I.e. I respect people who buy a product or service based on the merits of that product or service. I have less respect for those who make purchasing decisions based tangential issues (like whether the CEO posts "professionally").
I don't know. Sometimes, "tangential" issues can be very important. I'm on a permanent boycott of all things EA because I don't like how they do business and I don't like how they treat their employees. And I think that's a perfectly legitimate issue to decide whether or not I buy a company's products.
Plus, there's a simple human issue: if you think someone's a jerk, why should you give them money? I mean, there are other things you can do with your time and money than give it to people that you don't like, even if you think their product is being sold at a fair price. I'm not saying that you're being a jerk, but if someone feels insulted by someone else, there's no reason to expect that this will have no influence over their future buying decisions with regard to products made by said person.
I'm not a pure capitalist, and I don't plan on becoming one in the foreseeable future.
The Redone UP would be a $9.95 type thing and the redone events/political system would be a second $9.95.
Well, for me, I wouldn't say that either one alone is worth $10. Perhaps together, but I would need to know more about the nature of the "redoing" before being able to pass judgment. I mean, it could be made worse (re: espionage from DL to DA).
That's one of the problems with microtransacted things; it's kinda hard to tell what exactly you're getting.
The other issue is that if you have them separate, they can't interact. You can't have the UP thing mesh with the new political system, because it can't assume that this code exists. Indeed, the latter may not have been designed when the former was written.
It'd be like if HL2:Ep2 was an alternate version of Ep1. Both would stand alone, but neither could build on the other. Granted, the HL episodes are standalones, so the only connection is storyline, but storyline-wise, it's kinda hard to play Ep2 without Ep1 and have the same connection as someone who's played the whole thing.
The great thing about larger expansions is that they all of the features interact with one another properly. It is an integrated whole, not a collection of separate bits that may or may not work together.
