Titanfall 2 DLC... Who are you and what have you done with EA?

Ed from Gameondaily shares his thoughts about the surprising announcement that all Titanfall 2 DLC will be free.

[TankCrossing]

The world has gone backwards. Next thing you'll tell me Activision are going to stop sacrificing children on Thursdays.

[spicelicka]

Don't say such blasphemy, they will trace your IP and take your firstborn!

[oof46]

Stop saying such ludicrous things. Everybody knows they sacrifice their children on Fridays. Thursdays is live chickens.

[quent]

Its The only way to get such great Black Friday deals, sacrifices needs to be made ;)

[JBryant0619]

Considering Titanfall 2 is not selling as well as the first one, EA is hoping free DLC will convince people to buy it though it would have been a bit smarter to push it back into Spring 2017 where Battlefield 1/Infinite Warfare arent hogging up all the space.

[_-EDMIX-_]

The DLC being free was announced before the game released.....

[JBryant0619]

I guess people dont care about the free DLC since few people are buying Titanfall 2

[_-EDMIX-_]

How many cared about it when Halo 5 and Rainbow Six Siege did it?

I don't disagree with you I actually don't really think they're free downloadable content is that big of a deal to most consumers because I don't believe most consumers are even playing the game long enough to care about a number count in regards to content.

The one thing this site and clearly other gaming communities do online is they absolutely exaggerate downloadable content.

Electronic Arts released some figures regarding Battlefield 3 in terms of its premium members and it turned out only 3 million people even purchased the premium.

Which is something I've always theorized for a long time that the absolute majority could not possibly be all purchasing downloadable content.

Gaming communities like n4g always exaggerate a game having downloadable content as if they're really missing something when the studies actually show the majority of gamers are not even completing games and the majority of gamers are not even gaming on a multiplayer game past 100 hours so it begs the question why complain about content when the study showing the majority don't even game long enough to care about such a thing?

I remember reading somewhere that only like 75% of the people who purchased Mass Effect 2 even beat the actual game, which I thought was extremely odd because it's about a 20 or 25 hour game.

Then I realized I do not make up the majority of Gamers, the majority of gamers in the mass millions are not out here 100%ing games or spending 100 or 200 hours in a multiplayer game.

So free DLC being on several games not being displayed in regards to higher sales kind of proves the overwhelming majority isn't even playing the game long enough to see this as a benefit to purchase it over other titles.

The hardcore like myself and clearly like you probably do, but the absolute Mass majority this is simply a once-over they play it for a couple hours and they move on. Consider that is the case for most games though.

I honestly think that the community seriously needs to get to grips with reality considering the majority of Gamers they were people that were on here that had this strange belief that titles like Battlefront we're not going to move huge Millions simply because the lack of content, yet they absolutely completely disregarded the majority of gamers are not playing games for 100 hours and they simply do not care and at the end of the day Battlefront moved 14 million units as I predicted.

It's not saying I support the game having a lack of content it's simply me saying the majority are not gaming like we are.

if you have an account on here and you're passionately talking about games it's very likely you are not the majority lol.

[oof46]

@EDMIX: Whoa, you leave RS:S out of this. :)

That game is alive and doing well.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@oof- lol

I'm not saying that it failed overall I'm merely saying that adding free downloadable content may not add as much as a sales boost as people seem to think.

Star Wars Battlefront has proved I do not believe people are overwhelmingly not purchasing a game because of downloadable contents existence , therefore I do not believe people will be purchasing a game in droves because of the existence of free downloadable content.

I think Titanfall 2 will be fine and I intend to purchase it later on next year when I have some more time to enjoy its multiplayer. I've heard great things about it single player please don't let my comment to take anything away from your enjoyment from the game I'm simply talking about sales and numbers. I don't mean anything personal regarding the statements.

[oof46]

@EDMIX: It's funny, if you think about it. People bitch and complain about season passes, but free downloadable content doesn't do a dent with sales.

[iTechHeads]

Titanfall 1's DLC was made free as well once they realized no one was buying it.
It just doesn't make sense to split a community that is already so small.

[iTechHeads]

The game was flop(which was obviously anticipated by EA).

I mean you can't sell DLC to a game community that is already extremely small. It's not EA being nice, its EA using common sense.