Video Game Physical Guides Were The Original DLC

With the rise of the internet these days you don’t tend to see many physical guides anymore but when I was younger most major releases had a guide you could buy. With websites like GameFAQs and many media outlets information that was typically found in guides being provided for free online the need for physical book guides has dwindled entirely. Furthermore, games generally guide you through the game a lot more than they used to so even needing to find a guide is more reserved for completionism or being stuck on a puzzle for the most part. More on this later. The last generation or so of gaming has a lot of DLC practices and a lot of them are predatory such as pre-order DLC that is only an unlock code of something that was included in the game anyway. Ultimately though DLC is a way of extracting additional money from players who are probably quite committed to the game already. So how do physical guides and DLC relate to each other? It’s because they were both designed to extract extra money from the player. From what I remember as a child, guides were typically around the £10–15 range. A lot of DLCs also cost similarly too, some are higher and some are a lot lower. <a href="https://pixelparables.medium.com/video-game-physical-guides-were-the-original-dlc-5d171b9764ce">Learn More</a>