Mega Man 9 DLC: You got price gouged!

Well, admittedly Mega Man games cost me $50 back then... but at least I could resell them lol.

I'm not terribly surprised by this as disappointing as it is.

What a bunch of bull. Why not just include this stuff in the full game and charge a little bit more than 800 MSP?

I probably won't bother with this game now. Way to go Capcom!

We're getting gouged? OMG!

Shame on you Captain Commando, SHAME ON YOU! I would like to know who the brilliant tool behind this was.

All of these "bonus modes" should have been unlockable, looking at the achievements.

Normally I'm all for DLC to prolong a game as long as the game wasn't compromised in order to nickel and dime consumers. Most of this looks like stuff omitted from the game, rather than extra content. I guess I'll have to play the actual game to see.

Not surprising given the popularity of the game.

Lame. Will not buy. Was going to, but F this. When companies like Harmonix and Criterion are offering free DLC, why should we buy into this (ha)? But seriously, forget it.

Yeah, the cartridges for the NES were $50 new back in the day. I remember saving up for forever to buy them. $18 is nothing now, people should quit freaking out. If you don't want the DLC, don't buy it. That's the best way to tell Capcom you don't like it.

Here's the thing - I was kinda on the fence about that game in the first place. Yea, it's a new mega man game, and generally speaking, I love me some mega man, but it's also an 8-bit throwback with many of the same flaws as the older games in the series, so on the fence I sat until I heard about this yesterday. I decided to avoid the game all together. Some of the dlc is... well almost reasonable, but the different difficulty settings? That's just low. That's a standard feature of almost every game on the market, and I'm pretty sure they just broke up a complete game to make a little more money.

Oh, and I see the argument of "Well the old games cost $50 - you're just whining about the price" Well, on ebay right now the old games come in under $10. So if you want to compare the price of the old games to the new one, Capcom is overcharging, and underdelivering.

Gee, now if only we had some kindof clue that capcom was making this game as a cheap cash in. If only there had been some kind of indication that capcom was trying to screw us over.

I wholeheartedly mock anyone who buys this game now.

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Oh, and I see the argument of "Well the old games cost $50 - you're just whining about the price" Well, on ebay right now the old games come in under $10. So if you want to compare the price of the old games to the new one, Capcom is overcharging, and underdelivering."

At the same time, they've had decades to make the initial money back on those releases through purchases, rentals and later compilations.

Capcom doesn't get jack for someone selling that on eBay. I'm sure this isn't really part of their thought process at this point. They're not requiring you to go find a NES that works well either.

Surely I wish this stuff was in the original game, but I wonder how much I'll miss it if I don't buy it. It's not like any of the NES games had endless modes or multiple difficulty levels. Personally I'm just going to skip all of it and hope enough people do down the road that Capcom might see fit to lower the price.

I'm a bit disappointed. So far, Capcom had a pretty decent record concerning the Arcade games they put up, but this obvious cash-in scheme makes me mad. I wouldn't have bought the game anyways (I'm not hardcore enough for Mega Man), but I'm thoroughly disgusted now.

DLC is shaping up to be the curse of this gaming generation. Or more precise: The greed of some company schmocks. Chopping a game just for some extra cash in - boo!

"Oh, Megs lost the ability to charge and slide even though he's been doing that old trick since Mega Man 2?"

Actually, he's been sliding since Mega Man 3 and charging since Mega Man 4.

From the old information of this game, it was supposed to follow Mega Man 2.. so not being able to slide and charge are part of the "retro" feel.

In other words, it's true to what it was meant to be.

Price gouging really? Really? Instead of putting a pack up for 640 msp ($8.00) they split it all up. You can pick and choose your experience. Harmonix does this and you praise them, Capcom does this and it's called price gouging. Take a good look at yourself people. By the way this game is awesome.

I agree. It's not like any of this stuff is necessary to enjoy a newgame of a classic. However, a lot of people are either ungrateful orhave little respect because they don't know the original game tobegin with. Many people still rate Mega Man 2 in its bare setup as the best ofall -- with Mega Man 3 following. Why people are complaining isbeyond me. But then again, most of the articles I see on Joystiq,WiiFanboy, and X3F talk about "jumping walls" and such, that I tendto doubt a few of the writers have played or remember the game -- with the exception of its later counterparts.

Why are people excusing Capcom for being lazy and greedy?

Far too many Japanese games (and those from EA) pull this shit. If it were up to them, you'd have to pay a fee each time you reached a new level. Total BS. The only question is: who actually does pay for shit like this? If no one did, I'm pretty sure they'd stop doing it. Someone is obviously supporting this method though. This is at least the third instance of a game being broken up and sold as DLC that I can think of offhand (Beautiful Katamari, Lumines, MM9). The japanese game developers just don't get it any more.

This is the #1 reason why I hate DLC. I don't mind DLC if its done in the way that CoD4 did it. They released the game and you got everything and the game had a great response and many people playing online. Months later they released a map pack which is perfectly fine with me.

However, where I draw the line with DLC is what Capcom is doing right now. I hate it when games come out and they already got DLC lined up for it. Some of these things should've been unlockables like others have said. For example you take a game like Uncharted: Drakes Fortune (yes I know its a PS3 exclusive) and you got to beat the Hard Mode to unlock the Crushing Mode. That is what it should've been with Mega Man 9. Why are they charging for different difficulty levels? That is just cheap to me.

Also the idea of having to pay for a second character is stupid too. In older Mega Man X games you could play as Mega Man or Zero. In future Mega Man games are they going to charge for Zero now?

Honestly Capcom this was a cheap cash in by getting people all wrapped up in the nostalgia of it all. I was going to purchase this game although I am not the biggest Mega Man fan but maybe I won't. I hate it when companies like this just go ahead and release DLC that should've been in the game in the first place. Unless they release it way later down the line with high demand then thats fine. But otherwise it disgusts me.

this sounds like the start of incomplete games being released in order to sell the complete patches later.

It's DLC at it's worst...

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If MM9 landed on DS or GBA for the price of $20-30 with all that stuff, few would complain.

But give people a chance to buy the regular game for $10 and add on the *lesser played options* ala carte for $8 and its "PRICE GOUGING!!!"

Just because I don't have to buy it doesn't mean it's not a ripoff. Let's charge a couple dollars for a new difficulty level. That's price gouging at it's finest.