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[hemmingjay]

What is everyone's most upsetting DLC experience?

For me it's definitely Metro: Last Light
First the ranger mode and now a single weapon that definitely should have been included in the game. I won't be purchasing because of this total disdain for the customers. I'm surprised they aren't selling save game functionality.

[Ameablable]

Skyrim : Dragonborn.

WHYYYYYYY!!!!
Solstheim has been done! be creative do something different you lazy asshats at bethesda!

[Poltifar]

Oblivion's Horse Armor.

'nough said.

[PrimusRibbus]

Pretty much anything made by Bethesda.

[Darkmere]

I hate obviously-cheap no-effort packages that add nothing to a game. By far the worst I've seen was Dungeon Defenders with all their holiday re-textures, or the election year one with US presidential candidates and boxing gloves or whatever it was.

Looking at borderlands 2 with $100 or so of re-skins (that as far as I can tell don't do anything else) is insulting on the same order.

*Slightly* behind that would be paying for main-plot content. New Vegas stuff all added in backstories and they all fit with the main theme somehow, so that was okay. Mass effect 3 charged you money for (this has all been said before, blah blah blah) Javik (blah blah blah) Leviathan (blah blah) vaguely less nonsensical ending.

[timferius]

Anything that would've worked better in an expansion pack (looking at you CiV)

[Alkhemia]

Saint Row 3 has DlC for cheat codes....it also has a wide range of dlc that just random crap

[Fayrik]

I'm surprised they aren't selling save game functionality.

This is a fantastic idea, and I will be working this into all my new releases from now on.
(Is what I would say if I worked for EA.)

Oblivion's Horse Armor.

I thought the Horse Armor dlc was Bethesda's way of testing the water?
I'm almost at the point of thinking that was deliberately not meant to sell.

But what about Tripwire Interactive's games?
Killing Floor, to me, is the prime example of taking-the-piss dlc. Paying for character models is usually a kick in the teeth anyway, but they take it to a whole new level.

Oh and lets not forget Planetside 2, where you can pay upwards of $7 for a single gun. Out of what must be hundreds.

[Shadowlord]

Mass effect 3 charged you money for ... vaguely less nonsensical ending.

Did you buy it used and thus had to pay to get the ending changes (as they required the multiplayer pass), or are you referring to the "We heard you liked having new DLC which adds to the plot months after you stopped caring about the game, so here's some new DLC which adds to the plot" thing which happened months later?

[Lectorog]

Skyrim's Hearthfire DLC on the PC was pretty terrible, considering the number of free mods that did the exact same thing.

[PrimusRibbus]

Oh and lets not forget Planetside 2, where you can pay upwards of $7 for a single gun. Out of what must be hundreds.

Planetside 2's guns are all unlockable in-game. These days cert gain is so high that you can easily unlock a gun or two in a single play session.

[Neyvn]

Skyrim's Hearthfire DLC on the PC was pretty terrible, considering the number of free mods that did the exact same thing.

And Better...

I would say like Fayrik. Planetside2 Guns via SC...
I spent too much on my NC character then they went and NERFed NC to hell...

[WealthyRadish]

I don't understand the resentment for cosmetic DLC. To use the Killing Floor example, it was a game that was receiving continued minor development over many years, something Tripwire certainly didn't owe to the people who bought it. If they paid for that by selling some unnecessary skins along the way, who cares? You should be glad they weren't selling weapons or classes that affect the gameplay, in what is an exclusively multiplayer game. Tripwire did eventually sell a weapons pack, but up until then they had maintained an excellent DLC business model.

If a game is complete on launch, the developers don't owe the player any DLC of substance. If they choose to spend time making skins, that's acceptable... and in Killing Floor's case, they were simultaneously releasing free new content for everyone, making it above and beyond what's expected. You don't receive a sub-par experience from playing without cosmetic DLC, but you certainly do without weapon packs.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Gods and Kings. The DLC that would have made Civ 5 a much better game, if it had been included in the real game. Or, oh, I don't know, given to people for free? Like Valve did with Peer Review, Portal 2's multiplayer DLC.

[timferius]

Gods and Kings. The DLC that would have made Civ 5 a much better game, if it had been included in the real game. Or, oh, I don't know, given to people for free? Like Valve did with Peer Review, Portal 2's multiplayer DLC.

God's and King's is a full fledged expansion pack. Not DLC. I mean, you CAN download it, but it expands the game instead of just adding minor content.