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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Wouldn't the controversy be that Cyberpunk is incomplete, and this expansion is actually the finished game?