{"id":108405,"date":"2016-10-17T17:27:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108405"},"modified":"2016-10-17T17:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:28:36","slug":"how-many-people-actually-buy-dlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/108405-how-many-people-actually-buy-dlc","title":{"rendered":"How many people actually buy DLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by NPD reveals the amount of people that purchase Downloadable Content for their video games.<\/p>\n<p>An online survey was conducted among males and females ages 13-54. The survey was conducted from 19 August &#8211; 2 September 2016 and had a total of 8,893 respondents.<\/p>\n<p>Among the U.S. population of males and females aged 13-54, 28% have purchased additional video game content in the past three months, with males and teens being the primary purchasers.<\/p>\n<p>Microtransactions are purchased more often than downloadable content (DLC), at 23% and 16%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s still a large amount of gamers who simply won&#8217;t buy DLC because of the additional cost.<\/p>\n<p>Close to half of non-purchasers of micro-transactions are not willing to spend any money on them, while 48% felt the content was not worth the extra expense.<\/p>\n<p>Those that do buy DLC cite include wanting to play\u00a0with friends, having all the game content, and feeling the price for the extra content was reasonable.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to A list of all the completely free games on Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/108221-a-list-of-all-the-completely-free-games-on-steam.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">A list of all the completely free games on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how many people actually buy DLC for their games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":87950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,451,75,10879],"class_list":["post-108405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-dlc","tag-npd","tag-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108411,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108405\/revisions\/108411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}