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$40 Batman: Arkham Knight DLC Pass Revealed, Offers Six Months of Content

Plus, a digital-only premium edition for the Batman game is also announced.

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Warner Bros. and Rocksteady Studios on Tuesday announced a DLC Season Pass for their upcoming Caped Crusader game, Batman: Arkham Knight.

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According to a message posted on Twitter, Arkham Knight's Season Pass will offer up new content for six months after the game's release in June, meaning through the end of the year.

This content will take the form of "story missions, supervillains, and more," the developer said.

A subsequent press release from Warner Bros. reveals that new Batmobile skins, "advanced" challenge maps, alternate character skins, and new drivable race tracks are also included with the Arkham Knight Season Pass.

A special Arkham Knight Premium Edition will also be available. This comes with the game and the DLC pass, and will be sold only through digital channels.

The Season Pass will cost $40, while the Premium Edition will run you $100.

Originally scheduled to launch in 2014, the new Arkham Knight release date is June 23 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Earlier this week, Rocksteady released a thrilling new trailer for the game that also confirmed it will have a Grand Theft Auto V-style character switch mechanic.

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@chaos-06: where? lol

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Warner Bros, Konami, EA, Ubisoft, Capcom.....Is everyone competing to be the worse gaming company?

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Looks like they're going to have to wait to get these money.....Delay until GOTY edition is release. How you like them apples!!

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Can't wait for the GOTY edition in the bargain bin!

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$40 for a DLC pass?

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I'm sure Batman will do very well but much like Evolve & Mortal Kombat, I'm not supporting this marketing and business plan, Putting a game out like this just insures people like me will wait over a year to pick up your ridiculously expensive game when it well, isn't. I'll just play other games and/or buy a Wii U because a nintendo is only the cost of two or three videogames ;)

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That's like... an entire game. That DLC would have to be near the best DLC ever, tbh. I just really hope WB won't use the lack of season pass sales as an excuse to shut down the studio a few months after release. Might sound cynical but let's not forget this is a big-budget SP-only game.

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BTW isn't Mortal Kombat X published by the same publisher (Warner Bros)? Figures.....

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Next year when I pick up a PS4 I'll just get the GOTY edition....maybe even a second-hand copy.

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Apparently the limited edition and batmobile edition don't include the season pass.

Wow.

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@RicanV: Yeah, they are trying to rob us from left and right.

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@cboye18@RicanV: The sad part is, people will pay it and it will sellout.

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COD did this with AW and I specifically avoided getting a collector's edition because they used to include the season pass.

It's a shame this is announced well after the collectors edition have sold. I did purchase a batmobile edition myself.

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@RicanV: I got it too.(COD) I didn't really pay attention, I just figured "eh, it's the special one so it's in there." After entering the codes and seeing it was just lame cosmetic stuff I went "wtf... it doesn't even have a season pass...."


Learned my lesson the hard way, standard editions it is from now on.

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@bdrtfm@cboye18@RicanV: Yeah I feel so powerless to change something about it.

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They're indirectly telling you to buy the Goty version next year.

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Isn't a Season Pass something you use to ride the bus or train?

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@ant19831983: Or for that little fun house up in La Grange.

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Hmm nah, pass.

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Hello, Vinny. It's your Uncle Bingo. Time to pay the check!


I'd say stick your season pass where the sun never shines but, that would be redundant as, that's where it came from in the first place.

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The delay wasnt to finish the game. The delay was so they could make all the DLC ready for the weeks after release.

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Waiting for GotY edition: confirmed.

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I love the Batman games but this is a rip off.

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$40 game? $50 season pass? What happened to $60 game and $25 season?

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@megakick: What happened to $40-60 games with everything included, with no dlc/passes/etc. to worry about? With everything being able to be unlocked by *gasp* actually playing the game? Those were the days.. lol..

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@megakick: Whatever happened to all content ready during release? This whole season pass thing is stupid.

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@megakick: lol they used to start at $20. Then we started seeing $25, $30, $35 and now $40.

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@greaseman1985@megakick: just want for game of the year,

all content $50...

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Real Batman must feel offended by this offer. I see Joker's hand in it.

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@tomenigma: Or Penguin, rather. he is the one with "an eye" for money :P

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Season pass announcement even before release. Yep screw off WB

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Just charge me for another game $50 for dlc and not an expansion :/. When will this madness end!

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If I'm getting four equivalents of the Harley Quinn DLC in Arkham City, or three plus the additional characters and modes for the challenge arenas then the DLC season pass would be worth it. Assuming of course that the game is as good as City.


I don't have a problem with DLC.

I don't like all the pre-order here there and everywhere bonus stuff where you have to "chase" the content.

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@Frimmel: Worth it for $20, maybe. Not for $40.

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@Elranzer@Frimmel: To each his own. I got my money's worth out of the HQ content. But that started with having got so much out of the game in the first place.

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@Frimmel@Elranzer: i agree with you, i didn't and mostly don't support DLC but that was a great game

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DLC is like spam for male enhancement pills. Most people despise it, but it just takes a few people to respond and we continue to get flooded with them.

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@kvan33: this!

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"and new drivable race tracks are also included with the Arkham Knight Season Pass." Batman Kart? :o


Anyway, thanks for the heads up, I'll just wait for the full version. And by that time, I hope all the glitches and bugs are fixed.

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Ugh, Warner Bros Interactive. First Mortal Kombat X, now this. They're basically whores.


Will wait for the $20 "Game of the Year" edition. Just like all the previous ones got (except Origins).

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Warner Bros is getting crazy with DLC lately, lmao.


Will grab this game for a heavily discounted price during Black Friday, thank you.

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this price is such a crime we should call Batman

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@ntomatas1: i rather call joker


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Well let me know when your game is drop to 20 bucks then I think about it

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As I droped playing battlefield, because it basicly requires 60$ more to play a full game, I,after reading this news, drop the plans of buying this game, just because forcing me to pay 30$.

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@swords45: Who's forcing you to pay?

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