Mostly double EXP and guns, plus other things.
Like Project f 2 has two season passes: one for music and one for costumes.
I think making a basic season pass for the expansions and then $50 edition with perks, extra DLC, and expansions would have been no problem for me. Like I said, it just irks me a bit personally.
Well the guns are just part of the overall package that everyone gets, but I get your thing about double XP. That's kind of dumb considering the boosts you get in battle packs anyways.
I see what you're saying about splitting it, but the way they have it structured, it's actually much easier just to give you everything due to the added weapons, camo, equipment, mission-based challenges, etc. It's all connected into each content update.
A "just maps" pack wouldn't be bad, but it may be viewed as an even bigger "ripoff" depending on how they priced it, because the other content wouldn't be worth much more on it's own. They would probably rock a $40 price for just maps regardless.
I'm completely against pay to win though, so extra exclusive XP and server priority isn't something I support, even though bombshell articulated well that the server thing isn't that big of a deal. Still unnecessary.
So stupid. I wish publishers weren't such greedy, money hungry tyrants. Why can't they follow the examples of games like Killzone that released free maps, or GTA V that releases free content. This way they don't split the user base. Man $110 dollars just to get the full experience of one game. Fuck.
Killzone didn't have nearly the player base that Battlefield does, and the free maps were needed to keep people invested. It would be ideal, but it's not feasible for mega multi platform games. And GTA isn't the best example considering how long Heists alone have taken, but I get your point.
I look at Premium as expanding the base game, not making it a "full game". If you love the core enough and want more, get it. If the core game is enough before you move on, avoid it. Usually Battlefield has enough content on it's own. The only thing that would be great to add to the base game for free would be game modes themselves, but so far, those have been map-pack specific anyways.