I like DLC for my game of choice. Heck, I’ve probably spent the equivalent of $40 on Rock Band to get all of that juicy extra content to keep my world a rockin. On the other side of that DLC coin, there’s a difference between good DLC and crap.
Ace Combat 6, for the Xbox 360, has a bunch of crap DLC.
There are no less than 22 downloadable fighters available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Most range between 100 to 200 MS points, some planes were holiday specific. There were also 3 free fighters, but also two stupid ass Idolmaster fighters cost 400 MS points. That’s five bucks for those of you without their handy conversion chart.
Five bucks. For a stupid fighter plane. Nothing else. Re-skinned fighters with slightly altered statistics. If you’ve bought this, you’re part of the problem, not the solution.
When Ace Combat 6 was released, many bemoaned the lack of jet fighters that were a staple of the previous iterations of the franchise. Almost all of the Ace Combat games, including the PSP version, had almost double the fighter planes that the Xbox 360 shipped with.
Did Ace Combat 6 ship with a deliberately low amount of fighters to spur DLC sales? You almost can’t deny the truth in that question. With only a limited amount of fighters shipping with the game, Ace Combat 6 die hards would most likely be tweaking for new jets to fly.
Enter the DLC jet fighter.
While having such a huge selection of fighters to choose from, is kind of cool. If they were all new, all different fighter planes, I wouldn’t be writing this. All but two of the fighters are new. The rest are merely re-skinned versions of jets, already in the game. This kind of DLC practice, in my mostly humble opinion, is ridiculous. Just atrocious.
Yet, people still buy this crap up. I’d bet there are fanboys that have dropped $20 to $30 bucks on DLC for the game. These are the people that ensure crap like this continues to happen. Game developers spend tons of cash making games. I can’t blame them for attempting to develop alternate revenue streams, but $2.50 for a re-skinned F-14 Tomcat?
Come on Maverick. I feel the need…. the need to kick your ass…
Stop buying the crap.
Source: Xbox Live Marketplace
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11 responses so far ↓
1 Xantarith // Feb 27, 2008 at 9:40 am
Amen to that!!!
2 refinedsugar // Feb 27, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Not disagreeing on the quality of the Ace Combat DLC or lack thereof, but it’s all subjective. If you love Ace Combat - or any title for that matter - you’ll probably drop the cash.
This line between good and “crap” is hugely biased, based on personal opinion and as it happens so often in these DLC rants, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact we’re rallying against the pricing structure and not the content itself. At least, I hope so. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with new content, it’s the whacked out pricing that comes along with it so often.
3 arsehat@sarcasticgamer.com // Feb 27, 2008 at 2:34 pm
“There are no less than 22 downloadable fighters available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Most range between 100 to 200 MS points, some planes were holiday specific. There were also 3 free fighters, but also two stupid ass Idolmaster fighters cost 400 MS points. ”
What kind of troll are you?
There are **THREE FREE** fighters. Nice headline idiot… we all know your trolling for traffic.
4 bsf94 // Feb 27, 2008 at 5:57 pm
@Arsehat@sarcasticgamer.com
What do you mean hes “trolling”? thats not Trolling, trolling would be him saying that the 3 free ones suck or something like that. WTH are you talking about?
5 Lono // Feb 27, 2008 at 7:34 pm
@Arsehat - I’d respond, but it appears that you lack a basic understanding of the english language.
Step 1. Get a dictionary. I know you don’t own one, go get one.
Step 2. Look up troll.
Step 3. Realize that you’ve failed at life.
6 Steve519 // Feb 27, 2008 at 9:37 pm
“If you’ve bought this, you’re part of the problem, not the solution” so very true
7 Vote4Drizzt // Feb 28, 2008 at 10:08 am
I Think skins are great, but five bucks is WAY TOO FREAKIN’ MUCH!
1 skin for a plane I already have?
I Laugh at the stupidity!
8 lanc3r // Mar 7, 2008 at 6:45 pm
BRING BACK THE FALKEN!!!!
9 AoA // Mar 21, 2008 at 6:22 am
@lanc3r: I wish, but if they are nice enough to increase this terrible sized list of planes (fat chance), they should get AC regulars in there first, like the F-4, MiG-29, Su-27 and Su-37…ya dig? Oh yeah, don’t forget the X-02.
10 Reasonable // May 11, 2008 at 10:27 pm
It’s not really a problem as far as I can see. You’re not missing out on real content.
If fanservice isn’t work $5.00 to you, don’t spend it. If money is a scarce resource in your life, don’t spend it.
If you like the reskin and minor craft adjustments and you can afford to purchase one or more or all of the available downloads, go for it.
What’s a reskin worth to you? Since 200 points are too many, how about 100? That’s a 50% discount! But that’s still too much, right? 80? 50? Free?
Sure, cheaper would be great, but it isn’t the situation. Maybe it will be in the near or far future. Like I said though, you’re not missing out on vital content. If you don’t like what’s available, you wouldn’t want it now matter how cheap it was.
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