DLC are too expensive ?

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ENTERSANDMAN13
I know man, for me £4 is the cost of a meal at McDonalds! i have no problem with spending that on new content for GT5 :lol:
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Yes, but why do you pay £4 for the meal at McDonalds? Because you (I assume) think it's good value for money. You don't pay it just because £4 isn't very much money and you don't care what food you get, do you?

It's the same with DLC, you only pay £4 if you think the DLC is worth £4 and those who aren't willing to pay it aren't doing so because they can't afford £4 (or whatever it is in their area), it's because they don't think it's worth that. Surely you do that with most purchases? You don't just pay whatever the price is because it's not too much money, like £1 for a Mars bar in service stations? I mean why not, it's only a pound.

So can the people who constantly compare the cost of DLC to the cost of something consumable please bear that in mind next time they find something to compare it to.

Flaco13
omg, imagine all the complaints for a 20$ DLC..
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Again, people wouldn't complain (well, some would) about $20 DLC if they thought it was worth $20. As a random example if PD had offered pretty much all the GT4 tracks that went missing for $20 I'd be very tempted to buy it, because I would think it's worth that. However if they offered just four GT4 tracks for $20 (4 x Motegi) I wouldn't buy it because I don't think they would be worth it.
 
SimonK
Yes, but why do you pay £4 for the meal at McDonalds? Because you (I assume) think it's good value for money. You don't pay it just because £4 isn't very much money and you don't care what food you get, do you?

It's the same with DLC, you only pay £4 if you think the DLC is worth £4 and those who aren't willing to pay it aren't doing so because they can't afford £4 (or whatever it is in their area), it's because they don't think it's worth that. Surely you do that with most purchases? You don't just pay whatever the price is because it's not too much money, like £1 for a Mars bar in service stations? I mean why not, it's only a pound.

So can the people who constantly compare the cost of DLC to the cost of something consumable please bear that in mind next time they find something to compare it to.



Again, people wouldn't complain (well, some would) about $20 DLC if they thought it was worth $20. As a random example if PD had offered pretty much all the GT4 tracks that went missing for $20 I'd be very tempted to buy it, because I would think it's worth that. However if they offered just four GT4 tracks for $20 (4 x Motegi) I wouldn't buy it because I don't think they would be worth it.
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If I say I'd pay 20$ on Porsche dlc even though I don't care for them it states that I do not think of it price-value wise. That's the difference in our opinions :)
 
Flaco13
If I say I'd pay 20$ on Porsche dlc even though I don't care for them it states that I do not think of it price-value wise. That's the difference in our opinions :)
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So you buy things even if you don't think they're worth it? Companies must love consumers like you.
 
I do think it is a bit expensive and i have not decided whether to buy it or not as Motegi is not really a favorite of mine, my problem with the pricing is that Spa and Kart Space costs £3.19 and Motegi costs £4.00.
With Spa your getting one of the most desirable circuits in the world that was brand new to the GT series and obviously so was Kart Space, so how can Motegi cost more when it is only one track that most of us have played in previous GT games, i know it has 4 different layouts but it's nowhere near as good value as the Spa/Kart Space DLC in my view.

I'm not complaining too much tho as there are far worse examples of DLC and the worse of all are the companies that hold back content from the final game just to released it as DLC at a later date or even on release day!!
 
Mark
I buy things I want, wether there worth it or not. If I want I get.
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He knows there is more to my statement, but laughing at somebody is more comfortable than to look a little deeper into it. When I purchase a car pack full of cars I've no personal interest in, the reason I do it is that I appreciate the work that it cost the developers to model them; it is a piece of my favourite franchise. Like I watch my favourite team play even though I don't like some of the players.

And secondly, once I have those cars I can still try them out, to see if my feeling about them would change or just confirm. ;)
 
I personally think that the DLC is quite reasonable. If any new DLC comes out, I will buy it no matter what the price. If it costs more than the game itself then so be it. Although at the moment, it is only a few quid per DLC. If you can't afford to pay that for it, then why do you make a thread having the message: 'i can't afford the DLC so it should be free'.
 
I would pay for something that is not supposed to be in the game like Venom GT, Caparo T1, something out of the ordinary, but paying for Nissan Leaf... It would be ok if we can buy individual cars for 1$, so we can get Aventador, cars that worth it.
 
