OXCGN looks at free downloadable content for older games and the future of digital distribution and consoles:
"I would love to see sales figures for downloadable content for games that were released 1-3 years ago. Some of this content hasn't ever changed in price and competes with new release games' downloadable maps and features.
In a world where everything, including the retail games themselves, depreciates does this make any sense?
No it doesn't.
But of course those in charge are certainly not obligated to lower prices or, even better, make the added content for older games free. But it would be both logical and, well, nice."
With the Perfect Dark reboot set to launch later this year, it's time to look back at Perfect Dark Zero, nearly 20 years later.
At the rate xbox is going you'll have another 20 years to play the original before the reboot arrives
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
As the long-rumored Gears of War Collection looks like it may finally materialize on Xbox, the timing could not be better as Gears 6 and movie news swirls.
(Insert “It should be multi platform if Microsoft investors wants more money” JK here)
All jokes aside congratulations to all the gears fans it will be a blast I remember having fun on the first one on my 360 elite till got RROD and quit Xbox all together but that’s a story for another day.
Congratulations 🎊 🍾 🎉 🎈 🎉 🙏
I'm excited for this just aslong is on the pc also cause I don't have the newest xbox console.
I save and spend mostly on new games not downloadable stuff, because I don't have a lot of cash. But I'd keep and play more of my games if I was going to get free stuff a few years later instead of trade them away like now.
its nice to have free stuff, but I think a more logical thing would be to just let them depreciate in value over the coarse of time to eventually end up being around $1 or something.
Excellent article, as always, and makes some very valid points about older games being offered for free after a certain period.
It would certainly boost my thoughts around a publisher and developer if they did such things, and would most likely have a positive effect on me supporting them with newer games that required payment.
Free...maybe depending on what it is, Fallout 3 Dlc is well worth the money but Map packs that contain 4 maps isnt really worth 10$ to me (I still buy them but thats not the point). I do think that after maybe a year after the DLC is released it should get a price cut and eventually maybe even become free or very close to it.
thats how it was on xbl(1)