DLC or not DLC

yeah depends What sort of dlc's weapon dlc's no multiplayer characters or maps nah, I bought some of them, but normally dlc's with story based

Depends on the DLC and the game. What I would love to see would be more cheap standalone DLCs like FC3: Blood Dragon that are still full games.

I agree 100%. Plus, I remember several years ago when games had no DLC at all hahah
Personally, I prefer story DLC and I stay away from cosmetic DLC (at least most of the times).
Also, I decided not to buy certain games because they had way too many DLC for my taste...

Several years ago DLC were as huge addons. Nowdays there's no quality addons...

I agree 100%. I prefer to buy GOTY editions / complete editions with all DLC even if it is stuff I will probably never use, like a pointless skin pack, because I feel that I need everything released for a full experience. If I don't get the GOTY edition, I will only buy DLC that is good value for money or an actual expansion.

*Pre order now to get exclusive, super-duper-wubwub-awesum OP stuff dlc which isn't available to anyone else!**
(Which totally isn't already on the game disc, and we'll call it piracy if you unlock it, even though you already own it)

*Available for download two days after release for 1200MSP

To DLC or not to DLC, that is the question.

I never buy any skins/items/multiplayer packs but sometimes I get a decent story expansion for a game I already played and liked (or a complete edition of a game I don't have yet but I know the DLCs are good). I wouldn't preorder a game to get a DLC though.

to bee or not to bee

The worst ones are where you're basically forced to purchase them - don't have a good example right now other than Space Marine. If you're playing Multiplayer and the game about to start is for a map where you do not have the DLC for, you're BOOTED RIGHT OUT OF MATCH MAKING... even if you've just played 5 straight rounds with the same ppl, etc... then if you try to join a new game, it can try to match you into the same game you were just booted out of...

Better to wait for GOTY, Gold, Platinum or alikes, then you won't feel scammed and that may miss something. And yes...day 1 DLCs (even real expansions) are simple ripoffs.

i buy story content for most if not all of the games i own, maybe some weapon packs depending on price/game but never skin packs or other cosmetic shite.

I never buy games that have those shitty DLC, thank god for piracy .

But i do buy games that have expansion packs, even Oblivion - Shivering Islands .

i usually don't buy DLCs

don't really feel like i'm missing out

DLC reduces the gap time between each expansion, that's good. I like story extended contents but not those skins or cheated DLCs they try to milk us

DLC is cool if it introduces a large amount of new stuff, like expansions, new places to visit, quests etc... the only DLC i really hate is like special weapons, ski packs for single player games and other money grabbing shit like that =/ it's so prominent now that PC is going to be like IOS in a few years time with games costing full price but thousands of "in-app" purchases... sad really =[

the Tomb Raider DLC's made me cry, seriously..

for me anything with day 1 dlc or a ton of dlc I decide I can do without or wait awhile for. I either don't buy or get the goty/complete/whatever edition later. Theres enough other games I don't have or haven't played yet that I can play in the meantime somehow I got about a year behind on releases. And I had heard most of the impact on funding for sequels comes from first day buys so its their own fault. This system has pretty much killed any drive I ever had to preorder things too(preorder only dlc doesn't help it makes it worse where I refuse to encourage that and end up going without. besides it tends to become available later anyway if I actually wanted it).

a couple games I've gone out of my way to make sure I bought complete edition 2nd hand rather than from the producers because of on disk dlc and/or preorder crap and I didn't want them to get a cent or it.

I refuse to buy and tend to avoid the company entirely if possible when I see dlc for something that was blatantly chopped from the game to be sold as dlc

also some of its so poorly balanced it punishes you for buying it by locking you in permanent easy mode with a flood of op weapons. I've made the mistake of paying for dlc that felt like game breaking amateurish mods that don't even fit the game they're for.

I hate the way DLCs are done these days. When I pay for a game, I want ALL of it. If there's 1 or 2 expansions, that's fine, I'm willing to pay for those. But if the content is split over a dozen different packs, the thought of going through all of them, trying to figure out what's worth it and what's not, just puts me off playing the game entirely. It's too much of a hassle.

If developers want to sell small bits of cosmetic content and don't want to pack them in expansions, they should make in-game stores. What they're doing now, flooding digital distributions systems with DLC, makes it hard to spot actual games that are on sale.

I generally don't buy DLC at all, but I do buy expansion packs.

Saints Row The Third didn't have enough DLC at all. I demand even more pointless DLCs for it! Seriously though, due to all the DLC spamming, I have stopped pre-ordering games, and now wait for the complete editions to go on for 75% off.

I never buy them because I consider them a money grab. They are usually overpriced and short in length and/or lacking the quality of the actual game.

Agreed. I really wanted to get Street Fighter X Tekken... but then I looked at the missing characters, extra gems, booster packs, etc. in DLC that just really put me off the game.

I completely understand expansions and had no problem to pay for them.
I even understood DLCs when they first came out as they added some content (not much compared to an expansion) much later after the game is released...

But now? They plan the whole damn game around DLCs and release incomplete games, with DLCs in the making before the game is even released...

Usually DLCs add things the developers didn't want in the main game. Most of it is extra, meaningless stuff, and some of it is just a way to cheat. ($3 for overpowered weapons at the start of the game, for example.)

DLC that comes out long after the game comes out is sometimes equivalent to an expansion pack. In that case, more often than not, the DLC is not up to the standards of the main game, so I skip on it too. Sometimes it's very well-made and worthwhile, in which case I eventually buy it when it's on sale for a dollar or two.

Depends on the game, for example I own every single CK2 DLC, yes including the songs. And no I did not buy the pack on steam. I traded for them, paid about 15 dollars for all of them. (separate amazon keys, so it took a while, but it was a good deal!)

Some games have really shitty/useless DLCs, for example Mafia 2 is a brilliant game, but the DLCS are really crap. Same goes with Alak Wake, that standalone DLC is crap, only good thing about that is the arcade mode. The extras (soundtrack) and stuff to Alan Wake is fine, but I bought the franchise pack, so I don't really complain about the standalone DLC being bad. Was worth playing.