"Ubisoft VP Chris Early says resistance to DLC is in decline"

[kane_magus]

Well, for me, the reason I never complained about this crap is incredibly simple: I never bought Assassin's Creed IV in the first place, and thus didn't even know about it until now. But now that I know about it, I'll definitely say that I do indeed think it's some bullshit and I certainly will still resist bullshit like that. Seriously, one of

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[owsf2000]

I think the lack of "outrage" is tied to two points.

1. There's not as much shock value to it. People know the publishers and game devs are money grubbing assholes at this point.

2. People simply ignore it entirely.

I'm never going to buy those DLCs and in fact I rarely buy games that have DLC at all.

So if they want to get any chance of me buying their shitty game, they'll have to learn to avoid the need to nickle and dime me for 10-15 dollars. It only results in a loss of 60 dollars, and I go back to playing other games.

It's a shame they'll never EVER look at how many game sales their DLC schemes are costing them. To them, that kinda thing just never happens.

[kane_magus]

Something just occurred to me. Given that DLC in general has been around for like 15 years or more now, we're starting to get to the point where more than a few people have simply grown up with this shit and have never personally experienced a time where this shit didn't happen, so it's just normal for them to be gouged like this.

Yeah, if this shit didn't get nipped in the bud back when practically everyone hated it, there's no way in hell it'll be stopped now, when most of us who do still hate it are too burned out by the whole thing or, worse, others are just too apathetic to care. Hell, these days you even have people actively defending it (and whether they're genuine or just reputation management drones is more or less irrelevant at this point, because the job has pretty much been done, to the detriment of everyone else

[owsf2000]

It's amazing how much damage a little horse armor can do eh?

[owsf2000]

Not going to say much about this, but from the Wikipedia on Assassin's Creed IV:

"During the first week of sales in the United Kingdom, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag became the best-selling game on all available formats, ahead of Battlefield 4.[80] However, the game's opening week sales were 60% down compared to 2012's Assassin's Creed III. Ubisoft blamed the fall in demand on uncertainty caused by the upcoming transition to eighth generation consoles"

Of course, we -could- blame it on that. But then this might be another reason why you saw far far less resistance to DLC. A lot less people bought the game to begin with.

I also like how if you compare the wording towards total sales between AC3 and AC4. In AC3, they're stating after half a year they had sold 12 million copies. For AC4, they state they simply shipped 11 million copies. (And with all the copies I tend to find in stores, shipped != sold.)