What was the first video game to feature DLC?

[Slumdog]

I want to buy 50 copies of that game so I can burn it in a bonfire.

[Sixtyfivekills]

According to Wikipedia....

"The earliest form of downloadable content were offerings of full games, such as on the Atari 2600's GameLine service, which allowed users to download games using a telephone line. A similar service, Sega Channel, allowed for the downloading of games to the Sega Genesis over a cable line."

Well, I give up.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

You have to define DLC. Which is just any additional content you take from an external source and download it from there to your PC for additional content. Add on and expansions got unified under one name.

[anrkyuk]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍:

You have to define DLC. Which is just any additional content you take from an external source and download it from there to your PC for additional content. Add on and expansions got unified under one name.

So.... a DLC can be an expansion but and expansion isn't always DLC ?

[TTMXMP]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Marysia:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από TTMXMP - Mr¸ ┬╦:

Legit the same for me... I know that some games sell their DLC as expansions now because it got a better rep then DLC, but still does the same... Also pretty sure EVERYTHING from the 90s was sold as expansions and not DLC, but might be wrong.
- MrTT

while it might be the same for you, by definition it's not.
learn your stuff, then post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_pack
"These add-ons usually add new game areas, weapons, objects, characters and/or an extended storyline to complete an already released game."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downloadable_content
"Downloadable content can be of several types, ranging from aesthetic outfit changes to a new, extensive storyline, similar to an expansion pack."

It feels like you're the type who will argue over pedophilia and hebephilia being two different things when the topic at hand is older people having illegal relations with a minor. Sure they're different, but it's still the same type of thing and in an argument that isn't what you pick to fight over.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So I assume you know what the difference is in your own words, please let me know so I can learn something atleast.
- MrTT

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από anrkyuk:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍:

You have to define DLC. Which is just any additional content you take from an external source and download it from there to your PC for additional content. Add on and expansions got unified under one name.

So.... a DLC can be an expansion but and expansion isn't always DLC ?

Where else would you get a DLC except from an outside source.

It is currently a catch all term for additional content from developers you get outside of the core game medium. All of the Fallout 3 DLC would have gotten viewed as expansions 20 years ago. The mistake is thinkig the phrase refers to internet download. If I bought that same content on disk, it is STILL DLC. Which I did.

[myrymyry]

It feels like you're the type who will argue over pedophilia and hebephilia being two different things

go on and make every language plain and blank
interesting choice to set this example as pillar of your point

Sure they're different

i know, thanks for admitting i'm right.

[TTMXMP]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Marysia:

go on and make every language plain and blank
interesting choice to set this example as pillar of your point

i know, thanks for admitting i'm right.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=688276658
When someone don't read your post, I did legit want you to correct me, but okay then. Also I'll admit the pedophilia and hebephilia part wasn't the best but was the first thing I could think about where the difference isn't rly the big problem with it... But it is what it is, leaving thread and sorry for derailing it.
- MrTT

[Commander Makara]

"DLC" is an acronym for DownLoadable Content.

It's just a marketing term so has no real specific application, but has been used to define extra content digitally distributed which typically incurs additional cost.

The original "Expansion Pack" was a means to fund further development and bug fixes, improve longevity and shelf-life sales for products as well as maintain relevance and promote branding.
With the advent and ubiquity ofbroadband internet, following internet-based patching and the gradual decline of disc-based media particualrly for game distribution, the DLC model superceded the expansion packs and has been conflated in part with microtransaction models that now, popularity/success of this format has lead to elements of corporate greed having pushed the DLC even to be completed prior to product release rather than await until initial product life has justified an expansion release.
Although many DLC is limited to cosmetic or individual "bitesize" extras, the overall scale remains fairly similar if one consideres the total amount of such DLC spread over a timescale, then there is some equivalence with a single combined 'expansion' - though of course indivuidual micropaymetns add up to more than that for a single expansion, with less packaging overheads, greater tax revenues and illusions of more for the consumer.
Expansions are still offered for some products, but may still be brought forward and under the DLC envelope since optical media is less economically viable, lacks facility for data collection and less secure

As such, the first instance of DLC could be said to be any extra content that is not default included with the basic product without additional cost AND that has to be downloaded (due to the DownLoad of the acronym) :

Earlier MMORPG had such features, FFXI springs to mind, but these were also considered Expansions and could be alternatively acquired in disc format. One of the first product sto introduce the paid DLC concept was probably GT's "Total Annihilation"

http://totalannihilation.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Annihilation

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

So, what I said, just a wall of text then.

[Γαῖα]

All i know is i thank my lucky stars they never had expansion packs in the casette tape loading days.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Γαῖα:

All i know is i thank my lucky stars they never had expansion packs in the casette tape loading days.

That could not have existed.

It took 9 minutes to load a game on 4k ram.

[GooberGalore444]

the genesis had a peripheral that allowed for dlc through a coaxel cable back in the 90's, so it was probably sonic 3 or a game like that

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Prubers:

the genesis had a peripheral that allowed for dlc through a coaxel cable back in the 90's, so it was probably sonic 3 or a game like that

Did it. Oh crap. Dial Up Genesis. Holy crap, that was a sega thing!

[goob]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από GhAnDy, not Gandhi:

I want to buy 50 copies of that game so I can burn it in a bonfire.

I understand your rage, but your plan is technically a backfire. If you buy them, the creator got what they wanted: Your Money. At that point they won't care what you do with it. Even if you physically raped the game they wouldn't care. You would lose and the dev would win

[Slumdog]

guess i wasn't specific enough. by dlc, i'm referring to the sort of downloadable content which you need to pay for to get the full game experience, not necessarily just expansions or mods. hopefully that clears things up