Question: Regarding DLC

Kraven

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Tamriel Unlimited is going to include all content from Updates 1-6, which includes the Champion System and the PvE component of the Justice System. We're not quite ready to discuss the exact details of what future DLC will contain, but Tamriel Unlimited will be everything up to Update 6.

Of course. How about this question then. The original schedule of new content every 4-6 weeks. That time table hasn't been met yet, but do you see it getting better or worse? Will DLC updates be large ones every 4-6 months (gaining 2-3 micro transaction boosts per year if people actually buy them) Or more small ones every 2-4 months, trying to earn sales yearly on 3-6 "DLC" sales?

How much will DLC cost? If it is released one per every 3 months, is it going to sell for the $45 that Unlimited members have paid in subs? Not sure how many console players would pay 45 every 3 months considering they apparently had such an issue with sub model in the first place. So IF dlc is available every 3 months for the expected $10-20 what is the benefit of paying the additional $25-$35? A few crowns?

Wouldn't every player be better off buying the number of crowns that they wanted and the DLC, considering subscribers are only 'renting' the DLC no matter how long they've been subbed? (the content itself becomes locked if they drop their sub a year from now for a month or two, during those two months they don't have access to a $20 DLC even though they've paid a year's worth of subscription?)

3 months seems like a very quick time table to release new content for a B2P game. Take GW for example, it after all has the exact same business model:
Three stand-alone episodes, one major expansion pack, and several "mini"-expansions were released in the series from April 2005 to April 2013

So how long do you realistically see quality rich content worth the price of DLC to be released? How do you balance keeping that DLC cheap while keeping subs, supporting development of cheap content?



Since you:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We're not quite ready to discuss the exact details of what future DLC will contain...

How about no details. Broad scope questions, here. I know it's just your job to keep the mob sedated and shovel what ever *** they feed you to the customers. So feel free to ask any of the people who would actually know...Of course that would imply that maybe, possibly there was someone at ZOS who knows. Since I doubt there is, feel free to throw out a wild guess.

Kraven

Guess that's a no...
Should've known, my definition of being open, honest, transparent, and "in an effort to improve communications" means something completely different.

One question? Just one? Take your pick.

Was bad enough you kept dodging real questions for the past year, well longer considering how many times "Will there be dragons?" was chosen as a question to answer while in development. How about answering a meaningful question from your customers?

Bouvin

And herein lies the problem.

Honestly, the sub is just going to be for the 10% XP and Gold boost.

Otherwise, and this is speaking from past experience with LoTRO who had the same exact model, it'll be cheaper in the long-run to buy the DLC outright.

If you "rent" it, you're probably going to run one character through it..then maybe an alt. Then you keep on renting for a long time till you run another alt through.

Buying it means you can run as many alts through, with as much time gap in between as you want.

Also, if they don't keep the schedule, you're $15 will get you less and less over time.

The only thing that irritates me, is that they haven't hit their content release schedule and it's pretty obvious they've been holding back content that we should have received already so that they can nickel and dime us with it after the sub model change.

We should have already had Wrothgar. We should have already had Imperial City.

Instead, all we've gotten over the last year is Craglorn, Vet Dungeons (which should have been in release) and the instance that go along with Craglorn.

That's basically content every 3 months, not every 4-6 weeks as was promised.

Anyone that thinks it's only going to get better is going to be in for a rude awakening about a year from now. Not only will the content spread out, but it'll become less and less polished. However, there'll be increasingly more items available in the cash shop.

This is just how transitions from sub models to b2p/f2p hybrids work. It's been the same for every MMO that's trod down this path.