I call it. The days of buying a finished game or a game with free updates is officially dead.
Browsing Steam I see nothing but Early Access Games and DLCs for already finished games, some of these DLCs deliver as little as a SINGLE new weapon to a game, at $0.50-1.00.
Early Access Games are developer dependant, a good example is Rays Retro Pixel Castles, WE know and have seen how active he is with his project, he has a high chance of delivering a game. These games need starter funds or they would get no where.
A bad example is Castle Story, which was in Alpha years ago and then suddenly the developers just dropped off the face of the Earth, suddenly they are “back in action” and you can buy their half cut, half assed game on Steam for a whopping £13. This game had starter funds and went no where (It currently still is, I pirated it to check).
These DLCs are getting out of hand, however a good example of a DLC would be Don’t Starve Reign of Giants which adds a ton of new challenges to the game.
A bad example would be pretty much every EA DLC in existence, expensive and deliver content that could have easily been given away for free or half the asking price.
Why am I ranting on about this? Well I used to love the old Need For Speed games, as early as Hot Pursuit and as late as Most Wanted. EA killed this franchise. I then seen The Crew, which is due to be release in December by Ubisoft and it reminded me of the good NFS street racing games with a big open map and plenty to do.
[b]Then I seen this
Not even release yet and already they have managed to plan £50 worth of DLC, which add content to the game that an Open World Sandbox racing game should have in the first place. FUCKING CARS.[/b]
So I fixed their promotion banner with my terrible Photoshop skills:
From here I officially declare that I shall only buy games from dedicated independent developers, I will never pay for a game made by a large scale studio again.