I am missing out on 10% of the cars in game because I wont spend an additional $84 a year for DLC. Or whatever a season pass costs.
You're missing out on
optional extras. That are post-release because if a racing game developer waited to include all cars, the game would never be released.
A season pass costs $30. If you bought the LCE edition for $80, that'd bring the total up to $110.
By way of comparison, GT5 CE cost me $100, and the only difference I got in-game compared to the regular $60 version was a few cars with horsepower bumped to about 110%, weight down by about 5%, and a few stripes and GT logos.
It's easy for me to justify spending that much on a single game, compared to non-racing games at the typical $60 a pop, simply because racing games have essentially infinite replayability. Obviously, your mileage may vary.
Was that one guy telling me I am lazy because i won't download car's I don't have...? Turn 10 should make me download the update/free car and take up precious room on my hard drive so I can look at your DLC that I can't have.
Priceless.
Do you complain about GT's mandatory patches too? You know, the ones that include all the new car data for each upcoming DLC, and are
mandatory if you want to play online?
FM4's single-free-DLC-car downloads are the same, except you can choose to avoid them, see black Jettas, and
still play online. So yes, it's laziness. If you're that concerned with something less than 200mb in size taking up "precious space", then maybe racing games in general, on consoles, are a bad idea.
Smart people like choice and that's what I want when it comes to DLC. Not an all or nothing ultimatum mixed with locked cars and such.
You have plenty of choice. There's the Season Pass. There's the monthly packs. There's single-car downloads (with exception to a few cars). Your complaint is that your particular choice isn't the cheapest. Though as has been pointed out, buying in bulk has always been the cheapest option in nearly any area of life.
How can I drive ten new cars at once anyway?
Wait... what?
"I bought this new game, and it has 500 cars, but how can I drive 500 new cars at once anyways?"
There are also people who had some faith in T10, some faith that they would offer some decent cars in their paccks. Like myself. And so far, it payed of very well.
Considering I came into this nearly blind in regard to FM and T10... I've been pretty satisfied too 👍. There's been a handful of cars I've had little to no interest in in the packs, but largely, it's been stuff I want to drive.
It would cost $120 annually for Xbox Live and I would have to pop for both the season passes at an additional $65 plus two copies of the game. Grand total is now $305 for the first year.
Why two copies of the game? Unless you're playing on two separate consoles, in which case... yeah, that'd be the case with
any game. Not really T10's fault you have to pay for XBL, either.
I haven't looked into it, but I thought Microsoft offered a family plan for XBL?
The DLC that GT5 offers up can be shared across multiple consoles within the same family so I only have to buy it once.
Now. That wasn't always the case, and it took massive fan outrage and some back-pedaling on Kaz' part to change that.
Not to mention they are a better value to begin with and include tracks too.
Better value? Other than the tracks... how? The car packs have been more-per-car than Forza (with exception to the Touring Car pack, which were all modified versions of cars already in the game). Don't get me started on the paint pack.
But since it came with practically every car from the previous games, around 1,000 cars, I don't really need DLC Cars for it, do I?
Well no, I suppose not. Unless you want any car produced after 2005. And, obviously, any produced before that that aren't covered in the list.
Anyone get the value I am talking about yet?
Other than the family-friendly angle, no. Especially as this was originally about BMW's, of which it's been pointed out they're mostly all there.
