http://www.learntocounter.com/why-expan ... or-to-dlc/
First piece of writing by him that I read all the way through. Amazing analysis, extremely thorough covering all the angles, and for the most part extremely well written too. I am astounded. With a couple of minor edits it would have looked perfect on my frontpage. E.g.:
The Ghetto moron wrote:The ideal goal of an expansion pack is to obsolete your predecessor.
I wrote:The ideal goal of an expansion pack is to render its predecessor obsolete.
Etc. It is ridiculous that he talks of his generally wretched writing as "long-form criticism" when he can't even use such simple words as obsolete correctly. Then again, THIS essay IS proper "long-form criticism" so whatever.
On the subject matter, the reason I haven't thought about this issue at all is that I've never bought a DLC and didn't plan to do so before seeing the ones for MGR, so I never had an opportunity to think about them. And now I won't have to, since the Ghetto moron has done all my thinking for me lol.
It makes me wonder if anything else he's written is on the same level...