Why are people upset about free DLC?

Bucket Buffoon wrote:

Jonah48532 wrote:

Why are people upset about free DLC would you rather have to spend money on buying new content?

Because most of this "DLC" is either community made maps, remixed maps, or fixes and modes that the LAST GAMES had at launch. The fact that we had to wait an extra seven months for Infection is ridiculous, your telling me they seriously couldn't balance it out in the three years of Dev Time they had? We've only gotten two legitimate Arena maps since launch, and two Warzone maps, one of which barely even appears in rotation due to a lack of a vote system WHICH THE PREVIOUS TITLES HAD.
Look, I might be being too hard on 343i. For all I know, they really wanted to make a complete experience, but had their art torn apart by bad management and corporate decision. But, if they seriously couldn't balance simple modes like Big Team Battle, or Grifball, which is defined as the laziest sport in the canon because it is literally just a box, with eight guys with hammers, and a ball, at launch, then we need to seriously question the capability of the devs we have.
The fact remains:
We were given an incomplete game. We were then given what wasn't finished in time as "DLC." If we want better games we need to hold developers to a higher standard than this. Otherwise, we're doomed to repeat these arguments for Halo 6.

S212 Midknight wrote:

SunscReEn149 wrote:

Because if I had to buy the DLCs it'd make it infinitely more easy to stop playing the game.
343i is ignoring their community and thats what irks me the most. They're also adding content that is purely aesthetic rather than fixing problems in the mechanics in the game itself, some of which being custom lobby spawns, lagging out of a server and then being banned, and then there are things that are definitely more opinionated such as say, the req system. Play play play play play, open a random pack be disappointed with the outcome, play play play play open another pack, well -Yoink- thats not what i want, play play play play play, WELL -Yoink- THATS NOT WHAT I WANT, I GUESS ILL BUY SOME REQS. You grind for the HOPE of getting something good, the armor system on reach is definitely different and in my opinion BETTER. The way this armor acquisition system is designed to have people get frustrated and spend their money on the game. To which I ask you, what do they do with the money they milk out? They definitely aren't adding new maps, let alone good ones, they aren't fixing mechanics within their game, kinda makes you wonder. AND IM JUST GONNA ASSUME YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED REACH, because there weren't phaetons and there weren't "Brute Plasma Rifles". Wanna know what I remember from Reach? I remember having DANCE PARTIES WITH THE COVENANT IN THE CLUB IN ALEXANDRIA, I remember FLYING PELICANS AND PHANTOMS on the same map, and i remember having a good old BLARGO STEAK over the fire after a good hard day of CLAN WARS.
If you're asking why we're complaining about free DLC, you either don't care about the game thats being utterly ruined by people that don't care about their community and just want more money, or you're too -Yoinking!- young to understand the path the franchise is going, and if the latter is true, then you are two young to be playing Halo.

REKT

Allen18812 wrote:

TruncateComb6 wrote:

Jonah48532 wrote:

I think people just need to quit feeling entitled to everything and work with what you have.

If Halo 6 ships with nothing but Slayer, I'm totally going to quote you with this.

that will never happen

Rhydon65 wrote:

EndersEye wrote:

mostly because the free DLC is putting things in the game that should have been in at launch. it's kinda like they're holding back stuff that was already in the game and just putting it in monthly updates (this does not apply to all things, but griffball, infection, the UI, ect)

The fact that people still say that makes me think that we're going to be well into Halo 6 and people will still say "X should have been in Halo 5 at launch!" heheheh. Back on topic, another reason is that they feel that the DLC adds a bunch of stuff to the REQ system which over-saturates it and makes it more likely that someone impatient will buy a pack with real money, and those are the people who hate microtransactions altogether.