Capcom Has Change of Heart About On-Disc DLC

<p>Capcom is taking a closer look at its on-disk DLC policy&period; The Japanese company has been criticized by gamers for having on-disk DLC rather than allowing players to download it after the game launches&period; <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;street-fighter-tekken-issues-continue-plague-capcom&sol;">Street Fighter x Tekken<&sol;a><&sol;em> has been a major source of the complaints&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now it seems that Capcom has had a change of heart&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We would like to assure you that we have been listening to your comments and as such have begun the process of re-evaluating how such additional game content is delivered in the future&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Capcom US boss Christian Svensson wrote on <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;capcom-unity&period;com&sol;gregaman&sol;blog&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;14&sol;on&lowbar;the&lowbar;topic&lowbar;of&lowbar;on-disc&lowbar;dlc" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Capcom Unity<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As this process has only just commenced in the past month or so&comma; there will be some titles&comma; where development began some time ago and that are scheduled for release in the coming months&comma; for which we are unable to make changes to the way some of their post release content is delivered&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One such game is <em>Dragon’s Dogma<&sol;em> which is to be released next week&period; In perhaps a pre-emptive strike Svensson confirmed that some&comma; but not all&comma; DLC will be included on-disc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The decision to include some additional &lpar;but not all planned additional&rpar; game content for the game on disc was made at the beginning of the game&&num;8217&semi;s development cycle as at the time this was determined to be the most efficient way of ensuring certain content was made available&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Owners of Dragon&&num;8217&semi;s Dogma will be able to further their gameplay experience with the release of additional quests&comma; weapons and other items in the months following the game going on sale&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Svensson stated that <em>Dragon’s Dogma<&sol;em> will have a main quest of 30 to 40 hours&period; Side quests will bring that number up to around 100 hours&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Just wanted people to know in advance the whys&comma; wherefores and where we&&num;8217&semi;re going in the future&period; You are being heard&period; Thanks&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2012-05-15-capcom-re-evaluating-on-disc-dlc-policy">Euro Gamer<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;