Some people just hate the internet. There's plenty not to like: viruses, trolls, immature homophobes, etc. The problem is if you hate the internet then you can't hook up your 360 to it and thus you can't get DLC... or can you? It has been revealed that come May 29 in Europe and May 26 in the US both of Fallout 3's current DLC downloads, The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage, will be released in retail form for all those internet haters to enjoy.
The disc, aptly titled Fallout 3DownloadableContent: The Pitt and Operation Anchorage, will most likely save the content to your hard drive and then require you to have the Fallout 3 disc in to play. Not to get all Greenpeace on everyone, but can you even imagine how much garbage and waste this is going to create? Players get the disc, don't need it anymore and then toss it or sell it back for chump change to a used games retailer. Fantastic game plan there. Maybe we can also cut down a few hundred miles of rain forest while we're at it.
In Europe picking up DLC on a disc will cost you £14.99 and in the US it will run $19.99.
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Hmm, so might this be like exporting tracks from Rock Band 1 to Rock Band 2, in that only one copy is going to be purchased in every circle of friends? Or is there going to be a CD key or something?
Actually I guess the requirement that you have the original game is enough, and in a next-to-best-case scenario if one person gets the disc others may be more likely to pick up the original based on the ability to get extra content for free.
Or maybe they're counting on friends to be dicks about it and not share.
Will be waiting for GOTY edition news before I pick this up but have a collectors edition of Fallout 3, saw the DLC come out and said "these guys always release their DLC on disc so I will wait" and now it has come to be. Always try to avoid DLC when I can as I prefer to own a physical copy so that I can have some assurance that I will always have access to the content. If some choose to try and play the bleeding heart card about the environment so be it but I collect my games, not pitch them into a landfill after one use.
Glad they're such a cheap price, since I remember hearing how short Operation: Anchorage was. I don't know if I remember hearing anything about The Pitt's length so maybe that will more than make up for it. I'm not too hot about this separate retail thing but I'll play along with it, I suppose.
Works for me. Even if it's just going to take up space on my hard drive anyway, I always prefer to have a physical copy of things, just in case there's some apocalyptic thing down the road that wipes out my hard drive and I can't get on the internet to redownload things.
Yes, there will be a GOTY edition coming out for all 3 consoles in October. It'll be 50 bucks for the game and all 5 DLCs (that includes the upcoming two)
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Or maybe they're counting on friends to be dicks about it and not share.
And other companies are doing this, pretty cool of them.
Welcome to the club Bethesda!
What do you think the odds of this making it to PS3 as well?
Going by Oblivion, pretty bloody good, I'd say.
so you're saying that in the midst of the Apocalypse you'd prefer to have a physical copy of a video game about… the Apocalypse?
Yes, there will be a GOTY edition coming out for all 3 consoles in October. It'll be 50 bucks for the game and all 5 DLCs (that includes the upcoming two)