40 dollars for DLC?

[HashSlingingSlasher]

While having a battlepass and overpriced cosmetics? Wow, I just can't imagine anyone excited to buy it or this game for that matter. Why are companies so greedy? Why does anyone support their greed? We won't get good full games if people support things like this.

[potato]

battlepass is entirely optional

[carrieshot ♣™]

the fact the ultimate was just the pass with 20 levels, extra prices don't seem worth it. It seems very likely they would want all the money

[bidet]

I don't even play the game, but even I can see you're ignoring the fact that they develop the gameplay changes for the seasons for FREE. The battle pass is optional cosmetics. But free gameplay updates? Who cares I guess, right?

They should totally give us new campaign, new class, new world areas, bosses, dungeons, etc for free is what you're saying. But god forbid they charge people for optional cosmetics?

For some reason so many people think game devs should work for free after a game is released. I don't get it.

[😎Astran😾]

I regret not buying the max DLC.

For the additional fee it has $10 battlepass + ~37$ worth currency (considering 700 cins return from the season pass) + a bunch of cosmetics including the decent new class costume

[😎Astran😾]

Also if the $40 sum seems tragic to you them you should stop being poor and switch to a less underpaid job like a programmer - which is just a text typing, a 10yo can handle that

edit: as for clown rewards consider this: I barely understand the code (I am an accountant by education and trade) and yet I develop an app with $160M annual revenue - albeit with 10 other programmers, or should I says "programmers" because most of them are much worse than me, half of them cannot even name variables conventionally.

[Foxrun]

Which DLC is 40$? There is an EXPANSION coming out later this year. Maybe you got confused.

[[dse]Circlestrafe]

Originally posted by HashSlingingSlasher:

While having a battlepass and overpriced cosmetics? Wow, I just can't imagine anyone excited to buy it or this game for that matter. Why are companies so greedy? Why does anyone support their greed? We won't get good full games if people support things like this.

Greedy? The mere fact that we can play these games should be one of those things in life we are GRATEFUL for. The fact that the people who developed the game, maintain the game, update the game, install, setup, maintain, and expand the infrastructure that runs the game servers so that we can connect and play should be compensated, so they can eat, have a roof over their heads, buy the equipment necessary to play the game themselves requires MONEY from CUSTOMERS does not equate to GREED simply because you think the game is overpriced. It's SIMPLE. if you don't want to pay THE SAME PRICE WE PAID IN THE 80s and 90s for a game, THEN DO NOT BUY THE GAME.

Yes, in the late 1980s and throughout the 90s games were 40-60 bucks. How do I know? I bought a LOT of them. My first job was picking strawberries, worked my way up, different fruits and veggies, to picking rocks out of field (worst job I ever had). All of that was less than minimum wage, $3-$3.50 in the 80s. Promoted myself to retail, starting at $3.35/hr, worked 8 hours overtime per week quite often.

Never thought Sierra was GREEDY when I shelled out $50 at Radio Shack for King's Quest III. Nor did I think Commodore was GREEDY when I shelled out $1500 for an Amiga 500, a CRT, external drive, Kraft joysticks and 6 games from Software Pipeline in 1988 while earning under under $5/hr at the local grocery store.

If Blizzard was charging $599.99 for the DLC, THEN maybe you would be justified accusing them of being GREEDY. They don't charge that or anywhere near that, so NO, THEY ARE NOT GREEDY.

Sorry for the WOT, but entitled people simply should not be. Entitled! That could have been misconstrued, I mean should not be entitled!

