"Ubisoft VP Chris Early says resistance to DLC is in decline"

Well, for me, the reason I never complained about this crap is incredibly simple: I never bought Assassin's Creed IV in the first place, and thus didn't even know about it until now. But now that I know about it, I'll definitely say that I do indeed think it's some bullshit and I certainly will still resist bullshit like that. Seriously, one of them is a $1 "DLC" unlock that apparently does nothing whatsoever besides uncover the hidden stuff on the map. Like the article says, it's not the "cheap" price that's the issue (though I personally think that it's $1 more expensive than it should be), it's the principle of the thing, whether it was one dollar or one cent. That said, it's not like AC4 is the first game to sell shitty, pointless "cheat code" DLC like that though, so this isn't some outrageous new thing to get super mad about. It's just more of the same old shit. It's just something to roll your eyes at and sigh wearily about and is another reason to lament how the video game industry got to this sorry, piss-poor state. I really think Ubisoft sucks for this, one the one hand, but as I've said in the past, I'm really starting to hate the clueless and/or apathetic consumers that blasely buy this shit and thus enable the companies to do it even more than I hate the companies who are greedily exploiting these stupid, stupid consumers in the first place. After all, they only continue to do it because they know that they can easily get away with it.

Come on video game industry crash. You can't come soon enough for my sake.