I was a little hesitant about this because I've never been a huge Mega Man fan but after playing Capcom's remake of Bionic Commando and hearing all these cool little tidbits, I am buying this game day one no questions asked.
Hopefully that will be tomorrow.

How many blocks is the DLC?

I hear it's over nine thousaaaaaannnnddd!!!!

Hahaha, DLC...Capcom wants to try and catch up to Scamco...

Well that pretty much guaranties that we'll see areas that cannot be reached without the ability to slide.

Wonder what's next.  Ever want to play as X in an old school (Mega|Rock) Man and see how much metal you can scrap with all those extra abilities??  Find out for only $3 dollars!

Scamco? Oh yeah. They had Ace Combat plane skins and Vesperia cheats up for sale.

This is why DLC is total BS.
You're not paying for extra content, you're paying for something that could/should have been in the game to begin with.
This is why I'm glad Nintendo isn't utilizing DLC in its high-profile games. People bitch about Brawl not having DLC but we would have just ended up paying the cost of the game again in fees to buy all the characters we got to unlock for free.

I agree; this is disappointing.  They should have designed it to keep in theme with the game.  If you want more content, just buy more Wii points and send them to Dr. Wily. 

If it keeps you from accessing the areas/items in the game, it shouldn't be DLC.  Now if the DLC included updated sound tracks like the PS2 version of the Megaman Collection did, I'd be all for that. 

$2 for a 5kb sprite and three line of code probably still in the game = boycott. I really hope this game sell horrible, crashes and burns.

Capcom is asking you if Protoman is worth 2 bucks.  If he isn't, don't buy him. Simple as that.

No one thought he would be in it, then they announce the DLC and everyone cries that they want it free.  Meh... buck up.

I'm down with this. Part of MM9's appeal is going to be the almighty speed run. I'm betting that Protoman will help get through the game a little faster. Besides, $2 is a fair price (to me). Here's why:

Buy $20 of Wii Points

- $8 for Vectorman
- $10 for MM9
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$2 left over

- $2 for Protoman

Huzzah!

I'm up for it because $10 is a low price for a Mega Man game, even a retro one like this.  Had this appeared on the GBA, it would have been $20, DS would be at least $25, if not $30.  The only way this would have been so cheap regularly is if it appeared in a collection, and they just did that last generation, so don't expect it any time soon otherwise.  I might spend up to $10 on this game's DLC, if it's worth it with playable characters that control differently or extra bosses.

Seriously?  SERIOUSLY?  You CANNOT be SERIOUSLY encouraging this sort of bullshit, when it is the kind of thing that would be included as a reward for beating the game not 2 years ago...

It's insulting, particularly to the hardcore crowd that this interests...

But it's the hardcore crowd that flaunts their DLC on their HD systems.  Capcom's giving them what they wanted.

What next, Hyper Mode in Metroid Dread for $$, Fierce Deity Mask in Zelda Wii Waker for $$??

They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire franchises with DLC and we fall back. Not again.

DLC should only be used for new content created AFTER the game has been released.  It should be like an expansion pack for PC games.  If the content is in the game already and just needs to be unlocked OR the DLC is available from day one and they thus COULD have put it on the game to begin with they are ripping us off.  They are holding parts of the game hostage.

I don't understand how anyone can support that unless you're on the payroll of the companies themselves.  If you're not then you're a sucker.  I'll probably still get Mega Man 9 because it sounds like a cool game but I won't buy Proto Man on principle.  If they added Proto Man months later and he was not in the game already then I would consider it.  But this is exactly the sort of thing that all the conspiracy nuts were hypothesizing a few years ago.  Those who assumed the worst were right.

And the whole "well then don't buy it" argument doesn't work for one reason: stupid people outnumber smart people.  "Sending a message" doesn't work because tons of morons or suckers or people who have the money and just don't care will buy this.  You can be a smart shopper all you want but there will always be a big group of tools that make your gesture insignificant.  So that's why I complain every time it happens and will complain until that 90% that f*cks things up for me grab a brain and figure it out.  They won't.  They never do, they never will.  But it's still worth pointing out.  It doesn't affect me?  Yes it does.  I have to pay an extra $2 to get the full game when less than five years ago that would not be the case.

Even more RWC

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Odd, as price goes down, the more work capcom places into the download...

Wow, talk about nickel and diming you. That's terrible.

Wow ... paying extra for Hard Mode?  That's unheard of.

Congrats, Capcom.

Leave it to Capcom to foster goodwill with its audience, and then crap all over it at the first opportunity.

MEGA MAN 9 FOR PS2

$6.99 AT WAL-MART

Yeah, all that extra DCL kind of sucks. That's eight more bucks for stuff that could've (should've) been in the core game. I would have preferred paying $20 and getting all that content at once, really. I probably wouldn't use all of it, but at least it would be THERE.

Having said that, I still think that Protoman is worth it. Hero Mode might be cool if the core game isn't tough enough, and Special Stage sounds good.

You know, here's what I don't like: I could look forward to new DCL for Mega Man: Powered UP! on the PSP almost every week from the game's launch to just over a year later, when DCL support stopped. And this was some sick DCL, like new Roll costumes, challenge stages, new build-a-stage parts, and, yes, even Protoman as a playable character.* And it was all FREE.

