Earlier in the week, word spread that Paintball mode, which Nintendo 64 enthusiasts won after beating the game’s Dam stage on Secret Agent difficulty in two minutes, 40 seconds, would be unlockable via in-game progression. Thursday, Activision reps told GiantBomb that wasn’t the case.
It’s still available as an offline mode for the game’s Mi6 Ops missions, a special singleplayer mode against bot opponents in familiar multiplayer setups. That said, if the host of an online multiplayer match has paintball mode enabled, opponents who do not have the paintball DLC still will see it–meaning the content itself is on the disc.
Does this mean it’s going to be sold later to those who bought the game but didn’t preorder it from from GameStop? “All DLC is TBA, nothing is confirmed yet,,” the rep told GiantBomb.
Locked Up: Activision Flip Flops on GoldenEye’s Paintball Mode [GiantBomb]
Jordan2g
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 3:16 PMI remember back in the day when DLC used to be called ‘Cheat Codes’ and ‘Unlocks’ and it was free.
Huntsman
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 3:32 PMSo much this, I remember fondly using cheat planet on the tony hawk games haha.
Back in the good old days. . . .
Lone Wolf
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 3:33 PMI remember when DLC was called easter eggs.
Daniel
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 3:49 PMI remember when most gamers weren’t dirty thieves.
Blake
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 3:57 PMNever happened, your memory is cloudy.
Reign
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 4:16 PMI don’t understand your point.
Are you saying the reason there’s DLC is because some people pirate the game? How is that a reason to charge extra to those who buy the game legitimately?
Pariah
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 4:29 PMThis. In the most case, those who pirate often can’t use the DLC without difficulty.
Here’s how the piracy/legitimate thing works. Piracy> download, crack, play.
Legitimate purchase> License agreement> piracy warning> install/download> play> buy on-disc dlc you already own> play.
Honestly, and they wonder why people pirate.
Mr Waffle
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 5:20 PMcase in point: when Dawn of War 2 came out, it refused to patch on Steam, meaning I couldn’t play it for the whole first week of release. I ended up downloading the patch for it off a torrent (intended for people who’d pirated the game and obviously couldn’t update it via Steam) and that got me good to go…
ba!
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 3:49 PMI remember when, those days you use to have an video game on, and the outside of it..um, it used to be free, for the time..when you were at it.
Fem
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 4:03 PMThese dlc/passes are getting way out of hand.
Jiff
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 4:25 PMThis rubs me the wrong way.
Quit destroying my fond memories, Activision
andy
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 5:46 PMyeah i was considering buying this game but now i know they are going to dollar and dime us over a game that has no proven IP in recen times WELL F*CK U!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jay
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 10:42 PMYou are actually surprised activision are screwing you over with dlc!?
Franz
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 10:50 PMThe DLC economy continues to get it’s tentacles into every crevice it can.
America’s debt will be paid in no time if this continues.
Mase
Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 12:26 AMI remember being in forums telling people of all these types of things happening by this point and I was called “stupid” and “hater” and many other insulting things. But thank god for greed proving me right
Bot
Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 1:31 AMThey even have the nerve to show it being used in the latest trailer.
AerintheADEQUATE
Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 7:54 AMSo they’re going to charge for alternate decals… can I go back to the 90s?