DLC? hrm bad game develpment plan....

[Neosaurus]

Who does this guy think he is?!

[Amkar]

I hate how DLC tends to ALWAYS be seen as bad and EXPANSION PACK is seen as good when they're the ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING. 

[promero14]

Pretty sure DLC will be decent. Other companies DLCs are pure garbage (for example AC3 ones) but i have faith in Klei.

[TeoSS69]

I hate how DLC tends to ALWAYS be seen as bad and EXPANSION PACK is seen as good when they're the ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING.

Thank you for having a brain.

[Amkar]

Thank you for having a brain.

 

I'm just pointing out the obvious because 90% of people don't seem to realise it whenever DLC is mentioned.

[promero14]

I hate how DLC tends to ALWAYS be seen as bad and EXPANSION PACK is seen as good when they're the ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING. 

 

 

There is a reason. Capcom with their already on disk "DLC",

[23rd]

Not sure where this thread is now going. Let me know when it gets there. 

A magical land called "talkingaboutmodsforsomereason."

 

Free update: Depth worms, completely random new annoying and OP creature in pointless caves

DLC: New biome bursting with new life, food and materials

 

Nahhhh...right?

New DLC: Better graphic resolution on Depth Worms (and nothing else). $10. I'd buy 5.

 

Ugh;.

UGH.

 

I hate how DLC tends to ALWAYS be seen as bad and EXPANSION PACK is seen as good when they're the ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING. 

DLC is short for downloadable content. An expansion pack is.. downloadable content. My point still stands! Thanks for addressing what's been frying my brain every time I've opened this thread.

 

With all those bananas out of the way, I'll just address the title because that's the only thing that makes any sense to me. After so much free content and yet more to come, I think Klei deserves a little more of my money to make up for it. The game is endlessly entertaining, the forums are extremely welcoming (@the truthseeker, @Cynical Cynicist, I'm looking at you) and the developers manage to be professional and display that they genuinely care about their player base. No matter what the content turns out to be (although I'm sure it will be every bit as exciting as we've been led to expect) I'll end up buying it.

[simplex]

An expansion pack is.. downloadable content.

I feel old. :/

[23rd]

I feel old. :/

I suddenly remembered Age of Empires II, Gold Edition and now I feel dumb.

[the truthseeker]

I remember Pong shaddup all of ya  

[gnarlytreeman]

gotta love how some folks think of mods and being pure junk, when there are a few notable complete reskins, and game mechanic revamps of a few more popular games out there, for instance the bethseda softworks elderscrolls series of game has quite a few really awesome mods, player expansion sets, and complete game reskins. also some of the older diablo 2 mod community expansion sets.

 

basically all i'm worried about is the stunting of development of the main section of the game due to development resources being used for "subgames" basically inaccessable with the current release unless a mod is enabled.

 

DLC just happens to have a nebulous definition which seems to express just that. Yes, by technical wording epansions set/pack can mean something similar, except expansion always has something to do with "the core game", and downloadable content could mean almost anything, and doesn't really say anything about the core game at all.

 

also, lol it seems yall think i'm complaining, thats fine w/e, just throwing it out there i think it's a bad idea to leave development to such a nebulously worded future. i mean next thing you know we'll have an official miley cyrus grind dance dlc officially from klei......  i mean hey after all that falls under the definition of "DLC" but not expansion.

[23rd]

Here I talk about how mods in other games have turned out to be amazing.

 

Here I'm being worried about more "subgames" like The Screecher being made instead of core game content.

 

Here I talk about how DLC could mean just about anything if you focus on the exact definition.

 

Here I talk about how some girl awkwardly trying to to fill out her chicken butt with a foam finger could technically be what the DLC is.

I don't see what the (admittedly amazing) modding community at the Fallout Nexuses Nexi Nexus' modding communities and elsewhere has to do with Don't Starve. It doesn't really disprove other people's comments about how Don't Starve mods can't be adequately compared to official content from Klei.

 

Klei's founder has officially gone on record saying that the DLC will most likely focus on "bringing crazy new challenges to the same world." Direct quote there, so I don't see any reason to worry about DLC having nothing to do with the actual game.

[Cynical Cynicist]

I can't help but imagine this scenario:

 

By crazy new challenge, they may mean an implementation of anti-winter or a new creature.

 

Someone does a video showing how to counter this. In the process viewers may realize how easy/tedious it is to deal with.

 

Armed with this knowledge, they feel accomplished and no longer feel incentive towards purchasing the DLC.

 

They play as usual. More Let's Players buy the DLC while people save their money and watch them.

 

Worst case scenario, people give it ratings (based on their own unique opinions) and people adjust their perspectives accordingly.

[TeoSS69]

gotta love how some folks think of mods and being pure junk, when there are a few notable complete reskins, and game mechanic revamps of a few more popular games out there, for instance the bethseda softworks elderscrolls series of game has quite a few really awesome mods, player expansion sets, and complete game reskins. also some of the older diablo 2 mod community expansion sets.

 

basically all i'm worried about is the stunting of development of the main section of the game due to development resources being used for "subgames" basically inaccessable with the current release unless a mod is enabled.

 

DLC just happens to have a nebulous definition which seems to express just that. Yes, by technical wording epansions set/pack can mean something similar, except expansion always has something to do with "the core game", and downloadable content could mean almost anything, and doesn't really say anything about the core game at all.

 

also, lol it seems yall think i'm complaining, thats fine w/e, just throwing it out there i think it's a bad idea to leave development to such a nebulously worded future. i mean next thing you know we'll have an official miley cyrus grind dance dlc officially from klei......  i mean hey after all that falls under the definition of "DLC" but not expansion.

Take your argument from the first paragraph, and apply it to the later ones.

[MycoLogical]

Some updates were disappointing, yes.

I would like to see what the DLC offering is.

[gnarlytreeman]

yeah whateva dlc phraseology is stil dubious at best for a marketing term.