A few Expansions were better than endless DLC and skins.

Basically I think, back in the day, a game had 2 or 3 expansions that were 20-30% the size of the main game and that was it. Then it was move on to the sequel.

Now it’s just an endless stream of tiny dlc (like 2% the size of the original game) and skin after skin after skin.
Games like The Sims have THOUSANDS of dollars worth of DLC. Anno 1800 has over 30 dlcs and skin packs. Every genre of online game has year-after-year of season passes. MMOs just devolve into players running around looking like power rangers and anime characters.

Like, it’s no wonder we never get any new (AAA) games anymore, 10-15 year dev cycles for the big games, it’s because they’re all obsessed with milking every penny with low effort skins.

I’d personally much rather we get 2 or 3 new games in 10 years with “less” content than getting 1 game knowing it’s going to be filled with increasingly non-sensical, lore-breaking bullshit over its 10 year lifespan.

What’s your opinion on this? Does anyone actually play these games for years at a time?