DLC Pricing Policies - your thoughts?

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He's saying that only because the OP didn't justify their opinion sufficiently.

I realize that, but he could have gone about it a better way. You get back what you put in. The OP had a legit point and instead of asking for clarification he decided to be rude.
 
I don't understand why people complain about the pricing of the DLC. In my opinion, there are reasonably priced, and if you think they are too expensive, don't buy them.
 
I'd be interested in the price to car ratio of the DLC cars as compared to the original game. Seems that the DLC cars are much more expensive per car, than the original 250 odd premium cars included with the game.

I guess Sony know they have a captive audience now, people's excitement rules them, so they'll buy just any scrap thrown their way. Maybe my reasoning's faulty. Perhaps one of the resident economic experts can shed some light on why the DLC cars are so much more expensive comparative to the original cars in game.
 
Well my 2c is simple really,it is what it is and if you want it you'll get it and game developers know this and will price accordingly,it's not too bad so far but we would all like to play less/nada for it but I'm not complaining.👍
 
I dont get it.. When people dont get nothing they complain, give them DLC they complain about a price...

Pretty childish to be honest, and like someone here said previously its not like they asking 20-30$ per DLC, 10$ for total is not alot of money, atleast for me, its just few beers less in the 2 months. :)

And I am glad that GT5 still get updated and all.. They also could left it like it was back in 2010 and just work on next title and make us all jelly..
 
I don't understand why people complain about the pricing of the DLC. In my opinion, there are reasonably priced, and if you think they are too expensive, don't buy them.

These exact words have been said or will be said several more times. Not really adding to the thread when you and five guys before you just said this.
 
I think it's pretty fair for me, and at all the cost of everything is great... look at the last car pack 4 dollars for 4 cars.

I play other racing game called NFS World, it is a free online game, but all the cool cars cost something called Boost. 1 car, just one, cost 6000 boost, and 8000 boost is 25 dollars... so you see, there you pay like 20 dollars for ONE car, and here you pay 4 bucks for FOUR cars.
Without even saying the CCX there, the car cost 50 dollars, yes... 1 car cost more then the whole GT5 game nowdays.

So I Really don't have anything to complain about the pricing of DLC's
 
From that interview:

"Are there cars you regret not including due to limited development time?

Yamauchi: yes, there are many. For example the Volkswagen Scirocco didn't get included just by a small margin. Regarding race cars, an example is the Jaguar XJR9; I also feel mortified that the Ferrari 365GTB/4 (Ferrari Daytona) which was even in pamphlet photos wasn't included."

which means the next dlc pack may follow the advertised yet unreleased content path: ferrari daytona, mini cooper S rm, stelvio pass, that karting track in italy, el capitan, ice arena, and so on.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=6229306#post6229306
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=223615
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=220167
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=181212
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=222526
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=6391413#post6391413
https://www.gtplanet.net/24-new-track-logos-discovered-on-gran-turismo-5-website/
http://www.gtpla.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gt5-screenshot-tracks.jpg
 
This all might be added in the future with dlc's.. The 800 degree hand animation is something that is really missing out..
 
This all might be added in the future with dlc's.. The 800 degree hand animation is something that is really missing out..

that doesn't bother me a bit.
I rarely have to turn my wheel so far that I need to re position my hands.
Need to be said I never drift.

But if they would implement this it would be an update not DLC.
So irrelevant for this thread.
 
"walks into house , does things with your wife , looks at you , states "i don't roll that way" Walks into kitchen , makes samitch , walks out"
yep free and open for every one just like your fridge...

Oh man that made my day...had a healthy chuckle. Thanks for that one.

Ahh the old DLC price battle...read the OP couldn't disagree more. Faithful, if you were faithful then you would help these guys out by buying the DLC and not complaining about them charging you for it. The main game is a bundle in and of itself don't try to compare work done after the game was finished. It will cost more simple fact of economics, ever notice that when companies buy chips they always buy in bulk it's cheaper to produce and sell in large volume. If you sell them in small quantities you will need to price them higher in order to cover your expenses.

They give us enough free stuff, sheesh. What is it a free for all? Everything done to this game post sale costs money, it costs money to upkeep those same servers that you aren't paying a dime for to keep your game updated and connected to PSN. The scanners, the operators, the power, the designers, the testers everyone has to get paid. How dare you ask for something free? Do you give out your services to millions of people for free? Incredible, it's no wonder companies prefer to charge than have free services, people come to expect free stuff and then complain when things are...but I guarantee that none of the crying would do the same with their services...yea give it out free to millions.
 
Faithful, if you were faithful then you would help these guys out by buying the DLC and not complaining about them charging you for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Everything done to this game post sale costs money, it costs money to upkeep those same servers that you aren't paying a dime for to keep your game updated and connected to PSN. The scanners, the operators, the power, the designers, the testers everyone has to get paid. How dare you ask for something free? Do you give out your services to millions of people for free? Incredible, it's no wonder companies prefer to charge than have free services, people come to expect free stuff and then complain when things are...but I guarantee that none of the crying would do the same with their services...yea give it out free to millions.

