I figured out why companies sell "GOTY" versions cheaper than DLC-alone...

[futurefields]

It's so they can claim their game sold more copies. That's why you see stuff like Borderlands 2 GOTY being cheaper than buying even half the DLC it comes with individually on sale. That way when Borderlands 3 comes out they can advertise it as "The sequel to the 10 million selling Borderlands 2!" even though half the sales were GOTY versions to those who already had the game and just wanted the DLC at the further reduced price...

 

[BSim500]

Yeah, "total game sales" have always been part-fact, part-voodoo. :hmm: Of course the upside is, if you're not desperate to play games the instant they come out, and can wait a while, you get a bug-fixed game that actually works, with DLC that feels like it should have been included with the game anyway - for a bargain...

 

[chimaxi83]

Wow, super sleuth. You should write a book.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Same for Skyrim on the steam summer sale. The Dragonborn DLC that I wanted was the same price as the game of the year edition, which included all the DLC. Havent decided if I will purchase the GOTY edition yet. I would much rather pay less for the only DLC that I wanted since I have the base game already.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Yeah, "total game sales" have always been part-fact, part-voodoo. :hmm: Of course the upside is, if you're not desperate to play games the instant they come out, and can wait a while, you get a bug-fixed game that actually works, with DRM that feels like it should have been included with the game anyway - for a bargain...

DLC?

 

[Fenixgoon]

with digital distribution, your costs are minimal, and if you can incentivize purchasing your game, why not? it's an easy way for the company to make more money with minimal effort and cost. they'd be stupid NOT to do it.

 

[norseamd]

Same for Skyrim on the steam summer sale. The Dragonborn DLC that I wanted was the same price as the game of the year edition, which included all the DLC. Havent decided if I will purchase the GOTY edition yet. I would much rather pay less for the only DLC that I wanted since I have the base game already.

Just go and buy the legendary edition instead of getting only one dlc.

All of the dlc is worth it and you can turn any of them off if you do not like any of them.

 

[arkcom]

I have a second steam account for this kind of thing. At least my original copy is not wasted.

 

[BSim500]

DLC?

Yeah, sorry typo. (Hey, it's Sunday! :biggrin: )

 

[Lonyo]

It's to encourage you to definitely spend $x, rather than buying one or two bits of DLC for less than $x.
If each DLC is $10 and there are 5, would you buy all 5 for $50, or buy GOTY with all of them for $40? You see the deal of $40 for GOTY and buy that, rather than looking at all the individual DLC and thinking "Maybe I'll buy 0-2". They get more money by selling it for less because you spend more than you would have otherwise...

 

[finglobes]

I think DLC are mostly impulse buys when they come out one at a time. Some dude played Skyrim and is craving more when Dawnguard comes out for a very overpriced $20 and so on. Someone could have spent well over $100 on Skyrim paying full price for stuff. By the time the GOTY editions are out many people already bought the DLC they want and they are on to the next big game. Overpriced DLC are just artifacts of an initial ripoff and left on sale for unsavvy buyers. There's a dicey aspect to DLC

 

[PingSpike]

I'm a bad consumer so I'm not sure anyone should listen to me...but DLC pretty much turns me off a lot of games. I see it at launch and think "I don't want to deal with that, I'll just wait for the GOTY edition. I don't have time to play it right now anyway." Then I forget about the game altogether, probably because the marketing push has disappeared. Sometimes I eventually buy the GOTY on a steam sale later.

 

[BrightCandle]

I buy dlc relatively rarely, and game of the year editions/dlc all included versions of games only get bought in sales by me. Either I care enough about the game that I buy the dlc as it comes out or I don't bother.

 

[futurefields]

Im not buying Fallout 4 at launch unless bethesda massively upgrades their engine.

 

[Cerb]

It's so they can claim their game sold more copies. That's why you see stuff like Borderlands 2 GOTY being cheaper than buying even half the DLC it comes with individually on sale. That way when Borderlands 3 comes out they can advertise it as "The sequel to the 10 million selling Borderlands 2!" even though half the sales were GOTY versions to those who already had the game and just wanted the DLC at the further reduced price...

Plus, those who arleady bought the game, but didn't pick up the DLCs as they came out, are unlikely to bite, except on a sale. Also, some of us, knowing the GOTY versions are going to happen, will wait, for SP games, until they are available.

That said, thanks to the recent BL2: GOTY (pronounced, "Borderlands 2: Fish Edition"), I've spent just over $19 buying Borderlands 2 3 times, two of those times directly through Steam (one of which was to get BL1's DLCs as part of a GOTY, and it happened to include BL2, w/o DLCs which I had already bought and started playing, thus making me want the first one ).

 

[Northern Lawn]

It's so they can claim their game sold more copies. That's why you see stuff like Borderlands 2 GOTY being cheaper than buying even half the DLC it comes with individually on sale. That way when Borderlands 3 comes out they can advertise it as "The sequel to the 10 million selling Borderlands 2!" even though half the sales were GOTY versions to those who already had the game and just wanted the DLC at the further reduced price...

They should add the amount of times it was torrented to get some real bragging rights. Or, they could just make up a number. Private companys can do that.

 

[norseamd]

Also, some of us, knowing the GOTY versions are going to happen, will wait, for SP games, until they are available.

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The cost of each DLC together at full price is way too much.