Yup. I traded in Tekken Tag 2 after two weeks mostly because customisation ruined online for me, as well as offline ghost battles. I have no intention of fighting a Kazuya with a bubble-blowing toy pig balanced on his head.
I like the way DOA5's handling it. If I want to see demon Ryu or Helena in a bizarre pleather catgirl corset/thong/80s shoulder pads thing, I can pay my money, it's an actual extra that's not just locked off on the disc, and I get to see them while nobody else has to see them if they don't want to.
The game hasn't even been out for a month yet and there's already one moderately priced set of DLC and one totally free set of DLC. Most games don't have
any DLC by now, or when they do it's BS locked-on-disc stuff on day 1 which is just a sleazy publisher trick to get you to not only pay full price for the game at launch but then spend additonal money on things which are already sat there in your copy anyway.
Remember Oblivion's 200MSP 'horse armour'? Gears Of War 3's 3600 MSP - that's £30 - weapon skins pack
which were all just reskins on the disc? How Namco charged money for on-disc levels in Beautiful Katamari which were tied to achievements? Or all the times Namco has charged Soulcalibur players for an on-disc maid costume, or a fiver for Darth Vader/Yoda which were sat there for months, just arbitrarily barred from the player so Namco could shaft them for another few quid for no additional effort on their part? How about all the Call Of Duty map packs that Activision sell at a premium which have been sat there finished since before the game launched?
DLC is abused so much by so many publishers. DOA5 isn't the game to be getting angry at. If you don't like the DLC that Tecmo/Team Ninja have offered so far then fair enough. By all means, register your annoyance at how some characters have already gotten a bunch of costumes while others have had none. It's okay to not want to pay money for something which doesn't actually effect gameplay and/or which you've seen before. It's okay to hold out until some DLC comes along that you do want, or even not get any of the DLC at all. It's okay to think that there could be a better way, something you'd prefer instead. Hell, if I had
my way, the very first thing that would have come out would have been the option to change Tina's hair back to brunette and we'd be having stages and old music added in first before bothering with costumes.
That's all fine. But don't get
angry about this. This isn't the title to be getting cross about. None of us are entitled to anything. None of us are the CEO of Team Ninja or whatever. I rarely - in fact have never before - sided with a publisher/developer on these matters. But this is silly. To their credit, Tecmo regularly give out free codes for DLC for their 'Warriors' titles on Twitter, they did a month's worth of DLC for DOA
and they've already done a free DLC pack for DOA5. And this is all stuff they're actually adding to the games, not things they've copy & pasted (contrary to popular belief, you can
not simply copy over costumes to different characters, you need to remake them from scratch) or just unlocked from behind a paywall on the disc.
If you don't like it, cool. There's nothing wrong with that. But don't get so irate, don't act so
entitled, when you're being treated more than fairly. They've not screwed anybody over. They're not lying to anybody. It's still very early days.
Chill.
