Eudemon

That's what DLC was meant to be, then Microsoft allowed Oblivion's 'Horse Armour' and now here we are.

Not really, games have actually stayed around the same price despite inflation and such, perhaps in the UK we're lucky that there is so much competition which sees our prices dive after a month to six-weeks but if you look elsewhere they stay at the top end for a long while. Then if you consider the budget of a game today say a lowly €25m, then to break even they need to sell probably around 3-4 million and the publisher of course takes most of that anyway as they are the ones bankrolling the game. DLC is all well and good when done right and priced-accordingly with what is being offered, timesaver packs are not cool if the game has been padded out to make these a favourable option to any player due to the main game either being so dull or stretching out the payments or rewards to near frustration levels. Ubisoft are not angels in this regard, look at what AC IV Season Pass got you and there was a recent interview with a top man at Ubisoft saying our "resistance" is being dwindled and players are more "accepting" of DLC. Nope we hate most of it, we hate the talk of DLC before a game is even out, we hate the obvious removals to sell later as DLC and we hate what DLC has become compared to what it was originally sold to us as. I also saw a mention of the Trials game and how the first game gave so much DLC content for it's money compared to the newly published under Ubisoft one, think it said something like 75% less. They do have their bright-sparks though - see Blood Dragon and was that not an incredible success too? But hey as long as the money is rolling-in and stupid people continue to make it worthwhile it's not going to stop.

GTA V do free DLC but with the intent of pushing their microtransactions, this is easy to see with the way they are constantly stretching out the ways to make decent money in the game. The Rooftop Rumble and Coveted missions in particular have been made lengthier and harder to complete and the prices of things is way above what it should be. Why do you only get 50% back on an apt you sell for example? Why do only certain upgrades on your car make up the cost and others are just premium with no monetary return? Answer: To make you need to grind and to make their cash cards attractive. This is the problem with where we are at now, publishers aim for their game to be played by the masses but they want to make that playtime be somewhat annoying and tedious and keep some of the good stuff away from players to entice them to spend more real money on digital money. Ten years and beyond it was all about cheat codes for cheap progression and laughs, now it's all about DLC and microtransactions and that's damn right upsetting. Very few do get it right, most though deliberately aim to get it wrong (ioo not theirs).

DLC could be such a good thing if it wasn't just a cash grab or resulted in cut items being used to sell later at the price they sell for. It completely astounds me when people spend 15-20% of the cost of the full game on content that equals to hardly anything compared to the original title.

One day of voting left and Lol is rolling away with it!

You say this like it's a good thing. The fact remains though that people will care more about the number of cars than what they can do to them in regards to off-road and such as is easy to see by just reading around what the general/typical gamer is wanting.

Woah that's quite a lot of work and effort you have put in here Jack, the pictures have a sort of Midtown Madness feel to them imo. Nice work.

That's something we can only guess at this moment, 75 is "more than forty" so that's promising, a bit more would be most welcome especially when you consider what is the norm for car containing games these days. The Beta will probably shed more light on this.

A good amount of the enjoyment of those cars is the sound as well as their looks and absolute bonkers'ness! :nuts:

As a Scotland fan I know this all too well, expect to lose, shocked when win. Welcome to the beautiful game!

Your keeper showed heart the whole way through, the others were quite terrible and only really peaked up in Extra Time. You need players who want to play with that ET passion in the original 90mins. What's good though is that this campaign should ignite some fire in the USA about football and we should see you guys better those needed positions with youngsters for the future. If it's only about the "winning" then it will probably remain stagnant.

Howard is your hero through those 90mins USA, however a lot of it is because Belgium seem to not have the best people at striking the ball, if they did then this could easily be a thrashing.

It's anyone's game right now but Belgium do seem to be making their way forward more and via the counter-attack which is dangerous as USA are committing many players forward and could be caught out due to it. Good game though from both sides, thoroughly enjoying it! :cool:

Now that's a nice find and a hell of a first post. :D

Germany are going to be taken apart if they don't fix that back line and the French were lucky to get through that match, brilliant games yet again.

Happy Born on this Day well not really but actually this date day mate!

I think some people are forgetting how bad TDU HC was in certain aspects, yes compared to other titles it was good fun but man it was also seriously flawed.

Physics man of the game posted his wall of wheels on twitter. [media=twitter]481790783914508290[/media]

- post above merged into here - Hey Reneton first of all welcome to the :duck:, secondly, this image is fan made and is not official, hopefully the car will be in the game but this image is not from the game.

OMG how is that hat staying on!?!?!!

Ronaldo may not be having his best days but damn if that cross was not just whipped in perfectly. Well played team USA, showed so much heart and deserved the win but football is a funny old game.