Was it worth it?
Pandora's box
This was not the first instance of paid DLC, not even close
you need to be 18 to use this board
whats was the first paid downloadable content?
depends on what you define as "DLC"
but for console stuff, the original xbox had plenty of games where you could pay to download things like extra levels via xbox live, years and years before oblivion horse armor was a thing
pic of your mums pussy
Horse armor came out 17 years ago bro
this was the first instance of microtransactions on consoles
Remember, those old enough to see the bullshit aren't the target. Think about how long ago this was, most posters on this board weren't even born yet. New generations of gamers are constantly coming though, and you can always normalize something massively more scummy. The amazing thing with gaming vs other products aimed at children and young people, is that gaming isn't necessarily something you grow out of. You retain a huge customer base that accepts shitty business. Parents at least somewhat push back on toys, but when a person is grown up and independent, there's nobody curbing his spending on predatory in game purchases.
>10+ years ago
>people were constantly bitching about DLC and just wanted to pay upfront for the full complete game
>current day
>people literally beg for DLC and get disappointed if the game doesnt add any see elden ring
Yeah that's really weird to me. Even worse when cocksuckers like Capcom had on-disc DLC. Hard mode: Asura's Wrath where the ending to a single player game was DLC.
Dead Space 3 did the same thing.
Expansion packs ≠ DLC neither culturally in the common sense of the phrase nor literally
Filtering poorfags since 2006
kys
at least nfts are a dumpster fire that isn't salvageable
If Bethesda didn't invent it, someone else would have.
What do you mean? People were excited about expansion packs back 20 years ago too. They're just named differently now.
>Oblivion
Todd truly is a visionary. I bet he will release skyrim again as a DLC for Starfield.
Pete Hines said in 2011 that multiple people were still buying horse armor every day. I wonder how much money they made on it.
Making previous games DLC for your new game already is a thing though. see the total war warhammer games or the recent Hitman games.