Really, for me, there is nothing more to the DLC areas after all the quests are done, other than for farming mats, ores and doing the repeatable for XP. The subscription is not bad, for the time being. So yes, I think ZOS could make deals to attract returning players that are not necessarily interested in maintaining a subscription that not everyone finds very attractive. In one year of WoW you will spend 125 usd, that price including buying the expansion released every year. Here is a simple comparison, in 1 year of ESO+ you will spend 180 usd. That is a lot of money to spend in a game and the subscription to ESO+ is a little on salty side. Meanwhile a returning player to ESO will spend 9,500 crowns + 2000 crowns in a a month or so, that is 11,500 crowns which is the equivalent of about 88 usd. Yes, it is a subscription game, but their subscription is only 7 usd. The new WoW coming out is being sold for about 40 usd and it gives you a level up to the previous max level in any one character + all the previous expansions you didn't buy previously, this expansion, will as usual be updated with new raids for 'free' along the year. You do realise when you buy an expansion to a game like WoW for instance, that you buy all the expansions since you stopped playing, right? Those player may even become subscribers again. This is a stimulus for players that left to return and increase the game player base. That's like what Sky do, "oh your leaving us well why don't you have this half price package for 6 months while the rest of the idiots can carry on paying full price" So people who are returning and haven't subbed in a while get to buy crowns cheaper while the people who have had active subs and gave money to the company don't get a discount? Dude there would be mass hysteria if they did that. This new DLC coming out soon-ish is simply terrible, it offers barely no new content. The tendency seems to be 2000 crown DLCs with ever mingling content. That or have more crown sales like they had with the release of TG, those I think, would help a lot as returning players are far more likely to come back as a new extension is being released.Īlas, I doubt they will do either of those. All the crowns you need to buy all the updates for a discounted price that is a little more significant than the packages of crowns currently available. A few years ago I used to think "I've come this far and might as well keep going", but now I realized some of these games will go as long as they can with selling dlc so I just ignore it.I don't necessarily agree with OP, but I wish Zenimax would make a crown pack for returning players. I just don't see a reason I need to own all of it, even if it only costs a small amount of my disposable income. Nowadays I don't really care about buying DLC, especially cosmetic. Sure, they were super cheap, so I didn't mind buying a few packs, but then they just kept coming and coming so I decided to stop since the gem system was lame anyways. I bought them at first because they were very cheap, but then after buying them I saw that they were mainly slightly different versions of gems that came free. The thing that got to me was those damn gems. Now, I didn't have a problem with the extra characters or costumes, they were fairly inexpensive so it was whatever. The game that really made me stop doing that was SFxT. With SoulCalibur 5, I bought just about every piece of costume dlc, though after awhile I did put my foot down so I'm missing like one or two that I really didn't want. Here is the list of the costume packs and their prices such that I was able to parse them from the wiki and the Xbox Live add-on store: To date I do not believe any of these costumes or packs have been discounted. You could argue that it isn't quite the point to purchase all of the DLC, but you can easily argue against that if you just happen to want the most full, complete version of the game.Īs well, if your expectation would be to purchase the DLC as you go along, bear in mind that DOA5 Ultimate released in September of last year, making the average cost of these costume packs about $25 a month - about double what your standard MMO subscription might be. Each such release follows a set pattern: they release each item piecemeal, and then release a complete set at a varying discount. On one level the DOA5 devs have certainly been "supporting" their game post-release through a consistent schedule of costume (and more recently, character) DLC. Tl dr at the top: If you wanted to buy all of the costumes as cheaply as possible, it would cost $293.78, and that would not include the cost of the base game.įor a list of the packs and prices involved, see the end of the post.
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