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Ace Combat 6 DLC: Officially Worse Than Horse Armor

February 27th, 2008 at 9:00 am · 17 Comments

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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.

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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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  • Xantarith

    Amen to that!!!

  • refinedsugar

    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.

  • http://jackhat.com arsehat@sarcasticgamer.com

    “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.

  • bsf94

    @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?

  • http://www.sarcasticgamer.com Lono

    @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.

  • http://www.platformnation.com Steve519

    “If you’ve bought this, you’re part of the problem, not the solution” so very true

  • Vote4Drizzt

    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!

  • lanc3r

    BRING BACK THE FALKEN!!!!

  • AoA

    @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. :P

  • http://www.smellypoop.com/facts_about_poop.php Reasonable

    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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  • MonkeyintheHole

    The DLC is not forced on you and skins still cost money to develop and roll out. But the biggest mess up with the DLC is making co-op campaign missions as DLCs. As for the DLC skins, ACE of ACES missions, and other stuff I would have to say that I am okay with them charging for it. There are still a bunch of free ones there. Just remember that DLCs is an option on both the consumer side as well as the developer side. You can choose to buy it or not.

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  • http://yahoo.com VooDoo1

    You guys don’t mind sharing what are the other new jets, right.
    I’ve seen CF4 (Nosferatu) at demo vids and youtube.
    Are there any other jets?

    I think its fine, has to be improved though. The H.U.D. graphics are too faint, and acquired targets the same. Perhaps they should re-release it with bold type and thicker HUD or with the option to modify HUD thickness at will.
    lasamericas1492hc*1

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  • Erbr Irkumee

    Sigh you all our ridiculous. What you think skins just appear out of the blue. For what their paying the graphic artist I think 5 dollars is too low.. their profit is only going to be maybe a dollar per skin. I mean even a crappy Graphic Artist gets paid between 20 an 30 dollars an hour!

    From what I see these skins our most likely professional so the guys making at least 35 to 40 and hour.

    and that because people with degrees are expensive. Don’t bust a company over 5 dollars. I mean they freaking made a game you paid 50 dollars on.. haha if that not a waist then what is?

    Why is it you can all justify paying the game producers and not the Graphic Artist who took his time to make the skins. Not to mention the skins our based off Idolmaster.

    They have to pay the makers of Idolmaster as well. Does no one here know anything about copyright and giving someone an honest pay???

    bunch of N00bs >.>

  • Razgriz

    I have to agree with Erbr Irkumee, I am a graphics artist, and I do get payed 40$ for stuff, and really $5 for the skin equals an actual $0.98 cents for the artist, Also these skins aren’t forced on you to buy. Plus new fighters would cost alot to make and that is why there is few of them, and the ones they have (3 of them) are basically planes in the game like F-14s and SU 47′s with a new body, basically edited planes and that’s why they are cheaper.

    For me I don’t care what fighters are in the game, I mean I have beat AC5 with a Hawk Trainer equipped with missiles and a gun which is unlockable in AC5 after completely the escape mission that starts the Kestrel point in the storyline. And I like skins, I mean 5$ is alot, but even the ingame skins they already have I have prefrences, like I think the Falken looks stealthier with black paint and the Razgriz logo.

    If you don’t like the Idolmaster paint schemes or the price, don’t buy it. This article has few or no typos, but it’s confusing, are you saying this to say you don’t like the paint jobs or the cost, Its kinda rambling between the two topics.

    And yes they have to pay copyright fees to Idolmaster, so that also if added in, would mean the graphics artist gets payed 28 cents, for making a 2D image he or she made and then making it a 3D texture to be placed on the aircraft.

    I also must agree with Voodoo1, a Hud thickness editer would be handy.