Now usually at DSOG we refrain from writing about just DLC releases especially DLC that does nothing to add content to the game other than make things look pretty, but I think in this case I can make an exception.
The DLC is said (and what seems) to include 2 Cams from MGS 3 as well as Snakes sporty Tuxedo. Female characters can also sport outfits worn by EVA and The Boss also seen in MGS 3.
That is not all that is included, it seems that history truly is destined to repeat itself. The other two costumes are not for characters controlled by the player (directly) but for the player’s horse. We can see that player’s horses can now sport 2 sets of fancy horse armor. Horse armor, horse armor…. Where have we seen that before?
Now Konami is yet to announce whether or not this Costume pack will be a paid DLC or not, but hopefully they will learn from Bethesda’s mistake and go ahead and make this one a freebie. Otherwise we all may be laughing like it’s 2006 all over again.
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The funny thing about DLC, Bethesda got shat on because of Horse Armor, years passed and now I see a lot of people saying “It’s just cosmetic stuff and don’t affect the gameplay so it’s fine”.
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Also, I got my eyes in your exceptions Mr. Followell. ?_?
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Only CS:GO got it good. Items in that game are cosmetic and you can make money from them. So its price is in fact negative :).
And after that first mistake, Bethesda has delivered nothing but actual expansions (for now).
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Boss outfit. The Boss, not Big Boss.
We all knew it was coming. I think the chances are pretty high of seeing EP 51 DLC within the next 3 too 6 months XD. $19.99 too $29.99. And it will be garbage on PC since Konami Interactive will most likely not work with Nvidia like Kojima Productions did for the PC version of GZ/PP.
“…hopefully they will learn from Bethesda’s mistake…”
First Bethesda tried to sell horse armor- it didn’t turn out well. Fast forward to 2015 Bethesda tried to monetize mods conveniently just before Fallout 4.
All Konami can learn from Bethesda is that if you first don’t succeed, try and try again especially when their have stopped development on all Triple-A titles and focus on the mobile/micro-transaction market. Horse armor might not be everyone’s cup of tea but cute little hats could do the trick.
I wouldn’t mind a proper female avatar customization dlc. But only if they put proper effort into it. Most “ears” I see on the female prisoners are absurdly square. All R&D went into adding more polygons to snake’s ears.
Well it depends on the view.
Horse armor was an experiment that proved that people are willing to pay premium price for things that can be done in an afternoon for their favorite games.
So for Bethesda there is no mistake. It showed the way on how to make easy money and capitalise on an already released game. Basically it opened the way for future cosmetic DLC and not only. Funnily enough there are still sales of the Horse Armor DLC even in our days :-P.
So businesswise there is no mistake if any, it certainly seems more like a jackpot for me. Don’t let the vocal minority against DLC fool you that Bethesda somehow thinks the Horse Armor DLC was a mistake. It wasn’t.
“vocal minority against DLC”
vocal minority who didn’t bought a game like Evolved because of DLCs and how they tried to shove them down to people’s throat and game failed in sales and now it’s dead. yeah i call them minority as well.
“Funnily enough there are still sales of the Horse Armor DLC even in our days”
anything to prove that ? because in the past few YEARS complete edition of this game (GOTY Edition) goes on sale about 1000times which includes all of the DLCs for free and with the base price of 20$ and 5$ on sales. in short you are wrong.
Look you don’t get it, it’s ok… When horse armor DLC was out, way before the expansions and GotY editions came out, it sold really, really well. In fact it sold so well that it even surprised Bethesda. It opened then a new way to capitalise on a game. It started as a joke but people bit and it exploded into today’s DLCs.
Evolve is not a very good game and not a very good example. It’s not the DLC structure that killed it, it’s the game itself that is mediocre. Let’s talk Mass Effect 2. DLCs for this game are still selling at prices 2 to 3 times more than the price you can find the base game on discount. Are these DLCs overpriced? Hell yeah. Do people buy them? Hell yeah. So there is no need to reduce the price.
I am not fond of this practice either, I am just trying to explain to you that no matter what me or you or anyone else thinks about DLCs, people still BUY them by the buckets (for their favorite game that is, I am not implying that people buy every DLC that is out there), as they did with Horse Armor DLC in early Oblivion days.
Let’s say you released a very good game along with a ridiculously priced cosmetic DLC and 10 people moaned and made a scene about it but 1000 people silently gone out and bought it. What would be your reaction? Would you stop making DLCs due to that vocal minority? It’s not about right or wrong, it’s all about business at the end of the day.
As for your query regarding Horse Armor DLC still selling, the answer comes from a Bethesda employee. The guy said in an interview that there are still sales of Horse Armor DLC today (albeit very, very, very few these days maybe even to single digits but still it’s impressive).
yeah but you said, they said “there are still sales of the Horse Armor” which is not true for at least past 4 years because you can’t even buy that, there is only 2 version of the game on steam and both have horse armor dlc in them.
Horse Armor… we meet, yet again…
Hopefully it won’t be paid DLC, but we know the chances are slim.
Konami has officially ditched AAA production, they don’t have a status to keep anymore, they’re going to jew their last game in imaginable ways, I fear.
Thank God I didn’t purchase it (I don’t support Denuvo games).
Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon is just announced, lets see if this expansion is a win10 exclusive or not
the logo/artwork looks cheap have to say. i remember Titans had it’s story campaign voice acted etc even though it was short to some extent. wonder if they have enough budget for even that much to happen. if it lacks enough budget Microsoft will probably be like “we tried but as you see there is no market for it” blabla
what!?!?!? New Age of Mythology!?!? I need this game! But is anybody from
Ensemble Studios working on it?
yes, it’s an expansion not a sequel, maybe standalone or maybe an expansion for enhance edtion. it’s being made by forgotten empires & skybox labs, they worked on AOE 2 expanstions before. they will show the game on twitch on october 2nd.
forgottenempires net/age-of-mythology-tale-of-the-dragon-announcement
so it’s a expansion…. oh geeez WTF is MS doing to a series I loved. Oh like they do with every series. Play it out and milk the customers…
doubt it’s free. Konami is packing things for mobile. why would they care about consoles or PC at this point? they want as much money as possible. i wouldn’t be surprised if they suddenly separate MGS Online from MGS V as well and force you to pay for it.
they should really sell their Fox Engine at the very least….this Engine is so good for PC gaming it’s a waste to let it die…
Screw Konami