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The 7 Biggest Video Game DLC Rip-Offs

Remember back in the 90s, when people spoke exclusively via Friends quotes, and Google was still just a search engine? They were simpler times. Better times. Especially regarding video games. For a while, your precious playthings were still physical entities, encased in plastic cartridges, and the notion of downloading extras for them was the stuff of science fiction. Like Velcro.
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Published: Aug 5, 2014 11:14 am

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4) The Sims

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Offending money-spinner: Stuff Packs

In moves so cynical that any more of them could tear a hole through time, EA consistently teams up with big-name brands in order to make you pay through your nose (and any other orifice you have uncovered) to dress your Sims.

“Yes!” say the marketing managers, “to fill the pitiful void that is your life, why not smear your Sims in this latest pile of pixelated vomit that passes for fashion! Show your friends just how desperate you are to be validated by spending $15 dollars on dressing your Sim in a Diesel t-shirt so awful you wouldn’t even wear it in real life!”

“Katy Perry has a new album out, with a candy theme? Sanction a new candy-themed tree DLC immediately! How long would that take you to design? 43 seconds? Perfect. Charge $15 for it.”

And so on and so on. Thankfully, none of the people involved get into Heaven.

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Ciarán Utting loves video games and books with pictures of speedboats on the cover. There's plenty more of his drivel on Twitter.
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