2015-04-17, 10:24 AM
Lozmaster Wrote:Only if you're an idiot and don't design your code to allow additions later.
Most, if not all of the assets in the new DLC MK8 tracks are new.
Obviously a lot more work doesn't go in to making a smash character, otherwise it wouldn't only take roughly 1.5 months to make a character based on what was in the base game, where both the base MK8 game and first DLC pack suggested a track takes about a month. If development time is really so related to final DLC pricing, I'm still waiting to hear why the characters aren't £2 or less.
So you think the problem is the smash audience are idiots who will willingly massively overpay for things, like the CoD audience?
Fair enough.
edit: And Roy as an upcoming DLC character. Disappointing if only because it means we can't have more awkward zombie comics where Roy is continuely left out.
What the hell are you talking about regarding the game's code? Clearly it WAS designed to allow additions - the sirens for exactly that have been blaring since day one of the japanese game's release. Balancing an entire cast AROUND EACH OTHER is easier to do than adding in more characters later. Whether they intended for DLC characters later on or not doesn't magically make it easier or harder to make happen - They probably didn't even know who was going to BE DLC in the first place, just that it was extremely likely to happen. Quit pulling this 1.5months figure out of your ass. If it was actually a MEANINGFUL figure they wouldn't have taken 5 months to get Mewtwo out for one, and Lucas wouldn't be coming out in June - He'd already be out. Have you ever considered the current dev team was potentially shrunk after the game's release? There's always that as well.
Not to mention he's only 5 dollars if you buy him for both versions - They're two separate games.
Other fighters have been charging $5 per character for years - Jill and Shumagorath in MvC3, Yoda and Darth Vader in Soul Calibur, STREET FIGHTER <--- People pay 20+ dollars for literally recycled garbage on a new disc. I could find more if you'd like. This isn't new, people are willing to pay this much. And guess what? If that's what people are willing to pay, that doesn't make it "Over paying". That's how a market works. Whine about it all you want, either buy it or don't buy it. No one's forcing you.