It frustrates me that the content is already on the disc and we need to buy an unlock key. Why do developers hold out on us and pretend they made something new instead of actually adding to their product?

sweet. I'm looking forward to Bioshock DLC.

While I love my Bioshocks, this is bullshit. You KNOW they aren't going to be free, not with Microsoft's nickel-and-dime success recently. 4 new plasmids? Why? I've already beaten the game, twice. What is the point of going back and playing it AGAIN just so you can use 4 more plasmids?

@coonskin
It ain't up to Microsoft whether or not this will cost us.
The publisher decides that, so it'll be Take-Two taking all the flak.

As cool as that sounds, I only really used 3-4 plasmids as it is. So DON'T WANT

Why do developers hold out on us and pretend they made something new instead of actually adding to their product?

I'd like to think that they thought these plasmids rather superfluous to overall game experience so left them out of the final game but still in the code so they could be unlocked once the first month buyers all well and truly done with the game but could then go back and have some fun have some fun with some new shit.

That was an appalling first sentence by the way.

As long as they don't charge me for this shit I'm fine. I'll quite happily pay 800 of my Microsoft points for a new level or two though. (If you are reading 2K, how about a new character present when a lot of the shit started going down, that big daddy I keep seeing pictures of and a few new plasmids/tonics that are useful)

sLife: not true. Epic wanted to release the Hidden Fronts map pack for Gears free but Microsoft forced them to charge for it initially only allowing them to distribute it free after a couple of months.

I would pay 2 bits for Bioshock even whores deserve that much and Microsoft games are becoming the 2 bit whores of the PC world. Or would that be 8 bit on a PC? Anyway I agree with that other guy that agreed with that other guy already above me.

People need to read the links. There is a LOT more than just 4 plasmids. There's an entire AI group that's not implimented into the game that looks like it can be unlocked. There are 'drones' that seem like mobile cameras. There's an entire tonic track that lets you control them, or hack them, or make them friendly, etc. Those 4 plasmids are only a few of the plasmids found that aren't in the game already. Some others include ElectroBoltZero, Telekenisis 2, 3 levels of drain life, and revival.

Is this really necessary at all? At what point do we draw the line and say "this game is near perfect, we don't need to update it?" I know I might incur the wrath of Rev. Anthony for saying this, but when they finished a film like The Godfather, did they go and offer "additional content" for the already finished product?* If you're making art, make it your statement. Don't keep evolving your statement over and over again.

*Yes, I realize that films are very different than games, but they are still part of the "art circle," and that's how I'm using them in this example.

I would pay for a better ending though now that I think about it.

Maybe they can put that on DLC.

I already played through the game twice and got all 1000 achievement points for the 360 version. Why do I need this DLC? This amazing game is just going to be put on the display shelf for now. I'm done with it.

@Necros
You make a good point, but I don't think there's much of a comparison. While BioShock is artistically on-par with, and superior to, many Hollywood movies, they're still different types of art. (That's not to say that one is superior or inferior, though.) A movie, by its nature is a statement. It's there, it happens, and then it's done. Games are much more flexible, allowing for more content and possibilities. Some even come with multiple endings built right in. In other words, the content can and does change, due to their very interactive nature.

It's a bad thing when George Lucas goes back into the original Star Wars trilogy and starts removing actors and replacing them with new ones, or changes the entire tone and meaning of scenes. It's not so bad when CliffyB, for example, drops a new boss fight into the PC version of Gears. (Sorry, I couldn't come up with a better single-player example of updated content.) Does that make sense?

Personally, I'm all for downloadable content, so long as they don't charge me an arm and a leg.

Why:
If they ask more from me after I bought their game first hand! Screw them. GAME WAS AWESOME. BUT NOT WORTH A DOWNLOAD. Sorry about anything but my first sentiment

Zero monies. Free or GTFO.

sonic boom sounds cool.
i will yell like guile each time i use it.

There are a bunch of .swf files in the BioShock directory. These appear to be ShockwaveFiles. I expect that you could run them through a decompiler and learn some stuff.

You kinda already do that plasma with the levitate plasma. Just act like you're gonna pick something up, but do it to an enemy. It blows them back.

I'm waiting for gatorade plasma

Arghhhhhhhhh, I better not have to pay for these. This will help me in my Defend the base games I play. By myself.

I get the sinking sensation that I'll just be hearing a bunch of people making fun of this game, and it'll disappear into the darkness from which it came. Fine by me. Sounds like a load of crap to me.

A man creates, a parasite asks "Where is my share?"

Sound familiar?