The Long Dark will introduce its first paid season pass later this year

gamesradar.com:

Eight years after its successful Kickstarter campaign, the survival game The Long Dark is introducing its first paid update path for its survival mode "later this year".

Besides a fee to purchase its soundtracks, this is the first paid content Hinterland Studio has added to The Long Dark, and while the team is "still working through the details of the roadmap and the release plans", studio founder Raphael van Lierop says via a detailed blog post that in order that the game "continues to be financially self-sustaining", a premium season pass is on the way.

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The premium content - currently expected to be "some kind of 'season pass'-type approach" - will release later this year with "a 15-18 month campaign of updates that unlock for anyone who has purchased the pass. The updates will come on a regular cadence over the course of that period".

"The pass will include a combination of content and gameplay system updates, including new regions, new challenges, new mechanics, etc., as well as general improvements and updates to core systems in the game," the update explains. "Additionally, for anyone who doesn’t like the season pass style approach and prefers to only pay for content when it’s complete, we will re-package the season’s content into 3-4 individual paid DLC packages.

"We’re still working on pricing, but the season pass will provide a discount on the combined price of the DLC, and each piece of paid DLC will be very fairly priced. 

"We want to make sure our existing players who choose not to buy any more