Street Fighter X Tekken Vita characters will cost £16 on consoles

Controversial on-disc content priced at 1600 MSP, $20

[Old McGroin]

Wow. Each to his own but the phrase "A fool and his money are soon parted" springs to mind.

[waltyftm]

There has to be a Law against this, if they are already on the disc and you bought the disc, they should be yours too, as you have paid for them already.

[Old McGroin]

100% agreed. I thought the COD map packs were bad at 1200 MSPoints; 1600 MSPoints for a few characters in a fighting game that are already physically on the disc you have paid for is ridiculous, shameful and disrespectful to gamers everywhere.

And to people who will no doubt defend Capcom, wake up. Their pathetic excuse of wanting to save people's hard drive space by putting the "DLC" on the disc is a sham and this unbelievable price price proves it. $20? That's about 1/3 of the full price of the disc!

I'm a massive fan of Monster Hunter and Resident Evil but I'm seriously considering avoiding all future Capcom games now.

[Rainstorm81]

I want RE6 but I think ill wait for RE6:gold edition the following year.

With ¢ap¢om (yep cause they nickel and dime gamers) you must wait for the definitive version.

I might get SFxTK on vita as it seems to be the only full version of the game

[Boody-Bandit]

I dislike nearly any and all DLC. I am of the opinion that most of it should be free but this is the way of the industry now. Capcom's inclusion of DLC (to them it means disc locked content) happened before SFxT. They did this with previous versions of their games as well.

DLC appears to be here to stay.
As far as their pricing $20 for 12 characters? It's a lot cheaper than what Neatherealm studios charged for their DLC characters and Namco is now charging per character on SCV. <- Both wanting $5 per character unless you opted for the season pass with MK.

No one is better or worse than the other. The only thing Capcom did, I feel, is find a way to do it even more cost effective on their end by locking it on the disc. I would bet it's cheaper than fees that would ensue from MS and Sony to have it on XBl and PSN. So yeah they are most likely flat out BSin about hard drive space when in actuality it's probably saving them coin and hassles with PSN & XBL.

I just hope the media starts going after all the devs and publishers and not just focus on one or two of them. If we all started taking a stance maybe these greedy companies...... Ah who am I kidding? They will never change. It's only going to get worse.

From horse armor to now colors for existing costumes. Pretty soon they will start selling us sections of single player campaigns.

[Perjoss]

What ever happened to the good old days where you buy a fighting game with a nice big roster of characters and that was it. Companies scream about piracy but at the same time they are shafting everyone with incomplete games that can be 'completed' by buying all the DLC.

Think about how much respect Capcom would gain if they announced their next big fighter would come with all characters and there would be no DLC.

If they really want to milk us why not focus on creating some really cool statues, art books or maybe a cool line of clothing and then market the hell out of those so they sell well.

[pyramidxboy]

Maybe u need to file a claim with the FTC.

[Titanz]

Some companies use DLC as a way to ensure that if their product doesn't sell, it won't affect their capitals.

I'm not agreeing with them, just stating the reason behind it.

[Omnislash]

Capcom were caught red handed, the characters are complete and 100% usable, its not like were even going to download these characters. See I can understand planned DLC for characters they could not add in time for launch day, but not these characters. These characters are completed and ON THE DISC! What Capcom is doing is being greedy, there is no reason for them to hold back 12 characters and make us pay for them later that is just absurd. Not to mention that 5 of those characters are copy/paste from Street fighter 4, Capcom just wants easy money and unfortunately they probably will get it since it looks like there is nothing we can do to combat this.

The only upside of all this, is that maybe there will be real DLC characters in the future, characters Capcom will actually work on and sell to us. these characters however, should be free, we paid 60-70 dollars for a full game and everything in it.

