People buy a console Sony loses money on and still want upgraded features for free. In the end, the developers get (I hope anyway) more money out of this so I'm not complaining. The media seem to be out for Sony recently but in the end, people pay for what they think is worth it and Sony can't stop selling consoles and their exclusives too.
The professional whiners, ahem, I mean critics are at it already. This dude calls the Directors Cut a 'game of the year edition' and glosses over the fact that it's offering a hefty amount of content for the price. It's no secret that Xbox usually has a better value system than PlayStation when it comes to upgrading not only console equipment costs but the Smart Delivery aspect. If PS5 owners were paying $30 to upgrade only the haptic feedback, 4K framerates and other performance related aspects only I'd agree that this is highway robbery as Xbox Smart Delivery just gives those upgrades to the Series X/S users on select titles. In reality this game is giving an entire new island, new story mode, more accessories for Jin, bonus footage and features as well as the performance enhancements and people are still complaining about this. Did we all forget they gave us the Legends multiplayer last fall for FREE! They could have easily charged $20-$30 for Legends but they didn't. Game creators need to be paid for their content when its fresh stuff that doesn't hide behind a paywall, look at old school PC expansion packs back in the 90s and early 00s, they were usually the same price as this. I paid $40 for Half Life Blue Shift in the late 90s and it was trash, but it was still something people had to work on to create, and time is money.
And WHAT A GAMEPLAY. Best DLC ever.
So many of the expansion packs and re-releases in the 90s and 00s were brutally overpriced for the value in their time. The Doom 3 expansion packs were also around $30-$40 USD in the early-mid 2000s and the content was severely lacking yet people still bought them and even though Doom 3 is trash, they still sold well enough because there was an effort put into the franchise. The games I always got confused on pricing and borderline felt like it was overpriced was anything sports related during a console gen. Take the 2K games for example: They only revamp the core gameplay about once every 5 or 6 years, so in theory a football, basketball, wrestling, soccer or hockey game from 2015 should still hold up through 2020. People could pay $20 USD to upgrade their roster every year to the current teams and that would be fair, but they still charge $60-$70 USD every year for the base versions of these games for one simple reason: the public will pay for it. These sports titles aren't really a good value for what they charge every year in my opinion, but some people are willing to spend their money for more of the same. With Ghost Directors Cut they're actually giving the gamers an entire new expansion pack which alone would have cost $30-$40 anytime between 1998 and 2005 for just that alone, so all of the other content like the PS5 enhancements are just gravy on top of the island expansion and new story mode. It's an absolute steal for anyone who hasn't purchased Ghost yet at $60-$70 depending on which platform you have.
The thing is, if you only upgrade from base PS4 version to PS4 DC version
Well yeah that seems kinda scam, specially when xbox does that for free and I think even PS5 does that free most of the times, right? I can understand more money for the DLC, we can discuss the price, but 30 usd seems like a lot.
Well yeah that seems kinda scam, specially when xbox does that for free and I think even PS5 does that free most of the times, right? I can understand more money for the DLC, we can discuss the price, but 30 usd seems like a lot.
About the size of the new island, I get its short, but maybe the missions are in the other part of the map too. Not only in the island. So there are still chances to be a long DLC. I mean, I hope that lol. I want to play this on PC.
Yeah I think they will port it
It still bothers me that a game of that budget couldn't get the lip sync right the first time. I really wanted to play in Japanese but the lip sync bothered the fuck out of me so I put it to English and never bothered.
I spend most of my time playing my Xbox Series since I prefer Xbox in almost every capacity, so my PS5 has been in the closet since February with exception to playing a few days of the Virtua Fighter re-release and of course giving Shenmue 3 and Ghost of Tsushima a little love the first week I got this PS5 to see how they compared to the PS4 experience. To be honest, I would have resold this PS5 as well right away but I am waiting to play Kena Bridge of Spirits and want to experience it on the best platform it'll be on at launch. I'm glad I kept it though cause I'm really stoked for the Ghost DLC too.
I was actually going to ask about this, I am glad to see that I can opt to buy the PS4 version of the DLC on my PS5 and not be forced to buy it at the full price. Personally, I'll spend the extra $10 for the complete upgrade, but this should hopefully reduce some of the complaints going on by PS5 owners that think $30 is too much.
