Industry News / Upcoming Games

[Antimatter]

Have we accepted, in general, the idea of a Season Pass as a way for studios to continue working on new content after the game's release?

How about charging extra for content that is ready to play on release day? The decision to lock a whole mission behind a Season Pass and promote it as a "Day 1 Exclusive" can do nothing but upset players who have been planning to spend $70 USD on the game already.

Star Wars Outlaws locks Jabba the Hutt mission behind $110 premium edition | VGC

Players will have to buy the Gold Edition to access the mission at launch…

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[Chronicler]

Day 1 DLC is not great, but I'm not immediately seeing how packaging it in a Season's Pass is any scummier than it already was. That being said, I've never played a game with a season's pass, and am only going by the article's description of how they work.