How much does it cost to buy EVERYTHING for your favourite games?

DLC= The worst thing to happen to gaming ever (it can be debated, but it is still in the top 3). They use to sell entire games that were well made and now they sell partial games and release the rest of the game on DLC. Let’s start a movement to end DLC before it kills video games and forces us to go back to playing High Ho the Cheerio because we can’t afford the DLC to complete the game.

DLC is fine when it isn't content obviously cut from the release. I have no problem dropping $5 to $20 on content if it's worth it. Case and point, the Shivering Isles expansion on Oblivion. The upcoming DLC for Skyrim definitely looks worth it (I'd guess $15?). Capcom is notorious about this. All they're changing with their new "Not on disc" policy is that you'll download stuff that they would normally have put on the disk. So yeah, their idea of a policy change is to make it worse really (same content you'd get disk locked, only you have to DL it).

I was actually browsing through the Vita section for UMvC3 and was 'shocked' that you'd still have to pay for Jill&Shuma-something. Totally put me off of buying it.

Dude, I did not say anything about Oblivion or LBP (and for your info, I did go the GOTY route). I was trying to point out that more and more of today’s games seem to come out and within like a month or two there is quite a bit of DLC for them (add-on missions, cloths, weapons, etc….). When it comes out that fast, it kind of makes you think that they intentionally kept content out of the game just to get you to pay more so that you can get the full experience out of the game. Think about it, you just shelled out $60 bucks for a game and now they want you to pay $15-20 on DLC that could have just come with the game. More and more companies will start doing this if they are allowed to get away with it because it vastly increases their profit margin. Trust me, if you could get away with gaining $20 more per unit by simply withholding some of the content, you would do it to. If the industry continues on this course, an games actual price tag will continue to rise in price until it gets to the point where people stop buying games and switch to a new medium of entertainment. At this point, the industry will either die or shift into producing low cost and low quality games and we will be back to playing checkers with our younger sister who cheats. This will likely happen within the next 15 to 20 years because most people don’t take the time to look away from their I-phones to see the entire picture and what is coming down the road. A great example of people missing the obvious is those self checkouts in Wally World (Wal-Mart). They are just the first step in process of eliminating cashiers from the workplace. Yes, lets eliminate jobs, there is no chance that will ever come back to haunt us. As unemployment continues to rise we will likely have a civil war or a revolution. Either way, a lot of people will die and we will become a 3rd world nation.

Bro, no shit. It's called the general public keeps buying DLC so they'll keep doing it. That's obvious logic.

Agreed. Though I won't be buying anything else from Bethesda after what they did to Interplay, I can agree with what you're saying. If it's not obviously cut content then I'm fine with it. If it's content that was planned but didn't have time to be implemented (Last minute decision) and they charge like $5 to $10 for it, I'm cool with it. But what Capcom does, no. That's not cool.

There is that Train Simulator game (Railworks 3). The base game + All the DLC works out to be about $2070. Don't forget about MMOs, especially F2P MMOs, who have $0 base price, but if you got all the microtransactions and expansions (if there are any), it'll be jacked up very high. Especially since at least some items would be re-purchaseable (EXP/Money/ETC boosts).

It's a pity that I forgot the name, but isn't there a train simulator that has extemely expensive DLC, eventually going into the thousands for the entire thing? Oh and of course the 100 dollar racing car for a Ridge Racer game I think it was :P

What about Peter Ms game he was talking up at e3 with the 10,000dollar pickaxe lol

1st comment on here but I had to say something about this, you should have tried to include Forza motorsport 4 which me and my friend say we have "invested" in rather than paid for. After buying the limited edition for around £70, plus the season pass (over 2000ms points), plus the porsche expansion, plus the 6 more dlc packs to come this game has reached nearly £160 or more! However it must be said it is a damn fine game and I love all my cars siiting there looking pretty. Also Justin if you have any contacts please please please tell Turn10 to forget adding more cars for now and give us more Rims and Bodykits for the cars! Much love GR you all rock.

It's funny how people rip into COD and Activision for releasing so much DLC for money, whereas games like Oblivion and LBP, which don't have this, cost a lot more.

But neither of those require that you have a specific DLC to play online. Even LBP tells you that when you join a specific level that you don't have the DLC required and will need to purchase it in the store to get access to it for your own use.

neither does cod, you can play online without the dlc

This is why I hate what DLC. Why sell a full game when you can release the rest of it for double the price.

Some cases sure, other cases (Like that of LBP) it's fine. Even with it's monsterous price tag, are you honestly going to buy ALL those costumes? I mean I know I've put at least an additional $40 into my LBP experience between 1 and 2 because of Costumes and levels, and I regret none of it.

I was going to calculate how much it would cost us Australians to get all of littlebigplanet's dlc and laugh at your idea of expensive but once I loaded the list of dlc on psn I just gasped at how much there was, 314 pieces of dlc not including avatars, themes and the games themselves. I'm not going to bother with the rigorous calculations but I will applaud you for figuring out the cost.

By comparing gaming products in Aus to those in England, on average I have found that Australian products are 1.38 times more expensive. If we use this on Little Big Planet, the total comes to about $650 AU (with an exchange rate of $1.55 for every £1). Expensive huh?

Why didn't you include Rock Band 3? That would have been over $4,000!

He's right

It was the ONLY title I knew would be in this list. I was surprised as hell it wasn't included. Just for dramatic effect, if nothing else... absolutely no justification except laziness. Or just the probably correct assumption that Rock Band isn't anyones favorite game?

I strongly agree.