Holy shit that's awesome

Yeah saw this earlier, it looks soo sweet, can't believe a forum war erupted over at the Criterion website recently because they're moving to paid DLC, they've given more value for money than any other devloper (excluding Valve). For once I actually can't wait to splash the cash.

Criterion came out with a few minor updates. Yes I said minor. You can stop kissing their asses now.

Ohh look a night mode! That would be nice if they had gone through a made sure the city has proper lighting. That's too much work though so they just swapped the sky box and changed the light map. MAN THAT TOOK A LOT OF WORK.

Ohh look bikes! They don't crash properly because the rating might change... But you know they're there.

While I'm not upset about the cars costing money I'm extremely upset over their bait and switch with the island. Criterion could charge 50,000 MS points for their DLC. I wouldn't care but they promised something free and fucked over anyone who bought it because of the news of the free DLC.

That was both lame and awesome at the same time.

@Iron Dragon

Dude, they're a gaming company--they need to make money.

They've given out a lot of free stuff already. I'm more than happy to pay for premium content. No one is making you buy it, and the game is just as complete without it.

Criterion is a for profit company, and not a charity. How hard is that to understand?

Why is it that everyone of you thinks this is a gift and great act of charity? Get with the program people. It's a fucking marketing campaign to sell more copies of the game. The "Year of Paradise" my ass. It's now what? The 6 months of paradise?

I'm so sick of people letting companies get away with misleading people. Criterion lied to it's customers and you think it's ok because they need to make a profit. Poor company... I think I'm going to cry.

This his whole free DLC scheme was a way to make money to begin with. More people buy the game, more people see in game ads, etc. A flat DLC fee isn't the only way to make money.

@Iron Dragon

They're a company, so of course they're trying to make money. That's what companies do!

Fucking Brilliant.

IronDrragon sucks balls.

Yes how dare I not instantly fall in love with a company for giving people a few minor things free. I know it's rare for console gamers to get extras but that doesn't mean you have to suck the company off when they do.

Fuck I remember when shit like this was standard with developers. Valve, Epic (Old-Epic. New Epic sucks), etc. Even the battlefield games had extra maps here and there in the patches. Hell Halo as a series has gotten much better free DLC than what criterion has given out.

Where's the parade for Bungie and Valve?

All Criterion did was polish up a few thrown out concepts they had left over from development of paradise. It probably cost them next to nothing to do it. Hell they've got a team working on the PC port right now so guess where some of that budget is coming from? They had everything to gain with this marketing campaign.

What Criterion is doing isn't that great. It's just that every other company is completely fucking people over with DLC (Namco, New-Epic, etc) which in comparison makes Criterion look great.

Maybe I am an asshole. I don't disagree. I don't see why I should put up with Criterion going back on it's word though.

My first comment was :D

See there are two views on this.

People who bought it day 1 for $60 really have no beef with criterion for the island and didn't get screwed over because they never expected it. I'm sure most of you share this view.

However people who however bought the game after criterion said the island would be free did get screwed over if that was in any way shape or form a deciding factor. For me it was and I returned the game. Thankfully it was within 30 days.

Yes I understand it's a business. The legendary cars for example I have no problem with. Criterion never presented them as free content. The island however was the highlight of their free content campaign and now it's probably going to run people $10.

I'm not sitting here praying Criterion goes out of business or anything. I still enjoy the burnout games. I just think this was a dick move by Criterion. They should have just released it free anyway and continued with their premium legendary cars.

As for games with as much free DLC... I'd say Halo 3 and TF2 pop in to mind right away. Halo 3 currently has 4 free maps and TF2 has a ton of stuff. Laugh at the free Halo maps but I know I'd probably get a ton more time out of those maps than all of Burnout DLC combined.

To be honest not many current gen games have been expanding on content. DLC on the 360 and PS3 has pretty much confirmed it's ok to screw over your customers. Offer them 1/100th the content for 1/6th the price of the game and they'll happily pay.