Scottish GT5
If any new DLC comes out, I will buy it no matter what the price. If it costs more than the game itself then so be it
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Your Scottish?
 
Spagetti69
Your not tight?
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Not really. A bit when it comes to stuff which may go to waste. But I am in a comfortable financial situation.
 
I find the DLCs expensive for what they have to offer. If they gave you 10 cars per DLC I would probably buy them. Right now I only consider getting the one with the Aventador, Scirocco etc. since I don't care much for Motegi (got FM4) and the FR-S.
 
Scottish GT5
Not really. A bit when it comes to stuff which may go to waste. But I am in a comfortable financial situation.
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Ok. Only joking matey.
 
SimonK
So you buy things even if you don't think they're worth it? Companies must love consumers like you.
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This is a very vague statement, you'd have to define worth. What might be worth something to you doesn't mean it does to someone else.

I could go buy the most top of the line stereo system, but others, which are cheaper, do the same thing. If I love music and sound so much, I'm not going to be looking at price tags, I'd be thinking about how fast I could install it. On the other hand you have Joe Shmo that has the same amount of income as me but isn't really all that into sound and music, so he skimps out and buys something cheaper. We both found somethings worth and based our purchase upon it.

As for DLC, I do understand you about people not finding the TRM worth it so they don't buy it, and that's valid. But because someone else has extra money and buys what they want, doesn't make it right for you to belittle them (reference quote). You might call it sucking up to companies, I call it pumping money back into your economy (via sales tax).
 
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DLC TOO EXPENSIVE? Do something about it.
 
Flaco13
Regarding tracks I don't agree, We got Spa Francorchamps and now Motegi, Bathurst was or is beeing scanned... Any new real life circuit makes sense to be added, imo.
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Spa is fine. Motegi, I can not agree with as I don't believe licensing is what stopped them from just porting it over with the amount of content they ported over as far back as GT3.
 
McLaren
Spa is fine. Motegi, I can not agree with as I don't believe licensing is what stopped them from just porting it over with the amount of content they ported over as far back as GT3.
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ok, but what do you think it was that kept them from putting it in the game from the beginning?
 
Flaco13
ok, but what do you think it was that kept them from putting it in the game from the beginning?
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I think it was nothing more than PD deciding to update it as future DLC, which is again, why I don't particularly care for their choice in DLC rather than the price itself.
 
McLaren
I think it was nothing more than PD deciding to update it as future DLC, which is again, why I don't particularly care for their choice in DLC rather than the price itself.
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This I can not agree because what you are saying is that those were their plans even before the title released. And Yamauchi stated he didn't even want to work with dlc. And how is the first dlc pack is to be explained after this theory, when it was clear that that was the test for us and them, if dlc will be succesfull. I'm a sucker for conspiracy theories, but regarding PD I'm not jumping on that boat.
 
Flaco13
This I can not agree because what you are saying is that those were their plans even before the title released. And Yamauchi stated he didn't even want to work with dlc. And how is the first dlc pack is to be explained after this theory, when it was clear that that was the test for us and them, if dlc will be succesfull. I'm a sucker for conspiracy theories, but regarding PD I'm not jumping on that boat.
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Yamauchi has spewed all sorts of crap the last 6 years about what he was or wasn't going to add to GT5.

You believe what you want, I'll believe what I want unless someone has solid evidence of why PD did not bring Motegi back & just release this as an update to it like they did with the Jaguar.
 
do you know how expensive it is to re-badge an 86 and port Motegi from GT4?! that stuff costs money people, A LOT OF MONEY.
 
ROYALEFATALE
do you know how expensive it is to re-badge an 86 and port Motegi from GT4?! that stuff costs money people, A LOT OF MONEY.
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My question is do you know how much it cost PD to put either into the game? How much did PD pay to re-acquire or renew the Motegi license? How much work actually went into updating the track and bringing into the game? I'm interested to find out because I have no clue and I'm not going to act like I do. But I do know what they charged for the Scion, $0. I also know $5 is not an outrageous price for a dlc when you look at industry wide prices. They also aren't the first to charge for something that was in a previous game. It all seems pretty standard for a company looking to turn a profit to me, well except for the free car part.
 
DLC expensive??? Not that much...

But with the quality of the DLC's were are gettting, it does feel like a theft...
 

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