How much the FoV-to-DKS patch is going to cost?
As if the world needs more DLC...
*eyeroll*
DLC seems to be the main reason for companies to re-release games a year or so later w/ Original Game + Any Official Expansions (if there are any) + ALL Official DLC Content ever released.
I'm looking at 2K, Bioware and EA here...
i.e. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Ultimate Edition for consoles;
Fallout 3: GOTY Edition on all platforms;
planned upcoming Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Editions for all platforms;
AND upcoming planned Borderlands: GOTY Editions for all platforms.
Yeah, but that's nothing new. PC game expansions have been commonplace for years, as have "Gold," "Complete" and "Ultimate" editions. The only difference now is that there seems to be more DLC per game. So, anyone gaming on the PC for the last decade probably should have learned that a little patience (or sometimes a lot of patience as with the DKS) always pays off. A year or two after initial release you might get a polished, patched, complete game. But before then?
Oh, I've been gaming on the PC since the mid-90's - since Duke Nukem 3D and Quake were the big deal on the PC.
The thing is, it's hard to keep up w/ all the DLC - since they hardly ever get released on disc or since some of them just don't wind up on disc. You could always get full-fledged expansion boxes, if you bought the original game. You never had this feeling of "Geez, I could wind up missing some content - so I'll have to buy Re-Release Box Later." Expansions wern't shoe-horned in "I have to buy-to-download directly from the company, in some cases where often the DRM just for the download version of the DLC might involve install limits or online checks," while the disc versions of the DLC's usually avoid the nasty-DRM trap (i.e. see NWN: Kingmaker DLC package box vs. NWN Premium Content online for DRM differences; Borderlands DLC's on disc vs. Borderlands DLC's directly through Gearbox's buy-to-download store vs. Steam version).
Borderlands (Retail) hasn't had DLC #3 put on disc, though we know DLC #4 is coming. I'd like to see DLC #3 and 4 packaged on disc together. Probably won't bee, since BL: GOTY EDition is coming in October w/ Borderlands + All 4 DLC's (so far). Borderlands (Steam version), they're easy enough to get the DLC's to buy-to-download - plus, Steam always puts games and DLC on sale; a lot of companies directly don't put DLC on sale at reduced prices. Fallout 3 never had DLC #5 released on disc, either - only the two double packs were released, leaving gamers to either have to get DLC #5 directly through G4WL or buy FO3: GOTY Edition. I'm missing all five FO3 DLC's, so I'll eventually wind-up buying FO3: GOTY, at some point in time. I'm missing all of DAO's DLC's, pretty much - from Warden's Keep up to Witch Hunt. I'm missing all the Mass Effect 2 DLC's that did NOT come w/ The Cerberus Network.
I think I might just wind up hardly buying Vanilla version of ANY game anymore. This ain't like the old days, where you could buy vanilla version and then every expansion as you go along from retail and be completely up-to-date w/ everything, since the invention of especially DLC-mania and re-release mania exploded.
