Eh, it's $50 on Steam. I dropped something like 300 hours into CS1 before any DLC. Even if I got half that out of CS2, I'm fine paying roughly 33¢ an hour for a great experience.

To give credit to CS, Its been out for 7 years at this point, and they have maintained updates for the core game. In addition, they have not locked any "critical" functionality behind a DLC, but rather, the DLCs just gave the game a different experience.

As many hours as I have dumped into the original, I'd feel MUCH better paying 60$ for it, as opposed to half of the AAA crap out there, where I might be lucky to get 40 hours of gameplay.

Wait for a sale if price is an issue. From my perspective CS:2 looks like CS:1 with a bunch of mods and substantial DLC baked right in.

I don't mind supporting this company because they show time and time again that they love the game and the community.

Where I live it's not "full" price. You can get it for 40€ and most new AAA releases are 60-80 €

Yes I realize 80€ is insane but I've seen games for that price

Unless there's some kind of permanent DLC pass bundle available at launch, I'll try* to wait for it to go on sale for ~$40 before buying the base game. Do Paradox games ever even offer these kinds of options? I know they offer bundles like this for older games, but what about new ones?

*the amount of playtime I've gotten out of the original, even before DLC was available, means there is a very good chance I'll crack.

The Deluxe Edition doesn't add much value for me but as Cities:Skylines was amazingly fun, CitiesSkylines 2 is worth every penny to me.

Buy the base game and use dlc unlocker afterwards.

The base game is coming to Gamepass on launch isn't it?