» Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:45 pm
For now you have been talking about something else than what clearly was the original idea. Not price; I payed something like 10€ for my GOTY release and got the same things as everybody who were there to buy each version separately. (I would've been as well but wasn't playing Morrowind once Tribunal and BM came out. Only after I saw the GOTY package somewhere my flame for the game rekindled and I bought it). People have payed different prices for this experience; it's not what counts here.
What really matters is what you get. All the games get cheaper due time, and some sources (like major internet stores today) will sell the new products cheaply as well. As expansions per se, though, both have been marvelous. They even have a high replay value even without mods and such. They have A LOT to do; quests; quests again, this time with the other approach; things to find; things to think about (for example relationships of some new factions; political situations, backgrounds to them - if you're interested in this kind of stuff, and lore); books; general looking around and exploration. With expansions like these the question is not how much you pay for them, or even how much you get with certain amount of money. It's about what you can even think of doing; the opportunities are so limitless even with these single expansions! If you're interested enough and have much imagination, TR and BM could compensate as well $100 as it did your, what, $9,99? I don't know many games, let alone expansions, that can do it. Basically with TES, the game is as good as the player, should I say...
As unlikely as it may be, at the moment the Vvardenfell vs. Soltsheim vote is
139 votes [72.02%] Vvardenfell - Solstheim 54 votes [27.98%]
so 2/7 people liking an expansion's world more than the actual game's... speaks VERY highly of BM in my book (which there isn't).