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Bouchart: I also vaguely remember some expansion disk for Powermonger that wasn't all too great.
The WW1 edition? It wasn't bad, just incredibly hard, and contrary to the original game, where you just had to reach the other side of the world map to win the game, in this add-on you had to conquer every single map.

And... this is not DLC, back then people wouldn't even know what a DL is ;-)
"Beard and Hairstyle Set for Geralt - Customize Geralt of Rivia to your liking with this amazing set of beards and hairstyles."

"Triss alternative costume - Love to play dress up? Now you can with this exclusive new look for Triss Merigold."

"Alternative Look for Ciri - Mix things up with this new and finely crafted outfit for Ciri."

"New Finisher Animations - Slay your foes in new brutal and spectacular ways with this visceral and adrenaline-pumping DLC!"
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Darksiders 2 DLC. They OVERDID it, in one word. Not only they were cut into numerous, tiny pieces, mutilated and scattered around, not only they had initially preorder DLC and EXCLUSIVE dlc, some of it tied to different vendors even worse, but it was practically IMPOSSIBLE, to gather the entire game, in one package, with a fair price. I was ITCHING to get this game back in the day, first game i ever betrayed my principles and decided to preorder (god, i hate this practice of marketing), i even preorder the collector's! But seeing where the story was going with all those DLC, i immediately CANCELLED and abandoned, i did not even bothered to pirate it.

So annoying and laughable, this mess of scattered DLC and their pimping/overmonetizing, that repelled me from getting a game i really liked and thankfully, mind you, because i now got it on gog, the entire package, on sales and DRM-FREE!

This specific DLC promotion practice alone, for the first time ever, made me so sinister, as to enjoy learning THQ choked on that game, drowned and got bankrupt, besides having other good games, even ones i bought before and liked. Solely for THIS dlc series, i enjoyed every last article on THQ's bankruptcy, demise and end. And i daresay, i wish for the very same thing to happen, to ANY publisher or developer, who push DLCs on the customer's face, in the same or in a similar manner. Damn!
Post edited October 19, 2015 by KiNgBrAdLeY7
EA's $50 Season Pass for a $60 multi-player only game Star Wars: Battlefront. The full game "experience" is going to cost a whopping $120 bucks. If it isn't obvious why this is absolutely ridiculous the following article explains it really well.

www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/10/12/ea-goes-full-dark-side-with-star-wars-battlefront-50-season-pass/

Also here is Angry Joe's rant on this outrageous price gouging and EA's attempt to exploit customers with the Star Wars IP.

youtu.be/g8vR-I3ccCA?t=459
Post edited October 19, 2015 by stg83
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Theoclymenus: Gone are the days of epic expansion packs, here are the days of not-so-epic "DLC". What are the most ridiculous examples of DLC available to gamers ? I'll start with two games, one of which I've already bought, the other one of which I'm pretty sure I won't buy :

1. Prison Architect. The DLC for this is just ludicrous. I've bought the game, however, but without the DLC.

2. Wasteland 2. There are two versions available, the "Classic" and "Deluxe" editions, with a fair price gap between them. Check out the difference between them. Honestly, these guys are great comedians !
90% of the DLC for the recent Call Of Duty games are laughable.
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Theoclymenus: Gone are the days of epic expansion packs, here are the days of not-so-epic "DLC". What are the most ridiculous examples of DLC available to gamers ? I'll start with two games, one of which I've already bought, the other one of which I'm pretty sure I won't buy :

1. Prison Architect. The DLC for this is just ludicrous. I've bought the game, however, but without the DLC.

2. Wasteland 2. There are two versions available, the "Classic" and "Deluxe" editions, with a fair price gap between them. Check out the difference between them. Honestly, these guys are great comedians !
Did these DLCs affect the game? If not your meter for outrage is very sensitive.

Improve it with this $5000+ DLC while the game cost $45
Glanced at the list. Most of the DLC is priced at $20 per... That's insane! And it appears each of these is for individual train models...
A lot of people seem to hate skins in this thread, and while I don't like them at all, I'd rather have all the chopped up DLCs be added back to the base game where they belong. So much of the time it feels like the original game is made, then certain parts are removed and sold for extra cash.