Has absolutely, positively, nothing to do with this topic.
 
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Should DLC be free? Absolutely not. For me, less than £1 a car is not what I'd call breaking the bank. Neither is £3.19 for a track which is almost 20 miles in length and gives you the ability to test so many statistics of so many different cars. PD are not a charitable organization (though they do give free content from time to time which they are not obligated to do) they are a business and the primary goal for any business is to make profit and more generally, money.
 
Oh man that made my day...had a healthy chuckle. Thanks for that one.

Ahh the old DLC price battle...read the OP couldn't disagree more. Faithful, if you were faithful then you would help these guys out by buying the DLC and not complaining about them charging you for it.

Help these guys out? You make it sound like PD are a paupers with nothing to their name, we've already 'helped' them out by buying over 70 million games since GT1.
 
I have only bought the first DLC and will only get the track pack for this one as I have more than enough cars to deal with.

Faithful, if you were faithful then you would help these guys out by buying the DLC and not complaining about them charging you for it.

Hypocrite, much?

Seeing as how I have bought every DLC that has come out the minute it came out, I feel I am well within my right to complain about a part of it I may not like, and the ONLY thing I have personally not cared for is being charged for the standard to premium. I see you all over these forums talking about we should appreciate all the hard work they put into finishing this car. Well I install HVAC systems, and I could see myself telling a customer "I only hooked up the heat today, but I'll come back at a later date and install the AC. By the way I'm going to charge you again when I come back." That customer would be irate.

So if they want to convert standards to premiums, that's fine, but don't charge me twice because you half-assed the job the first time.

And the fact that you're defending something you haven't even bought and telling those of us that have bought it how we should feel....well, that's just laughable.
 
Hypocrite, much?

Seeing as how I have bought every DLC that has come out the minute it came out, I feel I am well within my right to complain about a part of it I may not like, and the ONLY thing I have personally not cared for is being charged for the standard to premium. I see you all over these forums talking about we should appreciate all the hard work they put into finishing this car. Well I install HVAC systems, and I could see myself telling a customer "I only hooked up the heat today, but I'll come back at a later date and install the AC. By the way I'm going to charge you again when I come back." That customer would be irate.

So if they want to convert standards to premiums, that's fine, but don't charge me twice because you half-assed the job the first time.

And the fact that you're defending something you haven't even bought and telling those of us that have bought it how we should feel....well, that's just laughable.

Considering I already own the first bundle that came, I had no need of the extra cars. I haven't used a single one of the cars in the first DLC pack, so why the hell am I going to buy more? There you go, I will probably get the course only as I only want more courses to drive on, I find the giant oval thing kind of lame and with no way to have an official drag mode what is the point of having two straights that long? If there is something that allows use of the course as a drag strip then that would make it feasible but after watching one lap of an X2010 I was like seriously no drag strip or drag mode option? I would have been happier if they included a mode that used the TGTT runway as a drag strip, that would have been better than this giant course. I thought the course would have had one big straight and the other side would have been more akin to complex string for actual testing purposes. No such luck.

Some one half assed the job? Wait a minute, it's ok for Turn10 to release day one DLC and you pay for it, but a whole damn year later GT5 releases cars and things that they couldn't have done by release date and there's a problem. Anyone else see the issue there, anyone? That's nice that you install HVAC systems, but understand this this is a game which at sale is a complete product, notice that it also says there will be add-on content. Where in the hell does it say that you are entitled to free updates of cars already present in the game?

Im not defending anything but the fact that people earned the right to be paid for their work and services. Go do work and then have the customer want it for free after you already did your hard work. Now if the it wasn't the Jaguar XJ-R9LM and some new car would it make it any more deserving of your money? That is the question of the day.

Lol PD are rich beyond belief aren't they? What you think advertising is free? Mass producing these discs is some gracious act by the presses free of charge? No one charges PD for localization or anything do they? I bet they fly those disc in on magical clouds too.

Toronado you can pretty much take your brand of ignorance somewhere else, since when the money that is spent on bringing this game to fruition has no bearing on DLC, are you partially mad? You are going to tell me that it's all done pro bono right? That they get these things for free and they have no bills or anything like that? That was one idiotic post if I ever saw one. The thread is about DLC pricing and everything that goes into the content has variance on the the charge for the DLC, which is why DLC is always going to be more than the complete product that went on sale. I give up, this place has devolved into some sort of charity haven, where it's cool to ask for things and then complain about their being a charge. Giving out free stuff also causes a mindset in humans and well it's in full effect as we can see by all the people crying over having to pay for DLC. Really?!? Do you ride in taxi's for free? How about take airline flights? Man you can't live on this earth without paying your due, taxes anyone? Why do you think anything should be afforded to you free? I want to see a valid reason, I so far can't think of a one yet. Because PD has updated the game FREE OF CHARGE, whether or not it should have been the case at launch doesn't change the FACT that it was DONE FREE of CHARGE! So please enlighten me on why you shouldn't have to pay for the DLC, you champion of the downtrodden!
 
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but a whole damn year later GT5 releases cars and things that they couldn't have done by release date and there's a problem.

