2012-10-27, 06:04 PM
Locked Wrote:I hope Nintendo doesn't go down that path T_T
The DLC already costs more than the game will (Reggie confirmed it's all coming out to NA, and assumedly the EU too). There are 20-something paid DLC pieces (assuming they're nearly done with them), ranging from 200~400 Yen (judging from how the price scales for the NSMB2 DLC, it'll be $2.50~$5/ £1.50~£3) each. I would prefer them just selling a DLC pass for £30/$40 for the lot and saving time and effort, rather than having to plantain around in the eShop charging in small increments every week for them.
Besides, all the paid DLC come with new music/new versions of themes from previous games, new maps (or maps from older games where appropriate, redone in the new art style), and provide new characters with full artwork and new classes/ skills, and have significant storylines to them, (well, each map has large amounts of text as a regular ingame story map would) so it's not like they're half assing it and selling skin recolours or similar crap.
They also didn't seem to pull anything from the game to use as DLC (There are ~48 chapters including all sidequests, more than the GBA, DS and Gamecube/Wii games, and probably the previous games too).
So yes, I would be fine in buying a second games worth of real content for that price, because as far as I see, they could easily have developed the 20 something maps in to a second 3ds game and sold it like that. However, I wouldn't like to pay more than awakening will cost for the whole set of DLC, and the price gouging that dlc tends to get will probably stop me buying all of it, if there isn't some sort of pack option.