Do you ever buy DLC content?

[Beskar]

Some DLC are worth the money. I bought almost every Saint's Row the Third DLC. The Trouble With Clones DLC gave me about 30 minutes of content. Definitely not worth the money I spent for it. However, the Borderlands 2 DLC are all worth it. It adds a completely new aspect to the game, which the SR3 did not achieve.

Borderlands 2 DLC is worth it? $1 for a new custom head, and there are like 20 of them. More unfortunately is how once you buy one, you download a small 10mb file which contains all of them, and future purchases simply is a text line saying "bought = yes".
Torque DLC was pretty crud too.

[Lemur]

Yes.

[spankythehippo]

Borderlands 2 DLC is worth it? $1 for a new custom head, and there are like 20 of them. More unfortunately is how once you buy one, you download a small 10mb file which contains all of them, and future purchases simply is a text line saying "bought = yes".
Torque DLC was pretty crud too.

Oh yeah. I forgot about that custom head DLC. Yeah, I didn't buy that.

I liked the Torgue DLC. Mr Torgue is also the voice of Hercule Satan in Dragon Ball Z, so it brought back memories.

[Beskar]

Oh yeah. I forgot about that custom head DLC. Yeah, I didn't buy that.

I liked the Torgue DLC. Mr Torgue is also the voice of Hercule Satan in Dragon Ball Z, so it brought back memories.

I was with some one who really disliked the voice, and their negativity probably make it far worse experience. But I found it lacklustre and that end boss was just... a sponge. I went bankrupt trying to kill it from the deaths but mostly from buying ammo.

Cannot remember the price of the DLC, but I spent a few hours on it, so if it was a few quid, I will put in it in the "acceptable" category.

[Beskar]

From the sidenote in the above, I have adopted a system for when it comes to DLC/Games and the kin.

I argue that "good value entertainment" should be able to occupy my needs for $1/per hour as the 'acceptable' bar. So if I went and bought a game for £10, I expect to get roughly 10 hours worth of entertainment from the product to be worth the purchase.

You could easily argue "This/that and the other is cheaper" and you are right, there are activities where you can get better than $1 per hour, but unfortunately, there are far more activities which cost well over this amount but I feel that $1 means "Money's worth" from these kind of products.

(Though, it ends up skewed if you added a game like World of Warcraft into the mix, as that is $10 per month, and average player plays 100 hours per month, so $0.10 ph)

[Fragony]

I agree with you guys that when done right DLC is ok, but some game company's are rather predatory. Especially when the content is already on the disc you are just not getting the full game. Also when in-game purchases give you the edge over other players it's a cash trap.

[easytarget]

The further we move away from the publisher model of funding the more likely I suspect the DLC we do see will be driven by demand by the player community expressing their desire to play more of the game on the devs forums.

I view most of what I consider predatory DLC as being driven by publishers and suspect there's a close correlation between how much it looks to the community like a cash grab and how much it was driven by the publisher rather than the dev team.

[Caratacus]

It depends what kind of game the DLC is on. For example, I prefer to buy DLC for games like Fallout or Skyrim because they tend to provide me with a few more hours of entertainment. However, on games like Halo or some other such shooter, the DLC content is usually very limited, adding maybe one or two new maps to the game, most of which are similar to the preexisting ones, not really worth their money. I would hope to see more DLC that adds more fresh and interesting gameplay to the game, rather than pumping out map packs once a month.

[Secura]

I tend to buy DLC for games I've really liked so I can extend the life cycle of the game for myself. Games like Skyrim or New Vegas, I bought everything for because the content was generally great and it added significant material for me to feel it was worth getting. There's other games I've liked that I just look at the DLC and it doesn't draw my interest; Assassin's Creed Brotherhood/Revelations spring to mind, particularly as I don't play the multiplayer.

I was with some one who really disliked the voice, and their negativity probably make it far worse experience. But I found it lacklustre and that end boss was just... a sponge. I went bankrupt trying to kill it from the deaths but mostly from buying ammo.

It wasn't the voice of Torgue that I disliked, it was the puerile jokes that would only really appeal to an age range that's not even old enough to play the game. One example is where Moxxi comes out with her usual innuendo, and then Torgue says "I can do that too, here's the Vault Hunter versus <insert lame guy we wiped the floor with>... BLOWJOBS!". I just didn't find that to be remotely funny as I did Scarlett's bitchy sarcasm or Hammerlock's self-deprecating Britishness.

To me, the Badassasaurus was poor boss design; we destroyed all the critical hit points but the boss still had 50% of his health left and reflected the majority of attacks. He was Phaselock immune (fair though, as most bosses are, poor Maya) and destroyed Deathtrap quite quickly too, who wouldn't use any attacks but his shock-beam either. It took me to give my legendary rocket launcher (that I only kept for the ability to heal, since I'd had it since Lvl26 and it's damage fell short in TVHM) to Tiaexz after he built up 150 Anarchy stacks, while healing/ressing him to beat the darn thing. Worst part, we did that DLC around 46 or so, the boss wasn't even "full power".

I love challenging bosses, but that was an utter pisstake. :/

Cannot remember the price of the DLC, but I spent a few hours on it, so if it was a few quid, I will put in it in the "acceptable" category.

It was 800 MS Points, so around £6.85. I feel that there was enough content to merit that price, I just didn't have the motivation to trawl through it all unlike Scarlett/Hammerlock.