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00:06Welcome to MojoPlays and today we're waiting for some extra content for our
00:10favorite game oh I can't wait to get my hands on a new hat damn it these are the
00:1610 worst video game DLCs of all time let's go before we continue we publish
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00:25notified of our latest videos Save Slots Metal Gear Survive
00:34I had no idea this existed because I avoided Metal Gear Survive with every
00:38fiber of my being and if you also avoided this game this is gonna blow your mind
00:42in Metal Gear Survive the base game includes only one character save slot odd
00:47but I guess I'll make it work oh wait I can make an additional save except
00:50creating an additional save or a new character requires a thousand SV coins and
00:54in-game currency that costs roughly 10 USD now I'm good 20 lives pack Sonic Lost
01:05World
01:09pre-order bonuses are usually costumes or bonus levels but Sonic Lost World
01:13offered Amazon customers something far stranger 25 extra lives the pack came
01:17with the deadly six bonus edition on 3DS and Wii U making a full price console game
01:22feel suspiciously like an arcade machine begging for another coin fans worried
01:26this could lead to Sega selling lives separately effectively turning failure
01:30into a small business opportunity critics also argued that buying extra
01:34attempts undermined the basic challenge of the Sonic the Hedgehog series the
01:38backlash became loud enough that Sega released a statement promising it would
01:41never charge players for additional lives out on this PR disaster Sonic
01:52DLC story Dragon Age Origins
01:55you've managed to fight your way to the gates we're doing better than I hoped
01:59Dragon Age Origins handles some of its DLC promotion with all the subtlety of a
02:03salesman kicking down your front door while exploring Red Cliff players can
02:07notice NPCs marked with quest indicators who eagerly explain exciting new
02:12adventures the catch arrives at the end of the conversation when the game
02:15reveals that continuing requires spending real money optional story
02:18expansions are perfectly reasonable especially in a large RPG but placing
02:22advertisements directly inside the world makes the whole thing feel really
02:26really cheap why they're scalpers in this goddamn village anyone else will
02:30need to remain here and assist in keeping more dark sports so this is it
02:36elite status Madden 2010 jump in and play the game but before you get on the
02:40field to take on the competition let's show you all the cool new ways to
02:45maximize your game EA has produced plenty of questionable DLC but Madden NFL 10
02:50found an especially lazy way to charge competitive players its elite status
02:55upgrade cost five bucks and mainly just unlocked a tougher online difficulty
02:59setting something that normally feels like it should already be included in
03:02the game EA tried to sweeten the deal with VIP lobbies separate leaderboards and a
03:07handful of match modifiers but the core offer remained hilariously thin players
03:11were essentially paying extra for permission to make multiplayer harder bragging
03:16rights for a price tag get out of two thousand dollars worth of DLC railworks
03:25three train simulator
03:33railworks three train simulator is perfectly respectable if your dream is
03:37driving trains without leaving the house the trouble however begins when you
03:41look at the DLC catalog if you can't believe it buying every locomotive every
03:46route and every expansion once pushed the total beyond two thousand dollars
03:50with later estimates creeping towards three thousand dollars that happened
03:53because years of updates kept adding new trains and famous railway lines until
03:57the store became its own transportation network the developers have said
04:00nobody is expected to purchase everything which is fair but the final
04:04number still looks completely unhinged at that price you're no longer
04:07buying a train simulator you're slowly funding an actual railway company
04:18from ashes Mass Effect 3 where the Prothean beacon gave you the vision that
04:22warned us about the Reapers and where you went up against Saren and the geth for
04:26the first time no yes and now with Cerberus here Eden Prime's colonists are
04:32under attack again Mass Effect 3 managed to annoy fans before many had even
04:36finished installing it released on launch day the from ashes DLC cost an extra ten
04:41dollars for anyone who had not secured the right additional pre-order this was not
04:44some harmless costume pack either it introduced Javik the last surviving
04:48Prothean along with important missions conversations and major pieces of series
04:52lore considering how central the Protheans are to the entire trilogy locking
04:56their only living representative behind an additional purchase but pretty bloody
05:00cheeky players naturally suspected Bioware had removed a meaningful part of
05:04the main game just to sell it back separately they used to activate stasis mode
05:16master vacation bundle like a dragon infinite wealth
05:26finishing like a dragon infinite wealth apparently was not enough to earn the
05:29right to play it again properly unlike most entries in the series new game plus
05:33was removed from the standard game and placed inside the $20 master vacation bundle
