@AzulCrescent I miss back when there weren't really DLCs but instead you got expansion packs. Because they were so separated they had to be basically a whole game in themselves. You spent 1/4th the cost of the game and got maybe 1/2th of the content of the game new with extras that carried over into other things.
But on the subject of DLCs, remember Dragon Age? I always felt like that was the peak of the current system. At that moment they really slammed it home how bad it had gotten. You step out after this epic prologue and you're ready to try to save the world, then suddenly some random dude runs up, demands you save his family because your parents owed him or something, but first you have to pay real money, so here's a clickable link.
Like they just gave up all pretense.