10 Reasons Fans Need To Stop Complaining About Breath Of The Wild DLC

Okay, let’s take a couple of seconds to draw some lines down between Expansion Passes and Season Passes, at least from a purely marketing perspective.

Season Passes are basically the Mr. Burns mystery box, even if a few details of content are given beforehand. Cosmetic items are quite commonly used to pad out the time between major content release which, as Arkham Knight proved, can often be very unrewarding for what’s been shilled out for them, and a lot of Season Passes have gone up to be nearly as expensive as the games they sell.

Expansion Passes boast cheaper price points but very fixed content. Breath of the Wild is only offering two packs with it, as well as the launch day incentive, but it’s not robbing us blind and asking us to twiddle our thumbs to find out what we’ve won. The name also has a better history with success than Season Passes; Witcher 3 wowed gamers and critics alike with its pair of Expansion Pass releases, carefully developed post-launch to deliver something that felt fundamentally different to the core game.

Simply by calling itself an Expansion Pass gets us hopeful that Breath of the Wild will do something to similarly blow us away with its incoming content.

Just... nobody remember Destiny's. For the love of all that is good, nobody remember Destiny's.