Complaining about free updates isn't a right, it's a privilege. I bet there are thousands of children dying in third world countries every week who would be incredibly disappointed to see there are people in the upper society who whine and moan about things that don't even inconvenience them.
Have you ever heard of the "fallacy of relative privation"? You have just done
exactly what I complained about; the propensity of some on this site - or at least this corner of it - to attempt to suppress the opinions of others
based on fallacy. Only instead of just using the "its free" argument you've escalated it by implying that any problem short of "dying children" is not worth discussing. What the hell is wrong with people in this corner of the site?!? Seriously?!
If you go to a restaurant, and they get your order wrong, do you
not have the right to complain, even
before you've paid for it, because there are millions of starving children in the world? Of course you have the right to complain. You're not going to sit there, stay quiet and eat whatever is given to you because "dying children". So please stop trying to use
that logical fallacy here too!
Making it sound like "free" in general doesn't exist and it's some made up word.
Oh FFS! Again...
We obviously need big pictures and letters here:
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These are newspapers that you do not need to pay for at the place of availability.
They cost money to produce for which the publisher(s) requires an income.
The publisher(s) only source of income is businesses buying advertising space.
The newspapers availability, to you, is not dependent on a prior purchase.
The newspapers are therefore provided to you for FREE.
This is (representative of) a content update that you do not need to pay for at the point of availability.
They cost money to produce for which the publisher requires an income.
The publishers only source of income is you, via your game purchase.
The content updates availability, to you, is dependant on a prior purchase; the game.
The content updates are therefore provided to you at NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.
Free exists. "Free" and "No Additional Charge" are fundamentally different though.
Thanks
@Famine, I
seriously needed that chuckle!
This seems to be the only rational argument you've made so far. You could've just ignored the technicalities and gone straight to the point.
Oh my 🤬 God. Have I entered some parallel "opposite world" dimension?!?
You are proving my point for me; Just because
you do not understand the difference between "free" and "no additional cost" does not give
you the right to suppress my, or any else's, opinion of something that has been planned, costed and
recovered from sales of the product
we paid for! Are you getting this? A product
we paid for! Again, because this obviously isn't getting through; the regular updates are
completely planned and costed. Just because they may not have been announced before or even upon release of the main product itself does
not change this. For Gods sake, even my dog could understand this... and my poor dog has been dead 10 years!
Look, you obviously need bright colours and/or pictures to get this, so here's both. No matter how the costs of production are sliced and diced the fact remains that the cost of producing the content updates has to be budgeted and
has to be recovered from somewhere. If it is not you will
not have a business for long.
We, ultimately, are PD's source of income.
We, ultimately, pay
ALL production costs,
including updates. Sony (hopefully) walks away with a nice chunk of change for their troubles:
Again, please note: the above figures are illustrative only.
The blue bar may, on the right hand side, grow or shrink a little (or a lot, depending on actual sales figures) but then so too will the green bar to match it. The red, and orange, bar(s) are fixed costs (or at least budgeted costs), those
shouldn't move (if they do, those will be accounted for as unplanned costs and will eat into the profits). If you think, even for one second, that (regular) updates are not budgeted (no matter how they appear as costs, as illustrated above) then you, quite frankly, are living in Cloud Cuckoo Land (and I hope you don't run a business, especially if you have employees!).
From
our perspective the most important bar here is the blue bar;
we are the blue bar, or rather the blue bar is (was)
our money. As long as that blue bar is longer than the red, and orange, bar(s)
and the updates are
not charged, then the cost of producing the updates is recovered from income (from
us) and
are made available to us at "
no additional cost". They are not "free", their production costs are recovered from the income
we provide. Do you see how this works yet?
So, again, the point I was trying to make is please stop trying to suppress others people opinions of, or complaints about, the content updates based on the "they're free" fallacy BS. They are not free and your lack of understanding of the fundamental difference between "free" and "no additional cost" does not change that. 
