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Dark Messiah DLC hits Live days before release

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The upcoming Source engine first-person roleplaying game, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements, is hitting retail shelves on February 12. However, one of Xbox360Fanboy.com's eagle-eyed readers noticed downloadable content was already made available over Xbox Live Marketplace. At a cost of 400MS space-bucks you can add new maps, classes and weapons.

While Xbox360Fanboy.com is all about being proactive here at X3F, they wonder why this content isn't on the disc. They don't imagine the 151MB download would have filled a standard DVD to bursting and considering Dark Messiah was originally released on the PC in 2006, you'd imagine Ubisoft would find the time to toss it on the retail disc.

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Keowrath - 683 days 8 hours ago
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I'm all for DLC, it often breathes life into a game you've stopped playing or extends the life as you're playing through it.

I have seen a few posts from other people here on N4G complaining about DLC and that it should have been on the original disk but that's usually AT LEAST a week after release.

This takes the piss if you ask me though. The game has yet to release and there's DLC for it already with major things like classes??? It's gotta be asked, why wasn't this included in the original package. And if it's because of time restraints, it makes you wonder what kind of quality these extras are going to be.

Come on Devs, release extra content a little way down the line. extend the life of the game or bring it back from the dead, don't release a half baked product and expect us to pay extra just for the full package.
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ukilnme - 683 days 8 hours ago
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This looks like a rip off. I hope this does not become a trend or I may be skipping a lot of games. I think DLC should be delayed at least a month unless it contains a patch to fix the game.
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HeavyweightInTheGame - 683 days 5 hours ago
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I noticed it on live marketplace a few days ago. I was like "wtf it's not even out yet". Could it be planned marketplace content with an error for the release date?
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Legionaire2005 - 683 days 5 hours ago
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3 - Well a game called Iron Phoenix on the original Xbox back in 05......
did the same thing with DLC when the game came out.
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Ridrick - 682 days 22 hours ago
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'...first-person roleplaying game...'

LOL

First person hack&slash in fantasy world.

No roleplaying in this game.
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gEnKiE - 682 days 22 hours ago
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Was it me or was this game not even that good?
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KidMakeshift - 682 days 22 hours ago
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6 - Not a good sign
Damn DLC

It has turned every developer and publisher into greedy b@stards
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gaminoz - 682 days 22 hours ago
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When DLC was a matter of extending games with more maps months after release etc. that was okay. But to milk money with a few extra songs in Guitar Hero, or maps right on release like Battle for Middle Earth, and now worse this: releasing stuff before it is out...well that's just rip off. Is it only multi stuff?
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Kareem - 682 days 22 hours ago
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8 - I seriously dislike DLC
I get the impression that developers are now starting to withhold content in the retail version to be sold as DLC and that seriously pissed me off. Why should I pay full price for a title, only to know that there'll be addition content to be available 2 months after the release?
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kwicksandz - 682 days 21 hours ago
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9 - Soon devs will sell you the Shell of a game
Im worried home will end up like this. you get a very basic version free and if you want the full experience micro transactions up the wazoo.

DLC is not good for games. its like they took the best part of PC gaming and figured out ways to charge you for it
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avacadosnorkel - 682 days 16 hours ago
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10 - they don't imagine...
it says they don't imagine the disc was full. Maybe it is.

But I question plenty of DLC.
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bumnut - 682 days 12 hours ago
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at least they are not as bad as ea and charge you for content that is already on the disc, like the godfather game.
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