10 Most Insulting Kinds Of Video Game DLC

6. “Unlock All”

This is an especially cheeky one designed to get players who may have been able to resist the odd map pack, costume microtransaction, or Day One DLC. The “Unlock All” packs are essentially marketed assuring you that all you have to do is put down one, almost certainly significant, payment, and then you’ll have every possible thing that can be unlocked in the game. This particular sort of insidious sits somewhere between pay-to-win and repaying for a complete edition set with all the DLCs included, where a season pass might show you everything that is possible to unlock in the game, but you know it’ll take forever to actually get them all.

These are generally formulated with something especially cool towards the end so you’ll be tempted to pour whatever real money it costs into the fake currency to turn that into an instant season pass and all its bonus gear in your hands.

While this kind of DLC has many people scratching their heads as to who would want to bypass gameplay progression when surely the entire purpose of buying the game is to play it, clearly it has enough appeal that we keep seeing it crop up in all sorts of games time and time again.