In similar vein to Assassin’s Creed’s Patrice Desilets admitting that upcoming DLC once existed as on-disc content, Resident Evil producer Yasuhiro Anpo has announced via his personal blog that the content (to be included in the gold edition of Resident Evil 5) was similarly cut from the earlier retail release.
Citing production budget, Capcom apparently toyed with the idea of using digital comic stills to advance story rather than live scenes, but instead plumped to separate the traditionally included resident extras as later purchasable DLC to keep quality high.
As more high profile figures openly admit to omitting playable chunks of popular, mainstream titles it is hard as a consumer not to feel peeved, regardless of excuse. Each “we didn’t include it, but..” echoes the ever hilarious “I’m not a racist, but..” in that the claim’s suffix never really justifies its prefix.
Paid content is set to become increasingly popular as a means of ensuring a trickling revenue stream for publishers long after a game’s release. While gamers are divided over the pros and cons of being asked to fork over extra cash on top of gradually inflating retail prices, they stand increasingly unified against these blasé statements openly admitting to content reduction.
Please: rip us off, but keep it to yourselves.
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I hate shit like this. The Assassin’s Creed one was so glaringly obvious too. I’ve not played this so don’t know much of a hole it left, but if was anything like “some data is missing”…
As far as I’m aware, this is extra content largely unconnected from the core experience. Still, it’s been a Resi tradition that the player unlocks extra modes and silliness, so sad to see it go the way of the “missing data”.
This DLC nonsense is getting more and more common, and i get pretty angry when i hear devs talking about working on DLC and the game itself at the same time.
Make sure the original game is as good as possible, then focus on DLC.
They weren’t cut for DLC purposes, but because they weren’t ready for the release LAST year. And instead of people having to buy the Gold edition to play this content (like people had to do in previous console generations), you can buy them as DLC. In my opinion this is a good thing.
I remember when DLC was a novelty rather than something you built into your business model.