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On 24/07/2024 19:14, Justisaur wrote:
> Funny how there's new(ish) great games I get the whole package as well. 
> Elden Ring (too much package!) Cyerpunk 2077, Witcher 3, Balder's Gate 
> 3.  Yes 3 of those have DLCs, but they're real DLCs adding more 
> gameplay, not just some horse armor.

I don't have any intrinsic dislike of DLC as long as it's done right. So 
you release a game then sometime later you release a few DLC's for 
players who just want more. Where it goes wrong is when it feels like, 
because it is, taking something out of a base game and then trying to 
sell it back to you. I think it was Dragon Age that I was playing and 
wondered what the marker was on the screen, oh it gives me an 
opportunity to buy a DLC.

Where I'm very supportive of it is with certain strategy games. So you 
buy the base game which has enough content but is probably going to be 
US vs. Nazis* in Normandy. Then they will release DLC's to cover other 
parts of WWI and you can pick and choose which ones take your fancy. So 
fancy France 1940, a criminally uncovered period, yep you can get it.

*I understand why this is the big goto but it still irritates me 
slightly, mainly because of having to listen to too many people from the 
US who think they won WWII single handedly.