Talk:Subnautica: Below Zero/@comment-31957574-20180430192715/@comment-2123041-20180509223940

ok so I understand what you're saying starmaster....BUT......what EA did with Battlefront and what is being developed as the expansion pack for Subnautica.....are actually opposite ends of the spectrum, actually tbh....for the most part they're not even comparable.

First and foremost, what EA was doing with Battlefront is what's called "pay to win." Battlefront's multiplayer is essentially an MMO, where the more money you throw into it...the higher your in-game advantages are. This is one of many "Free-to-play" models for MMOs, but is most infamously used by Zynga in their facebook games and EA in....well, everything.

At what I believe to be the center of this spectrum...we have Turbine's F2P model for DDO and LOTRO (Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings online) where players are all given equal chances in-game, put on equal footing, you are able to EARN the premium currency with which you can buy things like regions, quest packs, or cosmetic items....however, the epic story of the game remained 100% free and was barred behind no pay-gates (until you hit the Riders of Rohan and Rise of Isengard content, however this was released years after they made the switch).

Now, again, what you are talking about in terms of the whole thought of how 99 - 100% of the DLC content should/would fit into the 1.0 game.....it's actually not quite that simple. In fact since they are calling it an EXPANSION....this will be Subnautica version 2.0. What they have said thus far regarding this expansion is that it will be completely separate from the 1.0 game. I.E. different story, different region, diff biomes, diff protagonist, etc. Now is this were a case of they were adding a bunch of content into the 1.0 game....that's an entirely different thing altogether. Not having the expansion pack by no means hinders your ability to complete the 1.0 game; in fact as far as we know, the only way in which the two interact is that it's the same planet....that's it. Is it likely that actions from 1.0 (i.e. curing the bacteria) will have an impact on 2.0? yes. But there is nothing that stops you from say....looking up the 1.0 story online and then jumping right into 2.0.

Finally.......Unknown Worlds is NOT EA, nor are they in any way affiliated or have any kind of relationship with EA. Subnautica is in fact the FOURTH game developed, so they're not exactly brand new to the industry....

Oh, one more thing.....to call this DLC "good for nothing" when they've only really just started working on it in the last 2 months or so....is jumping the gun a bit TOO much (I mean unless you have the ability to see into the future, in which case I think you'd best get going on helping people with that gift instead of commenting about how bad a game's potential DLC will be....just a thought).

Any other questions? :D