DLCs are also getting out of hand.

After making my last rant on preorder bonuses, I also thought about DLCs and unfinished games.
Games used to be finished when they were released, you got what they released. Nowadays, some games get patched the day after release. Sometimes day-of. WHY? There's no reason the games shouldn't be finished before release day. But that is neither here nor there with the point I want to make with this post.

I know in this industry you have to think ahead of what you're going to do with a game after it's released such as expansions/DLCs but come on, giving preorders a "free DLC" is really just making non-preorders pay more for what should have just been a part of the game. There are very few games where the DLCs are really worth it in my opinion, one of those games is Borderlands. I feel for $2-$10(depending on if you got them on sale on Steam) the expansions were worth it. The main game had plenty of story (around 30 hours with all the side quests) and they actually 'finished' the story. spoilers:they actually get to the vault that they were after since the beginning. the DLCs don't only extend the story but takes you to new venues, brings you some new guns and are fun. I feel like the CoD map packs are overpriced. I would say $5-10 is what they should be priced at, $15 for 4 multiplayer maps and a zombie map[Black Ops] is just too much in my opinion. Taking a $60 game to $90 after two DLCs. BulletStorm is another one that irritated me. They didn't even finish up the story. $60 for an unfinished 5 1/2 hour campaign. Come on. That game cost more per hour than I make at my job.
Expansion packs for MMOs such as Final Fantasy XI or World of Warcraft are about on the money in my opinion. Well, from what I've heard about WoW's expansions, and what I've seen in FFXI's expansions. Each expansion always brings about new, or at least reskinned monsters and areas with new weapons, sometimes new jobs, new abilities and they continue to update and add content that isn't specific to that expansion.
I just don't think it's fair. I think a lot of games with their DLCs could take a note from Valve and Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 1&2, all new maps are free, all updates are free. In TF2 you can buy hats/weapons if you really want but it's really not necessary at all as you can find, make, trade for them normally. Left 4 Dead 1&2 don't even have a cash shop and still gets the occasional update.

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