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Anonymous asked:
Are the reasons why dlcs don’t require or advertise other dlcs for their content to work or show up because of potential compromised sales, as well as being fare to all customers who buy them?
A
The most important rule for selling any product is “make it as easy as possible for your customer to buy your product”. Putting in roadblocks like “you must own DLC A in order to use DLC B” might get a small number of people to buy DLC A (begrudgingly), but a significantly larger number of other players who would have bought DLC B on its own would choose not to buy it at all. Putting in advertisements for other DLCs is fine as long as it isn’t too much , because that typically won’t drive (many) players away. It isn’t worth it to shoot our own sales in the foot like that.
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