Just Cause 2 dev bemoans 'crap' DLC, forced multiplayer

Oh man, I would love multiplayer, just to able to run around in free roam in just cause 2 would be AMAZING!!!

He makes a valid point. But Honestly I'll pick this game up if I can pal around with a frew friends engageing in the same free-roam sandbox joy. Actually I didn't pick it up right away because there was no multiplayer freeroam.

Was this supposed to be irony? JC2 had a bunch of **** DLC, but devs had no time to fix actual issues with the game and released a whole 1 patch nearly half a year after release. Same thing happened with the first game, except without the DLC part. Do you think I will be buying JC3?

If its over 100k unique players, i hate to brake it to you, but it means people sold their game because its not worth to keep it.  Try making a game that is actually worth keeping

Hey Avalanche Studios, you can release a multiplayer DLC for Just Cause 2 anytime you want.

Hey  Just Cause 2 developer know what DLC I would actually buy for Just Cause 2? Cheat dlc that gives me infinite health and ammo and  the ability not to get killed no matter how far you fall. Because after I beat the game it would have been really fun just to go around playing the game and blowing stuff to kingdom come and not worry  about dying.

I do agree though a lot of publishers see DLC as away to milk money out of their customers for their games. 

Oh absolutely...the DLC craze has gotten out of hand, seems half the game you get these days are holding back content that was originally intended as part of the game, just so they can charge you extra to get the entire product you thought you would be getting in the first place.  On disc DLC is some of the shadiest crap I've seen since the single player games requiring internet connection copy protection thing started (thanks for that "great" idea Ubisoft), nothing like not being able to use something you bought..  DLC should be used to ADD to the game, not to just gouge more money out of you.  I'm sick of dropping full price money on half done products, and then being expected to pay again to get the rest of the game.

I agree whole-heartily....

I suspect there are many others in the industry that consider this a statement of truth but aren't willing to admit as much.  Unfortunately, principles and pragmatism are easily sacrificed on the altar of profits when there's money to be made or you're trying to keep your company afloat.

*cough*Mass Effect 3*cough*

"I've just paid for the crap that developers decided to cut because they didn't have the time to get into the game." I agree... but wait, I paid for crappy Just Cause 2 DLC before! o.O

SOOOOOOOOOOO, wut bout Juz Coz 3?? u can juz ask SquareEnix for munneh

Sounds like this publisher wants to side with "the people" in order to gain profit. Oh, but his DLC isn't crap because the game was so good... Give me a break.

A perfect game is a game that's fun both alone and with someone else.

Random example: Saints Row 2 was fun for me but I never was into playing it alone for some reason. Just felt dull. I only played it if someone else was willing to join. Saints Row: The Third, on the other hand, I enjoyed alone as well. I actually finished the game alone that time around.

Here's the logic. Why create such a thing as DLC at all when you can put all that stuff in the game during developing process right away?

JC2 was reason enough to look forward to what this team comes up with as their next game... this is just icing on the cake.

im very scared that games are starting to become as costly and painfully addicting as a drug,, i must add that its not a fun addiction either. YOU KNOW maybe the wii U will be successful if it sticks to the business model that gamers love and leave the subscriptions to microsoft and sony. they would win over many gamers including me

i think that we will see the gaming industry split off into 2 oppositions very soon, there will be the companies trying to addict players to dlc or subscrition services like EA and Blizzard, and there will be sort of the 'rebels' that try to make fair games and side with the gamer.. and no doubt there will be battle. 

Oh, this is truly beautiful. Now all the people that keep trying to defend dlc and forced multiplayer (looking at you, ME3) can get it straight from the horse's mouth.

Finally, someone with an eye for the real consumer and what we really want. Stop with the multiplayer in everything. And stop with the nickle and dime DLC crap. I am SICK of it!!!!!!!

finally, somebody in the professional field that agrees with me regarding multiplayer being forced upon us in games where it is absolutely unnecessary. although half-hearted (id use another word there but you know how it is here) co-op modes also hurt, whats the worst is deathmatch type multiplayer being thrown into games where it just doesnt fit. it also goes the other way too. i dont think all games with a focus on multiplayer must have a single player mode. i would not have a problem with buying a call of duty or battlefield game with no single player campaign. it would free up more of the game's development time, disc space, and budget towards improving the multiplayer which is their obvious focus anyways. besides, the single player campaigns in games like those are usually average at best anyways and for systems with limited disc space like the 360, it needs all the space it can get and single player campaigns are a huge chunk of that.

And look what crapcom did with Tekken versus Streetfighter a bunch of characters for 20$ for DLC aka Disk Locked Content. Its not needed. You've already gotten 60$ outta of the person but ohh to play those locked characters you need to make that 60$ game cost 80$.

Its one of the reasons why i never bought DLC for Halo 3. You pay 60$ for the game then pay 15$ or whatever on a few maps or modes. By then you've already paid 100$ for a game just so u can keep playing online. It's stupid.

Lol look at capcom with its DLC for Dragons dogma, some of the worst DLC i've seen for a game,. Even worse the very first screen you see if about DLC being released.

How about some useful story DLC so i can make sense of what little plot there is in this game? I just hate the mappack bull. It just splits the community way too much. Look at AVP3 Mappack DLC for a game that not many people play to begin with. WHO DOES THAT?

Remember in AVPGold when there was about 10 or so mappacks with like a dozen or so maps in all for free? What hapepend? Now you pay almost 20 bucks for like five maps half of which are just recycled from previous games (Im looking at you COD)

I think the main reason why people are brainwashd into DLC and mappacks and stuff is because of Activision with COD back in 2006. I never buy DLC. Only times i see DLC worth it is when they include it into GOTY edditions with games. One of the reasons why im holding back from Getting Skyrim on the PC is because im just waiting for that GOTY edition.

I'm glad to see someone in his position taking that stand.  I've been saying this for years. I don't want multiplayer added to a game that is obviously a singleplayer type game.  The saddest part is, gamers still buy this crap.  So companies keep making it. Meanwhile, the singleplayer game keeps dying a slow death. 

JUST START WORKING ON JUST CAUSE 3 !!!!!!!

Just Cause 2 was fun (to a certain point). I'd give it a 7 out of 10 rather than a score like an 8 or 8.5. While it's grappling hook and explosions were a lot of fun, the vehicles handled too poorly, there were too few weapons, and there weren't nearly as many different activities in the game as other open world games. Plus, aside from the story missions being way too short, the game felt very grindy when it came to finishing just the story. And there wasn't really that much originality in the mission structure, save for once in a while with a few of the missions.

So, yeah. It was entertaining, but not as much as many critics or fans made it out to be. A game shouldn't be 100 hours of nothing but destroying settlements. Much like how a game shouldn't be just hundreds of fetch or kill quests (I'm looking at you, Skyrim).

Sidenote: I really enjoyed Just Cause 2, it was a really fun 'chaotic' open world game, despite the story and voice acting being a joke. Thanks to playstation plus I got to play it, otherwise I wouldn't have.

All DLC should be free end of story.

I'm waiting for the day gamers get wise enough to see this DLC bubble pop.

bravo!  I agree with this man.