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by dfxm12 210 days ago
You can only sell a game once. Once you have your customers' money, you've achieved your goal. What else is there to do? DLC has a hard cap on your possible sales...

You could work on a totally new game, but, I think companies are looking to cut costs by reusing content.

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Factorio 2.0 seemed to pull it off. I think that as long as users don’t feel misled by a DLC that only adds a few skins, they generally appreciate larger updates to a game.
> DLC has a hard cap on your possible sales...

DLCs have a hard cap on possible sales in the same way a new game has a hard cap on possible sales. DLC releases can, and do, bring in new players to the base game.

or you go "online" and milk customers for decade? yeah that is done by Rockstar.