A long time ago I used to buy computer games.
And that was it.
You bought a game, you played it, you possibly completed it and then you gave it away to your mates.

Then in the late ninties came the expansion pack. An additional disk/cartridge that offered a continuation of the game, but at a cost (yeah you know all this).

With the addition of guaranteed internet to consoles we have been hit by a new and insipid method of greed. The downloadable content.
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