Capcom is the most egregious offender when it comes to ripoff DLC lately. It started with getting consumers to buy extra modes and characters for Mega Man 9, then exploded with the Street Fighter IV costume debacle, and hit fever pitch with charging players for competitive multiplayer in RE5.

As Ringosan so accurately pointed out, though, consumers have been spending the money on this DLC, so it’s not gonna stop.

I’m not supporting brainless DLC ripoffs, but we as consumers have to show them who are bosses… if we don’t pay or buy, their marketing schemes will fail and they would stop coming up with these forms of DLC, the problem is we (most of us) CAN’T live without completed contents (whether you are self-proclaimed ‘true’ gamers or a achievement/trophy wh*re) therefor we fell right under their (developers/publishers) hands.

We are partly to blame since we proved to them their ripoff schemes did work. Personally I’d never bought anything I can live without and I believe a lot of gamers do the same… the problem are those who felt the ‘need’ to acquire all those contents blindly and they (devs) are not gonna stop making fool of us if we keep showing them how foolish we are.

Unlocks/pay to unlock all content keys/penny pinching like “costumes and a few cars” – we lose on that one.

The Lost and the Damned.

How do people feel about that as DLC? I for one think it’s perfectly acceptable, never in a million years would I expect that to be free.

Costumes and stuff like that, maybe no, but LandtheD, yes.

“they’re simply gonna develop the content beforehand, not put it on the disc, say it wasn’t made during development, and make us download it”

Unfortunately for us, I have a feeling this is already happening.