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I'm a person sensitive to that stuff too. I love to have collections complete. I used to buy every special edition of assassin's creed but I should have stopped after black flag. I used to buy games fully, with all DLC's because I needed it to be complete. Even the expensive useless skins, for single-player games. It's so stupid. And most oft he times I wouldn't even finish the game and wouldn't even start on the extra purchased content. Same with boardgames on kickstarter. I have several games with all expansions and extras still in plastic, for several years.
But I'm done with this shit. I stopped buying boardgames because I have more than enough and I pirate videogames and purchase them only if I spent enough time enjoying the game.
But recently I purchased the latest Hitman game because I enjoyed the pirated version. When bought, it was only half a game because the pirated version had all the DLC's. So I refunded it, I'm not going to spend money for only half a game, then to have to spend more to get the complete game.
Indie games I buy, AAA games I pirate and most of them I won't even play longer than 3-5 hours because they are shit. Happy they didn't get my money, I feel scammed by the industry for way too long.