How much DLC is too much?
Activision just announced that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 will be getting a staggering amount of DLC over the next 9 months. Specifically, there will be 20 DLC packs (twenty!) for Modern Warfare 3 in the next 9 months. That’s more than one DLC every second week.
Which begs the question: how much DLC is too much? How much of this DLC was supposed to be in the game in the first place? A game which wasn’t that much different from previous CoD titles to begin with. And at one point do gamers just stop caring? While 20 DLC packs will no doubt generate a lot of revenue for Activision, it’s easy to assume that a large chunk of gamers will just get lost in all the content that’s available, and the fragmentation that could occur: if there are 20 map maps out there, it’ll spread the player base quite a lot, even with a game as popular as Modern Warfare 3. Want to play with your friend? You’ll need map pack #12. Want to play with another friend? You’ll need map pack #17 for that. And so on.
“Want to play with your friend? You’ll need map pack #12. Want to play with another friend? You’ll need map pack #17 for that.”The announcement of so many DLC packs also seems like a selling point for Activision’s Call of Duty Elite service. Elite membership costs $50/year and includes free DLC, but that’s $50 on top of the regular game’s $60 bucks. And on top of the Xbox Live subscription, which is another $50/year. Yes, gaming is getting very expensive. At least multiplayer gaming on the Xbox 360.
While we can’t say that we’re surprised over this (it’s Activision and Call of Duty, after all), hopefully it won’t be a direction that other publishers take. Depending on how gamers respond to this, it has the potential to become the norm — a somewhat lackluster game, coupled with a ton of DLC and a “premium” service sprinkled on top.
Remember when maps used to be free? Remember when instead of a few maps for $15, we got huge expansion packs for $20? Those were the good old days…
Wow I heard there was gonna be a lot. This is just ridiculous. Maybe we’ll get horse armour to make up for it….
Money robbing bastards…
they should have implemented way more maps in the first place for MW3 to give the buyer a good reason to buy a duplicate of an old game…
what a shame people still buy that kinds of crap.
thank god this is the last MW, though I think we have to worry about them making another shitty CoD that everyone will buy anyway because of stupidity.
Look out for Call of Duty 7 later in 2012. I. Am. Giddy. With excitement.
This is nothing, Train Simulator 2012 has 90 DLC avaiable, not including custom user made mods!
“Remember when maps used to be free? Remember when instead of a few maps for $15, we got huge expansion packs for $20? Those were the good old days…”
Remember when Team Fortress 2 was released in 2004 and Valve released 29 extra maps to date, including entirely new game modes, for $0? Remember when Left 4 Dead 2 had all the campaigns of the original and a bonus or two added for free? Remember when Fallout 3 got The Pitt for $10 which added an entirely new City and 3-4 hours of gameplay?
The good old days are still around, you just won’t find them buying Call of Duty.
I have only had the game for a week and already tired of it. Cod4 was the last game they made worth anything. It seems they are wiping their ass with the cod name. I have recently tried battlefield games out since the disappointment of mw2. Battlefield seems to stay true to their buyers. Bad Company 2 was a little difficult to get used to, but after battlefield 3 I am in love with the franchise. Bf3 is what cod should have been but fell short by miles. BF3 is where it is at, call of duty wants to shit on their buyers and charge them tons of money for complete shit. The game is awful, don’t buy it!
Remember when we had mod-tools, getting awesome maps, gamemodes and weapons, FOR FREE?
I miss that so much. Gaming has gotten to be more about MONEY MONEY MONEY nowadays. Greed is making the games bad.
DLC is a good thing if its free.. but this is not.
DLC was meant to be a tool to extend the games life, would you rather buy a game that was fun for a week our one that is fun for a week and gets a free map pack every few weeks?
paid DLC would also be fine if it wasn’t so expensive. $10 for 3 maps seems the be the current norm which is absurd.
$10 is 1/6 a game, so by that logic 18 maps would be a game alone.
i remember when games were fun for countless hours, like star wars battlefront and rainbow 6 vegas, each lasted about 6 months and never got old
now games last about 5 days.