Thats funny because I would have countered with how games made it to release completed just fine for 20+ years before capitalist strategies strangled the industry to the shitheap it is today.
Hard to say what's the alternative. Imagine NRS not asking this kind of price for DLCs or not making them completely. Who is to say that, say, this way we'd have current base roster + 4 DLCs instead of current base roster being less than what we have (to possibly shoehorn a guest or two into it since you still have to attract people from other communities) and possibly only DLCs released later on. Possibly reduced support period as well because no money to be made there.
We must know what exactly it costs to create and support the game and estimate the revenue before we are allowed to think that the game is priced to turn a profit even with "standard" $60 base price (that didn't change for like what, 20 years?) and 0 DLCs sold, and so whatever we pay for KP or whatever is there only because publishers want an additional layer of proverbial caviar on their bread with butter? We must withhold our judgement until we have any information of whether games cost what they do purely because of market (i.e. "it is sold for this price because people are willing to buy it for this price and there's no reason to charge less even though we can") or because there are actually expenses this considerable to cover.
Speaking of those years, most games had way less features (avoiding using "content" since I mean it from dev's standpoint, as in: how much stuff must be made in the process of game's creation) "20+ years ago" and are we really to believe that it doesn't require additional expenses to deliver all those hi-res models and environements, 90+ toolkits, voiceovers and the like compared to what games like this were in 1995 and slightly later? And must I remind you that back then, before add-ons became a thing, new games of the same title were basically add-ons/rehashings for the full price and nobody really complained about it?
...aaand after dawn of add-ons has arrived, they still costed almost like full game would, and also required you to have vanilla game...
