, but from playing all the COD zombies maps (discluding the new Shangri-La map,) I think Kino Der Toten and the first zombies map from COD 5 were waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than it. Call of the Dead was too linear at parts, making it easy to get cornered by zombies. George A. Romero was funny to see in in Call of the Dead, but him as an annoying zombie boss pissed me off, not because I don't like seeing people who have never heard of him kill him on round 27, but the fact of how HUGE electric studio light V.S. linear hallways = BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! They should have made it "Call off the Dead" (teehee!)


In conclusion to my long rant about DLCs (especially COD,) I have decided DLCs are good, as long as they don't cost $15.00 and include crappy maps. I'm looking at you, Infinity Ward and Treyarch!

 

[Loonyyy]

I usually wait for a complete edition. My least favourite DLC has to be Call of Duty DLC.

So, I paid $99 AUD for the game (Australians get rorted over game pricing, last I checked, the Australian dollar traded for more than 1 US dollar, and you still pay $60, you lucky devils). Say, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I enjoyed the game, I had a blast, and the developer made a profit.

Then they release, for $15 AUD a map pack containing 5 maps. I already paid for 2 of these maps in the previous game, where they were packaged with it or included in free DLC. So I'm paying them for a texture pack and 3 maps. That's 15% of the price of the game. For which I get 3 maps. For the original game I got a 7 hour or so campaign, plus the Co-Op missions, and the purchase of these covered there developement costs. The maps can only be played on special modes, restricting my play. All in all, I'd say there's less than 15% of the content of the original. And I know it didn't take them 15% of the work, in fact, some of it took close to none.
I hate it when they do that.
The only good DLC I've seen adds significant amounts to a game (Campaigns etc for Fallout etc) or stuff which is innocuous, and the game can be played, missing no content at all, without the purchase of (Portal 2 Hats and Getures).

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Depends what the DLC is, honestly. I'm not going to buy some cosmetic stuff, but I will buy other things. I don't buy COD DLC though, I should get that shit for free, like back with 4.

 

[Dys]

I do not buy DLC, nor am I ever really likely too. I will buy an expansion pack, if the core game was enjoyable enough, but the whole 'pay $15 for an extra 15 minutes game play' aspect of DLC tends to give me the shits.

 

[Grey_Focks]

Yea, why not? If I play a game, beat a game, and enjoy a game, why not pay a little more to get more out of it? Ofcourse this depends on what sorts of DLC. Stuff like weapon/costume packs I don't look twice at, whereas map packs, additional campaigns/missions and characters, then I atleast think about it.

 

[Jfswift]

I was really happy that Obsidian went ahead with Fallout: NV DLC. I love the new add-ons - they add to the world and story. To be fair though, the base game is pretty cool by itself, although they should offer the DLCs on disk so they're more accessible (aka used). (I know some games later on come packaged with them - I guess you'll just have to wait.)

 

[Xanadu84]

If a game is worth it, I buy it, in the way the market has worked for centuries. If later a DLC comes along and it appears to be worth the cash for the content, I buy it in the same fashion. For excellent games, this usually means I buy all the DLC that contains actual content. I buy missions and expansions, and ignore aesthetics, items, and map packs. Ive gotten DLC that wasn't worth the money before. At about the same rate and frequency, ive gotten GAMES that wern't worth the money. For me, DLC is just another way for me to get games and companies to make money, just with more variety in its execution. Bring on the DLC. If it isn't worth my time, I just won't buy it.

 

[spielberg11]

Well, not really, I usually wait for it to become free.

With the exception of Rockstar's magnum opus, Undead Nightmare.

That was definitely worth $15 Australian dollars.

 

[Ziggy the wolf]

if its for a game i like and its not too much, i will more then glad to buy it. take Scott Pilgrim for example. i and my friends or my sister have run through the game 20 times and then run to do it again. i saw the Knives Chau expansion and i jumped on it like a pack of dogs on a 350lb llama and im happy i did

 

[SpaceCop]

The Fallout 3 DLC was underwhelming, and the Dragon Age stuff was just a straight up waste of time.

The only DLC that I haven't regretted getting is Undead Nightmare, which was awesome. That's how DLC should be done; it takes us back to a familiar setting, but gives us something completely different to do with it. It wasn't enough to warrant a new game entirely, but it was more than a tacked-on half hour runthrough of old locations and gameplay with one or two new items.

 

[jbchillin]

depends on what game. i bought all the maps for halo 3 when they came out. i also bought all dlc for borderlands. i dont buy map packs for cod or the cheap things that add nothing.

 

[Jessta]

Nope, I don't fully support DLC since allot of the time it feels like they leave things out in order to try and sell them later... if I buy a game then I bought the game, its already two-three times more than a movie and up to 10 times more than a good book, why should I pay more for a game I ALREADY BOUGHT...
Generally speaking if I finish a game to the point where I would want DLC I just get a different game, if the game was good I might buy its sequel, if not then no...

 

[Aetera]

I am also a poor gamer. I never buy DLC, and I don't even have xbox live. Needless to say, I feel like I'm missing out on about half of the content of my games. It sucks.

 

[Nitrozzy7]

Depends on how much "game" I got for my money. For instance, Red Dead Redemption (limited Edition). I paid 75EUR for it. So no. I wont buy any DLC for this one. Same goes for all recent R*, Bethesda, Bioware, SCE, and most other AAA titles.
When I'm paying almost four days of work for a game, I demand at least an experience equal to the effort I put into this buy.
And this isn't necessarily time related. Once interacting with stuff in-game becomes my second nature I start seeing the flaws quite clear. And this usually happens within the first few hours of gameplay.
So no, I don't think Portal 2 and most other AAA titles are anywhere close to brilliant. It's Games like Okami, Braid, BF:Bad Company 2, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and LittleBigPlanet 2 that are truly brilliant.
Can't wait for BF3 by the way...

 

[CleverCover]

Yeah, it runs with the whole "Bioware owns my soul" kind of thing.
Well I bought most of the DA:O DLC and all of the Mass Effect DLC.
And one other DLC for the mini RPG from Double Fine.

 

[Xman490]

I got the TF2 Medic's holy pose with the doves because it and TF2 being free are awesome enough for me forking over $2.

 

[dex-dex]

I have downloaded games on my DSi and Wii but not gone DLC for games.

 

[Kaymish]

yeah i bought all the dlc for fallout 3 though the fact that it needs GFWL to work without dicking about with file locations and stuff made me feel ripped off when GOTY came out a month or so later