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Gears of War 3's on-disc DLC

Posted by S3xySeele on Nov. 5, 2011, 12:19 a.m.

So… Gears of War 3's Horde Command Pack DLC is actually on the game disc.

DLC being present on a game's disc isn't unheard of, but Epic hasn't tried to be sneaky and hide this fact. Why? Because they've got a cute little justificatation for why their DLC is on the game's disc.

Their argument goes that Gears of War 3 was meant to be released earlier in the year, but due to it getting pushed back, what was intended to be post-launch downloaded DLC could now be put on the game disc. And why not? After all, doing so will greatly reduce the size of the download needed to enable the content.

I've got two problems with that argument.

First off, if the content is meant to be released as DLC post-launch, maybe you should wait to start working on it until you've got a finished game. Perhaps not yet on store shelves, but at least wait until the game's gone gold or extremely close to it.

Second, if the content happens to be finished before the game goes gold, it shouldn't be DLC anymore even if it was originally intended to be. Throw it into the game, and make some more damn content for post-launch DLC if you wanna shake us down for more of our cash, you cheap and lazy bastards.

/rant

Glad I'm not a Gears of War fan to begin with. And after this lame excuse for on-disc DLC, I'm not about to give it (or any other Epic games) a try any time soon.

Comments

Rob 13 years, 1 month ago

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It can't be any worse than PSN, though. It takes me like 10 minutes just to download something that's 20 mb and then after that, it'll have to install which takes about an additional 10 minutes.

for srs

What? I get 1mb+/s download speeds. Which is about my connection speed (15mbps->1.8MB/s) Pretty much the same I get on steam.

Is your wireless router fucked? Or are you using a damaged ethernet cable?

JID 13 years, 1 month ago

works fine for everything besides psn.

Rob 13 years, 1 month ago

How are you connecting on your PS3? Has it always been like that? I don't think I've downloaded anything in about half a year so I can't really say what it's like now, but I don't think it would have changed.

JID 13 years, 1 month ago

I don't have a ps3 anymore, but it used to be even worse than it is now.

now I only have a psp. Which I rarely even use.

JID 13 years, 1 month ago

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I don't think I've downloaded anything in about half a year so I can't really say what it's like now, but I don't think it would have changed.

same, but I've had psn for years, and it always used to download things pretty slow, I doubt that it changed much now.

Rob 13 years, 1 month ago

Weird. I've used it for years too and it's almost always at least 1MB/s. 500KB/s if it's going a bit slow. And my internet is apparently slower than yours. I wasn't even using a direct connection either, just the wireless.

Edit: S3xySeele. Your avatar is supposed to look like goatse, right?

Alert Games 13 years, 1 month ago

Yeah they should just make it $5 then to access it. $10 is a lot for fricken DLC. Id rather use that to buy more games. So I hardly ever buy DLC's at all.

BP Scraps 13 years, 1 month ago

Quote: A comment by InverseExcept on a Kotaku article

Interesting. So, I was wondering something. All of you people constantly whining and crying yourselves to sleep over this……… you DO remember classic video games, right?

How you had to unlock secret modes and items in the game that you couldn't normally access unless you completed a very specific task?

Playing through single player mode to unlock alternate costumes or grabbing the secret keys to access the hidden levels? How they were accomplished by special means outside of the normal game?

The only difference with this, is that you're trading real pocket change for virtual points for in-game unlockables, instead of beating the game or grabbing all the red coins or beating the challenge modes. Same thing, different method. You're still DOING something.

So the question remains… What makes your measly $7 any more fucking important than taking 7 hours out of your life to complete a hidden challenge list? Time and Money are virtually about the same thing.

But oh, I see it's all just "boo hoo hoo they are profiting off of us and stealing money from consumers, cuz they're greedy"

Well, wah. If you don't want to unlock extras in the normal game, don't do the extra challenge shit. And if you don't want the DLC, don't fucking give them your money.

Don't want to play the harder secret levels in Super Mario World? Don't bother finding Star Road. Don't want to pay for extra content in Gears Of War 3? Don't fucking pay for it. No one ever held a gun to the side of your fucking head and said "Buy this extra shit or we'll kill you."

Don't want to pay for disc unlocks? Too fucking bad. You feel entitled because it's on the disc? Star Road in Super Mario World is in the programming. You're not entitled to it either, unless you put in the time and effort. You're measly $7 isn't worth any more than 7 hours of your time any goddamn way. Quit your bitching about things your not even forced to do.

Easy, right? Yeah. So you can all pretty much shut the fuck up now, thanks.

Just wanted to put in ~~my 2 cents~~ the opinion of someone who I agreed with. Kotaku article here.

JID 13 years, 1 month ago

I agree more with the people who commented on the article instead of the guy who you quoted and I have no problem paying for DLC(most of the time).