I was going to mention something earlier, but this gives a better opportunity. A small part of the problem for me is that they ask us to buy this stuff but we often don't have a good idea of what it actually means to the game. For instance, suppose they offer a DLC package with a special armor and some magic items / weapons. Are these going to be handled like many ARPG quest rewards, wherein you get the special item but it's no better - and often worse - than the stuff you've already acquired up to this point in the game?

I suppose it depends on the DLC content, then. Additional gameplay I'm mostly fine with. More stuff, especially in games that already have randomized stuff... not so much. Game music? I nearly always turn off the game music anyway, so that's not content I would purchase separately. Artbook and the like? Meh, though there have been instances where I wish I could see better versions of the in-game visual content, be it areas, monsters, NPCs, what-have-you. But not interested enough in it to shell out more money.

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Maybe some of my eye rolling at DLC comes from being an old-school gamer. "Back in the day", he says, taking a drag from his pipe whilst sitting in the rocking chair on the porch, "upgrades used to be big packages. Practically a game unto themselves, in many cases. None of this '$0.99 for a wise-cracking parrot' nonsense. $10 would get you an extra paper manual, 20+ hours of gameplay, a dozen or more new units... all sorts of stuff. And it worked. Nowadays. Bah!"

As above, I wait for the most complete edition to go on deep discount. The added benefit is I pay less for the fully patched and fan quality of life modded version.

Yes.

I wonder if profit gets really made with all those separate DLC's or if game companies lose out on many sales, seeing more people in here stating they WON'T buy a game cut up in many different parts than people who buy them anyway. Wouldn't companies sell MORE if they only sold COMPLETE games? This topic seems to indicate such. The only thing wrong with this conclusion could be, the responders in this topic aren't a representative sample of people buying games (which we probably aren't, being an outspoken minority compared to the masses that gather on Steam or the multitudes that play console games instead).