Here's one real frog (predecessor) with teeth: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/MEPAN_kapitozaur_%28Cyclotosaurus%29.jpg

Shut up and take my money!!!

Frankly an expansion pack released digitally is DLC in my book, at least unless it's one of them standalone expansions. The term DLC IMO does not at all imply that the content is of low quality, that there is very little content in one such pack etc.. That most developers are going that route because it's insanely viable doesn't mean that that's the very definition of DLC.

I must admit that good DLC is very rare but I'm not even sure that DLC is necessarily much worse than traditional expansion packs. I mean, sure, I remember the "golden age of expansion packs" and can think of a few great ones but frankly I remember few expansion packs that genuinely blew me away. For every good expansion pack that simply doubled or tripled the value of a base game I also remember some cheap ass stuff, even from great developers and in legendary franchises. Maybe the ratio was somewhat better back then but still...

True, DLC doesn't necessarily mean bad quality, but like Free to Play it's kind of gained that connotation because that's what most developers do. I think in the past there was probably a somewhat prohibitive cost involved in releasing a proper retail expansion, so they tended to be of higher quality (like games themselves I supposed). And as has been previously mentioned, if the DLC is available immediately after the game comes out then it could obviously have been included, and it's just money grabbing.

For example I just bought Civilisation V in a sale for £5. There's tons of extra content, most of which sounds quite good (extra civilisations and scenarios, a few proper expansions) but if I purchased them all it would cost upwards of £60, 12 times more than I played for the game. Admittedly, I can probably get them much cheaper if I waited for another sale, but I'm still gonna spend more on expansions then the original game if I wanted them all. When all a new civilisation adds is a unit or two and a special ability it doesn't really seem worth the expense.

I do agree there is nothing inherently wrong with DLC, just that developers abuse it and will continue to do so as long as people buy into and make it profitable for them.

wow!

I can see my why Mother Nature went all,

"Ughhhhh j/k on this one guys"

Thank god for the End Triassic extinction, all that O² conjured up some pretty unsavory critters