05:38the pack includes a bonus dungeon costumes and extra minigame items but those
05:42additions were hardly the main attraction anyone wanting to restart with their
05:45levels equipment and progress intact had to pay extra for a feature that had
05:49previously been included normally even worse the bundle added achievements
05:52connected to its content meaning completionists were also pushed towards
05:56buying it Sega essentially turned replaying the game into a purchase
06:08battle of folly and bonfire of the vanities Assassin's Creed 2
06:12what are you doing out here I'm so sorry it's you I'm so sorry what happened it was a trick
06:20to lower our defenses Assassin's Creed 2 gave many players an early lesson in how annoying DLC could be
06:26shortly after Ezio joins the assassin order the animus suddenly claims that two
06:31entire memory sequences are corrupted and unavailable conveniently those missing
06:35chapters later appeared as paid expansions those were not tiny side
06:38missions either but full sections of Ezio's story including the battle of
06:42folly and the bonfire of the vanities one delivered plenty of action while the
06:45other leaned heavily on force stealth and tested everyone's patience either way
06:49removing major chapters from the middle of the campaign made the original
06:51release feeling complete there was a third man he took the apple who he wore a
06:59black robe like a monk ultimate shortcut bundle battlefield 3
07:11grinding can be boring but at least it normally means everyone earns their
07:14rewards the same way battlefield 3 complicated that idea with the ultimate
07:18shortcut bundle which lets players pay to unlock weapons gadgets and abilities
07:22immediately instead of learning each class and slowly building an arsenal anyone
07:26with spare cash could skip the entire process and arrive fully equipped that
07:30annoyed longtime fans because progression was supposed to reflect experience not
07:35the size of someone's wallet it sucked especially for me because I had neither
07:38experience or a fat wallet crap
07:46additional characters that were always there Street Fighter X Tekken
07:58fighting games once rewarded players with new characters for actually playing them
08:02which now feels like a charming story from ancient history Street Fighter X Tekken took the modern DLC
08:08approach somewhere especially shameless while locking away 12 fighters for a
08:12later purchase Capcom initially described them as PS Vita exclusives before
08:16confirming they would eventually arrive on PS3 Xbox 360 and PC as paid content
08:21the problem was that those characters were already sitting on the game disc from
08:24day one nothing needed developing downloading or porting later players were
08:29simply being charged to unlock content they already owned it's a truly scum move
08:34that they'd already seen people hate from other releases by 2012
08:43horse armor the elder scrolls for oblivion when I saw the fiery clouds and the daedra in the
08:49streets I was sure we were all dead but you saved us long before games started selling costumes for
08:56the price of lunch elder scrolls for oblivion tested the waters with its infamous horse armor DLC for two
09:02dollars and fifty cents players could cover their mounts in a shiny decorative
09:05plating that added very little beyond making the horse looks slightly more
09:09important today that price seems harmless but in 2006 it felt ridiculous
09:14especially in a single-player game where nobody else could even admire the
09:17purchase the backlash was immediate and the armor became a symbol of
09:20pointless downloadable content good red orbs devil may cry 5
09:36devil may cry 5 already hands out plenty of red orbs through combat strong rankings
09:40and ordinary replaying yet Capcom still decided to sell them for real money players could spend
09:46anywhere from two dollars for a hundred thousand orbs to twenty dollars for a million supposedly
09:51saving themselves from the terrible burden of just playing the game the value is hardly impressive
09:56either since a hundred thousand orbs might only cover a couple of expensive late game abilities
10:01grinding was never especially difficult particularly once better farming methods became available so the
10:06bundles mostly existed for people desperate to spend money fast paying to skip combat in devil may cry 5 is
10:12kind of like what are you doing why are you doing that ranger mode metro last light
10:28charging players to make a game harder is questionable but asking them to pay for the intended difficulty
10:35is somehow even stranger metro last light placed ranger mode behind a pre-order bonus
10:40before selling it separately for five bucks this mode removed much of the interface made ammunition
10:45more valuable and delivered the harshest survival experience fans expected from the series the
10:50awkward part was that the official marketing described ranger mode as the way the game was meant to be
10:56played naturally players wondered why the supposedly definitive version was not included for everyone it was
11:02essentially an admission that the standard release was missing its best difficulty setting
11:15burial at sea bioshock infinite
11:27we're closed bioshock infinite ends with booker accepting his death to erase comstock and prevent
11:33countless timelines of suffering it's messy but emotionally powerful and seemingly final the burial at sea
