This looks really cool.
But man, I am not a fan anymore of this trend of adding micro-expansion-pack content updates years after release. I realize I might be the only one who feels that way, because a lot of people see it as very generous on the devs' behalf. But it feels like I'm missing out on a big chunk of a game unless I either 1. wait for years to play it, or 2. go back and replay it.. again and again. There are too many games to play as it is to justify option #2, though, unless it's a game you really love.
I'd honestly rather see developers put all those micro-expansions together into a sequel. But that's, strangely, become a riskier business decision today than releasing something small for free that will gain free press and positive PR, cashing in on renewed sales every quarter. At least for big games where the guarantee of press coverage is there.
For me, it depends on the game. No Man's Sky was in very bad shape when it was released. It didn't even have a storyline to play through, it was just a sandbox. Even today, the storyline they do have is minimum. It's there more to guide you through what the game has to offer. The fact that the purpose of playing NMS isn't to play through a campaign (and the fact that they haven't added any new trophies,) helps because there's nothing specific to draw you back to playing the game. You're not really missing out on not going back to it.
Another game that I play often is Dead by Daylight. which also doesn't have any sort of storyline or campaign. I mean, it's really just a horror version of
Hide & Seek mixed with
Tag with each match lasting on average of 10 minutes. If the game was never changed from the way it was at launch, it would be a tedious game after a while. The fact that they release new killers and survivors every three months really keeps it fresh and something to genuinely go back to every so often.
Episodic titles like the Telltale games, or games like Assassin's Creed, however, I do absolutely get annoyed at that they spread out these episodes or season pass add-ons across a year or more. Those games
do have a campaign and/or story that you get invested in. I don't want to have to go back to it every few months because then I feel unfulfilled until the next installment, not to the mention I'll have forgotten some of the nuances of the story in between playing them. I just want to play through the story while I'm in the game's mindframe. So I've basically learned at this point not to even start playing it until all the DLC has been released, even if that's two years after release. I have more than enough games across the last
five generations I haven't played yet, I don't need to play a game at launch. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to have an entire game on disc that I can pop in and play straight through right when I'm excited for it rather than waiting two years later to even start it.
I definitely wouldn't want
all expansions put into sequels, though, because sequels usually ditch some aspects of what came before it. Like, Rock Band 4 is great because they constantly put out new songs that you can add to your massive library going back to Rock Band 1. If they did the sequel route, it'd be like Guitar Hero 1-4 where each game was just a new set of songs and you lost what you had in the game before it.
