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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I love trying to find the "complete" game when I'm LTTP with some titles: "GOTY edition", "Premium Edition", "Next-get Edition", "Complete Edition"... seriously, which is that one with all the DLCs?!

I had to Google to figure out how to install the next-get version of Witcher 3. I owned the GOTY edition, but the next-gen patch was for the complete edition, and that wasn't "another edition for this game" on PS5, so I had to find the PS4 edition of the complete edition, which was $19.99, and got through "other editions" for that edition to find the "next-gen edition" for the PS5, which luckily was free...

I *might* remember that wrong, and it *might* have been a "me problem", but jeeez  it was a nightmare from my pov :p
gpt
I've been losing it with the endless amount of versions too and honestly decided enough is enough. If I look at some game through Steam and I can't figure out which version has everything without doing any amount of research on it, I won't buy that game. It's scummy practice from the company and I won't put my money on it.

The same thing goes for games with a long list of DLCs, it just shows that the game makers are more interested in nickel and diming the gamers with endless packs of crap than making a coherent game.

Edit: I've actually been suspecting that some companies purposefully make a decent base game and save their scummy practices for the DLCs. The base game still gets the good reviews from users and the horrible reviews of the DLCs won't reflect directly to the main game's score. Then when you've already bought the main game, it's easier to end up buying the DLCs too even if you see they have a horrible score.