Is Capcom Honestly This Greedy?

Yesterday I bought the new Resident Evil 5 DLC "Lost in Nightmares" and my friend and I jumped into the Mercenaries Reunion mode. We played a few levels then decided to look up how to unlock the other characters. To our disappointment, we found out that to get any other characters, you would either need to buy the next DLC episode (unlocks two new characters), or buy one of two "character packs" for 180G. Is 180G a lot? No, of course not, but the fact that they want to charge you for characters to use in a DLC pack seems really ridiculous. What do you guys think? Is this just Capcom being greedy? Would you buy DLC for DLC? I'm not saying that character skins is something vital to the game which we shouldn't be charged for, but it seems unnecessary to charge for them. 

Well they were charging for costumes in SF4 so not that big of a surprise. Still seems a little unfair though.

i think this is actually a mistake i think joystiq had a article on this.

Capcom is a Japanese company, and therefore might not 'get' DLC quite right at this point in time.

If that is true, than capcom can suck it, but Animalfather said it was a mistake so hopefully that is the case.

 @ProlificShadow said:

DLC for DLC

If people are willing to pay extra for costumes and characters, they are willing to sell them for extra. It's not exactly hurting them to have a few extras sitting on XBLA doing nothing, but if they realize there's no serious money in these things (aka people don't really buy them), then they will stop making them as additional pay for downloads, and possibly either minimize making such extras (charge or no charge), or just add them into the original game copy. I somehow doubt they'll be as eager to do the later.

" i think this is actually a mistake i think joystiq had a article on this. "

its called money.  If you ever smelled it, you would do anything to get it.  Even have sex with this guy...
 

Welcome to the world of video games. You must be new here.

The prices on the new episode is very fair, for the other characters not fair.  And yes all companies are greedy....  Even Nintendo

WAIT WAIT -- a company being GREEDY?! 
stop the presses.

Oh, the DLC is out? Good to know. Also, I think it would be ridiculous for anyone to buy a character skin.

Sure why not?

I've reached the point where all DLC can fuck off. Japanese companies are the worst when it comes to selling overpriced/worthless DLC by far. Not that the Western companies are doing much better. Can I just buy something that's complete and full-featured?

I don't even need to read your post. The answer is YES!

" Capcom is a Japanese company, and therefore might not 'get' DLC quite right at this point in time. "

I'm not sure if it's right to complain about this in particular, as I thought the DLC was really really good value for the price. It didn't have to contain those 2 new guys, I would have been happy without them. Just consider them a bonus.

yes, capcom is being greedy on that. i just think that they shouldn't even charge for DLC in my opinion.

Capcom...you suck crocodile balls!

Yeah, Capcom are greedy.

This is publishers' wet dream. Continually charging you piecemeal for small items.
 
Sadly a lot of people think this is the future of games. Hopefully it won't be, but I don't have much faith in humanity.