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The Expansion already includes the base game. And now people are pissed they have to pay "twice". The only reasoning I can understand here if you argue that the base game was promised as more and wasn't worth the price. And you have a reason to be pissed if you bought the base game without knowing about the expansion before the expansion released.
I'll just explain where I'm coming from, and then shut up, as I don't want to foul up this thread.
In the first place, the game was released in a pretty basic state, with much talk about more stuff being added later. To me, the first question is whether these improvements and development of the gameplay constitute an "expansion" that ought to be paid extra for, or improvements that buyers and backers should be able to expect as part of the package. As one guy on Reddit put it," Frontier is charging us twice for a game they haven't delivered once."
If we accept for a moment that the additions to Elite do constitute an expansion that is fair to charge for, my question is about how this is priced. We understand that when we buy a full price title, and then a series of expansions, we'll end up paying more than someone who buys the full GOTY edition years later. But the expansions are usually priced sensibly relative to the main game. Maybe $60 for the game, and $15 or $20 for each expansion.
What I don't expect is that each time an expansion is released, I will have to pay $60 again, to get the expansion plus the original as a new package. And again the next time. I think that's very poor value, and I wouldn't like it if, say, PoE charged once for the main game, then, a few months later, full price again for the main game + White March Part 1.
It seems to me that this is what they are doing with Elite Dangerous: Horizons.
N.B. If the conversation goes on, maybe a mod could snip it into the other new thread about ED?
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