11:40arrives keeps one elizabeth alive introduces another surviving booker and bends the entire story toward
11:45connecting columbia with rapture the expansion looks fantastic and plays well yet its fan service comes
11:51at a serious cost booker's sacrifice no longer feels absolute while elizabeth's journey ends mainly to
11:57set up jack's arrival in the original bioshock instead of letting infinite stand on its own the dlc
12:02forces everything into one giant continuity knot apparently no ending is safe when familiar scenery can be sold again
12:14mirrors of mystery tiny tina's wonderlands in these mirrors i see you me the monsters who lie beneath the surface
12:26tiny tina's wonderlands is built around ridiculous weapons endless loot and quests packed with strange characters the four mirrors of
12:32mystery packs somehow forgot most of that each ten dollar add-on offers a short run through a few small
12:38rooms some
12:39exclusive gear and a boss at the end ten minutes later and it's basically finished buying all four means
12:44spending roughly forty dollars for around forty minutes of meaningful content which is impressively
12:49poor value even by dlc standards a dollar a minute yeesh shattering specter glass at least adds the blight cooler
12:55class while completed areas can appear inside the chaos chamber those are decent extras but not enough to stop the
13:01whole package feeling like a season pass made from leftovers
13:13curse of osiris destiny 2
13:24curse of osiris was supposed to expand destiny 2 but instead it felt like players had paid for a very
13:28expensive
13:29hallway mercury looked impressive at first but its main explorable area was tiny and the story ended
13:35quickly in the infinite forest mostly recycled the same rooms in slightly different orders osiris himself
13:40one of the universe's most mysterious figures finally appeared only to spend much of the expansion feeling
13:45strangely ordinary worse still some existing endgame activities became locked behind the new power cap
13:50meaning players who skipped the dlc could lose access to content they already owned
13:55for twenty dollars curse of osiris delivered little adventure and plenty of reasons to log off
14:06the ending of the game asura's wrath
14:14i am the true god asura's wrath did not merely hide bonus content behind dlc it locked away the actual
14:21ending the base game concludes after 18 episodes then encourages players to earn five s ranks to
14:27access a hidden chapter presented as the true finale unfortunately that chapter ends on another
14:32cliffhanger capcom later revealed that episodes 19 through 22 would complete the story properly
14:37but only through a seven dollar add-on players who'd already bought and finished the game were
14:42effectively asked to pay again to learn how it ended older games sometimes punished easy mode players with
14:48weaker conclusions but asura's wrath punished everyone for the terrible crime of purchasing it only once
15:00easy fatalities mortal kombat x
15:08fatalities are supposed to be the final reward in mortal kombat x earned by remembering a ridiculous button
15:13sequence while your opponent waits to be turned into soup nether realm weakened that little victory
15:18by selling easy fatality tokens priced at 99 cents for five or five dollars for thirty these allowed
15:25players to perform the game's most famous finishes without learning the normal inputs making them easier
15:31for casual fans wasn't necessarily the problem charging money every time was fatalities had already
15:37shifted from shockingly controversial to over-the-top comedy so the execution itself was one of the few
15:43things still making them feel special cool vending machine kills
15:52mothership zeta fallout 3
16:04mothership zeta takes one of fallout 3's strangest ideas and stretches it far beyond what it can comfortably
16:10support being abducted by aliens sounds like a brilliant change of pace but the dlc quickly
16:15becomes a long march through similar metallic corridors while shooting the same enemies again
16:19and again and again there are amusing weapons odd characters and plenty of ridiculous sci-fi scenery
16:25yet the whole adventure feels disconnected from the wasteland that made the base game interesting
16:29exploration is limited choices barely matter and the repetitive combat starts wearing thin
16:34well before the ending it's not completely awful but it feels more like an overgrown joke mission than a
16:40worthwhile expansion
16:51the sims
16:52stuff packs and much much more the sims series
17:04this is not a very specific entry because i'm just going to hard label the entire sims series
17:10because mentioning all the dlc that felt useless would take a whole list the first two games used
17:15add-ons to introduce meaningful features including careers neighborhoods creatures and entirely new ways to play
17:20the sims 3 pushed things further with a mountain of expansions and stuff packs though its base games
17:25still felt reasonably substantial then the sims 4 launched missing several features players had come
17:30to expect only to sell many similar ideas back through countless paid packs with 16 paid packs alone
17:37basic furniture and familiar mechanics became separate purchases the series once simulated consumerism
17:43eventually it appeared to become a practical demonstration did you enjoy this video check out these other
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