And c'mon now. A discount? The season pass was also sold at retail as well. How would you communicate to every season pass owner that they aren't getting content but instead, a $20/25 coupon?
It would have been a refund/credit.
I said it would be an option between the two, giving people the choice. I also noticed you completely disregarded the third option I mentioned which was by far the most likely. Here, let me post it again:
Alternatively they could have just shat out any old 2 hour POS and call it a day, but instead they expanded it to a full game knowing well they had already sold it to most of it's target audience for less than its worth
They never promised a 2hr add on stop it.
This is a quote directly from Arne Meyer not long after they announced a SP add-on, I'll bold the relevant parts to make them less easier to ignore
It worked really well for us for The Last of Us. We thought we could put together a really great piece of content as well. Left Behind was a really great addition. It's one of those thing when talking about Uncharted we said, ‘Wouldn't it be great to make another story DLC? Does it fit into the story?' and that sort of thing. I think we rose to the challenge for The Last of Us and decided to take another shot at it
Does any of this suggest to you they were planning an 8 hour game, completely disconnected from the main game? This indicates they intended to make a smaller add-on much like Left Behind, and they priced it as such. But even if you choose to ignore this, what benefit would it be to them if they had intended the opposite as you seem to suggest?
I will stop replying to you when you give me a single good reason to justify your negativity towards this. I'll remind you that this started with you handwaving away an 8 hour standalone game as merely DLC.
When CDPR delayed Blood and Wine for scope and polish, they still managed to put out a 30hr+ expansion and did not ask for a cent more than what you paid for with the season pass.
So? ND also did not ask more from people that paid for the season pass, what are you even talking about? CDPR were rightly commended for their expansions. They also could have easily released it separately but chose to go another way as they wanted to add to their vast open world.
What has this got to do with LL?