Hi everyone. E3 has come and gone. Not without leaving an unhealthy amount of news on its way to next year. Today wanted to talk about something that I noticed reading twitter the other day: The perceived value of digital content, DLC and expansion packs. All of this comes from a discussion about the pricing of all the Smash DLC. While most of the people I've talked seem to think it's overpriced. I have my doubts. Mostly because the arguments they are using is that of the price of the base game and the number of playable characters it included. If we view it this way, the game shipped with around forty characters and its price was around 60 dollars. This left the perceived value of a character at around 1,5 dollars. But I think this is a twisted and superficial way to think about this topic. And fucking naive if you ask me. Thinking of it this way, in my opinion, means that you don't have any clue of what means to create a new character for a fighting game. ...
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