Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-27485918-20151227214038/@comment-29910071-20170630194031

The reason all this dlc crap exists is because of two things: Scalpers or resellers and rented games. You see, when you purchase a rented copy of the game or from a retailer that isnt participating with the company,  all of that money goes to the retailer whereas the company gets a part of the profits if you buy it from a participatibg retailer. Because udually the rented game is cheaper, more people purchase it than the official copy. This is where DLC comes at hand, when you purchase a season pass or whatever, it goes straight to the company to make up lost profits. This didnt occur back hen because arcade mschines and old NES games or what not were hard to resell and such and therefore the compabies got more money. In other words, DLC is a tactic used to combat rented games. Really than, the fault lies on scalpers and most of all Gamestop, who persuades mqny to purhase rented games that when bought, give all of the profits to Gamestop and not to the company who produced the game.