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Cyberpunk 2077’s Devs Explain The $30 Expansion Price Tag That’s Raising Eyebrows (kotaku.com)
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Tl;dr; expansion pretty much change whole game, reworks core game mechanics and adds whole new district. Plus Idris Elba and more of Keanu with expansion having almost as much lines as core game.

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[–] InduperatorRex@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fairly-priced expansions are 10000x better than garbage micro-transactions and DLC, I don't get why anyone would be annoyed with this

[–] dragna@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Literally this. Even in older games journalism there was a difference between additional content and true expansions. We used to call developers out for labelling something as an expansion that didn't have enough additional content. This is pretty close to what full expansions used to cost ($20-25 is what I remember for something like Shadows of Amn), and the amount of additional content fits.

I think a lot of people are used to the incremental and constant content release for live services games that are generally free. More is not always better, though...and free is not always free lol.

[–] Teal_Master@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Eights_wsh Please stop linking Kotaku.

[–] Eights_wsh@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Any reason why "not Kotaku"?

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Please add something productive to the conversation instead of whining about Kotaku.

[–] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I mean, if they don't bomb its release like the main game's and actually provide content worth $30, this pricing doesn't seem unreasonable. I'm gonna wait and see how good it is, how solid it works and what actually comes with the DLC, before making a decision. If they deliver $30 content, I will pay $30.