There is good DLC and there is bad DLC, and the line between them is clear.

Personally, I don't care if someone chooses to buy this and nor do I care, by extension to actively criticize this. I am however, more focused and befuddled as to why some people are so diligently defending this.

If anything it would be mistrust, not naivety. It comes from all the rushed games released recently. After beeing conned so many times, there would be something wrong with me if i didnt learn from it.

The last of US wasnt the case, so i am not pointing the finger at that. If anything i just pointed out that they did it right and was sucessful so now they are looking at how to extort our money since they made it work. If its coming 8 months after and isnt obviously part of the main game (TLOU was a prequal) then i dont see a problem at all. The likelyness that it was ripped out of the main game is low.

It's when i see that time frame getting reduced, beeing bundled with the release and not having any kind of details that i start to worry about foul play.

And yes i have played TLOU, though not the DLC. But i know what its about.

You do have a point that i am beeing cynical. But, the ones responsible for that are the ones that are making me have to be cynical (though there are bigger foul players than Sony. WB, Ubi soft, konami, etc.). I have to be cynical, or i risk beeing gouged. I can't in good faith enable these practices without at least some transparancy from the publishers. I can't put my money upfront when i dont even know what this is or if it was indeed ripped out of the main gain for an earlier release and a later gouging.

I f*cking hate microtransactions as it is but I also hate common practices with DLC ...

It was clear with Uncharted 3 that Naughty Dog's intentions aren't as innocent as people make it out to be when they had day one DLC there ...

Judging by this announcement this sounds very much like first month game release DLC so I highly doubt Naughty Dog has any goodwill left ...

Well if it's along the lined of First Light or Left Behind I will probably be interested. If it smells at all like content that should be in the original game I may well not even buy Uncharted 4 new and elect to buy it used instead. I'm not going to support DLC or games that rip content out of the SP campaign which is important to the SP campaign. I'm looking at you Mass Effect 3. I think the Prothean (Eden Prime) DLC was completely shitty and it had content, and a character that should have been seen as story essential and been made part of the original release.

So, I am not going to prejudge UC4 until I know more about what this SP expansion is. But I am very wary and a little sceptical.

People do have to remember that almost all of early ND has left by now and moved onto Big Red Button or EA/BioWare, or some other studio. Most of what's left is overseen heavily by the same people who started milking Uncharted 2 and onward. Do they put out quality content? Of course; even if I was personally critical of TLoU especially after its best game ever praise, the current Druckmann/Straley studio definitely has a knack for quality. Do they milk the living shit out if that content? Holy god yes. The quality of the eventual single player content doesn't justify announcing it half a year in advance as that's just gonna cause problems with the fanbase. Doesn't matter whether it was (unlikely) cut from the game or planned from day one, and it also doesn't matter whether the money from this game allegedly goes to other experimental games. 

And I'll still buy the game day one, and if the DLC looks promising I'll buy the single player portion. They'll likely never get a cent out of me with multiplayer because I don't care about Uncharted multiplayer and TLoU MP actively annoyed me most of the time. I'm just saying this wasn't a smart business idea to announce so far in advance

What makes you think the DLC is part of the same story line? Every single player DLC I've ever played has been a side story, not an extension of the main campaign.

Well to be honest, the OP/news seens to imply the DLC will be avaiable very early. I mean, advertising a special edition that includes the DLC (the so called Digital Deluxe Edition), before launch, does give a feeling of it being a launch/early edition.

I ordered the Libertalia Edition (the one with the statue), which I imagine comes with this. Super excited.

The news cleary say it doesn't =/

 I must've missed that... Fuck...