Well, if Mortal Kombat X is Mortal Kombat 10 then Mortal Kombat XL is Mortal Kombat 40, if I remember roman numbers correctly.

It is a game from the future! Buy it! ;)

You know if anything seeing Deluxe editions and Complete editions and the likes completely has put me off buying some games, just like... See a game on psn on sale for 9.99! cool that's a nice price I'll buy it.... wait... next to it is the complete edition for 12.99 how is the 9.99 version incomplete? should I buy the 12.99 version instead... okay... wait... there is a fucking deluxe super deee dooper edition for 19.99, at that point I'm just so completely out of interest, those games prolly come laced with dlc and microtransactions too if they are trying to nickle and dime the fuck out of players on the way in, that is a club I don't wanna visit.

Some examples from the summer sale right now

Easy enough here, Just cause is an open world game... so there is an XL version of it which... I'm guessing has more content because it's bigger?

But.... Mortal Kombat X is Mortal Kombat 10... the X means 10, Mortal Kombat XL sort of makes sense but... it's a fighting game? is it a larger story? roster? costumes? is it even the same game as MKX?

Ahhh you want the deluxe edition... very nice... but... it's not the ultimate deluxe edition though! still gives you that feeling you aren't buying the full game for your money.

3 tiers of buying last years Fifa game with updated rosters, yes please, sign me up for the superrrr deee dooper I love dlc edition

Now you get to the realms of which version is best isn't clear at all with the naming

So... should you buy the game of the year edition? then need to get the deluxe edition upgrade on top of that? or... is the deluxe edition included in the GOTY edition, if so.. what is deluxe about the deluxe version? again... base game looks like a terrible option to buy because you clearly miss out on a ton of content.

And lastly... what the fuck is this 2 different games or just terrible version names with the crew

So the Crew, base game is 12.49.... and Wild ride is also 12.49 so you would think... they are different titles? but then the other two titles here.. what is going on there? How is The Crew Wild Run different from The Crew Wild Run Edition, they're priced differently so there must be more content to it? but... what...

See it's at that point where they've effectively cheapened the experience that the core game seems to be offering which makes me think... if it isn't a complete edition... am I buying a demo basically where I'll need to upgrade it later for more money, which just makes me more often than not, opt out of buying altogether.

Well is more choice really bad?

I mean sure you need to read a bit more to know what you're getting but isn't that better than only having the option of buying the Deluxe Edition for ~$100 with a few more crappy emotes and 3 useless guns or not buying the game at all?
instead you can still get the standard edition for $60 (That's an Star Wars Battlefront-ish example)

About FIFA. The game doesn't have DLC. You get some Ultimate Team packs with the other editions. Very useless if you don't play FUT.
About Mortal Kombat XL. It simply has all the DLC fighters. If you're a fan of horror movies you need to get it. Alien, Leatherface, Predator etc.
About The Crew. That's a really interesting case. I think Wild Run is only the DLC for the base game and Wild Run Edition is the base game + DLC. And I guess the Complete Edition adds some in-game money or a few cars or something like that.
From my experience though the base game is enough. Wild Run only adds a few types of new events, motorcycles and monster trucks. Everything else has been added as a free patch to the base game.

In conclusion, you can buy the base game and still get everything YOU really want later on. No need to buy the complete edition right away, but it's certain that the complete edition is cheaper than buying everything seperate.... Unless you wait a long time for the DLCs to become cheaper.

It's not just about choice though, it is the pushing of versions which are labeled as "complete" do you not get what I mean how that makes it appear that the base game is somehow an incomplete experience? whereas in the case of things like Dragon Age the base game is meant to be a fantastic complete game on its own.

Also I had heard that MKX had multiple seasons of dlc, something about a second season not coming to the PC or so (I fully admit to not knowing the full story here) but does the XL version contain all of the dlc for season 1 and 2, if you don't know it's fine I could dig about to find out myself I was just pondering if it was XL but for the season 2 content would there be a XXL version on the way later on.

Also if Wild run is the dlc addon for the first version of The Crew, then The Crew Wild Run edition is the base game + Wild Run.... how is that not a complete game still for the final ultimate edition lol.

The store is full of even more examples of this for the ps4 moreso than the ps3/psv but like I said I like the options of buying game + all the dlc as game of the year editions, I guess most of my complaint is directed towards how in some cases it just cheapens the base often very full version of the game.