Hmm, I was thinking to get this game soon but now I guess I'll wait for the ultimate edition that will come along eventually and have all this extra stuff included.

@Hunkulese: I wouldn't be so quick to jump to that conclusion.

So I bought my copy at Bestbuy which came with a $10 gift card. I consider that free DLC my friends.

They need to be more fucking clear about this bullshit. I saw them advertising this on the dashboard lastnight and ignored it. "I don't need the Rock Star Pass", I thought, "because I bought the game new".  There is nothing about the way they present it that makes it clear that it is something different than one of those "EA Project $10 Milk Money Out of Your Paying Users" bullshit.  Also, I hope that you can use the DLC even after you've finished the game, since unlike other Rockstar games, you can't finish/100%/etc the game after you have beat the final case (it goes to credits and if you try to play more, it just starts the final case over in the middle of a chase).

I thought this would be free to the original purchaser, with this as an option to buy for those who don't have those redeemable codes..? Since this is typical already rolled out gone gold 108 kilobyte "DLC" people are getting bummed in the gob

Awesome, man I read it as if Reefer Madness was coming out on my birthday which would have been too perfect.

I thought this would be free to the original purchaser, with this as an option to buy for those who don't have those redeemable codes..? Since this is typical already rolled out gone gold 108 kilobyte "DLC" people are getting bummed in the gob

Here we go, the start of the "season's pass" sales trend.  The more this sells, the more monetized the video game finances become.  No bias either way, just pointing out a clear shift in video game sales mentality.  We're on the brink of a new philosophy if this succeeds.

They can just keep rolling this shit out and I'll keep buying it.

Not feeling it. Hope they do some awesome Halloween DLC though.

Not sure if I will get dlc for this game...

Rockstar said before release that they were going to sell all the pre-order DLC eventually, but I didn't expect it to be this soon.  This whole thing seems kind of weird, but I'm willing to pay $10 to get all the content that's currently out there, plus two additional cases.   
 
This was discussed on the Bombcast a few weeks ago, but you have to wonder how much DLC is going to be released, given the cost and time commitment involved with getting the cast into a studio.   

The pass seems like a great deal, I'll pick that up for sure.

It took dlc to teach me that I can get a shotgun from the trunk of my squad car.

I just got about 500 free msp from being part of that Microsoft Rewards program so I'm up for this.

Bitch bitch, moan moan. 
 
I would have paid even more for the bonus cases, so I'll bite. Good on ya, Rockstar.

Sounds good to me.

Sweet more cases

@Branthog: The achievements may be in your list, but they are not part of the games disc allotted 1000 points. The game has a total of 1200 gamerscore if every achievement would be unlocked, thus you're not missing out on any of the points you are supposed to be able to unlock from a retail disc. They are treated as DLC so they get away with it. As for it being a 100kb download to unlock something on a disc, I'm usually super pro DLC and the entitlement a lot of people seem to have when it comes to DLC released after the fact is sickening, however this being on disc is quite shadey but I guess they were ment to be a preorder incentive so they gated it away. I never preorder games so I'm happy I even get the choice to access the content.

im fukin stoked fo this

Well, if the Playstation Store is up and running before the price goes up, I reckon I'd go for the Pass. But at this rate, I I should maybe add it to my Christmas list.

Also wish Alex formatted this so it was easier to read the content and how much adds you'll get for 10 bones. Right now it is just blocks of text. Cmon Alex. Don't let bloggers one up you.

Rockstar's approach to DLC is becoming pretty status quo. They tested a few things out with GTA IV and smoothed the wrinkles out in Red Dead Redemption. I'd expect an L.A. Noire DLC bundle to hit the marketplace sometime in the fall...

This was an instant buy for me for my Xbox 360. I own the game on PS3 and I'm thinking about getting this there also. 
 
I kinda like it how Rockstar is doing this with the DLC.

Not sure about this one.  On one hand the $10 season pass sounds great, on the other hand, I already have two pieces of DLC for LA Noire I can't use since the store's not back up yet.  $10 to get you $20 is good, $10 to get you $16, shoot, still good.  Maybe I'll just get the pass and offload the voucher to someone on GB.

season pass sounds perfect

Eh sure. But realistically I'll be picking up the game for $10-15 cheaper than $60 anyway. I'm still not cool with a brand new game and all its content costing me $75+ unless it comes with an extravagant figurine.
 
And could we have an editorial ruling on which price goes in the parenthesis throughout an article and which one gets absurd-money-name of the week? I suppose I'm just upset there aren't more occasions to say "Nintendollars".

@Damian said:

No, thanks. Seems a fair price and all, but I'd rather pay $10 for one big DLC package along the lines of Undead Nightmare or some of the Borderlands offers. And you have to know that they have something bigger planned after mid-July. I'm'a wait for that, and hope I still care when it comes.

Rockstar has stated that the DLC announced today is all of the planned DLC for the game.

It's ironic, but all the DLC and pre-order garbage only serves to devalue their game and increase demand for cheaper used prices
 
I bought this game new foolishly thinking the "Rockstar Pass" would be included.... Shoulda stuck with my original plan of getting it used for $20-30 so I could afford all the DLC.. As is stands now, I don't feel like upping my investment in this game to $75. 
 
...And try to imagine for a second how fragmented the next GTA is going to be. Ah, video games

I'm all up for some reefer madness.

Getting the pass. I'll be getting 3 DLC packs and eventually save 160 MSP on it so it works out good.

Hell yeah, more time with Roy Earle, can't wait!

so sick of 360 getting dlc first. its fucking stupid.  
 
but on the other hand, the ps3 version is superior in terms of graphics and of course the amount of discs (lol). 

i'll get the rockstar pass

Also I wanted to add, that in the Country I live in and is born in, game shop almost never have any pre-order stuff. Games are rarely even offered to pre-order. So for us this Rockstar Pass is a nice way to get pre-order and other DLC content that we maybe wouldn't be able to get.

Also wish Alex formatted this so it was easier to read the content and how much adds you'll get for 10 bones. Right now it is just blocks of text. Cmon Alex. Don't let bloggers one up you. 

So the "free community unlock" of the Chicago Piano gun was my preorder bonus, which I still haven't managed to download through the store, for obvious reasons.
 
Not sure whether I should be annoyed or not.

Since the penalty for not getting this soon is all of $2 in price increase, I can wait until I pick up the game down the road.  If it was $15, I'd consider getting it now.  Want to play, but got enough to get through for now.  

Still waiting for LA Noire to arrive in the mail, cant wait to see how it plays.

I think I'll wait for the GOTY where all of this stuff is just built in.

so sick of 360 getting dlc first. its fucking stupid.   but on the other hand, the ps3 version is superior in terms of graphics and of course the amount of discs (lol). 

I enjoyed L.A. Noire but not enough to buy the DLC. I'm not fond of having to pay for this pass either. I assumed that it would come with new copies of the game as an incentive to not buy pre-owned. I'm not saying that it isn't a fair pricetag for the content, but I feel like at least some of it should have been offered free to the people who bought this game on day one.

I really like the idea of the RockStar Pass. It's the equivalent of Red Dead Redemption's "Undead Nightmare Collection" which included all of the DLC for Red Dead Redemption. That was a steal, and so is this, assuming you enjoyed L.A. Noire.