• Sneezycat@sopuli.xyz
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    I think you mean an “expansion pack” or just expansion… Damn, I miss when “DLC” wasn’t a thing. I’m getting old.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      I feel like the only one who still remembers that DLC simply means “DownLoadable Content” and can apply equally to big expansions as it does to MTX. The name comes from the delivery method more than the content itself. Keep in mind, it was first coined when the primary method of content delivery was selling shit on a disc, so easily distinguished from things you could buy in the store irl vs what only was available as a download.

      The infrastructure of the Internet at the time made it easier for this to be smaller things. But now? Dude, we are downloading 120GB games and sometimes updates off Steam and nobody is batting an eye anymore. lol

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        Yeah, in my mind expansions were map pack discs released for Halo and Ghost Recon, DLC was promotional armor from Pepsi codes. That’s obviously warped since 2004, but in general, that’s what it felt like back then.

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      Yes, but those were called addons once upon a time. Before addons were user scripts or mods, etc.

      At least that’s what they were called in Germany.

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        In the US, expansion packs were the general term used.

        For example, RCT2 had the Wacky Worlds and Time Twister expansion packs. Empire at War had the Forces of Corruption expansion. While some were called add-ons, those were typically like tiny things, one-off characters or whatever.