"Naughty Dog's greed is out of control"

[pokoko]

starcraft said:
People that argue that this only happens because people are happy to pay micro transactions, and that they don't mind because they don't are only semi-grasping the point.

Think back to Goldeneye 64. Think of all the skins you could access, all the guns you could use. Then think about the skins, guns and perks you could obtain through in-game cheats.

Now imagine that half of all of them could only be obtained by paying extra for the game on top of your $60 for the title, and your $60 for PS+ for the year.

THATS what is happening here. Things are being withheld from the game so that they can be sold later. You don't buy them? Fine. While you're busy laughing at those that do, you're missing the fact that you'd have more content if gamers were unwilling to put up with this.

This is FAR from a Naughty Dog specific problem, but they have gotten an absolute free-pass because their single player remains epic, and their multiplayer forgettable.

All well and good except it's not completely true.

I mean, you're making it sound like you get nothing at all with the base game, then you make it sound like they would have made all that extra content for free.  The first is untrue, the second is unlikely.

Borderlands 2, for example.  It introduced wide-scale DLC for skins and heads that was absent from the first one.  So that means it had nothing that you could unlock through game-play?  Not quite.

Unlockable Skins (Main Game)

	All-Seeing Eye Rare drop fromThreshers		Angled Mosquito Rare drop from Saturn		Azure Wave Rare drop from Son of Mothrakk
	Bandit Blood and Rust Item of the Day		Bandit Incineration Rank 5 Knee-Deep in Brass challenge		Bandit War Paint Rank 3Marauder? I Hardly Know 'Er challenge
	Bittersweet Ninja Rare drop from King Mong		Black Widow Random drop from "Chubby" mobs		Blue Widow Rank 3Longshotchallenge
	Cardinal Sin Rank 3EXPLOOOOOSIONS!challenge		Clean Slate Rank 3 Not Full of Monkeys challenge		Crimson Fastness Rank 3Rocket and Rollchallenge
	Cyan Dreams Mission reward fromThe Overlooked: Medicine Man		Dahl Efficiency Unknown		Dahl Elite Item of the Day
	Dahl Predator Rank 5 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Assault Rifle challenge		Dark Focus Rare drop from any of the4 Hyperion Assassins		Dark Scarlet Rank 5 Hail of Bulletschallenge
	Deep Blue She Rank 3 Open Pandora's Boxes challenge		Ecstasy in Gold Rank 3 Shotgun! challenge		Elven Glamour Rank 3Aggravated Assaultchallenge
	Empress Unknown		Gecko Rank 3 Super Novaschallenge		Greenblood Rank 4 inWhaddaya Buyin'?challenge
	Gunmetal Blue Rank 3 Fisticuffs!challenge		Hyperion Heroism Rank 3 Load and Lockchallenge		Hyperion Honor Item of the Day
	Hyperion Hornet Rank 5 Evisceratedchallenge		Indigo Lady Mission reward from To Grandmother's House We Go		Jakobs Family Mission reward fromCapture the Flags
	Jakobs Filigree Rank 5 Quickdrawchallenge		Jakobs Old-Fashioned Item of the Day		Light Urple Rank 5Badass Bingochallenge
	Lilac Combatant Rare drop fromTerramorphous the Invincible		Loud and Proud Mission reward from No Vacancy		Maliwan Elegance Rank 3 Slag-Lickedchallenge
	Maliwan Grace Rank 5 I Just Want to Set the World on Firechallenge		Maliwan Style Item of the Day		Mellow Yellow Mission reward fromShielded Favors
	Minecraft Common drop fromCreepers		Ninja Rose Rare drop fromVermivorous the Invincible		Nothing Rhymes with Orange Rank 3 Pull the Pinchallenge
	Orange You Glad... Rank 3 The Killerchallenge		Pink Pandoracorn Rank 5 Nothing Rhymes with Orange orJEEEEENKINSSSSSS!!!challenge		Preying Mantis Rank 3 It's Not Easy Looting Greenchallenge
	Ruby Wings Random drop fromSpiderants		Starry Rare drop from Stalkers		Supergreen Mission reward fromThe Cold Shoulder
	Tangerine Dreaming Rank 3 For the Hoard!challenge		Tediore Customer Service 777 on Slot machines		Tediore Low Price Item of the Day
	Tediore Value Rank 5 Boomerbangchallenge		Torgue Explosiveness Rank 3 Boom challenge		Torgue High Octane Item of the Day
	Torgue Speed Demon Rank 5 Catch-a-Rocket!challenge		To the Rescue Rare drop from Dukino's Mom		Vault Burst Rare drop from Captain Flynt
	Vault Dweller Rank 5 This is No Time for Lazy! challenge		Violent Violet Random drop from any enemy		Vladof Freedom Rank 5Ammo Eaterchallenge
	Vladof Revolution Item of the Day		Vladof Sickle 777 on Slot machines		White Gold Rank 3 Blue Sparkschallenge

It feels to me like you're building a semi-false argument.  There may very well be cases of what you're talking about but there are also many case where that is probably not true.