This new content is helping to keep websites that do video game reviews, as well as the gamers happy as it keeps the game fresh with new things to do long after the game was originally released. It also keeps achievement whores entertained as the majority of content packs come with new achievements to get.
The way you buy this content is by accessing the online marketplace for your console, whether it’s the Xbox Live Marketplace, or the Playstation Store. You also have to pay with the specified payment method, one being Microsoft Points. However, many people are finding that the problem is that they have to own the disk of the game to be able to play the newly released content.
However, many people find that after they trade in an old game, new content is released or announced. This problem doesn’t just affect the people who play the content for fun. All gamers tend to be finding this problem. People who love getting the full amount of achievements are finding it a pain because the new game achievements are added even if they don’t buy the content. For example, if you have 1000/1000 Xbox achievement points on a game, you have 100%, but if new content is released and the points go up to 1000/1500, you now only have 66%, but you haven’t got the content to get those achievements.
This is resulting in many people finding the problem occurs when they no longer have the original game to play the new content. However, this is beginning to chance for the better because many companies are releasing the new content onto disc. GTA 4 is going to be the most recent because for the release of their next content pack, they are going to be all of their DLC onto a standalone disk. This simply means that you no longer have to own the GTA 4 disk to be able to play the new content.
The only current downside to this is that companies only really do it once they have a number of packs to release onto disc, whether this will change in the future, we’ll just have to wait and see. Keep an eye out for when video game news sites release a date for the upcoming GTA 4 content.
