more expensive DLC than original game??

[pepeluis]

i dónt undestand because this DLC is more expensive than complete game in steam sales.

[linuxgurugamer]

1 hour ago, pepeluis said:

i dónt undestand because this DLC is more expensive than complete game in steam sales.

Which DLC?

 

[Curveball Anders]

Maybe because there's been several sales where the original game has been sold very cheap?

 

[Gargamel]

13 hours ago, pepeluis said:

i dónt undestand because this DLC is more expensive than complete game in steam sales.

Well, they won't make any DLC sales if people don't own the base game.   The game has been out for a while, so keeping it at the high price point all the time doesn't generate a lot of sales, so they throw it out there on a discount from time to time to sell more.   Then people will be more encouraged to buy the DLC's. 

[kerbiloid]

Some printers are cheaper than their cartridges.
But rather than a printer without a cartridge, one still can use KSP without DLC.

As well, we can compare the prices of Windows (a platform) and Photoshop or AutoCAD (software for it).

Edited November 29, 2019 by kerbiloid

[Vanamonde]

Steam sets the prices for Steam sales. You'd have to ask them why. 

[klesh]

Are you entirely positive about that?

 

[iteranthypatic]

It feels like a good thing that it's more expensive. And it should be. Squad has supported KSP far beyond the expectations of most game developers. Amazingly, they've been releasing new features - for free - in the main game past the 1.0 release for the past... ~5 years. That's half a decade of more support on top of the 4 years it took to get to 1.0.

They've worked on it for nearly a decade and added feature after feature and improvement after improvement. The development of all of these new features and game improvements isn't cheap. It's expensive in terms of engineering time and costs. Someone has to pay for that - something has to pay for that. Shouldn't we be lining up to pay for these DLC's no matter what the price so that they keep working on our beloved game?

Edited February 9, 2020 by iteranthypatic