Criterion: “No More Burnout Paradise DLC”

Developer responds to demands...
Published 20/01/2010 at 14:11 by Gastos84
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Responding to demand for more Burnout Paradise DLC Criterion Games have taken to their twitter account to give a definitive answer:

Please stop asking us for Burnout Paradise DLC. There will be no more! Sorry everyone! But we did WAY more than everyone else…

So, in no uncertain terms, there’s your answer. You have to give it to Criterion Games, they have provided a hell of a lot of DLC for the latest Burnout outing.

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  1. That really is delightfully honest. Can I offer a translation?

    “You have a great game and plenty of DLC already. Enjoy that for the months to come and rest assured that we’re beavering away on new games so you guys are constantly in our minds”.

    There usually has to be a moment in a game’s life when they stop supporting it and their time is better spent on something newer, shinier, spanglier.


    • Unfortunately, that “newer, shinier, spanglier” game is just another Need for Speed in Criterion’s case.


    • beavering?


    • it should be road rash! they would have a nice base to start on…


      • yeah, criterion doing road rash, i’d buy that game.


  2. I’m a sad panda, I really love paradise city!
    Hopefully there will be another burnout in the pipeline [:


  3. A bit strange since there seems to be a market for more DLC. I would have loved for the some of the rejected ideas posted earlier to have come to the game.


  4. I would like to see a Burnout Paradise 2 (though presumably it won’t be called that since they would need to give it a new setting – what other rock songs have a made-up city name in them to act as a catchy theme tune?!).

    Is there any chance of a suprise announcement at E3 perhaps? Maybe during MS’s Natal demonstration?!!


    • My contenders for the next Burnout theme song include:

      The Eagles – Life in the Fast Lane
      Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild
      James Marshall Hendrix – Crosstown Traffic
      James Taylor – Traffic Jam

      “It hurts my motor to go so slow” :(


      • Pablo! Hello old bean, I’ve not seen you around these parts before :)


      • Serial lurker I’m afraid! :)


  5. Bring back the old style burnout! Paradise is good but ruined by open worldliness.


    • Really? I haven’t played any other Burnout games so don’t know what they were like, but the Open World nature of Paradise was one of the things that drew me to the game and made it unique/stand out.

      It is also my nephews favourite PS3 game next to LBP because they just love to drive around in cool cars crashing, they don’t care about the races (although they like the takedown ones) but they could ride around looking for billboards and jumps for hours…

      To be honest if the sequel wasn’t open world I’d probably not be as interested in it (my nephews certainly wouldn’t be!)…


      • “because they just love to drive around in cool cars crashing”

        They would have loved Crash Mode on the previous Burnouts

        Drive at a set-piece junction crash and receive a cash value for every vehicle you hit. Like Paradise’s Showtime mode, only much much much much better.


      • Personally I thin kthey could make the ultimate burnout game simply by following this formula:

        - Another city as diverse and well designed as Paradise City
        - Add crash junctions which you can trigger but then operate like they did in the ld burnout games
        - Allow the player to re-try a race at any point wherupon they will be transferred back to the start line. I know they said they didn’t do this because they wanted a more organic feel but when you get late on in the game and there is only a handful of races left to do, you end up having to drive miles to find another start line anyway!


      • 3Shirts, they patched restarts back into the game – they’re buried in the Easydrive menu, but they’re definitely there.
        http://portal.burnoutweb.ea.com/page/news (scroll down to September)


    • True I love the classic Burnout style, like Menus for the events, nice control and the legendary Crash Mode.


  6. I can hear millions of Burnout fans across the globe quietly weeping.


    • When are they gonna learn that the only way to get what you want is to take them or their families hostage and force them to do?
      Heck, it works off the coast of Somalia, why can’t it work with game developers? Im already planning on stealing Jesse Stern so that Modern Warfare 3 might make even a modicum of sense…


    • That’s just Colin. We put him in the dungeon.


      • It’s cold down here :’(


  7. I wonder how well the last DLC – Big Surf Island – sold. Anyone any idea…?
    In my opinion it was far too expensive (at least in Switzerland, was about a third of what I pay for a brand new game, importing it from the UK).

    Will definitely consider it when its price comes down… and thereby am probably guilty as well, not supporting them enough to come up with more DLC…


  8. Erm i wouldn’t really consider buying any of the dlc except big surf island and that was released a long time after release


  9. I bought cops and robbers and never used it…not even once!


    • I have to ask why? If you tried it once and decided it was crap thats fine but surely the curiousity with which you bought it would also drive you to try it out!


      • I thought it looked good, but then I started playing something else and didn’t get the disc out again to try it. Stupid I know, but I bought loads of stuff off the store at the same time!


  10. Fair enough then… can’t make it any clearer than that then. I think they’ve provided ample amounts of DLC for us… I’m happy with them.


  11. Another Island would have been nice but I must admit they did keep us supplied with plenty of DLC albeit a little expensive at times, but the early updates that we got for free sort of made up for that a little. I just hope that the new NFS that they are working on lives up to Burnout Paradises awesomeness. ;)


  12. They did supply loads of DLC, so I can’t complain.


    • ditto that, now on with the new need for speed from criterion! ;)


    • ..overpriced too


      • i don’t think you can say the dlc for burnout paradise was overpriced, they had a few pretty big dlc packs over a six month or so period and they were all free.
        i don’t know of any other game that had that much dlc for free, proper new content not just some costumes or skins i mean.


  13. Hopefully there will be once a Paradise2… but the chance for that is not big imo because they are bussy with one of the future NFS-games…


    • The Isle is fantastic in my opinion…