I don't know why Capcom is going the nickle-and-dime route. My guess is that it's Nintendo wanting to make as much money as possible out of the game. The Big N knows that MM9 is a huge WiiWare release, and that many, many people will buy the extra content. I'm betting that if it was up to Capcom, we'd be getting a slightly more expensive, but more complete, game.

*Protoman was actually unlockable in Powered UP!, but to do so, you had to complete all of the challenges in Challenge Mode. Some of the challenges were damn near impossible, so I had given up on ever playing as the Blue Bomber's older brother. I was very happy when, as their last hurrah to Powered UP! players, Capcom offered him as DCL.

Oh give me a break, are you honestly blaming Nintendo for Capcom screwing over the fanbase with this sh!t?  If Nintendo wanted to screw people with DLC they could have easy done it with all they're own games that would have been much bigger hits then Mega Man 9 that's for sure.

They could have made Luigi DLC in Mario Galaxy, but didn't.  They could have made Hyper Mode in Metroid Prime 3 DLC, but didn't.  They could have made Sonic and Snake in Smash Bros Brawl both DLC knowing full well most gamers would easily pay for both of them, but DIDN'T.

The DLC scaming in this game is Capcom decision and Capcoms alone.

I agree - this is the last thing Nintendo would do.  They'd rather not even have DLC, I'm sure.

I think the real issue is that this DLC is a rip-off, plain and simple.  It's not worth the extra $8.00 you'd pay for it.  Paying for a Hard and Super-Hard mode?  Are you kidding me?  At this rate, I'm surprised they didn't make you pay for each boss.

They're saving that for Mega Man 10.

No, you're just going to have to pay to beat 9.

"I've got you now Wily!"
"No you don't, you're short Wii Points!"

Hahahaha, oh, oh that's rich. RICH, I SAY!

I agree, i'm not buying it now.

i don't normally say this because it can be/sound just as ignorant... but statements like that are so stupid to me. I understand the hate on the scam DLC (which i agree, all these extra modes for more $ is just milking the people gullible enough to buy it) but to claim you'll boycott the game because of it? Now thats just blind ignorance right there. You can play, beat and enjoy the game as is for $10 like i plan on doing,and just forget that any of this DLC shit is even out there. Its not like they're trying to sell you a broken game, christ.

I really hope your boycott statement(s) mean you plan on boycotting the DLC* and not the game itself, but with all the rampant internet idiocy that goes on its just so hard to tel..



*note: If you plan on boycotting the DLC alone then i actually agree with you, send a message buy not burning your money for a hard mode and shit like that.

I'm not really encouraging it.... just stating that boycotting the entire game is a little bit too extreme in my opinion.  Regardless of what most die hards think, the DLC concept is successful in several areas of the industry.  I can't fault Capcom for testing the waters here.

Personally, i will be buying the game and then playing it.  At that point I will decide if paying $2 more to play as another character is worth it.  If I enjoyed the game so much that it is, then I'll probably go for it.  If I had to guess though, i probably won't.

Also, do we know for sure yet whether or not there is another cool unlockable for finishing the game?

As someone else already said, this isn't a 30-50 dollar one time retail game yet it probably took just as much development time as the average DS game.  Rather than alienate people with a high price on the WiiWare service, thus making it stand out in a bad way, they are testing the waters with this concept.

Who knows, if everyone boycotts the game maybe the next one will include all the stuff but cost 2-3 times as much.

Just pay for it if it's worth it to you, simple as that.

Paying for a Hard mode is just ridiculous. It's something that I (and most of us here) would obviously be interested in but there's no way I'm paying for it. There's just no way that it shouldn't be included in the game from the beginning.

Goddamn Capcom.

I totally agree.  I don't need most of this stuff and I'm happy to pay $10 for the game that I do want rather than $20 for a bunch of stuff I don't care about.  You might prefer to pay $20 and get everything all at once (though I don't understand why you would), but it would have sold a lot less if it had been $20.

It is kind of annoying the way this DLC is so obviously stuff that they already had planned and could have put in the game in the first place, but for all we know, they're losing their shirts selling the game for $10 and making it up with the DLC (I doubt it, but you never know).  Alls I know is, I'm glad I was able to buy the main game for only $10.

DLC does spur the creation of addon content though, if there was no DLC there'd be less incentive to develop anything past the original game, you'd maybe get one bonus character to play it again and a difficulty setting that just makes enemies do more damage/fire more bullets. The hard modes for MM9 sound like they changed enemy placement so it's a proper hard mode instead of the cheap one it would have been had it been in the game. Sure, Protoman would probably have been in the game otherwise too but I doubt the rest of that stuff would have made it. At least they made most of it cheap instead of going the Square-Enix route...

AFAIK Nintendo has stated they believe it's wrong to charge both for the game and for playing it, I suppose that applies to DLC too...

Most speedrun categories specify a character if it's obvious that one is way faster than the other.

Should've saved those $8 for Vectorman in case MaBoShi comes out :P.