Assassin's Creed III getting episodic DLC?

dlc's make me think twice about getting the game at launch. why pay full price when there might be a 'full edition' in a couple months? or if no "full edition" is released, you can just wait for the regular game price to go down and buy dlc.

as long as the dlc is worth the price. i've no problem with paying if that is the case.the assassins creed series is one of my favourites and i'm excited to see this new iteration.

Worked well with MW3 for example so I don't see a problem with this! If people only want to play the game on the disc then they can but if they want the optional extra content then they can buy it.......

With these DLC , I feel like the Release date is alpha release date . You just got to wait other year for it to go gold and be released as GOTY . I may start doing that with some of games . Since this is the route that they are taking .

Everyone freaking about paying for the DLC when 0 prices have been announced, or what may even be free.

Just cancelled my pre order,I will get it when it hits the bargain bin,I hope to play a FULL game paid with hard earned money and not half a game,UBI=Con men and no way I am making the greedy fat cats at UBI even richer.

Arrr!

Haha, glad I cancelled my preorder long ago. Thanks for the free case Ubisoft, now I have a somewhere to put my Disney Sing It.

Fuck off Ubisoft.

Episodic DLC? f*** that.

Ubisoft and EA hate games. This is why we need to go back to our roots and get Ouya. 

If everyone just boycotts this game, at least until the Complete Edition get's released, maybe Ubisoft and other publishers would get a freaking grip. This is geting out of hand.

Episodic content can be awesome, it has massive potental for games, however considering how much milking they do with assassins creed, I am not so giddy about this announcement.

This is hardly a surprise.  It's what they did with the "corrupted memory" sequences 12 and 13 from Assassin's Creed 2, which cost extra after the fact.  They just learned their lesson and didn't use that format afterwards. 

It's a shame that you don't see what was done with Mass Effect 2 more often - a decent amount of extra free content, both day one (Zaeed and his loyalty mission, Blood Dragon armor if you had Dragon Age: Origins) and then down the line (one weapon pack, Firewalker, and an in-game news feed every business day for a year). 

The entire AC:2 trilogy was good enough for me to want this game, but I'm undecided at this point whether to go my usual route and wait for price drops.

Waiting for complete, GOTY, expanded, or platinum editions is, for me, like waiting for books to come out in paperback or comics in collected format.  It's cheaper and you get the same experience.  You don't even have to have all that much patience, as there's always the stuff from last year that's now getting collected edition releases, and you get the advantage of a wiki that has the answer to pretty much any problem you might encounter.

I'm currently having a blast with my complete editions of LA Noire and Mortal Kombat, and getting a better, more complete experience than those who bought new.

This probably doesn't work as well for multiplayer, but I don't play that much anyway, so it's not an issue.

Borderlands 2 is my only remaining exception for this year.  Maybe Assassin's Creed 3, though I'll probably wait. 

I can live with multi player passes and and map packs but cutting story content is just BULL! No matter. i waited for Arkham city GOTY will wait for this too!

An AC3 season pass huh. Surprise surprise. Ubisoft in shipping an incomplete game to pad it out with paid dlc later on shocker

Ugh....yet another game I have to wait for GOTY.

It's really a shame that game devs do this stuff nowadays. If you have an idea what to put in the game and want to save it as DLC - Put it in the retail game. I don't mind DLC, just don't make it affect the story at all. If this game has any DLC - It should be map packs for multiplayer. Shame on you Ubisoft. 

Guess I'll be waiting for the "Game of the Year" edition, which might as well be called "The Actual Full Game".

money is tight enough il be waiting months for them to be less or a pack for all.

I love the Assassin's Creed games but it's so obvious that these "episodic DLCs" are merely ways for the game publisher to milk more money from the fans of the series. It's unfortunate that most game publishers nowadays couldn't take the high road and release complete versions of their games. No purchasing of pass codes to unlock this and that. No DLCs.  

Quite frustrating for hard core gamers  actually.

I'll just wait until DLC are on 50% discount few years after its release, not to mention I will but the game itself second handed, hahaha.

FFS, developers/publishers, stop with the "Season Pass" bullshit. If you've got *that much* content planned for the game, just put it in the goddamn game!

Seriously, every time someone implements a Season Pass, they should be taken outside and shot in the foot. If I'm paying $60 for a game, the last thing I want to do is put it in my disc tray, and be immediately invited to spend an extra $20+ for access to future DLC.

Oh, come on! One thing is giving us an excellent piece of add-on that are actually worth buying, like Read Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare, other thing is to go all "Saints Row: The Third" on us. It's not going to take long before they sell a game in parts. Well, it's kinda already happening: some games don't even have closure to the plot, they just leave it hanging a la Syndicate, fulfilling only a minor part of the storyline. Sequels are becoming less of sequels and more of "part 2".

So...if we get the Season Pass, people would STILL have to pay for DLCs? I realize they're discounted but come on. Ubisoft, I love the AC series but it's so frustrating that you put vital information in DLCs *coughLucycough*.

I just feel so annoyed right now.

Good thing I hated the first game right off the bat and never bothered with this series -.- This is getting ridiculous with all this Season Pass BS. First time I saw it, I knew others would jump on it soon enough. Have fun paying twice as much for the "full" game for those that do.

Next they're gonna charge us for the title screen, menu screen, opening movie sequence, & other cutscenes. This is getting out of control. I dont know if i want to buy this game now. I have it pre-ordered but i might cancel it. This is bullshit! Im about to pay 60 bucks for half a game & then they wanna charge me for episodic content!?!?!? How many memories r gonna b cut from this game??? What r they gonna give us the odd numbered memories & charge us for the even numbered 1's??? I'm sorry but gaming is gonna crash. More & more ppl r starting to c what is going on. I for 1 am fed up with it.

And this is precisely why after this generation ends I am no longer going to waste my time or money on this bullshit. If this is where the industry is trending then I want no part of it. It's downright shameful that consumers are being nickel and dimed at best and financially raped at worst by these damn developers who feel entitled. Believe me, they need us more than we need them. As soon as people "wake up" and realize this fact and refuse to be taken advantage of you'd see just how fast things would return to "normal."

Definitely not going to buy the game until it reaches $30 or less because of this. FTS.

And this is why I wait till the Ultimate Edition appears. No way in hell I'm going to buy a $60 dollar game and then have to spend more money for get new content.

damn, I hate those DLCs :@

i don't usually buy dlc because i hate it with all my heart but i do like buying dlc for games that deserve support from gamers and companies that have given so much back to their fans so i won't have a problem buying dlc for AC3 it might be good dlc too...

so it beggings, the selling of games by chapters at way more than retail price

explain this to me: why do they make the dlc months in advance and purposely choose not to put it in the game or even try to? Feels like they just rub it in your face.