My point is that, by and large, there is a segment of the player base that will immediately, on any news concerning the game, go right to the Nth level of negativity about it.
IOI announces that they will have a DLC and the reaction is that they are just money-grubbing thieves turning out crap content for way too much money. If you don’t think that the content is worth the cost, feel free to not purchase it. We have no idea what will be in the various season packs aside from the first one. Maybe it is just 7 escalations. Maybe it’s an exclusive ET. Maybe it’s a pointless suit. We do not know. We assume based on price and one sentence that it’s 7 escalations but we do not know that.
I would not expect any game company to release a game and then a year’s worth of extra content for that game afterwards completely for free. I would expect to have to pay for at least a part of it. I am completely satisfied so far with the content that I’ve paid for and I hope that the majority of players are too. There could very well be bonus missions a la patient zero embedded in that pricing structure and I hope there is but I won’t feel like they lied to me or ripped me off if that isn’t the case.