Capcom Says It’s ‘Re-Evaluating’ On-Disc DLC Policies


Capcom has taken heavy fire from gamers upset with the publisher’s tendency to ship some of its games with on-disc downloadable content. Physical copies of games like Dragon’s Dogma and Street Fighter X Tekken ship with content that you can only access if you dish out extra for the privilege.

Capcom Senior Vice-President Christian Svensson addressed the controversy in a blog post last night, saying the company plans to revisit its DLC strategy soon:

We’ve been getting several questions, here and elsewhere about the future of on-disc DLC.

We would like to assure you that we have been listening to your comments and as such have begun the process of re-evaluating how such additional game content is delivered in the future. As this process has only just commenced in the past month or so, there will be some titles, where development began some time ago and that are scheduled for release in the coming months, for which we are unable to make changes to the way some of their post release content is delivered.

In other words, upcoming titles like Dragon’s Dogma, out May 22, can’t be changed. It’s too late to remove that game’s on-disc DLC. But Capcom might approach its projects differently in the future. Or so they say.

Question about on-disc DLC [Capcom Unity via Siliconera]


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