So it begins - Paid DLC apparently, starting off with those new premium upgrades

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Way to go citing the pap that is nowgamer for an interview that was translated here days ago.

Personally I do not mind dlc, if I choose to buy it is based on whether I have got value for money with the game. With gt5 I have got as many hours per pound spent as pretty much everything bar wipeouthd.

If there is paid for dlc, and I imagine there will be both paid and unpaid, I will not feel ripped off.
 
Even if they made my favorite standard car premium i would not buy it due to the fact that buying things over the PS Store needs more fiddling about than brain surgery does.
 
Ishie
Even if they made my favorite standard car premium i would not buy it due to the fact that buying things over the PS Store needs more fiddling about than brain surgery does.
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Just out of curiosity what problems do you have? Have never had any issues personally.
 
Maybe it's different now. I've never bought anything, but last time I checked you could not buy directly with say VISA, which is kind of dumb. It's like pay pal ****.. Well first we need to transfer and convert your money a trillion times before we can actually let you use them.
 
I don't mind paying for DLC that significantly adds to the game, but I'm not paying for anything that should of been in the game already.
 
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Bah.

Yes to DLC cars/tracks.
Yes to patch fixes.

I hope that DLC doesn't split the community. It would be a shame if only a small portion moved forward with the additional content.
Online racing would get fragmented.

How does Forza deal with players who have additional tracks/cars vs those who don't?

@ishie:
It's changed. I know in the past you were required to put in funds in your PSN wallet in increments of $5. Now the total amount of your purchase is automatically added to your wallet at check out. So it's essentially like paying with a card. No more stupid pennies being left in your balance.
 
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Ishie
Maybe it's different now. I've never bought anything, but last time I checked you could not buy directly with say VISA, which is kind of dumb. It's like pay pal ****.. Well first we need to transfer and convert your money a trillion times before we can actually let you use them.
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Well, you're just wrong. You're the problem in that story, not PSN.

About DLC, bring it on, free or paid. :)
 
My opinion about DLC is rather old fashioned I am sad to say. If it is a significant expansion to content, then maybe that would tempt me.

Otherwise the company is trying to play me for a sucker by selling me stuff that should have been in the game already. The fact that people are supporting this business model (by falling for the con) is distressing as the most likely outcome of it is shoddily produced games just flashy enough to attract the magpies.
 
And I'm insulted by devs thinking I'd actually buy some of the stuff thats put out there.
I can't help but feel they made this decision a long time ago and figured they'd make more money releasing some of the content as DLC. This opinion may stink, but it's my opinion.

frason
Well, you're just wrong. You're the problem in that story, not PSN.

About DLC, bring it on, free or paid. :)
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Care to elaborate? I haven't even looked at the store since 2007 or something except when I've redeemed bonus codes.
 
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I've read through the article a few times now and I still can't find the bit where it says it's paid DLC...
 
SouL
I hope that DLC doesn't split the community. It would be a shame if only a small portion moved forward with the additional content.
Online racing would get fragmented.
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That's exactly what's going to happen Sherlock. Say bye bye to organized competitions in here if some people don't have certain tracks or don't have that OMG-awesome-Mach 5-breaking car to compete with. Besides the online is a big mess anyway to begin with. There's not much to fragment here.

Now it's a different thing if some people succumb to 'peer pressure' and buy these pointless things.

Call of Duty and FIFA(yearly iterations) are just bigger examples of DLC.
 
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If Polyphony Digital want to charge for DLC, they have every right to - after all, they put in a lot of hard work to make it happen, and you don't get anything for free these days. Why should they spend hours, days and weeks labouring over it and then give it to you for nothing out of the goodness of their hearts? Polyphony Digital as a business, just as McDonald's or Boeing or Woolworths is. And the primary function of a business is to make money. If a business cannot make money, it cannot survive. And Polyphony cannot make DLC or GT6 if it does not survive.
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No, they do not have every right to. They have a right to charge for brand new cars...not updating Standard to Premium. The box boldly states 'over 1000 cars'. Accompanied by some lovely pics of Premium cars. We do not have to pay to bring the other 80% up to current-gen spec. Not when PD clearly set the bar higher with Premiums.
 
