I do not know if i should laugh, or get angry. The legalization of crooked ways and indirect thievery, tend to assume gigantic proportions as of late, worldwide. Problem is, many people are voluntary suckers willing to spend money on thin air, and brainless parasites like them feed and fuel greed and corruption.
The gaming industry has taken a turn for the worse, from approximately 9 years ago. Expansions got replaced by dlcs, DRM got well established, the law about 1 legal copy for personal use of whatever-it-is-you-bought has perished, most games have become MMO or full of MMO-like features, *certain* single player games need 24/7 internet connection, preorder/dlc/dlc barrage is almost a given in each and every new title, and last but not least, few companies actually care or bother to pack up all dlcs in one go (as a GOTY or whatever else) along with the game itself at a decent price (usually the same as the starting one of vanilla), let alone deliver them for free, like ours trully (here, CDPR).
1 way people usually believe that solves that, is said to be piracy. A morally conscious and environment-friendly pirate, buys the game legit, vanilla-standalone, and remains on the lookout for cracked DLCs. But that simply works against the gamer, justifying the DRM crusade of those idiotic companies. Because you funded them. And stole their following up work, justifying their delusionary rantings about big bad pirates causing them to starve. Win win situation for the animals that they are.
Another way is to boycott their products. This seems to have some limited effects. Do not try petitions, most companies wipe their !@#$s off with them, even if those signing them are over 460,000 people. And do not try 100% piracy, this brings the most damage possible on all of the gaming community, since they will be forced to continue with their already established malpractices and foul standards.
New DLC ideas: Same old... After all, it works. Why wouldn't big companies spam it to death???
New skins: 4.99$ each
New constumes: 3.99$ each.
New players: 24.99$ each.
New quests/missions/contents/areas: 29.99$ per package
New instances or instanced zones: 19.99$ per addition
New items: 0.99$ per piece, 9.99$ the entire collection/set/whatever
New difficulty settings: whoops, already covered.
New resolutions: whoops, already covered.
New travel/transportation means: 10.97$
(New) achievements: 9.99$
In game shop with micro transactions (even in single players)
Auction House with real money (even in single players) Hmmm, those last 2 stink of Diablo
Better drop rates and xp gain: Implementation in single players NOW! 9.99$ per 24 hours active buff!
DRM removal: 200$
Play free until level 20. After that, pay 30$ and download digitally your game unlocked and fully patched.
And much more. I sincerely hope this stuff remains fruity fiction, though, or a thing of the past, depending on occasion.