[UPDATE] The Evolve DLC Pricing Is Rather Steep Considering The Content

“There’s nothing that pisses me off more than useless DLC,” says Turtle Rock Studios Creative Director, Phil Robb. “It’s got to mean something – it’s got to add something significant to the game…and that’s what we’re shooting for with our upcoming Hunters and Monsters.”

We covered the announcement of the Evolve Hunting Season Pass two days ago. it contains four new Hunter characters and three new Monster skins. What we did not know is the price, and it’s “only” £21.99.

“Considering that if you bought them all separately, all of that content will run you about £30, stash that extra £5 in your pocket as a thank you for joining us on the hunt,” say 2K.  Some decorative skins which don’t really serve any purpose than to look nice and four new characters for £22 and you think that’s a bargain? Then make patronising comments that we should thank you for saving us money?

If you pre-order you also get the Monster Expansion for free, which gives you another skin and a new monster, the Behemoth, which has “a retail value of more than £14.99”, so presumably that’s the price you will pay if you don’t pre order.

The full game ships with twelve hunters and three monsters, so using 2K DLC pricing, four hunters cost £22 so twelve should cost £66. One monster is £15, three should be £45, so the full game should be around £111.

Either Evolve the game is the bargain of the century, or the DLC is massively overpriced. At least the maps are free, eh?

In comparison, Killzone Shadow Fall also gave away all the maps as free DLC, introduced a completely new class, new weapons, new abilities and gear and completely new stand alone game mode which also included a load of new maps, for £15.

UPDATE: Turtle Rock have responded to the pricing of the DLC.

Ultimately, TRS makes the games, we don’t sell them…and as the developers we’ve done our best to make a game that people want to play. We then have to trust our publisher to make the best decision on how to sell that game. We’ve done everything we could to keep this stuff as open to choice as possible and despite how it may look to some, there isn’t anything here that forces people to spend more money than they are comfortable with. We feel like all of the Evolve bundles that 2K announced just offer people choices, and having choices isn’t a bad thing.

Source: 2K