7 Most Outrageous DLCs We Can't Believe They Charged Real Money For

at its best paid dlc is a worthy expansion to the main game adding new content significant enough that we don't even mind paying real money for the privilege of playing it you will find poker has changed some these past years walk about when you have the chance you will see for yourself at its worst paid dlc is oblivion's horse armor must be forget guess which kind of dlc we're focusing on today that's right it's the downloadable content that we can't believe video game publishers had the nerve to charge actual real money for sit tight for the 7 most egregious examples right now or if you'd prefer you can pay 4.99 to skip right to the end of this video save yourself the time anyone no okay fine here's point one [Music] i know i bang on a lot on here about the gulf between the yakuza franchise's subject matter of brutal organized crime and it's side activities which are almost without exception charmingly wacky and utterly bananas but in my opinion that's what gives the series its unique charm and nowhere is this better exemplified than in the karaoke side activity where you can let brooding yakuza enforce akiru live out his rockstar fantasies complete with ott 80s music video [Music] or watch the violently unstable mad dog of shimono goro majima transform into a roller skating pop idol thanks to the power of music [Music] anyway karaoke is an important part of the series and makes a reappearance in the most recent yakuza game like a dragon with a few new songs that don't disappoint in the video department [Music] beautiful however yakuza like a dragon also offers a dlc pack known as the karaoke set which includes all the classic karaoke songs from throughout the series it's a little pricey at 12 pounds but if rhythm action games and karaoke are your jam you might still be tempted to go for it that is until you realize that this dlc doesn't actually let you play these songs in the karaoke mini game instead the songs get added to your in-game cd collection meaning you can play them on the jukebox in the survive bar the place where you go to hang out with your party between missions [Music] oh yeah the survive bar has a pretty rubbish sound system fyi so the songs will sound dreadful yes it is the only place in the game where you can listen to the songs the music will stop if you go outside oh well at least i can listen to the songs while i'm having the relationship advancing conversations with my party literally the only reason to go to survive oh no it switches back to the default music for the conversations cool hey remember majima's amazing karaoke version of get to the top from yakuza dead souls [Music] this is the face of a man who just paid 12 pounds to remind himself that it really doesn't work without the dance routine [Music] get the team ready we're headed out listen you're the new recruit welcome to the jtf wolverines i'm commander james romer wolverines are a direct assault unit we work for the sdf unsa anyone with a bank roll to pay the bills if you spend a lot of time playing call of duty multiplayer you'll know that you spend a lot of that time getting yelled at by a disembodied voice who is there to tell you useful things such as the status of your uav enemy launch to counter uav and the status of the enemy uav i have identified an enemy uav in your vicinity there is a lot of talk of uavs basically but one day possibly while driving and listening to their 10 darth vader satnav voice an activision executive asked themselves the question what if instead of graffami guys those voices could be celebrities and we charged people money to download those celebrity voice packs and so somewhere in the world a finger on a severed monkey's poor curled inwards and call of duty players were treated to downloadable voice packs costing four dollars a pop that featured youtubers comedians and rappers such as method man and of course snoop dogg hostile got juggernaut off deal with a player okay it's not that i don't trust you snoop dogg it's just that i'm not 100 convinced about your level of military combat experience don't stop capital missing all right fine i'm on it anyway although i can understand spending money on a voice pack if you're a big fan of the music of the wu-tang clan or the comedy stylings of ken jung i'm less sure of the appeal of the grandma knows best voice pack which makes the multiplayer announcer somebody's grandma my corns are killing me you can go out and do all the heavy lifting i say somebody's grandma because that is for sure not what my grandma sounds like i mean accent-wise and stuff she is always going on about uavs we have uav support now let's not just piss away all right still i'm struggling to see why activision thinks anyone would pay three pound 19 to have some random grandmother wittering at them while they play call of duty infinite warfare sweetie i'm so proud of you here have some butterscotch okay i didn't realize there was butterscotch candy i retract my earlier statements do you not recognize me how'd you get uncyberized the one benefit of quan chi's process round one fight all the big fighting game franchises have their unique selling points from street fighter's amazing ultra combos to tekken's incredible stages but if you're looking for a series that lets you split kick someone in half mortal kombat is the game for you that said performing a fatality isn't always the easiest thing to do thanks to some complicated button combinations specific distance requirements and the fact that you only have a short amount of time to pull them off that's why statistically the most common fatality is the panic shuffle around duck and then punch your opponent in the face maneuver devastating because of this starting in mortal kombat x mortal kombat developer netherrealm decided to introduce an easier way for players without the necessary powers of recall and dexterity to still achieve these anatomy lessons masquerading as finishing moves the easy fatality system used by redeeming a token easy fatalities just require you to press two buttons to trigger the horrifying animation that will end the round so you barely have time to consider whether it's morally and ethically right to machine gun your enemy into some helicopter blades before it's already happening which is fine i mean as a concept not for the person getting machine gunned into some helicopter blades what isn't fine is the fact that these easy fatality tokens cost actual real life money every single time you use them and once you've used them they're gone if you want to do more fatalities you will have to either buy more tokens with real money grind for in-game currency to unlock them randomly in the crypt or go and learn how to actually do the fatalities and i mean who has time for that not me especially when i can reliably nail the shuffle duck punch move finish him [Music] owned i think we can all agree that this is some prize bs and it seems that netherrealm learned their lesson because in waffle combat 11 you can't buy easy fatality tokens with real money from their store no instead you have to use real money to buy something called time crystals which you can then use to buy easy fatality tokens much better i mean for you not for the person getting machine gunned into a helicopter blade it's enough of a hurdle to convince people to buy a regular piece of dlc something that only exists either in the tiny computer brain of your video game console or as an imaginary license on an online service what if the psn