You need to pick an argument and stick with it. Either all of the content they have released thus far is stuff that they couldn't quite slip into the game before it went gold, or it is all new stuff that they just finished now. It can't be both, and for the record it probably wasn't the former for all but the two cars that we know of.

Lol PD are rich beyond belief aren't they? What you think advertising is free? Mass producing these discs is some gracious act by the presses free of charge? No one charges PD for localization or anything do they? I bet they fly those disc in on magical clouds too.
Since when are any of those things not paid off by the retail price of the game?

since when the money that is spent on bringing this game to fruition has no bearing on DLC, are you partially mad? You are going to tell me that it's all done pro bono right? That they get these things for free and they have no bills or anything like that? That was one idiotic post if I ever saw one.

It's funny, because you are fabricating an argument I never made in order to perpetuate a foolish strawman ideal that no one in this discussion has and then calling me an idiot.

So please enlighten me on why you shouldn't have to pay for the DLC, you champion of the downtrodden!

Remind me when I actually said that, and I'll happily do so.
 
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Some one half assed the job? Wait a minute, it's ok for Turn10 to release day one DLC and you pay for it, but a whole damn year later GT5 releases cars and things that they couldn't have done by release date and there's a problem. Anyone else see the issue there, anyone? That's nice that you install HVAC systems, but understand this this is a game which at sale is a complete product, notice that it also says there will be add-on content. Where in the hell does it say that you are entitled to free updates of cars already present in the game?

First, I have NEVER said one word about Turn 10 or Forza's DLC policies. Not one. I don't own Forza or an X-Box, and I have never studied their DLC policies, therefore I feel I have no place to comment on it. However, I do have a PS3, The Collector's Edition GT5, and all the DLCs. So, if I see them doing something I don't particularly care for, I will say something about it. I also NEVER said I was entitled to free updates of cars already in the game. I'm fine with the standards the way they are. PD CHOSE to upgrade that car. Truth be known, I don't really have a problem with this one car out of six being an upgrade. However, I am worried that future DLCs will be, say, 4 out of 6 cars that are upgrades. I guess long story short, I prefer new cars in the DLCs, and they can save the upgrades for GT6.
 
My $0.02...

I have no issue with paying money for the various DLC packs. It's my money, I earnt it, and if I perceive value in those packs then I will buy them (and I did). I also realise that if I do not buy DLC, then I'm not in a position to complain when they don't release what I do want.

However, I am a little dismayed, as I'm sure others have been in the last 19 pages, at the FOREX policies employed by Sony (it is they after all that determine the pricing and not PD).

Manufacturers and suppliers will often price differently by country due to the cost of transportation, taxes, logisitics, raw material costs, labour and a host of other items. However, in relation to SW that can only be purchased electronically, and is only created once (i.e. not manufactured in mulitple locations), a lot of those reasons disappear.

Since when has USD5.99 = GBP4.79 = AUD9.95 (the current price for car pack 3)

Today's spot rates show USD5.99 = GBP3.89 = AUD5.76 (no that isn't a typo, Sony has a 72% uplift in currency for Australia)

Lets assume that Sony has a reasonable argument for pricing differently between the US and EU stores (although I can't think of one that would justify such a large disparity) so we just consider GBP4.79 vs. AUD9.95.

Again, today's spot rate shows that GBP4.79 = AUD7.09 (so in this instance, Sony has a 41% uplift in currency)

The AUD has been within 8% of the USD for the last year now, and hasn't had a monthly average above the USD since January 2011, what are you worried about Sony? I'm happy to support your product, but please, stop taking the 🤬
 
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amen Carlos... i've also had thoughts about this before and did a little research.

we're part of SCEE (Europe) and our pricing has typically been converted from GBP so any comparison to the US price is almost a moot point.
and unfortunatly the Aussie dorra hasnt had such a nice run against the GBP (not that its been that bad either)

worst comparison rate in the last 12 months was 1.64x, which would still only make the DLC $8. (well 7.89 to be precise) not $10...
so screw you SCEE ;)

but ...
then again...
it is only $2...
& i've wasted more then $2 of my time typing this... :dunce:
 
amen Carlos...

we're part of SCEE (Europe) and our pricing has typically been converted from GBP so any comparison to the US price is almost a moot point.

It's not a moot point when you consider that the SW is not created in NA or EU. Why should Sony Europe charge more than Sony NA for the same software?
 
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At least it isn't a debate spiraling out of control or going off-topic. All other threads similar to this one were locked. This is the main one and nobody has had any real problem with it. May be useless to you, but the debate is quite interesting and getting to see how people may think things through or their own ideas.

Also, if your trying to tell the moderators to close, lock, or delete, then the report button may be something of interest to you.
 
Absolutely outrageous. $17. Nearly $10 more than the US price listing and we have the stronger dollar!


I don't understand why people complain about the pricing of the DLC. In my opinion, there are reasonably priced, and if you think they are too expensive, don't buy them.

It's not the price but the principle. Why are Australians paying considerably more for the same product, even with a simple currency conversion. Fine if it's within a few dollars, but not nearly double the price!
 
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