DDR DLC on Day 1
Dance Dance Revolution Universe has barely been on North American and Canadian shelves for 6 hours and already we have some DLC for you all to get your head round. Chances are some of you won’t like the pricing or indeed the content, but that remains to be seen after the jump.
Courtesy of Major Nelson (sizes added in by me):
- Name: DDR Universe Picture Pack
- Price: 150 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada and the U.S.
- Size: 204 KB
- Dash Details: Stay cool with the Dance Dance Revolution UNIVERSE Picture Pack with 12 different gamer pics to choose from. Express your style to all your friends with character images taken straight from Dance Dance Revolution UNIVERSE. Get your groove on and download it today!
- Name: DDR Universe Theme
- Price: 150 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada and the U.S.
- Size: 1.65 MB
- Dash Details: Show off your moves and stylize your dashboard with the Dance Dance Revolution UNIVERSE Theme. Featuring four pieces of artwork inspired from the game, this pack sports a slick style to visually enhance your gaming experience. Download this theme and dance the night away.
- Name: Download Song Mega Pack
- Price: 800 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 140 KB
- Dash Details: Save 20% if you buy all 10 Download Songs in one package!
- Name: Download Song 1
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 108 KB
- Dash Details: Broken My Heart (Cusimo & Co. Starlite Remix) by NAOKI Feat. PAULA TERRY. Download this song now
- Name: Download Song 2
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Dash Details: Me and My Friends by THE DANDY WARHOLS. Download this song now!
Size: 108 KB
- Name: Download Song 3
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 108 KB
- Dash Details: Audiophilosophy by Neverakka. Download this song now!
- Name: Download Song 4
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 108 KB
- Dash Details: AM-3P by KTz. Download this song now!
- Name: Download Song 5
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 108 KB
- Dash Details: ECSTASY by d-complex. Download this song now!
- Name: Download Song 6
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 108 KB
- Dash Details: ON THE JAZZ (Smooth House Mix) by Jonny Dynamite! Download this song now!
- Name: Download Song 7
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 108 KB
- Dash Details: Beside You by Intuition. Download this song now!
- Name: Download Song 8
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 108 KB
- Dash Details: White Hot by R.A.S.T. Download this song now!
- Name: Download Song 9
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 108 KB
- Dash Details: CANDY STAR by Luv UNLIMITED. Download this song now!
- Name: Download Song 10
- Price: 100 Points
- Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
- Size: 108 KB
- Dash Details: KISS ME ALL NIGHT LONG by NAOKI J-STYLE feat. MIU. Download this song now!
That’s a hell of a lot of DLC right there. If you were to buy all ten songs, it would cost you an extra 1000 MS Points, already adding to the price you paid for the game. Some of you won’t like this I’m sure, but Konami nonetheless have gone ahead and slapped 100 Points on the songs. You can buy the song pack for 800 Points and save yourself 20% to make yourself feel better though!
You would have already noticed the size of each song, the magic 108 KB. This means, if you don’t already know, that the song is already on the disc, therefore you have to pay to unlock it. Not something fans will appreciate, especially when other versions probably wouldn’t do that. Unfortunately, this will continue, since microtransactions are the future. It might not be something that we all enjoy, but that won’t stop developers. There are obviously other songs on the retail disc for you to enjoy. I do think though that at least a 30 second preview of the song would be nice on Xbox.com, but that could be a Spring update idea! It also explains why the content is available on the release day of the game as well.
I feel dirty and unclean after reading these ripoff unlocks.
Konami doing a EA please tell me this is a horrible nightmare and i will wake up…
There must SURELY be some sort of legal thing whereby they can’t charge you to unlock something that’s already on the disc you paid for?
Surely?
Unlocks!!!!
IM RETARDED.
You forgot something:
* Name: ‘Start Game’-enabler
* Price: 100 Points
* Availability: Members in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
* Size: 108 KB
* Dash Details: This enables the ‘Start Game’ option so you can actually play the game.
This is just sick, and in my opinion MS should do something about it(!)
Well if no one buys the DLC and no one buys the DDR retail (if you feel that the game is a rip off without those 10 tracks included), then this crap will stop.
Can’t blame the manufacturers for trying though. But in cases like this we really do have the power to stop this by boycotting the product or by buying it on a different platform.
They won’t stop because there is a large enough group of retards willing to pay for unlocks. It’s like getting rid of the DEA in hopes that drug users will realize the error of their ways and put the drug dealers out of business…
I can’t believe they are doing this on purpose. It must be a glitch in the programming on the retail disc and they are fixing it with DLC to be sure we enjoy the full game. They are charging for DLC to cover only the expense of fixing it.
I guess it is another febuary glitch for Konami:
http://www.gamespot.com/n...7/02/26/news_6166429.html
And to think, I almost bought this game…
I was just defending this over on MajorNelson’s blog but now seeing that it is in fact unlock codes and not songs, forget it. I could care less about paying 100 points a song, that’s fair if you consider 80 points = a dollar = price on most download services for an MP3. Add in that it’s a 360 game so it’s likely surround sound and also that it’s a playable level (likely on multiple difficulties) that’s a deal for the extra 25 cents.
However, I think the C is the most important part of DLC.
It’s almost insulting that they’re charging extra for songs already included in the disc. I’d assume the songs licenses are already paid for if they’re included on the disc, this is just greed on Konami’s part at this point.
I can only hope GH2’s already-announced first-day DLC will be CONTENT and not an unlocker. I don’t want to have to direct my rage at my favorite game in recent memory.
mcchicken said
However, I think the C is the most important part of DLC.
It’s almost insulting that they’re charging extra for songs already included in the disc. I’d assume the songs licenses are already paid for if they’re included on the disc, this is just greed on Konami’s part at this point.
Well, the songs are made in house, and most, if not all of these songs have been in previous versions of the games. This is a rip, and can be seen a mile off.
I will still get the game, but not the DLC.
I won’t buy this game because of this.
I wasn’t going to buy this game anyway (not a DDR fan) but this stunt has given me the motivation to inform as many people as possible about the unethical nature of this practice. I will go OUT OF MY WAY to make sure that people who are interested in this game know that they are not getting the full game and try to convince them not to buy it.
You’re better off revolutionally with petitions in protest as paying customers than staging a boycott.
Just wanted to add this:
It has 65 songs to start with. That’s like 4 CDs of musics and a dance pad. For $80 US. I’m starting to think that you guys would complain if it was released with 120 songs and had some unlock keys for 10 more. If you get mad at anything, it should be that you can’t use your old dance pads with it (if they were released on USB like xbox) and you have to buy the bundle if you already own DDR and like 8 dance mats. They could offer a converter for sale so you could us old xbox mats.
It has been said before, while a game is being tested and certified, game companies have their artist work on new stuff since they can now offer stuff like this that they COULDN’T DO BEFORE on PS. Don’t worry, some DDR fan will most likely post the songs somewhere on the net, but you should be happy they are allowing you to extend the game at all without just putting the 10 new songs in a rehash next year (companies have done so before).