[ChrisGTR1]

its capcom we all knew they were going to do some shady shit judging from their greedy past. so what can we do? speak with our money, i didnt buy MvC3 or this i wont even buy RE6 till the ultimate edition is out

[peeps]

@waltyftm

why would there be a law against it... these characters are indeed on the disc but when your paying your £40 or whatever on the game, it in no way advertises that you are getting these characters....

people will disagree with me here but it's just common sense. Just because something is on a disc does not mean you own it unless they advertise it as such

[LastDance]

Paying for DLC only makes sense if the devs worked POST release of the game.

Obviously if you have devs working after the release, you need to pay them.

This is not the case. They are simply locking content away.

[Simon_Brezhnev]

Yeah your right i didnt buy this game yet and dont plan 2. The last Capcom game i buy will be Dragon's Dogma and i will not buy any DLC for it.

[Optical_Matrix]

I've already got 36 hours out of this game, lord knows how many I'll get out of it over the next few months, especially when I get more time. Paying £50 for the Limited Edition, plus the money I'll pay for the characters doesn't personally phase me...and I'm no fool, I can assure you.

For me, certain fighting games are worth the price of DLC. I got over 1000 hours out of Super Street Fighter IV. And I paid £25 + £12 for the Arcade Edition Patch. Thats worthit in my eyes. I always look at value when it comes to games.

I'm sure a lot of the people badmouthing Capcoms practises didn't intend to buy the game in the first place, nor planned to put in as many hours. So, each to their own. While I don't condone Capcoms practices, I have the money, so I'll do what I want with it.

Also it's not a 'few characters' in a 'fighting game'. Thats when I know you don't play fighting games nor care about this game for that matter.

[Rainstorm81]

Wrong is wrong no matter how you twist it.....On Disc DLC is essentially making gamers buy content twice.

No matter the genre or the hours spent playing the game this practice is WRONG... and when gamers support it, it only makes it worse

and yes im a big fan of Capcom fighting games and plug hours into their games (I beat SF2 turbo on SNES on 8 stars just to see the secret artwork) but i can not and will not support these types of shenanigans

[DeleteThisxx]

Precisely. These people complaining are the ones who don't really take this game seriously, they don't understand the core mechanics, they just play it casually. I'm like you, I will most definitely get value out of spending the extra cash. Sure, I don't approve of Capcom doing this but I know damn well I'm going to get value out of that 20 dollars spent.

Stay free whiners ;)

Edit: I WILL GLADLY SUPPORT THIS PRACTICE ALSO!

AHHHH THE SALT

[h311rais3r]

Enjoy rebuying ur game.

[Simon_Brezhnev]

Dont give me that crap about we're not a fan of fighting games so we wouldnt know. I know a lot about fighting game mechanics and Blazblue has more than SF series. Either way DLC on disc is wrong no matter how you try to spin it.

Capcom probably have the most delusional fans. I bet your the same people that buy every costume and brag about it.

[TheBlackSmoke]

You need guys need to get a job or something.

If he's still playing the game by the time autumn comes along then he's already got hundreds if not thousands of hours out of this so called incomplete game and £16 is nothing to expand his game and make it last longer.

And what does it matter if the DLC is on the disk or sitting on capcoms server? Your complaining about a game you dont own in the first place.

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@Kyosuke

Your acting like like Capcom are the first company to do on disk DLC. The fact is, it is irrelevant if the DLC is on the disk or stored elsewhere, it still cost money to make under a separate DLC budget, so why shouldn't they make money from it?.

If the characters were announced and then taken away then you would all have a point but the fact is they were never advertised to be a part of the game, you just decided that your entitled to them because you know about their existance.

The game as it is has plenty of content and is indeed a full game in its own right that nobody would argue if the dlc never existed. You guys are simply calling others sheep and belittling them because you have no interest yourself in the game.

For people like me and Optical_matrix we are getting our value for money from this game and I know by the end of the year I would have put more hours in to this than all the games I played this year combined. In the end £16 to freshen it all up is nothing when you put in to context the amount of money gamers spend on every full price 6 hour campaign game each month.

