<p>Recently&comma; Turtle Rock Studios co-founder&comma; Phil Robb&comma; posted on the official <a title&equals;"Evolve" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;talk&period;turtlerockstudios&period;com&sol;t&sol;turtle-rock-your-promise&sol;26099&sol;19" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Evolve community forums <&sol;a>in response to criticism regarding the downloadable content options for the Evolve game&period; Robb addressed the Evolve community to quell concerns that Turtle Rock Studios is planning to roll out a bunch of day one DLC to sell separately&period; Robb&&num;8217&semi;s response was well stated and written&period; I believe the criticisms against the DLC for Evolve in this case are a bit unfair&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad135805 " id&equals;"quads-ad135805" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"3000">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>I can understand the anxiety of players regarding DLC&period; More and more&comma; it seems like players are only playing for half of a game or a marginal experience&comma; while the rest of the game is left aside for DLC&period; I do not care for the practice of locked content on disc that requires a DLC code to unlock it&period; 2K Games released a Season Pass for WWE 2K15 that did not even offer all the DLC content that was being released for that particular game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the case of Evolve&comma; most of the DLC content was not finished or ready to be released with the game&period; The Behemoth is a pre-order bonus monster for the game&comma; and that monster will not even be ready at the time of the game&&num;8217&semi;s launch&period; As an online multiplayer shooter&comma; Evolve is a game that will most likely live and &&num;8220&semi;evolve&&num;8221&semi; later on through its updates and DLC released&period; Turtle Rock Studios already revealed that any new maps and gameplay modes release for the game will be free&period; Another positive aspect is that Robb stated that players who do not purchase DLC content will still be able to compete against players who have purchased the content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For the most part&comma; Turtle Rock Studios&&num;8217&semi; release plans for the DLC sound pretty fair&&num;8211&semi;at least in comparison to what 2K Games and Visual Concepts did for WWE 2K15&period; In addition&comma; Turtle Rock Studios is offering various bundle and discounted options for the DLC&period; Is it as awesome as CD Projekt Red offering a completely free DLC program for The Witcher 3&colon; Wild Hunt&quest; No&period; However&comma; I do not think Turtle Rock Studios should be condemned for these cases of DLC content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad135804 " id&equals;"quads-ad135804" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"3000">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Also&comma; 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Jeffrey Harris, a pop-culture, entertainment, and video game journalist and aficionado, resides in Los Angeles. He is a staff writer for games, movies/TV, MMA and Wrestling and contributor to Popgeeks.net and Toonzone.net. He is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin's Radio, TV, Film program.
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