Yet they did it.
I mean, let’s be real… Destiny had a total lifetime of 3 years. Titanfall 2, with a much smaller initial sales, was able to sustain itself over a year of DLC without charging for any of the core stuff. You could still pay them money for poorly cosmetic stuff. Hell, I did just because I felt like they earned it.
But still, destiny only lasted for 3 years. It’s not like they had to sustain it forever. They sold how many copies? Like… A gazillion? At $60 a pop? I find the suggestion that they couldn’t afford to make any of the DLC for free kind of silly.
I don’t buy the story we are told these days that this is just how it needs to be… Especially when we have cases of DLC just unlocking content that was already developed prior to release. Especially when you see developers like Respawn making masterpieces like Titanfall and supporting it for months WITHOUT charging money.