Lonpos hates your wallet

by Candace Savino { Apr 9th 2008 at 7:00PM }

While you already know our stance on Lonpos's downloadable content, you probably didn't realize how much wallet maiming would actually be going on.

In Japan, nine puzzle packs were released this week. While that might seem like good news at first for the puzzle lovers in us all, it's not. Each puzzle pack costs 500 Wii Points (or $5, if you will), meaning that all nine packs come to a total of $45. Let's not forget the $10 to download the starter pack of Lonpos to begin with.

A puzzle pack includes twenty-five puzzles, which means that all nine packs would admittedly be a lot of content, but this still doesn't sit right with us. At the very least, the initial gimped version should be cheaper to download off of WiiWare.

With this much DLC at these prices, we'd have preferred that Genki released a disc-based game instead. Think about it: if you don't think you'd like Lonpos, you won't want to download it in the first place. If Lonpos interests you, though, you're going to want as many puzzle packs as possible, and feel completely deflated by the money Genki is asking for.

It seems that Genki has gotten the concept of nickel-and-diming down to a T.

Gallery: Lonpos

Tags: dlc, downloadable-content, genki, lonpos, microtransactions, puzzle

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

beesnipe @ Apr 9th 2008 7:12PM

You're not kidding. I refuse to be nickel and dime'd to death, like I refused it with Microsoft, and their "pay-for-avatar" nonsense. It's not so much the money, but it's the principle of it that keeps me stubborn.

jmf @ Apr 9th 2008 7:48PM

Yeah that gamerpic business with Microsoft is robbery. I'll be staying away from any wiiware game that charges this much for Dlc ,except maybe for Final Fantasy ;)

Mr Khan @ Apr 9th 2008 7:24PM

Sigh

Wii takes steps into the next generation with all the baggage that comes with it

Lazywolf @ Apr 9th 2008 7:57PM

Most DLC these days aren't even enough for an expansion let alone a small patch yet in cases cost more than the game itself.
Personally I think its a terrible system to promote as "the future" or "next generation".

Wasn't DLC supposed to bring to consoles what PC gamers been experiencing for years for FREE? I guess I missed that memo somewhere....

Mr.ESC @ Apr 9th 2008 8:52PM

The only good DLC is the free DLC.

I'm serious.Free DLC pwns non-free DLC and I'm not saying this because is free but I believe free DLC offers more.

For example all the DLC I have bought (Halo maps,Crackdown stuff etc) plain sucks compared to the free DLC (New chapters,maps,images,unlockables etc etc).

velocitystrike @ Apr 10th 2008 5:38AM

In a way, I agree. I've only ever bought Crackdown and Naruto DLC but I'd downloaded the free DLC for these games first and I kinda had more fun before I'd spent my points.

So, in a way, I disagree, because it is completely about the fact that you're spending points/not spending points, as opposed to the idea that free DLC is generally more fun.

=/

Jayenkai @ Apr 10th 2008 12:03PM

25?
Holy ~$*~

25 puzzles for $5
That's taking the $&?!..

Here...
http://socoder.net/index.php?showcase=13059
Enjoy.

It's free, You can make your own, there's already loads of puzzles included, and I'll make a DS homebrew one...

Play that, don't get ripped off, and shout "F you!" at any companies intent on screwing you over.