forza motorsport 5 Forza 5 and IGN unveil the January Car Pack - "Oh hi, don't I know you?"

[Paladin Skylark]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ3hMEOqUHw

 

What a complete joke.

[iNotACactus]

2 new cars! Wow! :drool:

 

I totally like Turn10's new DLC strategy and this is the sort of DLC expansion that makes me want the Season Pass, an Xbox One, and a new racing wheel.

microsoftkidnappedmeandforcedmetosaythis. savemeplease.

[Paladin Skylark]

The amazing "Lets take out cars from the old game and charge people to put them in the new game" strategy.

You do literally have to have a mental IQ to fall for that crap.

[Ryzza5]

They should have called it the TurboDuck Car Pack in that case

[The Compensator]

Am I missing a point? :mhmm:

[Ozzmcom]

oh come ooon, don't be so shocked. This is the new industry standard. When you're buying a game you're not actually buying the game you're just buying an access to dlc's.

[Ryzza5]

Am I missing a point? :mhmm:

 

Ok who forgot to tell him that we're all mental around here :fp:

[RobikV3]

I bet many people will still buy this joke DLC :fp:

 

Also looks like Reventon's spoiler is still not working.

[T1M]

The Reventon was already AutoVista in FM4 anyway, so surely it should have been pretty much ready to go when the game released? Hmm.. glad I didn't buy an Xbox One just yet...

[The Compensator]

Ok who forgot to tell him that we're all mental around here :fp:

 

You think I don't know that? :fp: I just don't know why you said they should have called that DLC 'turboduck DLC'.

[Eudemon]

New News = New Thread :cheeky:

 

They can be excused for certain cars if they are new or needed re-done for the game, but having ones such as the Reventon mentioned above just seems so unsavoury as even Turn 10 said that AutoVista was a test for the next-gen of car models.

[calster17]

7 R500. That'd be nice if Forza physic's arnt still a case of every car wants to drift. (I dunno, are they?)

 

It's a shame they are just offloading old models into the game & shouting there new and expecting you to pay for them...now *flame suit on, sits in a fire truck* GT6 has added new cars and sure they were likely to be in the code somewhere (M4, Mario Andretti's Hudson's, Vision GT, etc) but least they were free.

 

Shame, as it'll only come back to haunt them one day.

[Eudemon]

I'd take Forza's delicious sounds over many more cars any day though, I can't enjoy a game if the sound is crap.

[Paladin Skylark]

oh come ooon, don't be so shocked. This is the new industry standard. When you're buying a game you're not actually buying the game you're just buying an access to dlc's.

 

The hilarious thing about this statement is that it's true.

[Ozzmcom]

it's also interesting, gaming industry is a very new sector and often with rapid growth in a sector there are lots of shortfalls. I mean for example how many times have we payed for a full game and received a broken one? The developers and the publishers are still trying things out on the financial ends of things. Yes the games require much bigger investments as the technology progresses but by no means you have to take this out of customers rather than innovating your process to make the costs of creating a game cheaper. Buying a new car more or less the same price % of your salary 30 years ago or now. The gaming industry doesn't get anywhere near that with the dlc business included.

[Ryzza5]

Worth keeping in mind for this particular case that FM5 is hardly going to bring in anywhere near the profit that FM4 did given the console leap and missing fanbase. By the time most of us do get the Xbone they'll have another game out.

[RobikV3]

I mean for example how many times have we payed for a full game and received a broken one?

 

You mean Battlefield 4?

 

I fell like in few years we'll be paying full price for demo and then we'll have to buy tons of dlcs to actually get a full game, my point of view anyways.

[Eudemon]

Yes but Forza is under Microsoft and as we've seen all too often, they are not ones to shy away from nickel-and-diming their fanbase. In fact that loyal fanbase is to it's own detriment as they eat up all that is put in front of them which probably makes this worthwhile. And it's only when enough people say stop or vent about it will companies take notice.

 

Maybe you had to grow up in the DLC culture to truly not be annoyed by it but it really does piss me off the price they charge for a slither of what the full game provides. If you remember Expansion Packs then you know they were typically a 1/3 of the price of the full game but actually provided you with that amount of content too, otherwise they got left on the shelf.

[Ryzza5]

Yep, can't get over how it is cheaper for me to get a years worth of their MS Office suite (subscription) compared to how much I have to pay to be able to watch YouTube videos on their console (which you can do for free on practically any other online media player device).