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8:02 AM on 12.02.2008
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If it's good I'll gladly pay for it.
typo: Burnout Paradise, not Revenge
btw I like my DLC free...
Well **** you criterion.
What exactly have you added to the game? Shit bikes that don't crash properly? Ohh a night mode. Yeah changing that sky box and environment light map was a lot of work. I think they added 2 cars aside from that.
So really a bunch of useless crap that should have come with the game. The island was the only thing I was ever interested in. Now it's "premium" content?
Bloody hell, are you such a skinflint that you won't pay for seems to be a large expansion? These guys need to be paid, but people like you are too damned cheap to pay for anything worthwhile and demand it should be free...sigh.
Criterion are doing a fine job of showing how DLC should be done, and every single one of us should be behind them, even if we don't have the game or intend to download the extra content.
I don't mind paying for significant additions when they've been supporting the game so well thus far. This is how it should be done, with gestures like the free DLC we've had to keep interest and build goodwill, with expansions you can buy down the line.
Lightyears ahead of most other developers out there (lol Dead Space Downloadable Fail).
Criterion has been catering to fans more than any other developer out there.
They've made TONS of free updates for who knows how little money. Now, they'd like you to chip in a few bucks for they're largest and most time-consuming expansion.
THIS is the type of DLC that is worth downloading. The company released a completely finished product out the gate and then continued to support the product for what seemed to be forever.
Count yourselves lucky. If this was EA, you'd have already spent an extra $50 to get what you've gotten for free thus far.
This was all part of a business plan... They promoted it as free to boost sales of the game. They were never giving us this content as an act of charity.
Also yes I understand they need money too. The legendary cars and crap are going to cost money and that's ok because they never said any of it would be free. The island however was promoted as one of those big free updates and now they're screwing people over.
Thankfully I bought the game within the last 30 days and it's still sealed so I can return it (Just got a 360 this month. Been busy playing other games). I just think this is a dick move by Criterion.
They can charge whatever they'd like for anything they've made but they crossed the line when they mislead people into believing they'd get this free. I'm not the only person who bought the game under the impression that the island would be free.
Can you provide a source for the "free island promise"?
Either way they don't owe the customer anything. They didn't have to hand out anything for free. When you buy it off the shelves you're already paying for a gaming experience that's complete was any other.
"We’d mentioned in a previous podcast that this would be free content, but we can now confirm that it will be premium paid-for content.
Here’s why. We never expected to create anything this ambitious for the island, but as it progressed we got more and more excited about what it could become. (In fact, that’s the story of all our Downloadable Content.)"
Fair enough. They put a lot of work into it. Why not get something back.
I'm pissed because criterion thinks it's ok to pull the old bait and switch. I won't support any developer doing that.
imo, Criterion has done the best job so far of any publisher in regards to DLC; who else has given so much free DLC away? Soul Calibur 4's DLC nickel and diming made me hate the game.
i know i still pop in my Burnout Paradise disc once a week (still want to get 100$ trophies!).
They said it was going to be free, yes, and then they made it bigger and better. The DLC changed, and yet you still want it for free? They are entirely within their rights to change their mind about the content and therefore the price for this, you know.