HijacK: Do you also slightly disagree with 2+2=4?
Downloadable content is something that is downloaded. Period. Just because small add-ons do not classify as expansions because they do not expand upon the game as much, they are both downloadable. there is no distinction between a 15 hour piece of content and a small extra map as long as they are both downloaded. There is the difference in size and quality, but not in the form they are accessed.
Tell me more about how Dishonored's 2 DLCs are rubbish since they are neither an expansion,nor classify as what you call "rubbish DLC".
lazydog.949: I am not denying how either may be accessed. But there is a huge distinction between content, size, quality AND relevance.
As for Dishonored, I cant say much-i know nothing of it. But if you have come with a new classification between expansion (alas, gone forever), DLC (get off your horse armour and drink your milk, pilgrim), then you should immediately market it, you may be onto a new winner for publishers darkest deeds.
And I agree. There is difference between the size of the content and technical quality. Distinctions that are objective, but classifying smaller content as DLC is like saying football is a sport due to its huge popularity across the world and everything else is its own thing, but not a sport, because they are not as popular.
What I'm advising here is to call every extra content that adds to the game more than 10 hours of gameplay an expansion pack (but this is up to your own preference) because it expands upon the game (though it should also be noted that expansion packs of old used to add new adventures outside of the main game story or in parallel to it, though this has not always been the case, thus making it an invalid criteria) and everything that is bellow 10 hours of content, even as small as an extra weapon, just call it add-on because it only adds to the game in a way it does not necessarily expand it, or expand it enough (again, this is entirely subjective of how much you see it).
But calling one DLC and the other expansion is just wrong. When you buy a game that has every extra content package on the disc, like I do to many of my games on consoles, the extra content should not be called DLC, because I don't download it, whether it is an expansion like Awakening, or small like the Golems of Amgarrak.
If you download it, it's DLC, if it is in physical form, it's extra content. What you see as expansion and add-on can be entirely subjective up to a limit that has been set by the consumers since extra content started appearing.
As for Dishonored, the game has 2 big extra content packs that tell the story of another assassin in parallel of the main story. They both add around 4 to 8 hours of content, if not more, depending on how you play and what difficulty you play on. You can consider both expansions or combine them and consider them a single expansion since they basically tell the entire story of an assassin but in 2 parts and what you do in the first part of the expansion has an impact on the second one (mostly on your abilities and other stuff). Each part also has its own ending, so your basically have 2 endings, like in a duology of movies, but only 1 definitive ending to the series. As you can see, extra content comes in many forms, but it has a very limited amount of ways in which you can access it.
