Now that GOG is adding new games to the site, inevitably there will be some developers that will create additional content after release that they'll want to charge for. How would you feel about GOG getting into the DLC biz? Would you be willing to pay extra for DLC if it meant getting titles here sooner?

Well, SpaceChem on GOG is packaged with its DLC.

But in general, as long as it's DRM-free, I don't care much.

It will be all or nothing. The DLC won't be sold separately, so you'll either get it with the purchase of the base game or you won't get it at all from GOG.

IIRC TW2 the DLC was eventually added for free to those who bought it here, and one didn't need to pay extra. But I haven't been able to run the game so I haven't really paid attention.

EDIT: I suppose the publisher might sell DLC for the GOG version through their own site, but you definitely won't be able to buy just DLC here.

This is how GOG generally does expacs, I see no reason why they'd do DLC any differently.

This.

That being said, I do not care much for DLCs either.

Well, expacs are basically just older larger DLC. I'm not quite sure why there is even a question about this. Sure, GOG could change, but at this point nobody would have any information on that who could comment on the issue. Eh, I have mixed feelings about DLC. Sometimes it's great like most of the Fallout DLC, and sometimes it's a complete moneygrab like Gun Runners Arsenal or the Courier's stash.

Personally, I prefer stand-alone expansion packs.

That's because the game and the DLC had been out for a while. What happens when one of the indies released here adds a 5 or 10 dollar DLC expansion six months to a year later? Is GOG just supposed to eat that cost on every copy of the game they've sold?

GOG will worry about that when the time comes.

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This, hopefully. The only DLC in history I thought worth purchasing was Lair of the Shadow Broker so aside from that one, it doesn't really matter as long as they keep them DRM-free.

The developer could sell DLC packaged for the GOG version until that developer releases a Game-of-the-Year/Ultimate/Complete edition, at which point the DLC could be added to the GOG version to generate more sales and reward previous customers for their support? Or perhaps a *small* fee could be charged to upgrade from the base game to complete edition at that time? (That fee best be damn small in that case considering that you'd have likely paid more for the game during the first year or two than new customers would be paying for the complete edition and that you'd already have most of the content). I'd guess that GOG is already considering options.

Why not?

Because that would cause a lot of headaches for them when people buy DLC for games that they don't already own. Or they go the other way and change the site so that you can't buy the DLC without owning the games which annoys people if there's a bug that prevents them from downloading it.

I completely agree with them that standalone DLC is a bad idea. And GOG doesn't have the options that other platforms do to handle it.

And boom goes the dynamite!