Quote Originally Posted by The Gracer View Post
Jay - does that mean the general consensus (read: WTF IS GOIN ON, THIS IS CRAP) will deter the companies from charging for DLC, or will it encourage them to jack up the prices to make the profit they expected off the people who are prepared to pay?

Or does it mean companies will just refuse to create DLC for games?
I can't imagine what would deter charging for DLC. They exist to make $, content will do that, they're just looking for the best way to do it. Once a good method has been found, expect to see global adoption, but digital content is a tricky issue and has been for almost it's entire lifespan.

Either way though, you can count on companies continuing to create DLC. At the very least, it expands the software lifetime. When it takes a year to make even a basic game, anything that'll keep people buying the game for more than a week or month is going to be aggressively pursued.
Also, once the game is released, you still have everything in place to create additional content, and you're actually at the point where it's as easy as it possibly can be for you to do so, but you just can't put it on the game disk anymore. DLC allows you to utilize your most effective software production period (the end, when the tools are in place and everyone knows how to get the most out of them) and continue producing for a game that's already generating sales. I'm sure you can see the power of that!

Quote Originally Posted by sakerbax View Post
please.. if you don't have a real explanation don't try to make one up..

most of this content was most likely already made.
Now come on, you're criticising somone and then you go right ahead and do the exact same thing yourself? That's kinda weak, and quite the double-standard you're driving there.

Additionally, you're completely wrong.

This content was NOT already made, it wasn't made until after the game had been frozen for release. I'm not in SL or anything, but I know enough about software development to guarantee that as much as anyone outside of SL possible could. There's no time in the development phase to create content for after launch. There's no time for it until it's launch time. You're busy making the game itself, everything that will actually be on the UMD. The DLC is additional content not on the UMD.

Putting together a high-quality game takes more effort and teamwork than you'd believe, it's pretty close to impossible to do what you're suggesting.