4) For The Small Price Of £8.99 You Can Get Different Colour Fur On Your Dog - The DLC
How on earth does the person that came up with DLC sleep at night? In one fell stroke he's ruined gaming for millions of people by allowing publishers to release an incomplete game for the same price and then charge people silly amounts to get the rest of the game. Publishers at first were at least a tad sneaky about it by claiming that it was merely an expansion pack, then slowly they introduced small segments of the game before ripping the corporate mask off and releasing costume and aesthetic DLC packs. Ok, perhaps I'm sounding a bit like a hippie there, but I remember the good old days when I could pop into GAME and purchase a game and get...the game. Just like with Call Of Duty I will complain bitterly about DLC but still purchase it as soon as it comes out, but then again I seem to have more money than sense these days. That being said one type of DLC I will never purchase is the one that Activision seem to release every few days. I see spending £60 to buy Call Of Duty was a waste, but this is primarily due to the fact that I want to play the single-player only so I can get my head around people spending that much to enjoy hours upon hours of mindless boredom on the on-line maps. With each new game there are perhaps 8-10 new maps so if you're playing for 12 hours a day then these maps can become somewhat repetitive, so what do Infinity Ward and Treyarch do? Design a better game for the next year and release more maps with it for the same price? Oh no no no, they takes a page out of the recent EA book "How to lose your humanity and alienate your customers" by charging people ridiculous amounts for rather silly little add-ons. With Black Ops, for the great price of $15 you get 4 new normal maps and 1 zombie map, doesn't that sound awesome? Now I know you're shaking your head and wondering why on earth I'm throwing a fit over a measly $15 but it all adds up. For Black Ops there were (or rather there are right now) 4 map packs each at a lovely price of £10. So if you want to enjoy the Call Of Duty games to their full extent with your friends/their mothers then you're looking at a lovely price tag of around £80-£100. This from a company that has made billions from the Call Of Duty franchise. perhaps we can get behind wanting to make as much money as possible, but when you're starting to make EA look like stand up guys you may have an issue. Perhaps take a year or two out and spend the money you've made guys?