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Destiny's first expansion pack, The Dark Below, is due to launch on the 9th of December, exactly three months after the base game launched. However, Bungie's pricing model is raising some concerns amongst fans, the first expansion pack will set US customers back $19.99 and despite the exchange rate, it will also cost £19.99 in the UK as well.
In addition to the substantial cost, PS4 and PS3 buyers will be getting an extra strike mission while Xbox owners will have to pay the same price for less content. However, buyers will have known this going in as details surrounding Sony's exclusivity deal for the game have been publicly available for some time.
The expansion will include some new weapons and gear, three more multiplayer PvP maps, a new raid mission and a new strike mission. The Light level cap will be raised to 32 and five new bounty slots will be added.
Playstation owners will be getting an extra strike mission called The Undying Mind. It's not yet known if Bungie plans to address the complete lack of story in the base game and ultimately, this new expansion doesn't sound like it has enough content to justify the high cost.
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KitGuru Says: If you convert £19.99 back to US dollars, it works out as $32, so it is clear that UK customers are getting the short end of the stick. What do you guys think of this? Does the expansion appear to justify the high cost?
Sounds like another example of games companies shafting people just because they can. If nobody buys the DLC, maybe they’ll shave 50p off the price and call it a sale?
I can’t deny; the fact that apparently £20 == $20 annoys me more than the actually extortion in the first place. It should be about £12.
Why is the season pass £34.99 when I can go buy Alien Isolation for the same price? I think I’ll be skipping the DLC for this, as much as I would love to get it, it’s out of my budget.
So being an Xbox user in the UK. I’m effectively getting the least amount of content for the highest price.
GG guys…
Oh well.
i don’t have either consoles but stuff like this really makes me angry. they should be selling ps4 exclusive dlc separately and charging English people £8 more for the same dlc is a dick move.
I’d imagine that this is the result of someone copy/pasting and just changing the currency symbol instead of actually doing any work. If this goes live at 20 pound in the UK AND 20 dollars US, I will be very surprised.
Meanwhile Mario Kart 8 offers their season pass eqiuvalent (4 entire new cups, new karts and new charachters) for £11…
Meanwhile Mario Kart 8 offers their season pass eqiuvalent (4 entire new cups, new karts and new charachters) for £11…
U.K. gamers paying about £8 more for the same amount of (peasant quality) content.
ggwp
There it is again. A complaint about a complete lack of story. I don’t think that there is. There is a definite lack of Storytelling, that’s true, but the universe is fleshed out and detailed. But there is a very clear desire from Bungie to not paint themselves into a corner that they can’t get out of story wise in the future, but the Grimoire cards hold a lot more back story then people are giving them credit for.
In the apparent “Concerns” about the price of the DLC, it will need to be a big DLC, that’s for sure, BUT, the expansion Pass was £35, and it’s been clear from the off that’s been for 2 Expansions. If anyone was REALLY expecting the price to be any lower than £20, would have been kidding themselves. However, this needs to be a proper expansion, whit the amount of extra content being closer to that of an expansion pack of old, and before people make a judgement they should maybe wait and see.
I’m gonna go play one of the old Halo’s, hey the entire back catalogue can be picked up for less (maybe).
screw Grimoire cards. If it’s not in the actual game, then it doesn’t exist as far as I’m concerned. If i have to go to a website to piece together bits of a story, then wahts the point. I’d rather go read a good book. This is just lazy. A lazy developer put together a lazy story with 0 ambition of connecting the player to the game world.
You seem to be confusing story and lore, the story (in the game) is abysmal the lore on the other hand (the grimore cards) is pretty good. I would say that for 20 bucks we should get more then a couple of missions like it seems they should do what Oblivion did with the Shivering Isles or WoW does with its expansions, as big or bigger then the original.
Master Chief collection is soon out which gives you Halo 1 through 4 with all multiplayer maps released and will be sold as any regular game so there’s a lot of content for the $$$ 🙂
£20 for 2 light levels. Not even levels. Light levels only accessible by getting high end content. Oh and more raids, despite the fact you need multiple friends in order to play them.
How about you patch in raids that everyone can actually use, Bungie?
It will go live at £20, otherwise why would the season pass be £35?
I’m confused now – the latest article Kitguru posted on this was http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/shadow-of-mordor-lord-of-the-hunt-dlc-content-announced/
from which I read “The Lord of the Hunt DLC will be available later this year, it comes as part of the season pass, which sells for £19.99. The standalone price for the DLC has yet to be revealed.”
One of these two articles seems to be misinformed
Because there’s going to be more than two DLC? the Season Pass is intended to get your money now w/ the benefit that the consumer saves a little over the cost of all of the DLC. HALF is not a little. See Battlefield 4 – $60 for Premium, $75 for all DLC bought separately. If there’s 3 DLC’s for SoM, they’re not going to give up nearly 100% profit (3x£20=60). 30%? even 50%? Maybe. Not nearly 100%
Because there will be more than one DLC. They want to make money, and Season Pass is “give us your money now, we’ll give you DLC later and you’ll save a bit”. “A bit” there, is not nearly 100%. figure at least 3 DLC’s. At £20 each, that’s again, nearly 100% profit LOSS if a customer buys the season pass instead. Assume £15 per DLC instead, and you’re much closer to the industry model (see Battlefield 4’s Premium service). Like I said, pretty much positive this is just some lazy intern copy/pasting values
This is not that new. I have had to deal with crap like this on Steam for years. I’ve bought games for 25 that were $25. That’s $39.80 just for living on an island over the sea. Takes the piss to be honest.
People, this is not Bungie at work. This is pure Activision.
And nobody would listen to me when I said that a company that makes £30 DLC with only two maps on it’s own games was a bad partner for a company with a history of loving Apple (and thus overpricing) and making a game with a planned 10 year cycle (and thus lots of DLC)
I can’t wait to see how things are in 5 years, when getting up to date on this game costs the price of a cheap car.
It has already been loosely confirmed that the Season Pass is for this and The House of Wolves (i.e. they have made specific reference to those being included and have at no point suggested any other DLC will be). £5 discount for buying 2 x £20 products sounds believable to me. I will eat my hat if it doesn’t come out at £20, but you can live in hope then be surprised when it does.
From http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-dlc-the-dark-below-launches-december-9-rai/1100-6423244/
“The Dark Below is the first of two announced Destiny expansions included with the game’s $35 DLC pass. If you don’t own the pass, you can buy The Dark Below for $20 in the US and £20 in the UK. The next expansion is called House of Wolves, though Bungie has not announced what it will feature or when it will be released.”