Why should I not buy something I want just because people who dont give a shit about it have a problem with it?

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

@ Blacksmoke

The problem is that when people feed money to Capcom for going crap like this then all companies are going to start doing the same thing. Check out how fast the online pass tactic spread amongst the other publishers after it's invention.......

True gamers are warning other uninformed consumers how much they are being raped if they encourage this while the diehards says it's okay because EA/Capcom are wearing rubbers....

[eferreira]

Im picking up the dlc. It's priced right and the game is complete with a huge roster already. People seem to think that their entitled to everything.

[Perjoss]

So with your logic, if I take a game seriously it is perfectly ok to fleece me for stuff that not only fits on the disc, but is already on it. Is that what you're saying?

[dredgewalker]

I will never pay for content THAT IS ALREADY ON THE DISC. This type of move must never ever be supported if you have any self respect as a consumer.

[nik666uk]

U sure sound like a fool

[farhad2k8]

Why do people hate on CoD DLC when there's shit like this going on?

[Hozi]

The only real DLC I will gladly support is stuff like a full flegded expansion pack ie: Morrowind's Bloodmoon and Tribunal comes to mind and Oblivion's Shivering Isles. I will not pay so much money for crap like that.

[Snookies12]

Ahhh Capcom... Little rascals, want every dollar they can get from people. I like to imagine Capcom as two people who work together, one goes out and robs a person, while the other comes in to rescue that very same person for reward money. That way they get double the profit! Lol!

[Old McGroin]

When you think about it Capcom have been pulling this sort of thing since back in the Megadrive/SNES days with Streetfighter. First they brought out Streetfighter 2 World Warriors which had 8 characters to pick from and four boss characters "already on the disc" but not selectable. Then they released Streetfighter 2 Turbo which was the exact same game except you could pick the four bosses. Then they released Super Streetfighter 2 which, again was the exact same game with another 4 characters added to the roster. So by that stage anyone who was keeping up with Streetfighter had paid the price of an extra 2 full games for 8 extra characters! Think there was a Super Streetfighter 2 Turbo then.
So by that standard Capcom aren't half as money grabbing as they used to be with Streetfighter, we just didn't notice back then because we were just kids. Now that Capcom's fans have grown up and realised the value of money and more specifically the importance of value for money there is a growing resentment towards their money grabbing ways.

[Megaman_nerd]

Back in the day it was only SF but now they are doing these shenanigan stuff with all their games.

[Blaze718]

i can agree with you and we also have to remember the technology back then, releasing multi. street fighters was necessary for genesis/snes due to the limited space of cartridges at the time. As for now they have all the space they need to have a complete game, what confuses us is, its already a complete game but we have to pay extra to unlock the full complete game? that just don't sit well on us

[killerhog]

Back in the day, there werent patches we could download to our console. They has no choice to release iterations back then. But maybe capcom was doing it on purpose back then too, who knows.

[josephayal]

Good price

[Skateboard]

I'm not buying this game or its DLC.

[LackTrue4K]

Mortal Kombat is better anyways....

[Rolento]

How is it better? MK charged you $20 to get only 4 DLC characters ($15 if you bought the discount/season pass; this discount was delayed on PS3 until all characters were released). Not only that but the people who bought the characters early on couldn't even use them online if other people didn't download the optional patch for them.

Meanwhile, SFxTK gives you 12 characters for $20 and since they're on the disc you don't have to rely on someone else downloading a patch for you to use the characters you bought against them.

You buy the game based off of the content that the developers show. You don't choose to buy the game based off of the DLC that it may have in the future. Anyone who buys the game would be buying it for what was advertised by the devs when it was first coming out, not what was hidden from them. You own the game, not the data.

[LackTrue4K]

What the hell you babbling about??? charging this and that for DLC?!? I got MK for 45 at gamestop used. they gave me an online code.(never intended to play it online) And only bot Freddy Kugar in the online store. I liked MK more better game play,(for me!) what was hard to under stand about that?! P.S. i have SFvTK......its ok. Love using Tekken's Yoshimitsu.

