Can someone please explain how DLC works?

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What exactly are DLC? What does that stand for? Is that for Down Loadable Content?

If I buy the DLC Crossoads of the World Collection, will I get the new leaders and maps for free when they are released?

Or do I have to pay more for them as well?

I preordered the regular game and have been playing, I think I have around 75 hours so far.

I have managed to get to exploration era at least once, so I will continue with that - eventually.

Just need to complete ship building so I can cross the open oceans

I find the maps more exciting than the actual game play.

Thank you.
 
Serenia said:
I'm guessing that means I have to pay more?
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No, you don't pay any more than what is listed. If you buy the Crossroads of the World than you get all the content included (civs, leaders and natural wonders) when they are released.
 
Serenia said:
I'm guessing that means I have to pay more?

If yes then I will have to think about this...
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No, you don't have to pay more than the advertised price. It stands for downloadable content.

Crossroads of the World costs £24.99. It includes 2 new leaders, 4 new civs, and 4 new natural wonders. This will arrive in two batches, the first half on 4th March, the second on 25th March. But you only pay once. £24.99 if you want it, no hidden costs. Think of it just as an add-on. You pay the price, and you get the content. Done.

Side note: I keep wanting to call it Crosswords of the World, but I think that would be quite different. :lol:
 
Alexander's Hetaroi said:
No, you don't pay any more than what is listed. If you buy the Crossroads of the World than you get all the content included (civs, leaders and natural wonders) when they are released.
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Thank you so much. In that case I am buying!!!
 
Mr Jon of Cheam said:
No, you don't have to pay more than the advertised price. It stands for downloadable content.

Crossroads of the World costs £24.99. It includes 2 new leaders, 4 new civs, and 4 new natural wonders. This will arrive in two batches, the first half on 4th March, the second on 25th March. But you only pay once. £24.99 if you want it, no hidden costs. Think of it just as an add-on. You pay the price, and you get the content. Done.

Side note: I keep wanting to call it Crosswords of the World, but I think that would be quite different. :lol:
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i think he meant does he have to pay above the price of the base game to get the DLC. in which case, yes he does have to in fact pay more.
 
Mr Jon of Cheam said:
No, you don't have to pay more than the advertised price. It stands for downloadable content.

Crossroads of the World costs £24.99. It includes 2 new leaders, 4 new civs, and 4 new natural wonders. This will arrive in two batches, the first half on 4th March, the second on 25th March. But you only pay once. £24.99 if you want it, no hidden costs. Think of it just as an add-on. You pay the price, and you get the content. Done.

Side note: I keep wanting to call it Crosswords of the World, but I think that would be quite different. :lol:
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Thank you so much Mr Jon.

Very much appreciated!!
 
agamemnon_of_the-bronze_ said:
i think he meant does he have to pay above the price of the base game to get the DLC. in which case, yes he does have to in fact pay more.
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Yes the DLC is available for $40 CAD which is fine. I am happy to pay that if it means I get 2 new leaders and 4 new civs and 4 new natural wonders extra to add to the regular game I purchased!!
 
Thank you all so much for your responses. Off to buy the DLC!!
 
I would have been OK with just Ada as a leader. Bolivar was quite the warmonger. I wont be playing him so much - especially if he is an expansionist.
 
DLC is an acronym for "downloadable content." Although ALL content these days is downloadable, DLC refers specifically to additional content beyond the base game, for which you usually have to pay extra. DLC broadly refers to any content that is available as a separate download (as opposed to being automatically patched into the game), from a single free cosmetic change to a full-fledged expansion that would previously have been on a shelf in its own box back in the day.

Inevitably, publishers have viewed DLC as a vehicle through which they can defer content from the main release of a game to be sold later at a much higher price. The most flagrant of these is the infamous "day-one DLC", which is "post-release" content that is available immediately upon release. However, an important additional advantage of pushing content to post-release is so that the base game can release earlier, allowing for more development time.

A newer wrinkle on the DLC model is usually called the "Pass", derived from the "Season Pass" DLC sold in sports games in which you pay up front for content that will be released over time in the future. Firaxis experimented with this in Civilization 6 and apparently they love it, because the two announced Civilization 7 DLC are both passes, even though they aren't clearly labeled as such (they call them "collections" in small type). You won't get all the content listed in the Crossroads of the World DLC on March 4; it will be released in batches over the course of the next month or so... subject to change.

It's easy to see how this would be confusing.
 
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AriochIV said:
DLC is an acronym for "downloadable content." Although ALL content these days is downloadable, DLC refers specifically to additional content beyond the base game, for which you usually have to pay extra. DLC broadly refers to any content that is available as a separate download (as opposed to being automatically patched into the game), from a single free cosmetic change to a full-fledged expansion that would previously have been on a shelf in its own box back in the day.

Inevitably, publishers have viewed DLC as a vehicle through which they can defer content from the main release of a game to be sold later at a much higher price. The most flagrant of these is the infamous "day-one DLC", which is "post-release" content that is available immediately upon release. However, an important additional advantage of pushing content to post-release is so that the base game can release earlier, allowing for more development time.

A newer wrinkle on the DLC model is usually called the "Pass", derived from the "Season Pass" DLC sold in sports games in which you pay up front for content that will be released over time in the future. Firaxis experimented with this in Civilization 6 and apparently they love it, because the two announced Civilization 7 DLC are both passes, even though they aren't clearly labeled as such (they call them "collections" in small type). You won't get all the content listed in the Crossroads of the World DLC on March 4; it will be released in batches over the course of the next month or so... subject to change.

It's easy to see how this would be confusing.
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i think it is intentionally opaque myself.
 
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