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Uhhhhh...

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:15 am
by SoloNerfherder
Reknoc wrote:It's not and they will but it's still an incredibly shitty practice. Announcing any sort of decently sized content DLC before a game is out is also a joke.
Um, don't quite follow your "It's not and they will", but I disagree that announcing DLC before a game's release is always "a joke". It really depends on what the DLC is. If it's something cosmetic, like an alternate player skin, then yeah, that ought to be on the game disc and available for all players. But to announce a different episode, a side story mission or something else significant like that I have no problem with, unless it's already on the disc and all you're buying when you buy the DLC is a 2KB unlock code file. That's bullshit.

I'm not super au fait with Alien Isolation's content, but I think the DLC is Ellen Ripley's story, whereas the main game stars Ripley's daughter 2 or 3 decades after the Nostromo incident. So that counts as a significant side story episode that I'd have no problem paying extra for (but not for too much of course :p ).

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 8:11 am
by Reknoc
SoloNerfherder wrote:Um, don't quite follow your "It's not and they will", but I disagree that announcing DLC before a game's release is always "a joke". It really depends on what the DLC is. If it's something cosmetic, like an alternate player skin, then yeah, that ought to be on the game disc and available for all players. But to announce a different episode, a side story mission or something else significant like that I have no problem with, unless it's already on the disc and all you're buying when you buy the DLC is a 2KB unlock code file. That's bullshit.

I'm not super au fait with Alien Isolation's content, but I think the DLC is Ellen Ripley's story, whereas the main game stars Ripley's daughter 2 or 3 decades after the Nostromo incident. So that counts as a significant side story episode that I'd have no problem paying extra for (but not for too much of course :p ).
it's not preorder exclusive and they will charge for it. When I say decently sized content I don't mean like extra skins or whatever, thats fine since its mostly trash, I think that before even releasing your game you go "but wait, there's more game you can buy for extra" is fucking terrible. If you want to announce extra content like that then at least have the decency to wait a bit after release, otherwise I'm just going to assume you're not selling me the full game.