"don't tell me that Tampon fans have became so blind that you look at the DLC, before you decide on getting a game???"

[Ravenor]

@onyoursistersback

Defensive statements like "I liked MK more better game play,(for me!)" when you opened with "Mortal Kombat is better anyways..." Make no sense and not even talking about your spelling and sentence structure just make you look like an idiot. Your opening comment offered no context or reason for existing other then to let us know what your irrelevant opinion is. In a discussion about DLC is Rolento really going to assume you're discussing the gameplay?

Day by day, this place gets worse.

[LackTrue4K]

lol....all you had to do is call me an idiot. no need to make alot of hot air. :)

[eferreira]

20 bucks for 12 characters isnt bad. look at mk with its 5 bucks for 1.

[Nate-Dog]

I don't particularly agree in that it's "not bad" (because no-one should have to pay more for these) but I do agree that it seems to be surprisingly cheap for Capcom, I figured they would have charged around €3-€5 minimum per character. I wonder if the fact that people found out that these were on-disc and the furore over it has made a difference in the pricing of it.

[vortis]

They were originally $5 per char, that's why Svensson was all pissed with consumers about finding out about the on-disc DLC...essentially we ruined their plans.

Capcom had to try to bargain which is why they're all or nothing for $20.

The hackers said there was a simple switch to either unlock them all or none at all, meaning that whoever coded it just grabbed a bunch of the characters and put them behind a simple hex wall (which further proves they were stripped rather than added).

However, many believed that with the upcoming patch this fall they would have fixed the hex-wall and segregated the 12 characters into teams and had gamers pay per team (which would have been the ultimate way to profit again from the on-disc tactic).

Ultimately the hackers foiled Capcom's plans which is why the paid-for Gems are now free (well, the ones they're giving you access to, anyway) and the 12 free colors was always part of the plan, they're just withholding further info on how they plan to charge for the other 44.

[LastDance]

If a guy grabs your arm, pulls it off and then sticks it up his rear end, and then another guy comes over to you and farts on your leg and spits in your mouth - I guess the second guy isnt too bad either

......comparatively speaking.

[Smashbro29]

I love how despite you entitled morons on every website the game still sells like hotcakes.

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

I'm sure Capcom put a gold star by your name for that enlightening comment....

[pbasson]

He probably got BJ of the month sticker.

[killerhog]

Actually vgchartz estimates puts it über 180,000.

[killerhog2]

Correction on myself. Vgchartz updated and stf vs tekken is around 340,000 total for Xbox/ps3. Still not good.

[thereapersson]

Attitudes like yours are one of the many things that are wrong with society.

[FlashXIII]

Haters seriously going to hate but come on 1600 msp for 12 new characters is a good price. I hate the disc locked content as much as anyone but you can't honestly say 1600 msp for 12 characters is a bad price.

[pbasson]

Anything you as a customer is entitled to when you spend hard earned cash on should be free especial if is not an add on or DLC. Simply put it, if you buy a disc you are entitled to all the products on that discs because you bought it. Eg its not like you go to the shop & buy a TV just for 3/4 of the screen is there when it gets delivered.

[Old McGroin]

My God, are you serious? This is my last comment but it's gonna be worth it. You actually think that paying $20 dollars extra for content already contained on the disc you've paid $60 for is good value? They are not "new characters" they are already on the disc you've already spent $60 on and this fact has been acknowledged by Capcom. I'm actually starting to lose faith in humanity the more I see statements like the one you just made. All people, including incredibly loyal fans like yourself, seriously need to bloody well wake up. You're being ripped off; you're paying TWICE for content already contained on the physical disc and you're being fed horse-manure excuses like Capcom did it to save their loyal fans their hard drive space. Holy cr@p do you people really swallow this tripe?!
To all Capcom defenders - fine, walk like the blind sheep you are into the money-grabbing machine that is Capcom; I'm not going to and I hope to God more people wake up soon.

