Really? Hearing about a character reveal from a third party source a bit before the official press reveal rather than from the developer/publisher themselves somehow ruined the final game experience and enjoyability for you?

Ah yes, he told people a few days before the official announcement that Keanu Reeves is part of Cyberpunk and ruined it for everyone. The game is now completely unplayable, totally not worth bothering with at all.

No, you’re missing the point.

I’m not saying **ALL** DLC is bad, it isn’t. Far from.

This goes both ways however.

RIP Hazelight, Zoink! and Glowmade... Only a matter of time before EA shuts you down for underperforming.

Expansions have been around for a long time. True. Expansions typically didn’t start development till late in the development cycle. Nowadays? Some DLC expansions are literally fully made on release - they just get unlocked later for a fee.

Because life is clearly far more important than quality of life...

This is a large part of why I’ll always continue to dispute any claims regarding video game prices when people argue that the $60 pricepoint is “fair” and that reasonably the prices should’ve gone up a long time ago due to inflation etc.

I understand what the point is, I’m just saying that the vast majority of people aren’t interested in the context or interested in thinking.

While I thoroughly agree with your sentiments - the sad reality of the industry is that the bigger companies involved are loathed to risk their precious dollars on new concepts.

Depends on where you live and how much money you have.

The problem with that is that with the vast majority of people you’ll either spend half the conversation dumbing things down in an attempt to get the point across or having them go glassy eyed because they’d rather talk about something related to the Kardashians or equivalent.

In a way I feel for #1 - despite all the drawbacks in both his attitude and high list of preferences.

Pretty much, except with annoying little problems like legislature and other legal constructs that prevent you from outright taking someones company assets and getting away with the theft/fraud.

You’re saying you play a hauler in Eve then?

I’d say that calling half a dozen buildings on close proximity a village would even be quite generous.

Heck even “hamlet” gets the following parameters:

A game could be released on multiple systems.

It’s funny people keep bringing up anti-consumer practices as if they’re somehow a better argument than some of the shady business and information dealings going on.

Yeah, it’s a generous sale. But it sure seems to be telling me that they’re wanting to do whatever they can to increase the number of computers their storefront is on.