Starhawk map packs will be free

by Ben Salter Featured 5 Comments 13 Votes 362 Views 09/05/2012 Back to News

LightBox Interactive has surprised the world by announcing that all future downloadable map packs for Starhawk will be free.

"Whenever we release a map pack you won't have to pay a friggin' dime," said Dylan Jobe, studio president, via the PS Blog.

Yes, that's right, for free!

But there's reason behind the madness. The studio doesn't want to divide players into those with DLC and those without it.

"We really didn't like how in Warhawk when we released a new map pack, it forced these divisions on our players, and after we released three expansions, our player community was pretty fractured."

By Ben Salter

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RSOP

True, I remember It was hard to get into a match without having the DLC,

09/05/2012

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Jet

ahh... I remember when all games were like this... DLC was an incentive that publishers gave players to keep playing their game ( so the userbase would grow/not drop off) so they could get more sales for their next game. These days its just another milking tool.

Its good to see some games are still getting free DLC though.

09/05/2012

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Kenni

RSOP said: True, I remember It was hard to get into a match without having the DLC,

Not me! I would buy it the day it comes out. [Derp] [Derp] [Derp]

Glad to see they're going down this path. Every expansion in Warhawk got better and better.

09/05/2012

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punk

this is what I like!

no fragmentation of the userbase this way.

much prefer to pay for dlc for extending the single player experience (when and if there's a possibility to do so) because can't say I'm a big fan of costume change dlc etc :P

09/05/2012