I know we've all purchased a horrible DLC at one point or another, but which one takes the cake? And why?

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all dlc from just cause 2

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imo, the DLC's for Just Cause 2 are fun, but overpriced.

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The Black Market Aerial Pack is awesome because of the F-33 DragonFly fighter, the best jet in the game. The pack also comes with the multi-lock missile launcher which uses standard missile ammo but adds tracking capability.

The Black Market Boom Pack is kinda neat but not necessary. The rest of the vehicle packs are just decent.

However Rico's Signature Gun is an embarrassment to the game.

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The signature gun is really bad but the rest are pretty awesome...

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Almost every single Saints Row the Third DLC. For example, the special ops vehicle pack is just purple versions of vehicles you unlock through the story.

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The only reason I have DLC for Saints Row III is because of buying The Full Package. If I had only bought the base game, I would have only gotten Trouble with Clones, Genkibowl VII, and Gangstas in Space. The rest of the packs went totally unused until after I got the platinum trophy.

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I wouldn't even want those DLC's. I didn't even like SRT3. It just wasn't the Saints Row that I loved. I bought it in the first week and traded it in as soon as I finished it.

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Same here :D

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Saints Row the Third DLC is such a blatant low-effort cash grab. A DLC to unlock more cheat codes? DLC to unlock reskinned vehicles, vehicles that suspiciously lack a free in-game customization options. A DLC to unlock the items that you didn't unlock during story mode?

Worse, Volition doesn't seem to have any issue with it.

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Probably because you don't have to buy the DLC's, they didn't take much time from Volition to make, and if someone likes it - he can buy it.
Season Pass on promo was still a nice buy for me. :) (not really a lot of content, but it was more than any newer CoD campaign has to offer)

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That's an edge that DLC has to dance, particularly when you make a lot of it. Make it disposable junk and people will feel like you are trying to rip them off. Make it good content and people will still feel like you are trying to rip them off, just for a different reason. Make it look like something that should/would have been in the game, and people will really think you are trying to rip them off. The same goes for stuff that looks like it is no effort to create.

Saints Row the Third fell into the "disposable junk," "should/would have been in the game," and "no effort".

Reskinned military vehicles might not have been such an insult if the base game had had aircraft, boat, and military vehicle customization available. They already had the menus for regular vehicles, and things like aircraft are found in different colors in the game. Make full customization for free, and then sell a pack of multiple fancy reskins (similar to the sillier Black Ops II weapon camo.)

There isn't really any excuse for stuff like asking people to buy the Unlockable DLC (that unlocks the stuff that you didn't choose to unlock in story mode) though.

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prothean dlc for mass effect 3 because day 1 dlc is just wrong

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i agree with the part about day 1 dlc that is wrong, but that is a good dlc.

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I'm relatively happy with my Killing Floor skins. The sales of the cosmetic DLC has meant that they've been able to continue developing real content (new maps) for the game without having to put it behind a paywall and segregate the community.

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dlcs ruin gaming unless they are expansions.

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+1

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The "Mothership Zeta" and "Operation Anchorage" DLCs of Fallout 3. The first one was incredibly boring, and I gave up the other after 30 minutes.

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Operation Anchorage has the Chinese Stealth Armor... so overpowered that it's almost game-breaking! It's almost like a constant Stealth Boy whenever you are in sneak mode. If you play a stealth character like I always do then it's the best armor in the game.

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I actually enjoyed MZ... other than the fact that I have an irrational fear of "greys" and had to force myself through the DLC.

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I didnt mind OA, but MZ bored me to death (even though it had the awesome samurai)

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I didn't mind MZ but I'm an item whore and not being able to hold all the weapons and shit I wanted to take back with me was a pain. I didn't know until I finished it that you could go back to the ship after you'd finished the quest, lol. OA bored the crap out of me though. I haaaaate DLC/missions like that where you can't just leave and come back later to finish it.

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I hate all dlc!

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Saints Row: The Third - Unlockable Pack. It's bad.

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I activated mine after i completed the game. It's pretty cool. Same with Bloodsucker.

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The one thing that bothers me in that DLC is obligatory VTOL City Takeover right at the beginning of the game.

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Scott Pilgrim's Online Multiplayer + Wallace Wells DLC.

I haven't purchased it, but there was a trial for the online MP. It doesn't have a good netcode (there's lag input, and there's also a bad framerate too, it sucks), and the game doesn't have a lot of replay value, so it was pretty much useless.
I really wanted to get it, but i couldn't stand the bad online gameplay (which is the most appealing thing from the DLC). I'm still disappointed.

Yeah, insult me, telling me that i'm against the good will of the developers that wanted to deliver, but i feel that this DLC is a cash-grab. Instead of buying that DLC, i got The Walking Dead by Telltale Games, and that was a much more wiser decision.

