Capcom Reconsidering On-Disc DLC

[Shawn Zipay]

Earlier this year, the gaming world was quite upset to learn that much of the premium DLC for Street Fighter X Tekken was already included on the disc that customers had paid for. Reports were made to the BBB and Capcom subsequently responded that they were technically in the legal clear as far as their actions were concerned.

Since then, Capcom seems to have re-thought their stance regarding on-disc DLC.

We've been getting several questions, here and elsewhere about the future of on-disc DLC.

We would like to assure you that we have been listening to your comments and as such have begun the process of re-evaluating how such additional game content is delivered in the future. As this process has only just commenced in the past month or so, there will be some titles, where development began some time ago and that are scheduled for release in the coming months, for which we are unable to make changes to the way some of their post release content is delivered.

As noted, there is at least one upcoming title from Capcom that will still have the DLC slapped onto the disc. That game is Dragon's Dogma, due to be released next week. This DLC includes "additional quests, weapons, and other items" and may very well be sold with a price tag despite gamers already "owning" it on the disc sitting in their consoles.

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[Vreki]

Re: Capcom Reconsidering On-Disc DLC

I suppose it makes sense from a technical POV.
But as always they question is if the game has enough content as is, or the "additional" content is required to make it a full game.