suddenly shuts down what if i move to a windswept shack in the outer hebrides that has zero internet connection what if i can't connect to the online services because i'm engaged in a battle to claim the last remaining gasoline as roving gangs of self-styled road warriors tear across the wasteland after 2020 i'm not ruling anything out what a lovely day these days though people do seem more comfortable with buying things that don't actually physically exist i mean who needs my ducktales vhs and dvd collection now that i can stream it whenever i want with this in mind gran turismo 5 decided to take things to the next level with the special paint pack a 2 dlc that contained 100 exclusive colors of paint called paint chips which you could apply to your favorite cars [Music] this seems quite a silly thing to spend real money on especially given that most cars you buy in gran turismo 5 have a sensible number of color options to start with how many different versions of red do you really need then you discover that those 100 paint chips you paid for in the special paint pack are single use only meaning once you've used your favorite color paint chip it's gone forever or at least until you spend another two dollars but you know film me once not only do your paid paint colors arguably barely exist to begin with they very definitely do not exist at all once you've used them [Music] now yes i understand that in real life if you bought a tin of paint it wouldn't last forever but this is a video game a video game where i can drive a 925 grand bugatti veyron which is let's be honest also never going to happen in real life [Music] i mean unless anyone wants to buy these ducktales vhs's and dvds any takers no donald's in it you like him even if you're not a completionist most gamers know the joy of finding a game you love so much that you're willing to put in the hard work required to 100 it plus there's a kind of serenity to be had picking herbs up here in the forest is what i'm telling myself [Music] yes another 0.001 percent towards 100. this is flying by of course the relationship isn't just one way as a reward for edging closer to that glorious goal of completing every challenge the game has to offer most games will offer unlockable extras such as cool new weapons costumes or behind the scenes looks at the development process like concept art in short it's a way of cementing your relationship with your favorite games earning you bragging rights cool extras and a deeper understanding of how it came to be in the first place or if you're playing the resident evil 3 remake you can just pay 3 pounds 99 and skip the whole process entirely that's what the all in-game rewards unlock dlc for resident evil 3 does lets you bypass the tedious busy work of actually playing the game and just dumps all the rewards the game would give you for doing that directly into your lap these rewards include the aforementioned concept art as well as character models and all items available from the post-game shop which feature a knife that sets enemies on fire and an infinite rocket launcher both of which make the main game which you maybe still haven't played at this point ludicrously easy and probably not worth bothering with what was that and if you did buy this then mow me five pounds and i'll play through resident evil village for you and then tell you how it ends deal you like venture areas don't you huh you like them right right hop on board if you do no i don't be shy you can look without playing i just need to get you inside to meet my quota check this out your quota oh uh never mind that just talking to myself again if you say so when it first came out in 1999 shenmue was groundbreaking in the fact that it had an open world that contained mini-games that weren't essential to the plot they were just there and you could play them whenever but you probably didn't because they were boring anyway these mini-games became an integral part of the shenmue experience and appeared in both shenmue 2 and shenmue 3 which added some thrilling new games such as turtle racing [Music] i swear if the shenmue series turns out to be an elaborate prank i wouldn't be surprised anyhow as part of its downloadable offering shenmue 3 unveiled the big merry cruise which was a dlc that added a new location which was a big boat containing all the games mini-games in one place try and contain your excitement um welcome welcome gweyline's biggest sailing venture is here at last never mind that you can play all these mini games elsewhere in the game without having to shell out three pounds 29 of your own money to do so here you can play flower bird wind and moon race turtles and of course play lucky hit an utterly random game in which you drop a ball onto some pegs [Music] there are also two additional side quests in the dlc but don't get too excited one of them asks you to win a prize at the big wheel literally the only reason you would be here anyway look i'll take care of it okay what i'll play the big wheel and win you another figurine the other quest asks you to find the world's worst kid who is downstairs because that's the only other location in the dlc that isn't this room hey slowpoke go get me some dim sum why do i have to because it's your fault you didn't rescue me earlier whatever you say let's get you back to your father i can make it out on my own later slowpoke shenmue three i will pay you another three pound 29 if i never have to see this kid again seriously [Music] is this seat digging i'm not looking for company you're in powering my friend in this city no one drinks alone the saboteur is a 2009 open world action game set in world war ii in which you play as sean devlin an explosives expert with a wonky irish accent and a poncho for kicking chickens to death it's also a game with quote adult themes and you know what that means for games made in the noughties that's right strip clubs i've been watching you these past weeks i have seen that you have no love for the nazis a lot of your clandestine anti-nazi activities in the game take place against a backdrop of smokey cabaret clubs but if you're playing the vanilla version of the game you'll find that all the dancers clothes stay on for the duration that's because if you wanted to see actual nakedness in your 2009 video game you needed to buy a three dollar piece of dlc called midnight show which added nudity and subtracted clothes just for the dancers that is sean keeps his clothes on for some reason [Music] if you were wondering what else your three american dollars buys you the answer is a mini game where you can win a car because otherwise they'd be charging you three dollars for a nude patch and that would be ridiculous right all right keep your knickers on i know what i'm doing anyway it's a moot point since the saboteurs servers went offline in 2012 meaning that you can no longer buy this dlc but it will forever stand as a monument to just what developers thought they could get away with charging people for in 2009. also there's still apparently a thriving market for these codes on ebay which i mean have these people heard of cyberpunk 2077 i'd pay three dollars if it meant our character's clothes could stay on and not glitch themselves into invisibility every 15 minutes seriously oh well look at that we made it to the end together you and i at the end of the video well done 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Channel: outsidexbox

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Length: 17min 48sec (1068 seconds)

Published: Thu May 06 2021