interludes
If Polyphony Digital want to charge for DLC, they have every right to - after all, they put in a lot of hard work to make it happen, and you don't get anything for free these days. Why should they spend hours, days and weeks labouring over it and then give it to you for nothing out of the goodness of their hearts? Polyphony Digital as a business, just as McDonald's or Boeing or Woolworths is. And the primary function of a business is to make money. If a business cannot make money, it cannot survive. And Polyphony cannot make DLC or GT6 if it does not survive.
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I agree. And on the point that people make about not paying for somthing that could have been in the game via DLC, the updated cars will have been worked on post release, so would not have been there pre-release. like I said before, these cars will be destined for GT6 (i predict 100 odd) but they will bring them forward as DLC in order to make more revinue.
 
Famine
I've read through the article a few times now and I still can't find the bit where it says it's paid DLC...
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While that is true, Deve, and I think he's right is adding 2+2.

How else are they going to pay for the "Free online service".
 
I just wanted to post my opinion in all this mess.

Gran Turismo 5 👍
Monthly(-ish) updates 👍
DLC 👍
DLC that costs money 👍

PD provides, you dont have to buy. I will buy and I will keep making love to my ps3 because GT5 is awesome! :)👍
 
SuperCobraJet
While that is true, Deve, and I think he's right is adding 2+2.

How else are they going to pay for the "Free online service".
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They did with GT5P - they doubled the car count in 12 months!

The article does include the word "purchase", but there's no distinction between the in-game function of purchasing cars and paying for DLC. I wouldn't rule either in or out based on that article.
 
interludes
If a business cannot make money, it cannot survive. And Polyphony cannot make DLC or GT6 if it does not survive.
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But can they survive if they continue to bring out half-assed games ?
GT5 was not the A++ game everyone expected. Yes it sold very well on name alone, but that won't work as well for GT6.

And yes, I consider GT5 half-assed. Its basically a very good physics engine hidden in a mediocre game with some really stupid design flaws and an AI that doesn't deserve its name.

That said, I would pay for DLC, if it included some nice tracks like Spa or really nice cars. But I'd prefer they'd fix the obvious errors first.
 
The original Famitsu article doesn't mention the words "purchase", "DLC" for added content. I posted a translation of that section in one of the first posts in the first page of this thread.
 
Ishie
Care to elaborate? I haven't even looked at the store since 2007 or something except when I've redeemed bonus codes.
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A bit off-topic but you add your cc to your PSN-account, done, then you just buy whatever you want..
 
Gt5anticip8r
No, they do not have every right to. They have a right to charge for brand new cars...not updating Standard to Premium. The box boldly states 'over 1000 cars'. Accompanied by some lovely pics of Premium cars. We do not have to pay to bring the other 80% up to current-gen spec. Not when PD clearly set the bar higher with Premiums.
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Did you get 'over 1000 cars'? if you did then why even mention it? PD have been saying for quite a while before the release that only a small amount of cars were going to be high resolution models so if you expected anything different then thats your problem, as for the lovely pics of premuim cars, welcome to the world of marketing...they are not going to try and sell a future release of a game based on 6 year old ports of GT4 models.

Premium cars take up to 6 months each to model, if you want more premium cars to be made available then your going to have to pay for the man hours to do it...it's additional content they are supplying as they never said all cars would be premium high res models.
The stuff that will be free i.e included in patches will be stuff that PD feels the game should have included or aspects that need to be polished that are integral to the game and how it runs.

I don't remember as many people complaining when Turn 10 brought out Forza 3 with a promise of 10x more polygons than Forza 2 only for that to not actually be the case.
 
Famine
I've read through the article a few times now and I still can't find the bit where it says it's paid DLC...
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I was just going to write the same thing....

So we know DLC's will appear,but whether or not we have to actually pay for them is still not confirmed... :)




spy.
 
I'm almost convinced that this game actually had a fair bit of content ripped out of it at the last minute to be kept as paid-for DLC. The unfinished, almost disjointed nature of the way the game is put together just doesn't make sense.
 
DrTrouserPlank
I'm almost convinced that this game actually had a fair bit of content ripped out of it at the last minute to be kept as paid-for DLC. The unfinished, almost disjointed nature of the way the game is put together just doesn't make sense.
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Hmmmm.........., or it was never in to start with.

Now why would they do that ?

Paid for DLC ?
 

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