Goro DLC in Mortal Kombat X.
Ellen Ripley DLC in Alien: Isolation.
The Prothean DLC in Mass Effect 3.

The good thing is I now have no desire to preorder games anymore. I can't pay full price for what I know what be the full experience.
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...and nobody has complained about the "Sachys not breaking your fucking legs if you comply with his every word DLC" - That has just been added into the forum in place of chat functionality, people basically not making dick-filled OPS and all the utterly useless shite that we remember "didnt used to happen back when it wuz classy like wot we is!" - yet still does, because things change - and when was the last time I broke anyones legs around here rumour-makers?!!??!?!?! O______O!?

AWESOME!
BlazBlue... charging for sprite pallete swaps.
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Fairfox: Cheat DLCs, as mentioned. Once upon a time it was codes, now it's PAYMENT TIEMZ.

Any DLC that aren't so much "cheats" but still give you out-and-out perks that the game wasn't balanced for. How that can be dressed up as a good thing is beyond me.
Oh yeah. I had the misfortune to buy the complete edition of New Vegas. Meaning that I started the game dirt poor with the crummy starting equipment (which is normal in an RPG : Part of the fun early game is to overcome that problem and acquire/loot a decent outfit), but ALSO with several of the game's most powerful armor and weapons. WTF?
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Sachys: O______________O

...and nobody has complained about the "Sachys not breaking your fucking legs if you comply with his every word DLC" - That has just been added into the forum in place of chat functionality, people basically not making dick-filled OPS and all the utterly useless shite that we remember "didnt used to happen back when it wuz classy like wot we is!" - yet still does, because things change - and when was the last time I broke anyones legs around here rumour-makers?!!??!?!?! O______O!?

AWESOME!
sling yer hook ya bastard! talkin shite ya bloomin scunner!
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PookaMustard: Horse armor anyone?
The horse disagrees.

The Joker Carnival DLC for Batman Arkham City was pretty laughable. This has to be a joke, right?

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amok: "Beard and Hairstyle Set for Geralt - Customize Geralt of Rivia to your liking with this amazing set of beards and hairstyles."
"Triss alternative costume - Love to play dress up? Now you can with this exclusive new look for Triss Merigold."
"Alternative Look for Ciri - Mix things up with this new and finely crafted outfit for Ciri."
"New Finisher Animations - Slay your foes in new brutal and spectacular ways with this visceral and adrenaline-pumping DLC!"
At least all those DLCs are free, so you get some cheap laughs there.

I guess the point of the OP was for some DLCs for which you have to pay extra, but I'm sure you already knew that. No one complains about "laughable mods" either, as long as said mods are free. Now Valve is trying to change that though. :)

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KiNgBrAdLeY7: Darksiders 2 DLC. They OVERDID it, in one word. Not only they were cut into numerous, tiny pieces, mutilated and scattered around, not only they had initially preorder DLC and EXCLUSIVE dlc, some of it tied to different vendors even worse, but it was practically IMPOSSIBLE, to gather the entire game, in one package, with a fair price.
My main problem originally was trying to even understand from the vague Darksiders 2 DLC descriptions whether I'd want the DLC or not. Hence I prefer all-in-one packages, like the GOG version of Darksiders 2. I'll make up my mind about the usefulness of different DLCs while I play them.

It seems I was not the only one, there were even online tutorials written by other gamers about the various Darksiders 2 DLCs, what was their purpose etc. It seems it was confusing for many others as well. Deciding whether to buy a game is hard enough as it is, no reason to extend that to little micro-expansions for the base game (other than deliberately confusing the customers so that many of them would break down and buy all the DLCs anyway, for a premium price).
Post edited October 19, 2015 by timppu
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rtcvb32: Glanced at the list. Most of the DLC is priced at $20 per... That's insane! And it appears each of these is for individual train models...
Actually I assume that you didn't understand the game here. You aren't buying all of them. You are just buying exactly the train and the track you want. They have a huge realismus and details. So if you have play enough of the base game with there track and trains you can buy additional things like the track that is close to home or something like that.

Since you can spend easily over hunderts hours on one track that is still a nice price for your buck. Of course buying everything whould be insane. But no human have enough time for this.