As someone who has been in this hobby for a stupidly long time, I have bought expansions that completely ruin the game experience or felt unnecessary. Once these expansions are acquired and played, you get a feeling that your money could’ve been more productive by chucking it into the nearest fireplace or really, just buying some other new game. From a player’s point of view, they get some fresh mechanisms to play around with and if the expansion was done well, elevate the game to a new level that could not simply be reached by the original game alone. Designers can look at years of feedback from the players and figure out solutions to their original design that were an oversight in their playtests. One simply has to look at deck builders such as Dominion and Ascension to see my point.Įxpansions can be helpful outside of the usual financial benefits for the publishers. There are some companies and genres where the entire business model is completely based on expansions. The idea of spending extra money on a game you already bought seems like a ridiculous proposal to the average consumer, and it’s a legitimate position to hold. Today, we are going to look at a few red flags.īoard gaming is an expensive hobby and expansions don’t help with that image.
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