>>16176463>Day one DLC too.Except that's not why most games have day1 DLC.
It takes a long time to ship a game physically. Printing millions of copies, printing manuals in multiple languages, distro to warehouse, distro to stores, etc. It takes months.
But shipping online is just a matter of approval which can be days/weeks.
So when your deadline is looming, and you need to wrap up your game to ship, stuff gets cut. In olden times that stuff would just never see the light of day (or appear in an expansion 2 years later). Now they can work on it till a couple weeks before launch, and launch it day 1 with the game as DLC.
Sure some companies are evil and abuse DLC, but many are just trying to get you extra stuff to make the game more fun.
