I think part of the problem is T10 are releasing far too much DLC, If we get 12 packs for Forza 5 that’s 12 x £8 = £96 along with the £55 for the game it equals over £150 for a single game. That is asking way to much money, Even if the packs are finished now it still equates to over £100.
My answer would be to give us car DLC 4 times a year for £8 each it wouldnt feel like we are paying too much and we’d be getting alot more cars that we like in a single pack rather than liking liking 1 or 2 in packs each month meaning much less moaning and a hell of alot of praise for T10. Imagine getting 5 or 6 cars that you really want for £8 rather than 1.
The more DLC, the better in my opinion. I will buy whatever they’re selling. I enjoy Turn 10 coming out with DLC once a month like clockwork.
Also by the way, all the DLC is available for 50 bucks American for the Car Pass. You get everything up to this point. That’s what, £30 or so? In the grand scheme of things, not a lot.
Turn 10 will never make everyone happy. It’s not mandatory to purchase DLC, buy it if you want it, don’t if you’re not convinced that it’s worth it.
I personally think it’s worth it, I play Forza religiously.
Far too much dlc, already paid for a full game. Loads of cars are visible but unavailable. It bugs me having an incomplete game. If the dlc was subtle and hidden if not bought, it woukd be bad enough, but having it constantly visible without being able to filter it out is just frustrating. I just can’t justify the cost anymore.
A pack or two to expand an already full game is great, being milked is just not fun. Especially when forza 6 will include all the same content again. Maybe that will be a complete game…
Considering I bought every last bit of DLC for Fm2-fm4 and the season pass for horizon, I think I’ve been around long enough to see the way things are going. Forza is a subscription model game. £50 ain’t enough to have a full game anymore…
It wouldn’t be so bad if I could at least use the wheel that I have, but I’m forced back to a controller (a flimsy one at that) or spend a lot more on another wheel.
Real question is do I buy a PS4 so I can play Project CARS with my existing wheel (small assumption), or buy a new wheel an play it on Xbox one? Or just give up and accept that gaming ain’t what it was even 5 years ago and go for actual drive.
no such thing as too much DLC. Wouldn’t be mad if they skipped cars for a month or two in lieu of filling out the tracks a bit. Personally, I have a good number of cars to play with its the tracks which are getting a bit receptive…particularly Road Atlanta…in the hoppers…swear that sucker accounts for 50% of my online racing …ugh…
But ya, to the real point…Im sure the trickle method is more profitable over the long run. Keeps interest up, as well as bringing people back to have put it down. Besides you can pick individual cars, or packs…and at the end of the day, as long as the pay stuff stays cars there really isn’t any fragmentation of the player base. A crucial point.
I always rate a game by cost per hour of fun. Lets say if i buy an FPS game for 60£, the singleplayer campaign takes me 6 hours to finish (sadly thats todays average for FPS games) i pay 10£ for 1 hour of fun. this might differ if it has a reasonable MP part, but i usually dont replay single player campaigns.
In case of forza i logged roughly 300 hours already and still counting. With all the DLCs included that would be 0.5£ per hour, so its still a very good deal (basically 20 times cheaper than a FPS game). Surely there are many ppl that are not willing to put 100+ hours into a game but they should get along then with the content on the disc itself and dont need paid dlc.
Same goes for sports games and RPGs/open-world games, they have a great cost/benefit rate too.
Just make a complete game and charge me a reasonable price, or give me a bare bones package free and let me choose the content at price. Not a mixture if the 2!!
ya…sports games particularly are great for DLC. This whole cloud based thing is solid for keeping up with the real world counterparts, in some way at least. Personally I’d like to see more or that in forza.
I dont have problem with DLC perse, they have done a great job with tracks for example and Forza 2-4 DLC was awesome, my problem with Forza 5 car packs its they feel already old, in Forza 2-3 when you got a new DLC you were paying for new cars, instead with Forza 5 I have to pay to get back cars that I had in the past games, it feels more like a hostage situation, Im trying to recover cars that I lost instead of being happy to pay for a new pack of cars that will bring new excitement to the game.
Thats my issue with Forza 5 DLC and Contents, that why even when I bought every single DLC for all other Forza´s I havent pay for a single Forza 5 DLC.
Microsoft set DLC content and prices as they see fit, they are the ones that have the market data. If you don’t want to pay for the DLC don’t buy the DLC. If you have suggestions on DLC pricing and content feel free to email them at forzafb@microsoft.com