Originally Posted by
♘Top Hat Zebra
Everything you just said, pretend you didn't say it. Pretend no one has ever said anything. Okay, great, good starting point here.
Mods are not content that CA provides for free. Modding tools are content that CA provides for free. Mods are created by other people.
DLC is content that CA creates, and they charge for it. By and large, the majority of it is of lesser quality than mods.
Here is the crucial part that you are amazingly still not understanding. I do not care about the fact that they charge for DLC. I care about the fact that the DLC is poor quality. I have never cared that they charge for DLC, I have never talked about "A", you misunderstood what I said. Which I have said, repeatedly.
You do have to pay for DLC. You have to pay for DLC. Like, you have to pay for food. You have to pay for gas. Obviously, to anyone who speaks English, that does not mean they are literally forcing you to pay. That means that, in order to acquire the good or service we are speaking of, you are required to pay a sum of money. Yes? You understand that people have to pay for certain things if you want them? Are we clear on what we're talking about now?
CA makes some good DLC, at least relative to other DLC. CiG was a good enough campaign DLC, added a new map, and seasons, and all sorts of other things. FotS, or Kingdoms, were great expansion packs, that added too many things to list.
I did not mean literally stealing, as in putting on mask and carrying around a bag with a dollar sign on it. Stealing, as in taking from other unit assets and mixing them together to create a new unit. Not impressive.
Do you only speak in pure, literal semantic terms? Are a robot? Is English your native language? That is a genuine question, because you seem to be misunderstanding basic figures of speech.
And with your last statement, I think we come to the crux of the matter. You see CA making poor DLC, and you think, "Well that sucks, I don't want that." I see CA making poor DLC and I think, "Well, you guys can do better than that."
I would rather pay for Fall of the Samurai quality expansion packs, than get Daughters of Mars quality unit packs for free. Since they insist on charging for basic things like unit packs or faction unlocks, things that modders are perfectly capable of doing right now at this very moment, I want them do at least make those things as high quality as modders make them.
Okay, just to reiterate.
We have to pay for DLC if we want DLC.
We do not have to pay for DLC if we do not want DLC, but obviously this is irrelevant to the conversation.
We do not have to pay for mods.
I, and many people around here, and many people in general at least according to Steam reviews, consider modders to make higher quality content than CA DLC.
I, and, I assume, many people around here, have accepted that DLC is a part of basic video game business now. Great, I love the idea.
I, and I assume, many people around here, wish that CA would create higher quality content, rather than not creating higher quality content. I would purchase the DLC if the DLC were good. I want the DLC to be good, because these games would be much better with good DLC.
Yes? No? Are we in agreement? Better is better than not better, right?