Kind of late, but I'm obliged to give my controversial opinion on this: the constant bitching about DLC and their prices is immature and juvenile. As strategy game players who feel a sense of superiority over the mainstream games industry, let's act worthy of it. PDX is a company: they want to sell their products for the highest price possible. We are consumers: we want to buy their products for the lowest price possible. Through econ 101 a price is arrived at. This isn't to defend the multi-billion dollar corporation, it's just to say that you have agency. If $300 dollars of DLC is too expensive, just don't buy it the same way that you wouldn't buy a $50 Big Mac.
It is basic price discrimination: with time, through inflation and discounts the price of games and DLC always lowers over time. I am always embarrassed whenever someone posts about their DLC sticker shock, because they invariably are always looking at the full price without any discount at all. I haven't bought a full price game on Steam in half a decade; everything I've bought has always been on sale. If you are the sort of person who buys games full price when they come out, or god forbid full price years after they come out when their price regularly gets halved in the summer/winter sales, you are beyond help. You are consoomer cattle incapable of operating as a rational actor in the market.
And another thing: do the basic math. There is one thing common among all games with hundreds of dollars worth of DLC and expansions: they're being developed continuously. It's not some grand Swedish-Jewish conspiracy, they have to find a way to fund all those development hours. This rightfully should have no influence on whether you actually decide to buy what they produce or not, but it's just annoying that so many people don't understand the basics of game development and funding.
Whenever I see bitching about their DLC and monetization policies it gives me the same feeling as seeing niggers complaining about credit scores, insurance, the price of housing, and student loan debt. It's the dreaded e-word, but in this case it accurately describes this phenomenon: entitlement. I don't want this to be misconstrued at all, I want to be explicitly clear: I don't care if you pirate. Free media and information 100%, that one Pravin Lal Alpha Centauri quote, etc etc. Just understand that you are a nigger incapable of patience and of being a rational actor in the market. This isn't an argument that "if you pirate PDX will go bankrupt". It's about what it says about you. Getting things for free without working for them hurts the soul. Earn your leisure time and entertainment through honest work. If modern games are too expensive for you just read some fucking books.
The relationship of PDX to their rapecattle is akin to the one between luxury brands and their niggers: you want the product they offer but you won't/can't pay the price they demand. I don't know about the rest of you, but something being priced more than it's worth lowers its desirability for me. Yet PDX has such a vice grip on your balls that you twist and contort yourselves in all these gay little ways to justify your nigger behavior. You break the glass case or whatever and swipe what you want and justify it later by saying "they're just a bunch of price gouging corporations, man".
If any of you preorder EU5, buy EU5 on release day, or even buy it less than 18 months after release, you are Swedish FOMO rapecattle and you deserve everything that they serve you. There is literally no harm to waiting whatsoever. There is literally no harm to operating on a 5 or 7-year time lag. Plenty of great games, strategy games, came out in 2018 and they're all cheap as hell.
Own up to the fact that you wouldn't buy it at any price: if you were willing to buy the full game at $20, then you'd wait the 3-5 years it takes. But you want permission and approval from the crowd to pirate your videogames, and it's just pathetic.