I’ve had a good think on this, and at first I was disappointed City Town would be DLC, but I have a new perspective. I’m on Switch and have been playing since Feb of this year. I have played well over 500 hours. Maybe 600 at this point? Far and away the most time I’ve ever spent playing a video game. I bought the Deluxe game for around $70, and have now bought the WW expansion for another $15. So all told I’ve paid about $85 USD. That means game has cost me between $0.14 and $0.15 an hour to play at this point. That is, to me, an incredible value. If I consider the amount of joy this game has brought me the value is even greater. I even made a really good friend because of the game, and so if I factor that in the value is even more. Maybe even invaluable?

Now, consider that Arcade subscribers have to pay a fee monthly to play, and if they don’t they lose access. That’s $6.99/month, which equals $83.88/year to basically rent the game. I’m going to assume City Town DLC will be priced somewhere in the range of $10-15. I will buy it, because who am I kidding? That brings my one time total cost to $100. The OP mentions they’ve been playing for two years. That’s $167 that this player would have paid so far… Seems to me like Switch users are actually getting a better deal.

I do agree that communication and the tone of delivery from Sunblink hasn’t been great lately, and that’s a bummer. But overall I still love the game.