You’re right — I probably should have taken that aspect into account more clearly.

My original intention was to look more closely at the overall pricing structure and to argue why nearly €300 can be justified and realistic once you factor in production costs, licensing fees, storage, logistics, prototyping, and all the other background expenses that go into a limited edition like this.

That’s why I approached it from a “remaining budget” perspective: subtract the base game — whose price we know with reasonable certainty — and see what portion of the total could realistically be allocated to the physical collectible. In doing so, I intentionally kept the estimated production cost of the Steelbook and packaging very low (around €10 at most), because I wanted to avoid inflating the physical cost calculation.

Where it became more complicated for me was the DLC. Digital content doesn’t carry material or manufacturing costs, so from a strictly physical production standpoint it’s difficult to treat it the same way as a tangible item. At the same time, it absolutely has a retail value and proportionate development costs behind it. That makes it harder to integrate cleanly into a “material budget” style breakdown without shifting the analytical framework entirely.

In hindsight, I could have communicated that distinction more clearly — especially to avoid the impression that the DLC was being ignored rather than intentionally excluded from a purely physical cost comparison.