P.S. FlashXIII - I'm sorry if this looks like an attack on you personally! Trust me it's not really; I'm just really p!ssed off at how the game industry has decided to treat it's fans. I'm sure you're a nice guy! Best o' luck bud :)

[FlashXIII]

Didn't see it as a personal attack at all mate so no worries there. I agree to an extent with you and think it's taking the piss having us pay for content already on the disc.

However I'm trying to look at it purely as if that it was only added onto the disc to save them money on xbl/psn fees for adding stuff to there. I can see completely where you're coming from however expecting them to suddenly turn nice and offer them for free when everyone knows many many players will happily pay for them would be expecting too much. So trying to look at it purely from a new content perspective I'm very happy at the price. Ofcourse whether it's new content can be debated all day long but it won't change much and companies will still keep locking disc content up.

[Ravenor]

You are aware that you, in no way, shape or form OWN the data on the disk right? It's not yours, it's capcoms. All you're paying for is the license to play the game.

And as always, you do not need to purchase any DLC.

[dennett316]

@Ravenor, the fact that we as gamers have swallowed that BS excuse and not challenged it in courts is ludicrous.
Imagine buying a blu ray and having to pay to access the special features on the disc, or buying a car and having to pay extra to use the rear seats or cup holders...when did we all just accept that we don't own what we buy?
I age myself here, but back in the old days we owned the cassettes, disks and cartridges we bought...they were complete products and they were ours.
Being charged for data that is already physically on the disc we paid full retail price for is borderline criminal. The work is done, the characters complete, the development costs accounted for....these should be free unlockables. Capcom may not be the first, that doesn't make it right.
Rockstar do DLC properly...additional content created for the game after it's release to expand playability. Substantial, quality products that offer many hours of new content. THAT'S the added content that should be supported, not the stuff that rips us off as consumers and seeks to undermine our rights of ownership.

[Athlon]

I wonder what Capcom's stance would be if this information was sent to major news networks such as CNN under the headline "Targeting the Unethical Practices of DLC in Videogames" but feature the capcom issue as the main story in addition to COD. Anyone have any connections? I swear Capcom would offer the content for next to nothing or even free to save face and sales

[vortis]

I know right?

Our piss poor video game journalists aren't doing diddly squat nothing. They're all objective about it as if it's okay. WTF?! I mean WTF?!

The only person on our side is Angry Joe and no one takes him serious. He had a good take on this thing, though.

I really, really, really wish we had a legit journalist in the industry to blow this up and make a big deal out of it. Right now fans, hackers, gamers and consumers are the only ones keeping this sickening practice in the daylight to expose them. It's really, really sad.

[tehpees3]

No chance Capcom.

[pbasson]

U knw wat we the games shuld do. Boycott all Capcom products teach them a lesson, in screwing consumers over.

[ritsuka666]

on-disc content priced at 1600 MSP, $20"

Holy shit, it's much more expensive than MW COD packs... 0_o

[UnitSmiley]

I can't believe people are honestly defending Capcom, or saying it's not a big deal and calling the people who do get upset "casual". I'm not planning on buying this game simply because fighters aren't my thing. But this is undeniably greedy and terrible. There is no reason locked on disc dlc, nor the gigantic price tag required to unlock it.

Also, does it matter if you play the game casually or are super competitive about it? Bad business ethics are bad business ethics.

[Tzuno]

Why complain, simply don't buy and by not buying means not supporting this and with future no buy from a major number of gamers this will stop. As long as people pay for this kind of content they will not stop. Simply as that. To stop something you need to stop supporting it and it will come to an end without resources.

[Veneno]

You and everyone else seem to be missing the real issue. It's not that capcom is milking its fans, because like you said we have the choice of buying or not buying. It's that Capcom is flat out lying by calling this content "downloadable content" when it is already on the disc.

