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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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LOL this is the future (and the present) whether we like it or not. Game development is increasingly more costly, while the price of games has stayed at $60 instead of adjust with inflation. So instead of simply raising the price of games to $100 (which was teased before the current gen consoles were released and all hell broke loose), they're doing these DLC passes and other garbage.

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@greaseman1985: It's not my future because I sure won't be buying any of it.

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@greaseman1985: The cost of games is set by the consumer not maker of products. But too often we as consumers will bend over just to get the new shiny shiny.

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@EcksTheory@greaseman1985: its not as simple as that. Everything has increased in price over the years due to inflation. $60 in 1995 is $92 today. The price of food, clothes, cars, and most other things have increased over the years.

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@greaseman1985@EcksTheory: Games didn't cost $60 in 1995. They cost $30-$40, maybe $50 for RPGs.

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@Elranzer@greaseman1985@EcksTheory: Humm... Not sure of that: << LINK REMOVED >>

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66% the price of the base game

20% the content

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I only pre-rder the standard edition Batman: Arkham Knight on PS4 and that's the only thing I'm doing.

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$40!? Hell no!

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@matt1williams: Seriously. What the fick is wrong with these developers? Man, they are seriously smoking something good!


First, DLC was $10 a pop. Then, Activision/CoD grew a pair and upped the ante to $15 for the price of entry. Then, it became standard practice to offer a "season pass" which effectively got you 3 DLC packs over the course of a year.


Now, they want $40 for SIX MONTHS? Yeah, you can just...


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@otterbee@matt1williams: An thats adding extra achievements. Gone are the days for getting 1000/1000 gamerscore.

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I won't be getting this game anytime soon, so I don't care. I just hope that, for their sake, the first pack doesn't exist yet.

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will not support this BS.

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