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Anything cosmetic.

Bethesda with their DLC for horse armor. Capcom with alternate costumes for characters in Street Fighter 4, and after you buy all the costumes they release Super Street Fighter 4 with more alternate costumes, then after you buy those they release Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition with MORE alternate costumes.

If it's just for looks and provides nothing as far as additional content then it shouldn't be sold, cosmetic DLC should be free of charge.

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SSFIV DLCs are a main offender here. If you play online with other people, you can use the DLC costumes, but only for yourself (i mean, if the other people do not have the DLC, they will see the preset costumes of those characters).

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Yeah I was about to mention the Horse Armor for Oblivion... that was kinda lame.

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Cosmetic DLCs = Piracy increase :P

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DLC that unlocks content already contained on the disc. I'm looking at YOU Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Bioshock 2...

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Oh yeah, those suck. And they're a really common practice on iOS apps.

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Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter - Legend of the Beast DLC

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heavy rain - the taxidermist ? pretty pointless dlc

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Wait, could you buy that? It came with my copy of Heavy Rain.
I've actually gotten a lot of use out of that, as every time one of my mates shows interest in the game I let them play that chapter to decide whether they wanna borrow/buy the game.

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That was a great DLC, easily in my top 10.

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It's a good one, but it should have been a demo. I mean, if i have to show how is Heavy Rain to a friend, i can play that DLC, and he can see pretty much the gameplay and how interesting can stories go.

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Yeah i see it as a great idea to get someone into it without spoiling anything but outside of that it doesn't really add much of anything to the game.

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stop buying dlc please, dlc ruined the gaming....

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i hate you

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Dark souls DLC, that one piece alone proves you wrong.

DLC didnt ruin anything, some companies are just exploiting what could be a great system and some people are dumb enough to buy bad ones.

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looked for anyone complaining about COH 2 skin dlcs ... no match found .
I love those skins :P

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People complained more about the fact that they couldn't be unlocked for the first day or two. Then it was all about the commanders and the AMOUNT of DLCs rather than the DLCs themselves.

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Red Faction: Armageddon's Path to War DLC. Literally just an excuse to let you shoot a few things up for an hour or so.

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DLCs that are essentially cheat codes. -.-

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Edit: Misread comment. My mistake. :D

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No, he means those DLCs that are cheats. Like those "get more XP" DLCs.

Like this one for Sleeping Dogs

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Saints Row: the Third? Literally cheat codes.

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Yeah. I mean, I'm glad they found another way to make money off of their game, but cheat codes have been around since forever. It feels like they ripped it from the main game just to re-sell it. To me, at least. XD

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Mothership Zeta and Operation Anchorage for Fallout 3. Truly horrible pieces of software.

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If that's the worst DLC you've ever played, you haven't played very many games.

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Quite the opposite actually.

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Fallout 3 operation anchorage, horse armooour, and maybe Lonesome road for new vegas

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Any costume DLC for a FPS.

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There is costume DLCs for FPS?

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Hats?

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TF2 hats aren't really a DLC

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Team Fortress 2, Killing Floor, Borderlands 2, etc.

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+100000

Skins are the best type of dlc. They dont split the community, add OP weapons/vehicles etc. (+ in case of KF, they are a good way to support the devs)

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In general, I dislike "multiplayer mode sold separately", short-cut packs, content cut from a ported release, and content that splits the matchmaking community due to incompatibility between the haves & have-nots.

I have no qualms with cosmetic DLC. While I almost never purchase any, it doesn't affect my gaming experience and hopefully provides incentive for the developers to actively support the game.

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So...EA games?

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:D

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This about sums it up.

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I usally don't buy any DLC's but when I do I get only good DLC's which gives some kind of new gameplay experience or something with good story which takes 2 hours to complete. The best one I bought is probable Deus Ex Human Revolution The Missing Link. Btw I can't wait for The Walking Dead 400 Days DLC that will be instant buy.

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I have bought just one dlc separately. Yeah, O-N-E. It was Waveform: Eris DLC for the astonishing 0.25€ :) I don't regret at all, as the game is quite enjoyable, yet unpopular and the dlc provided enough content(especailly for its price). All the other DLCs I got come from GOTY editions. I think it's obvious that I believe that whole DLC idea is broken and I would love to see the expansion packs back.

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I generally don't buy DLC. I'll sometimes invest in a '(Game): The Complete Pack/GOTY Edition' but I seldom buy DLC later on. If I were to buy DLC, it would only be if a) I really, REALLY loved the game, and b) it adds something decent to the story. The only DLC I can say I've really enjoyed is WoTL. The stupidest/ugliest DLC I've seen is probably the Kawaii skins for blops 2.

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