Mortal Kombat Announcing DLC Maybe a Little Too Early

                                            
Various sites were running articles yesterday about leaked Mortal Kombat DLC characters. Yes, these are characters that will not be available for the game that is still a month away but will be available sometime at a later date for a small price. We all know how companies are looking at DLC as a way to keep making money once gamers have initially paid the $60 price but it’s still irritating to know of these instances.

Yes, this is something that leaked early and probably shouldn’t have been talked about until after the release of the game, but it’s still wrong. They are witholding characters from the game only to nickel and dime us at a later date. I have really been looking forward to this game, and still am, but this is just a bummer to see shit like this. I guess we should just look at Mortal Kombat as the game itself and judge on if its worth the full price or not. It always seems like fighting games are the worst with DLC and how they handle distributing it. I feel like costume packs for various Capcom fighting games is just as bad as horse armor for Oblivion.

So am I wrong for this? Looking at it from a business perspective, I can understand completely why you would do it. You are letting gamers know not to trade in your game early because we will be updating the game with new stuff. It sucks they are forced to go down this route with so many retailers having great incentives on trading in their games. It’s a direction I hate seeing the industry travel toward, but understand if things don’t get any better than even more drastic measures will be taken. In the meantime, I’ll just neglect to purchase stuff like this and only enjoy the product they release on store shelves.

What do you all think of DLC and do you find yourself getting DLC for many different games?