[Ravenor]

Or everyone is missing the point that you don't OWN the game. You own a license to play the game. Big ole difference there.

[aDDicteD]

that's too much capcom

[Hufandpuf]

$20 for 12 characters wouldn't be a bad thing, unless they were ALREADY ON THE DISC!

[kagon01]

The objective of those complains is to bring consumer awareness, but the obstacle are those fanboys with their bigoted(yes they're religious alright) comments...

I guarantee this game will become a disposable diaper...

I have been telling people before the release of MvsC3 in my YT channel, but they did the oppose and now you know what happened...

Same happened with the online pass and since it became successful they applied that in ****ing single player games...

Sheep are preparing themselves to be slaughtered...

[cyguration]

can't believe people disagreed with you. Apparently they like being slaughtered like sheep.

[Reborn]

No matter how you flip it, 'on disc DLC' is wrong.

So cause you disapprove of a method, makes you not a fan of a game? Lmao.

[Athlon]

The reason I say we shoukd go the public shame and humiliation route with exposing mainly Capcom and some others through news media or even an article on yahoo's website is because that will have a bigger effect than just boycotting. Don't get me wrong, boycotting is a good idea but it hasn't seemed to garner enough support or make a big enough impact in times past; I'm referring to attempts with the COD series.

[Ravenor]

The CoD series in a popular sense is far larger then the "classic" video game community. That's why boycotts don't work for popular games outside of the "community". Joe Blow doesn't care, he just plain and simple doesn't care.

What I find humiliating more then anything, is how many people think they own the data on their disks. You don't, you don't, you DO NOT.

[dennett316]

@Ravenor, just like we don't technically own the movie we get on a DVD or blu ray...but you don't see them ripping off their customers by making them pay for special features that are already on the disc.
You get a licence to use the data on the disc? Ummm, isn't the "DLC" data on the disc...hence the licence should surely cover that?

[thereapersson]

I'm not holding my breath, but hopefully someone listens.

[Athlon]

I'll go ahead and do that as well.

[Awesome_Gamer]

What the fuck is wrong with capcom this gen? what happend to them? they used to be my favourite develope/publisher now they are just greedy bastards. this is just unacceptable, gamers must do something about this

[rjgbyrne]

Capcom release videos of all the extra characters playing in the game before it's release day, the DLC option to hold characters back is misleading and wrong. Fact is they have been caught out being greedy and if the extra characters were meant to be DLC they would not have made pre-release trailers. Spin another one you shower of unethical $h!te$ Capcom. It's wrong, wrong an no amount of wrangling will ever change this unethical behaviour. A big shame on MicroSoft and Sony for allowing this to happen as the Vita version with all characters will still be much much cheaper than the console versions. Business sense is out the window and they should be hung out to dry. Anger aside, I think the fans and consumers deserved an upfront answer well BEFORE the games release too. I returned mine after 6 days for a full refund, I would urge everyone else to do the same.

[esemce]

It's disgusting you could buy a couple of good DLG's for that price.

[bobtheimpaler]

I was originally going to buy the ultra super X(cross) dressing edition. But I will refuse to buy Capcom's games. There's simply too many good games out there to put up with this crap.

They don't really make anything good anymore and only rely on brand equity.

Knowing that its $20 US will probably mean they want $36AUD even though the AUD is greater than the US dollar. Screw that.

[Dolus]

As a fan of fighting games, I honestly tolerate this kind of stuff that capcom pulls. There seems to be a simple solution to this, one that can be shared with bioware games and to an extent bethesda games.

The solution in my opinion is to just be patient for a price drop or the Ultimate edition or game of the year edition, with all the DLCs in one package (in the case of bethesda sort bugs out). For capcom games simply waiting for the price drop until you feel it's has the right balance of value:price.

