The Skyrim AE price in and of itself might not be cause for alarm, and might even have been innocuously priced with no awareness of the optics of the move, but ultimately regardless of the intent in this specific case, it's exactly the kind of thing that can normalize raised prices on the platform. We didn't jump from expansion packs to gacha and loot boxes straight, it was a long and slow road of normalizing DLC, in-game add-ons, season passes, pre-order bonuses, micro transactions, and then finally, finally, randomizing the whole thing to the point that you're taking the player's money without guaranteeing they get what they pay for. Little things like these are what end up normalizing what may otherwise be objectionable business practices that induce backlash by trickling them down slowly, and spreading the backlash out accordingly.
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