They still need sales beyond launch week.. I took a quick look on shopto and even stuff like Mortal Kombat X had hit the £40 mark. Even with that, it's still clearly way below historic prices. I stated this was offset by increases in userbases. However that has now halted so something is going to give somewhere.

It's either going to be higher prices, more necessity to sell add ons/DLC or developers going bust, and we saw a good chunk of the latter last gen.

How much would you be willing to pay?

He's totally right. A lot of my friends and I wait for sales on deluxe editions on pc because of this type of garbage. And Warner Bros. has been a big offender.

80 would be okay

It's possible this is WB's last hurra to try to make money with games or risk selling the division. The DLC for MK is terrible. Just as bad, if not worse than the on-disc DLC some publishers were trying. If this doesn't work for WB, there may be no more game division for WB.

12$ for half the game, after it was released, is worse than on-disc DLC? Really? I don't see bias at all in this comment...

That's not fair. Each piece of DLC is $10 by itself, but with season pass you can save and get all 4 with the low low price of $40! Everyone wins.

The one thing I seem to be at odds with Jim Fucking Sterliing Son on this one is online pass. TBH I would rather Sony stayed with online pass and didn't put online play behind the PSN+ paywall. For those who buy games new online pass ain't no thing, for those who buy used, they have a choice, and online pass would tend to lower the price of used games making used games a cheaper upfront cost.

Although I think the WB abuse of online pass, by putting parts of the offline story of Arkham City behind online pass, was really bad form and was probably part of the reason why online pass ended up having to be canned as a concept. Stupid greedy companies using a fairly reasonable original concept to abuse their customer base by misapplying it and then ending up having to drop it because of consumer and media backlash. 

I hve been turned off Arkham Knight from hearing about all this "extra" paid content. And I am now thinking that Sony and PS4 have somewhat tarnished their reputation by so closely associating PS4 with this game. A special edition console should be associated with a game that is both awesome as a game, and one that gives gamers warm fuzzies. What WB is doing with Arkham Knight is leaving gamers feeling rather cold.

If WB's game division can only exist profitably by nickle and diming gamers then I don't think it deserves to continue to exist.

Oh, god, I feel very stupid right now hahaha. I totally agree then.

you are aware that there are some giant WB releases coming out yeah? obviously Batman, but also Mad Max, and the newest Witcher is going to make them boatloads

 I think you're off base. WB's game division is far from one of their largest sections within the company and clearly they are invested in the long haul considering the plethora of big games coming this year

the only reason they are jumping onto the DLC train is because it IS such simple easy extra money, not because of panic

I never said they're not investing in games, I'm saying they're not making the money they thought they were going to.