[stealthkiller22]

stuff the microtransaction content just buying the expansion it 60 buks alone for aussies or 135 for ultimate dlc pack which comes with the battle pass for more paid cosmetics essentially

[TofuStranger]

Originally posted by dseCirclestrafe:

Greedy? The mere fact that we can play these games should be one of those things in life we are GRATEFUL for. The fact that the people who developed the game, maintain the game, update the game, install, setup, maintain, and expand the infrastructure that runs the game servers so that we can connect and play should be compensated, so they can eat, have a roof over their heads, buy the equipment necessary to play the game themselves requires MONEY from CUSTOMERS does not equate to GREED simply because you think the game is overpriced.

lol you make Blizzard sound like a bunch of saints

[♥ Beepy ♥]

Originally posted by TofuStranger:

Originally posted by dseCirclestrafe:

Greedy? The mere fact that we can play these games should be one of those things in life we are GRATEFUL for. The fact that the people who developed the game, maintain the game, update the game, install, setup, maintain, and expand the infrastructure that runs the game servers so that we can connect and play should be compensated, so they can eat, have a roof over their heads, buy the equipment necessary to play the game themselves requires MONEY from CUSTOMERS does not equate to GREED simply because you think the game is overpriced.

lol you make Blizzard sound like a bunch of saints

IKR? Since when has $40-90 for an expansion suddenly become "the standard"? It's one thing if it's going to be an entirely "new game" with 25-30hrs in the story... It's another if it's going to be 10hrs or less of story for that same price.

Also, last I checked Blizz is still a multi-BILLION dollar company. They aren't hurting for money.

[Riley Van Hellsing]

Originally posted by bidet:

I don't even play the game, but even I can see you're ignoring the fact that they develop the gameplay changes for the seasons for FREE. The battle pass is optional cosmetics. But free gameplay updates? Who cares I guess, right?

They should totally give us new campaign, new class, new world areas, bosses, dungeons, etc for free is what you're saying. But god forbid they charge people for optional cosmetics?

For some reason so many people think game devs should work for free after a game is released. I don't get it.

What may have flown over your head was the price tag.

[Inuyaki]

Originally posted by ♥ Beepy ♥:

Originally posted by TofuStranger:

lol you make Blizzard sound like a bunch of saints

IKR? Since when has $40-90 for an expansion suddenly become "the standard"? It's one thing if it's going to be an entirely "new game" with 25-30hrs in the story... It's another if it's going to be 10hrs or less of story for that same price.

Also, last I checked Blizz is still a multi-BILLION dollar company. They aren't hurting for money.

$40 is a pretty normal price for an expansion for like 3 decades, so no idea wtf you are talking about.

[Neithan]

Originally posted by Inuyaki:

Originally posted by ♥ Beepy ♥:

IKR? Since when has $40-90 for an expansion suddenly become "the standard"? It's one thing if it's going to be an entirely "new game" with 25-30hrs in the story... It's another if it's going to be 10hrs or less of story for that same price.

Also, last I checked Blizz is still a multi-BILLION dollar company. They aren't hurting for money.

$40 is a pretty normal price for an expansion for like 3 decades, so no idea wtf you are talking about.

Yeah it's fun how these kids cry about the pricing and how greedy $40 for the base expansion is, while people that actually were around back then and payed the prices, can hardly believe how EVERYTRHING BUT GAMING became more expensive.

It is a fact that games 3 decades ago already had a $60 pricetag, and expansions like D2 LoD were $40 at release.
Now, let's see how the average wage increased in those 3 decades, how inflation grew, and how pretty much anything has become more expensive.

I mean, is anyone here that still has the same wage as he had 30 years ago (I know, most of you were not even born...), or pays the same rent? Do you still pay the same for a sandwich, a cinema ticket, whatever?

[potato]

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[♥ Beepy ♥]

Originally posted by Neithan:

Yeah it's fun how these kids cry about the pricing and how greedy $40 for the base expansion is... blah blah blah

"Kids", that's hysterical. It *is* expensive when it's limited in content. How many hours do you think the story will be? 10hrs? 20 tops if you turn over every little pebble and pack you find? You're paying more and getting less. In fact, expansions were practically full-fledged games in their own right in the early-mid 2000's. Not what we have today with content intentionally withheld and sold to you piecemeal as "DLC" later.

The entire point was actual quantity of content offered vs money. NOT if I can or can't afford it.