I can understand why some of you might not want to pay for DLC for prologue.
As for the full GT5 though, i'm not sure some people are fully understanding the idea additional content. We will all buy the same FULL game. Additional content is an addition to the full game. It's not compulsory to buy it, but it's there if you want to buy it.
You can go to Subway and buy a full sub sandwich, you can also pay extra to have extra cheese on it if you wish.
You can buy a full pizza, you can also pay extra to have extra toppings on it if you wish.
You can buy a new car, you can also pay extra to have extra gizmo's etc on it if you wish.
Is anyone pissed with subway, local pizza shop, car manufacturer etc because you have to pay extra to get extra stuff?
Bear in mind that this thread is purely about DLC for Prologue, so peoples comments will be or should be at least relating to DLC for GT5
and not GT5. Also you're analogy is miles off because you are comparing different markets. Catering and Game production are pretty different to compare and I'll explain one big way that leapt out at me without even thinking about it. First off though, n one (or no one I've noticed) is saying that extra content shouldn't be charged for when it is infact, extra content. Afterall it does cost PD money to make. However any extra content for GT5
will surely be standard content in GT5, so for PD to charge for it would be clearly taking the general public for mugs.
I get what your saying about food but it's different, the analogy doesn't work. You can't order a starter with a side of chips and then say you're not paying for the chips because you'll get chips as part of your main course, because they arn't the same chips. They are phyically a different portion of chips that had to be bought, prepared and served in addition to the portion you will get with your meal. With game content it is the same content, the GT5
content will be carried over into GT5. So in that sense you are being charged twice for the same content. You can apply that logic to GT5
itself really but there are more ways to defend paying for GT5
than downloading an addition car and/track pack that will be part of a packaged product off the shelf that you will be buying anyway shortly after as GT5
offers more than content, it does contain all the elements of a packaged game which goes way beyond simply paying for playable content. I will probably buy additional content for GT5, provided it is additional and fairly priced, which leads onto this post....
I will not buy any DLC if it was clearly destined for the retail release of the game and was just held back to sell a week later. If the DLC is released a fair bit later and is of a good quality then yeah I might consider it. I would probably be more inclined to buy cars rather than tracks but firstly I want GT5 to have a lot to begin with!
0.99 would be a very reasonable price for cars.
Robin.
This post is spot on, though the 0.99c part I can't relate to much as I'm in a different market and you don't tend to just convert the prices in these cases. I'd say that a 15 car pack should cost around £5, and a track would be fairly priced at around £1. That's my view and at these prices PD would make a neat sum of money quite easilly and that's taking into acount a rough estimation of costs involved. I did go over DLC prices in great depth in a thread a while ago, I doubt I'd be able to find that post now but if the debate goes in the right direction I might go over some of it again.
And again, agreeing with Robin that the content must be additional. None of this seeing a car in preview and press pics only to find it's not in the game and will be part of a DLC car pack available shortly after release. I'm thinking of Test Drive Unlimited here, how many cars we're shown in previews that wern't in the game in that. Plenty is the answer.
Then you have what are imo, missleading downloads, EA are guilty of this. Releasing a game and then selling content already in the game but you have to unlcok it as you play through. They basically will sell you a "American muscle car unlcok pack", I wouldn't be suprised if a lot of people didn't realise that all the cars in the pack we're already in the game. But they'll sell you this pack for say £2.99 and all it does is gives you access to all the American muscle cars right from the start. They arn't additional in any way but you are paying real money for the pack.
DLC can be a benefit, a big benefit to the punters, unfortunately business means that this potentially great way of extending a games life is largely becoming a methos of ripping off the punters and in many cases without them realising it.
I will not pay for additional content that I feel has been held back just to be used as a money spinner and I will not pay for additional content for GT5
.