Why the Fallout 4 DLC Outrage Is Vastly Exaggerated

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Present, it seems like every story about a game's DLC, expansion or Flavour Pass eventually turns controversial. The latest case is Fallout 4 DLC, which has been detailed yesterday by Bethesda after a few teasers; needless to say, simply a few hours have passed and the Web has been set up ablaze by fiercely disapproving manufactures, weblog posts, comments and forum posts, detailing in various ways how Bethesda broke the trust of gamers.

Is such a reaction truly warranted this time, though? Let'due south take a step back and analyze the situation thoroughly. A couple of months alee of the game's November launch, Bethesda first announced the Flavor Pass to be priced at $/€ 30 for all futurity Fallout 4 DLC. In the declaration, Bethesda said that they intended to reward the most loyal fans with this depression Season Pass price.

Withal, at that time the details of the upcoming Fallout 4 DLC were evidently still in flux; in fact, Bethesda didn't provide any further information about the boosted content until now.

Equally information technology turns out, the DLC programme got bigger and the studio will exist producing more content than originally planned. Aslope two small packs such as Automatron and Wasteland Workshop, priced at $/€ 9.99 and $/€ 4.99 respectively, Bethesda unveiled an expansion sized improver named Far Harbor and priced at $/€ 29.99.

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Far Harbor, due to release in May 2022, features the largest landmass ever created by Bethesda for an add-on. This DLC volition feature new faction quests, settlements, creatures and dungeons, non to mention college level armor and weapons to get for your characters.

The Fallout four Flavour pass won't end there, though, every bit Bethesda added that more Fallout 4 DLC volition exist released in 2022 for a full worth over $/€ threescore. As a consequence of the expanded add-on plans, the programmer announced that the cost of the Flavor Pass will be increased to $/€ 50, which is what acquired all the controversy yous can read on the Internet today.

Now, I would be inclined to agree if the price was changed outright with no advance notice, only that's far from the case here. Anyone tin nevertheless make up one's mind to buy the Flavor Laissez passer at the old price and get all the upcoming Fallout 4 DLC until March 1st; that's a 2 week discover, which is more than than off-white.

I've even read some commodity challenge that information technology was setting a bad precedent in the industry. Except that'south utterly false, since we have a recent case with Dying Light: The Following. Techland did exactly the aforementioned thing, raising the price of the Season Laissez passer from $/€ 19.99 to $/€ 29.99 because their expansion got bigger than previously planned, which is perfectly understandable.

Guess what they also did? Giving everyone a ii week observe to buy the Season pass at the sometime price. A logic movement and no one fabricated a big bargain out of it (rightfully so, in my opinion), while now it would seem like something terrible happened. Sure, Fallout 4 is a lot more pop, but that shouldn't translate in a double standard for Bethesda (which will also gift the add-ons to anyone who is selected for beta testing; I don't know any other publisher that does that).

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Besides, the customer all the same holds all the cards here. Those who liked Fallout iv and have faith in the programmer (which, by the way, has a history of delivering meaty expansions ever since Oblivion's Shivering Isles) tin purchase the Flavour Pass right at present to get it as cheap as possible, while others who are intrigued but skeptical can always wait to read the reviews and then purchase whatever DLC they're interested in.

Possibly most of the hate is coming from those who didn't enjoy Fallout iv, but that would exist quite puzzling - it is highly unlikely that an add together-on or expansion, as big as information technology can peradventure be, will change someone's opinion well-nigh a game.

Mind you, that's non to say I haven't my complaints about the game. You lot can read my gripes in our review and I am definitely disappointed about the delay in releasing the Creation Kit (which in turn is delaying the release of proper mods, always the biggest highlight of games past Bethesda), merely I don't retrieve they did anything incorrect with the Fallout 4 DLC/Flavour Laissez passer, though I volition exist the get-go in line to criticize the add-ons should they be underwhelming.