How much will you pay for a new DLC released each month?

ChaosWotan

If ESO creates a new DLC, which has the same quality as Orsinium, once every month, how much are you willing to pay for it?

My answer: $100 for each high-quality DLC.

Some may argue that it will create a lot of bugs and technical problems if DLCs are released that quickly, but if ESO releases 3 high-quality maps, with good storylines, every quarter, how much are you willing to pay for it?

My limit is still $300 each quarter.


UPDATE:

When replying please keep in mind that I'm not asking: "is it realistic that ESO, in it's current state, can produce a new DLC each month?" The only question here is: If a high-quality DLC is created each month, how much will you pay for it?

For example, if new technology in the next five years makes it possible to release a high quality DLC each month, how much are you willing to pay for it?

Or if ESO hires enough staff, and spend a year creating a series of 12 maps, with the same basic design structure and main storyline, before releasing each map once a month the next year (while the devs create a new series of 12 maps to be released the next year after that again) how much will you pay for each map (DLC) in this series?

So in this hypothetical scenario do you personally value ESO enough to pay 20, 40, 50, 75 or 100 bucks for example if a high-quality DLC is indeed released each month?

And take into consideration that it will prb cost a lot to produce monthly DLCs, so buying each DLC will be more expensive than just paying for one DLC each quarter.

Cpt_Teemo

20-40$

Fiskerton

I think that's impossible, so $0.

DMuehlhausen

ChaosWotan wrote: »

If ESO creates a new DLC, which has the same quality as Orsinium, once every month, how much are you willing to pay for it?

My answer: $100 for each high-quality DLC.

Some may argue that it will create a lot of bugs and technical problems if DLCs are released that quickly, but if ESO releases 3 high-quality maps, with good storylines, every quarter, how much are you willing to pay for it?

My limit is still $300 each quarter.

So you would pay 1200$/yr to play the game? I guess you are probably a sub too so more like 1260$/yr? Geez must be nice.

If they went to a monthly paid DLC I'd be ok at 20$/month maybe. Would probably have to be behind at times and then catch at times.

That being said. They have already said it's going to be 3 DLC and 1 Chapter a year. The DLC is "free" as ESO+ and I"m guessing whatever the cost, if any the other previous DLCs had one, would be the same as before.

Acrolas

Can you really put a monetary exchange rate on disappointment?

AlnilamE

I can't complete content that fast, so I wouldn't pay for it.

ChaosWotan

20-40 bucks is reasonable compared to how much other games costs, but is that really the highest you are willing to go if each monthly DLC is good enough to maintain the same passion for the game you had the first six months you played it?

Tholian1

My eso+ subscription.

Agobi

Magdalina

Gosh no. They can't fix bugs even at the current rate, can you imagine with a dlc per month? Groupfinder has been broken for like 4 MONTHS, since the day Homestead launched, with people reporting it every day, yet now it's still not fixed and Battlegrounds groupfinder is broken too(shocking). Now imagine 4 times as many bugs introduced between now and then

How about monthly - or better yet, weekly - bugfixes instead? I would pay for that. How much is debatable but I would actually pay.

Uriel_Nocturne

$0.00

A "New DLC per Month"? The quality of those hypothetical DLC would be garbage.

I'm not paying good money for that.

ChaosWotan

@Tholian1

My willingness to pay $100, simply because I can afford it, is way beyond average, but just paying a sub to get a high-quality DLC every month is far below reasonable. Creating DLCs costs money after all.


@Magdalina

Since the question is about high-quality DLCs it kind of implies that ESO spends enough resources to reduce bugs.


@Uriel_Nocturne

You are changing the premises of the discussion.

Danikat

If they were releasing a DLC every month I'd probably end up picking and choosing the ones I want to play and only buying them. I haven't even completed all the stuff that's already in the game (including DLC) and I've just got Morrowind. There's no way I'd be completing a DLC every month. Or I'd buy the inevitable bundle packs.

But its irrelevant anyway because they've already stated their release plan for the foreseeable future (1 expansion, 2 paid DLC, 1 free update each year). And considering the actual release schedule so far I'm slightly sceptical they'll even manage that.

Uriel_Nocturne

ChaosWotan wrote: »

@Uriel_Nocturne

You are changing the premises of the discussion.

I am not.

You asked "How much would you be willing to pay for a new DLC each month". I told you I would pay nothing, and then I included WHY I would pay nothing.

Seems to me that this is exactly the premise of your thread.

ChaosWotan

@Uriel_Nocturne

A discussion is more than a headline.

Balamoor

12.99 each month in six moth intervals plus 99.00 for whatever collectors edition expansion they put out going forward....that doesn't count the 2-3k of crowns I buy a month on average.....

I may have a problem......

Vipstaakki

You can rent a small apartment here in Finland for two months with 1200€ and you would blow all of that for a year of gaming?

Uriel_Nocturne

ChaosWotan wrote: »

@Uriel_Nocturne

A discussion is more than a headline.

What?

That wasn't just your headline, that was your whole entire OP.

And your cop-out explanation is moot even on a hypothetical level.

