JFarrell71
SasqWatch
Trust me, there are many, many gamers out there without a clue. The audience is much larger and much more diverse than it used to be.
Now, they won't die because they buy this and expect more than a 5-10 hours campaign, but that doesn't mean it's the honest way to market it.
I know some people think that if you don't do thorough research, you deserve to be punished - but I'm not one of those people.
If DLC has no inherent expectations and expansions have no inherent expectations - then I suppose calling Horse Armor for Oblivion an expansion is A-OK?
If the Council Missions DLC for X-Com was called an expansion, then that'd be ok as well?
Expansions as we used to know them were often integrated directly INTO the main game - like is the case with Diablo 2 and the recent X-Com expansion. Some weren't. So that point is hereby refuted.
I don't care how much bullshit semantics people care to spout: Expansions differ from DLC in the perception of the audience - and it's about having more content and more significant content.
It's true that there's no way to quantify what that means, exactly, and if you're ok with this Shadowrun campaign story being called an expansion - there's no problem.
I have no problem with it, myself - I'm just pointing out that it was called DLC and it's now called an expansion. I'm questioning whether there's a good enough reason for that - and I reserve the right to be sceptical.
That's all.
You are spinning yourself in circles, fuming all the while, and it's kinda silly.
DLC is, and has always been, a term that denotes a method of delivery, not an indication of size. It is true that digital delivery made it possible for companies to release much smaller content packs than they could have when the only way they could sell something to you was to put it on an optical disc and sell it through a retailer. So, we got some famously tiny DLC, like the infamous horse armor.
To cite one example that I'm sure you'll poke some kind of weird holes in, Bethesda called everything they released for Skyrim "DLC" despite that content being radically different in size and scope. I would imagine we'd agree on the application of the term "expansion" only to Dragonborn...but the point is that such an application is necessarily arbitrary and subjective, and that it is ALL DLC in 2013, because it is all content downloaded to your computer.