Being against this sort of thing is pointless. Consumers will still buy the game, developers will continue to find other cheap ways of increasing profit. Personally, I'll be waiting for a price drop or the arcade edition, whichever is first.

[dennett316]

Yes, it's pointless to voice displeasure at business practices you find objectionable, of course. We should just sit quietly like good little sheep while they gradually erode our rights as consumers.

How long before the multiplayer component of a game becomes chargable? Or entire missions of the single player component? How long before they lock half the game off and claim the second half was always intended to be DLC? Should we all keep quiet then?

The only way to change their policy is for gamers to vote with their wallets and speak out against the practice...it's NEVER pointless.

[archemides518]

don't believe this garbage.........i bet their response to the dlc "controversy" will be to now make the vita players pay for their characters too.

think about it, it's the only thing that makes sense for crapcom

[madara0sama]

Not even gonna play this game. Gonna wait for Tekken X Stree Fighter which hopefully wont have any dlc and be complete.

[Inception]

I'm busy playing blazblue & graces f. So, no thx cashcom for u'r uncomplete game and overprice disc locked content ^^

[Knightofelemia]

Now I know why I don't buy many Capcom games they either suck or they nickel and dime a person to death. I was going to get this game because I like Tekken but this game I'll avoid. Now I'll just wait for a real Tekken game from Namco I wonder why Namco is not stepping in and doing something they must be playing the silent partner here.

[PirateThom]

When you buy software, you don't own it, you own a licence to use the software, so anything that's locked, you don't really have a right to, since you've paid for the specific access you've been given. So, making complaints isn't going to help you.

It's, also, not going to stop until people stop buying games and DLC like this. Capcom aren't breaking any laws here, so you need to vote with your wallet. By all means, buy the game and DLC if you think it's worth it and don't buy it if you really want to make an impact and don't buy anything else the company puts out until they change it. If they don't change it, don't buy it. The more people that do it, the more impact it has. Don't buy the game and then complain about the DLC afterwards.

[rjgbyrne]

You're not 100% correct, you don't own iot but you are entitled to use the full product and when you buy the game it does not STATE that you have not got full access to the product sold. Its a grey area but something a Class Action Lawsuit would sort out. Capcom showed Cody & Guy in a prerelease trailer and I am sure there where others so the just HELD that content back for a gouge. Anyone know how the US/Eur/Asia legals are with this? Objection!!! Sue the greedy unethical Japanese scam artists.

[dennett316]

You apparently get a licence to use the data on the disc based distribution medium. On disc DLC data is on the disc....surely it is covered in the agreement?

[nik666uk]

Sony can't be very happy about that!!

[caffman]

Just wait.6 months and we will have streetfighter x tekken redux gold special super fun happy time edition for half the price.

[portugamer]

Lol, 20$ for some extra characters.

And then, people complain about the dlc, on mass effect 3, for 10$, that gives you a powerful partner, and maybe some extra missions.

What I start to hate about the word dlc, is the fact that a few years ago, DLC meant extra content, new stuff, new missions,etc for the gamer.

In 2012, a DLC means 'missing content'. And that's a bad thing. Horrible, I would say.

They started with the online pass, for killing 2nd hand, on games with online gaming
Later, they block content, on single player games, like catwoman, on arkham city
Today, selling content included on the disc, as new content became a standard, for studios.

Tomorrow, they are going to sell us a dlc, that enables 60 fps, otherwise, you can only play at 30 fps

After tomorrow, Activision is going to say : hey guys, if you want us to keep servers up, with fast internet lines, you need to pay 10$ for the 'play on fast servers' dlc

In 1 year, you may buy a dlc, that enables 1080p, otherwise, you play at sub hd

In 2 years, they will let you play with a keyboard, if you buy the 'keyboard' dlc

....... We need to stop this, otherwise, they are going to sell us a uncharted 4 game, for 20$, but you only have 3 levels, need to pay 80$ extra, for all the game.

Really, we need to do something, its starting to not make us laugh anymore...