There is no developer on the planet that has the man-power to: write code for, test, bug-fix, test again, and release a "new 'high-quality' DLC each month". To do so, they would have to accomplish the planning, writing, coding, testing, bug fixing, testing again, and release to the live servers in a week or two.

And for them to do that every month!?!?

So, no; I kept well within the parameters of your OP discussion topic, and my answer was equally in line with the discussion matter.

Danksta

ChaosWotan wrote: »

If ESO creates a new DLC, which has the same quality as Orsinium, once every month, how much are you willing to pay for it?

My answer: $100 for each high-quality DLC.

Some may argue that it will create a lot of bugs and technical problems if DLCs are released that quickly, but if ESO releases 3 high-quality maps, with good storylines, every quarter, how much are you willing to pay for it?

My limit is still $300 each quarter.

I'm confused. On one hand you say same quality as Orsinium, then on the other you say high quality maps, which is it?

taiji2078

Dear OP, you just paid half for a good quality expansion I think the price is correct for a MMO.

Tholian1

ChaosWotan wrote: »

@Tholian1

My willingness to pay $100, simply because I can afford it, is way beyond average, but just paying a sub to get a high-quality DLC every month is far below reasonable. Creating DLCs costs money after all.

So are you suggesting that subs should no longer have access to any DLC content?

grizzledcroc

I def rather keep to what we have rn currently. One big dlc a year you have to buy and 3 other ones that are a smaller.

Tandor

Impossible to do, and not going to happen.

I have no problem with the present arrangements.

Bryong9ub17_ESO

How about they focus on fixing current bugs in the game already before putting out money grabbing DLC's...

ZeroZero77

12,99 + something bigger per year

And btw, i want no Montly DLC. There are others games i play too.

disintegr8

Agree with other comments - if there is a struggle to get working content out every three months, a complete and functional DLC every month is impossible.

Brand new content on a monthly basis is nigh on impossible for every software vendor. You need time for ideas, concepts, design, planning, coding, testing, beta testing, release and review. This can not all happen in one month for brand new content.

Three months would be about the fastest turn around time for this to be done even remotely competently. So for new DLC every month you would need to have 3 projects on the go all the time, one in planning and design phase, another in coding and development phase, with a third project in testing/beta testing phase - each phase taking about a month.

There are also restrictions on what the end user can take in. Someone who plays for 40-50 hours a week might be able to take new content every month but the more casual user, playing only a few hours a week would still be absorbing last months DLC when this months comes out.

Bombashaman

Well, the same as Orsinium costs I think.

Danikat

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

ChaosWotan wrote: »

@Uriel_Nocturne

A discussion is more than a headline.

What?

That wasn't just your headline, that was your whole entire OP.

And your cop-out explanation is moot even on a hypothetical level.

There is no developer on the planet that has the man-power to: write code for, test, bug-fix, test again, and release a "new 'high-quality' DLC each month". To do so, they would have to accomplish the planning, writing, coding, testing, bug fixing, testing again, and release to the live servers in a week or two.

And for them to do that every month!?!?

So, no; I kept well within the parameters of your OP discussion topic, and my answer was equally in line with the discussion matter.

For a long time (about 18 months) Guild Wars 2 was getting a new release - comparable to a small DLC pack - every 2-4 weeks. Release schedule: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Release

Apparently they were able to manage it by having 4 separate teams each working on 1 release at a time and taking turns to release them. So each one took 4 months to be developed but because they were cycling them there was 1 release each month (when it was a release every 2 weeks it was one release split into 2 parts).

Reactions were....mixed. The people who liked that there was always new stuff being added didn't like how quickly they finished it. Other people felt they had to rush to finish it at all. To cut a long story short they switched to a slower release schedule (a release every 2-3 months) and permanent updates with more content in each one. (And yes people still complain. But I doubt you'd ever find a game that everyone was happy with.)

So it can be done. But whether it's a good idea is an entirely different matter. If GW2 is anything to go by it seems to involve a lot of complications (for example they had very limited voice acting during that time, because there simply wasn't time or money to get all the voice actors in for every update) and it seems to take a disproportionate amount of effort to do.

It's an interesting experiment (which actually sums up most of GW2) but I doubt it's something most developers would want to replicate.

ChaosWotan

You guys seems to forget one thing: if ESO is going to release 1 map each month, or 3 maps in a bundle every quarter, it's a given that they need to hire much more people to do it. That's part of the premise, obviously. But see now that I should have made that clear from the beginning, in this hypothetical scenario.


@Danksta

All in all, Orsinium is a high-quality map compared to other mmo maps today. Though the graphics in itself is not high -quality compared to BF1 maps for example.


@disintegr8

You pay for a new DLC when you get there, so it's no hurry, play when you want to.


Finally, saying that the question is unrealistic is not actually relevant, because:

1) it can in fact be realized with a large staff of devs, and

2) the purpose of the OP is just to very roughly get some feedback about how many in this forum are "binge gamers" willing to pay to get a steady supply of game content that makes it possible to finish the main content of a monthly DLC by playing it 2 hours a day, on average, during four weeks.

KochDerDamonen

$100 each for orsinium???

lol

Sigtric

On what planet would getting 1 DLC a month at the same quality level of Orsinium be possible?