That was actually due to an exclusivity deal between Bethesda and MS… they allowed them to do that as long as the DLC was not released on PS3. It was part of their campaign when they threatened to blacklist any developers who released Sony exclusive content from releasing any more games on 360.
Since you want to get in to technicalities, that’s one workaround for the DLC issue - an exclusivity deal to one system (but imagine if Capcom did that in this instance, there would be a much larger shit storm than there already is and all these characters would never make it to 360). The other is to release a disk based game which would allow you to also make a downloadable version of the game (which they claim they arent going to do at this point… Also this is why RDR Undead released a disk based version, as a loophole that allowed them to also make it available for download since it’s technically a new game).
Aside from that, your stuck with DLC on disk, since they will enforce the patch file size limits. That’s why there is 47 different games on that list that I pasted to you. The majority of those 47 being the most popular games.
BTW, that’s not even a comprehensive list. Many other games have not been included yet (such as Mass Effect 3), and other companies (such as Activision and Ubisoft) reguarly do the same with nearly every game they release.
If that’s the case then how come you are just realizing now that every big game has done that for the last 5+ years?
Since I’m aware of how common it is, I find it silly that people are making such a big deal, and most of it is obviously because they are unaware of this. And if people actually are aware of this, but decide to complain now and not about every game they have played for 5 years, just seems hypocritical.
The premise most people have in this topic is silly actually, because people (most of which who have not even played the game) are convinced that it’s pay2win… when that’s not the case. Anyone who beat me did so because they were the better players that match, not because their gems are so OP. Theres not a gem on the list I should be afraid of…
Factor in the DLC auto block gems…I personally dont think gem play will be in tourneys, but if it is then I’m gonna just be an asshole and rock the DLC auto block and shit. Shit is straight broken.
Any DLC gems should be insta-banned from the tournament scene, regardless of how OP they are / are not, paying for gems is wrong and TOs needing to pay to set them up on every machine is the worst idea ever.
At the same time? Impossible. You can’t use Auto Block and Auto Tech at the same time. It’ll say “You cannot set more than 2 assist Gems of the same type.”
When did “everyone is doing it” ever work as justification?
It’s the existence of being able to buy an advantage that is the problem. How large or small is irrelevant but offline tourneys have them banned for now so yay!
Downloading content isn’t worse than having it on disc. Are you crazy? These games are built from the ground up to add in content whether that be characters, costumes or modes and there is 0 issue when one person has it and the other does not except in regards to “expansion packs”…aka Super/Ultamite/Turbo game updates.
The compatibility thing is a crock of shit from Capcom and it makes no sense at all. A compatibility update that adds the characters but doesn’t make them playable for the person who didn’t buy them is perfectly easy to pull off and thousands of other games do it from FPS’s to ME3.
Nobody cares about the HDD space…that’s why we buy consoles with big HD’s and most of the time people will “install” their game to the console HD anyway for faster load times (I know I do). And save bandwidth? Are you playing through a cell phone tethered connection? And it’s not much of a “hassle” to get an auto-update which would be released with the new dlc characters for everyone.