First ASR DLC hits Marketplace
Ryan Bloom | March 16, 2010
What does 400 points get you?
“Sooner rather than later” was the quote given when regarding when the first Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing downloadable content (DLC) would be released. Given all the crazy rumors leading up to the game’s release about downloadable racers and such, many expected more news on that.
Early this morning, the Xbox Live Marketplace updated with new content to reveal the first piece of All-Stars Racing DLC:
Unlock All Characters & Tracks
Race past the competition and speed your way to victory with a whole host of Sonic & SEGA All-Star characters and exhilarating tracks. Unlock all 24 tracks and 22 characters from the start with this exclusive download. Winning has never been so sweet!
It’s priced at 400 Microsoft Points ($5). In comparison, the Sonic Unleashed DLC – which contained 5 new and remixed levels set in existing game locations – cost only 250 Microsoft Points ($3.12). The rumored price tag for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 is 400 Microsoft Points. There are a number of other fully-complete Xbox Live Arcade games on the Marketplace that also cost 400 points.
This is not the first time a developer has charged money for what is essentially a glorified cheat code. Electronic Arts has been releasing “Unlock everything” cheat code DLC for many of its games for years now, with a similar pricing structure.
There is currently no word of a Playstation Network release for this DLC – but given that the PSN typically updates on Thursday, I’m betting we’ll see this go up then. If you spot the DLC on in the Playstation Store, be sure to submit a news tip.
(While I’m here, I’d also like to state that there is an Xbox 360 All-Stars Racing video review coming down the pipe soon – I’ll try and have it ready by or before next week, so be on the look out for that)
Filed Under Gaming News, Microsoft, Sega, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Sonic Scene
Than there is no point of beating the game knowing you could just download this, I consider this cheating, that was a stupid move right there, I personaly think they should delete it for gaming sake.
Well, since I was excpecting a new character or track…
THAT was disappointing.
I thought the point of DLC was too aquire things ot available in the actual game. This is just a waste of 5 dollars since you can just do this yrouslef. shame
gay…. but cool… but meh…. gay.
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i`m getting quite sick of this annoying ignoring new tips site! I posted these idiots fucking a new thing! Sonic 4′s box art! And they ignore it! well fuck you from now on then!
Wow, just wow… I didn´t expect that kind of DLC, specially when unlocking is nearly the only thing that can make this game last longer. If you have everything unlocked and don´t plan on getting achievements or don´t care about leaderboards… What´s left?
I haven´t played more than 20 hours, and I currently have like 300.000 Sega credits in the store… Without nothing to buy. So this DLC is pretty pointless, as you get credits by doing nearly anything, just playing.
Since when does paying someone money count as winning. This is really pointless, it’d rather just buy an arcade game then this, unlocking stuff in this isn’t even that hard.
What a fucking scam. It took me literally a week to unlock everything. Give us Metal Sonic/Stardust Speedway.
And @blueblur, you’re honestly one of the stupidest individuals I’ve encountered in quite a while.
1. Sonic 4 hasn’t come out yet.
2. Sonic 4 is a DOWNLOAD-ONLY TITLE IF YOU MISSED THAT THEN WHY ARE YOU EVEN ON THIS SITE, so tell me–what “box” would this “box art” be on?
3. This is actually a decent piece of news, despite the news itself being disappointing. It’s better than that week-long “art scandal” story, so take your personal comments about the site out of the article comments and straight to the site’s administrator because we don’t want to hear them.
Well… buy Lost in nightmares for resident evil 5 instead. That is an awesome DLC! Played it today. ^^ It’s like resident evil 1!
@ ■n00neimp0rtant
And you aren’t the sharpest pencil in the box either, the game’s box art is considered it’s online symbol when selecting the game. So yes, he is right, there is box art for the game.
@ n00neimp0rtant
http://www.sonicstadium.org/news/nintendo-listing-reveals-sonic-4-cover-art
Pwned.
This is stupid and pointless. It’s not like the characters and other stuff are hard to unlock. Anyone can get them all regardless of their skill level. Hell, my grandma could unlock everything if she just played it long enough. When do we get some good DLC? We don’t want slight alterations of existing stuff, we want new content that will be worth our money. Anyway, I hope this means PS3 users will be getting that patch since they said it’ll be released with the said upcoming DLC.
Sega making money from the lazy bastards who cant be botherd to unlock everything… Awesome. You just know there’s gunna be at least one dumb idiot that’ll download this then realise what it actually is.
@blueblur, n00neimp0rtant & RaveToTheGrave:
Cut it out or i’ll bang all three of your heads together.
@blublur
Calm down there buddy. It’s only a little symbol for a download game that’s not even out yet. I don’t think it calls for any f-bombs either. Maybe the new tips thingy isn’t working and not geting through or something. Point is it is not a big deal. But other than that. . . well I don’t know what else to tell you. . . so. . . thank you, come again!
WILL THIS AFFECT THE ACHEVIMENTS TO GET SOME STUFF FROM THE SHOP?
I guess it’s a “Don’t like it don’t buy it” case, but it’s still pretty terrible.
And here I was expecting it to be something that doesn’t suck. My bad.
Fuck this give me Ristar & Vectorman !
He, Sega following the steps of Namco-Bandai, one example is Soul Calibur IV, you pay to have the stuff you unlock in the game. Just lame….
@Chaos_controller: lol yeah sorry dude, just angry that day! 0.o lol. and that @RavetotheGrave dude has my Kudos for backing me up on the box art thing, so that Nooneimprotant jerk just got fleebin….. pwned!
lol
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