Doesn't really bother me, though I have to question the value of the DLC at that price. Commander Edition is $45 (now on sale for $30), with hours and hours of content. And then for around 9% of that all you get are some character portraits that add nothing to the gameplay. It's like the pin-striping of the PC game world.

On the same calculation, for a few pennies more, you're leaving the store with Dungeon Keeper, Giana Sisters, SMAC (with Alien Crossfire for free), or Riven, just to name a few examples. It's an incredibly bad value; especially with the awareness that some of those games come with oodles of freebies.

This would be like if Nintendo was charging 3.99 for pictures of Luigi when a NES game costs a fiver on their (admittedly pathetic) Virtual Console service.

Even if they could have rejected it, really the blame should remain with Paradox, not GOG (imo). Sure, GOG isn't necessarily any "better" than Steam, as in both want to make money, but it was Paradox who came up with this DLC, not GOG. GOG is just providing it as Steam is just providing it.

Not exactly: GOG manages to add its personal touch by publishing this DLC only in Windows version, whereas it is available for GNU/Linux and MacOS on Steam. It is a habit with GOG. They thus succeed in the feat of frustrating even among those who willingly made this purchase.

Those look better anyway:
http://www.nexusmods.com/tyranny/?tb=mod&pUp=1

Great link; one should check Nexus Mods, ModDB or other similar such sites if one is interested in cosmetic mods. Here's 6 portrait packs; not 6 different portraits for $4, but 6 portrait packs : http://www.nexusmods.com/tyranny/mods/searchresults/?quicksrc_name=portrait&quicksrc_auth=Author&quicksrc_game=1719

I haven't tried it myself yet, but I have a feeling that portraits compatible for Pillars of Eternity would probably work & I think there might be an outside chance that portraits for Nevewinter Night 2 could possibly work also.

http://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity/mods/searchresults/?quicksrc_name=portrait&quicksrc_auth=Author&quicksrc_game=852

http://www.nexusmods.com/neverwinter2/mods/searchresults/?quicksrc_name=portrait&quicksrc_auth=Author&quicksrc_game=181

Don't forget Dragon Age: Origins where you would follow a NPC only to have him ask you to pay for the Warden's Keep DLC :-)

I mean I loved that game, but that particular moment left a sour taste in my mouth, and that was in the base release in 2009!

sadly, this has already happened - in a mainstream game, no less.

ea saw the old republic - their mmo - wasn't doing so great, so they stopped charging a subscription for it and it went free to play. one of the things hiding behind the free to play wall is - literally - the ability to map more buttons to a hot bar.

[i should probably clarify slightly and say they gave you the ability to buy extra hot bars.]
...except that gog does have a choice, and by virtue of gog having a choice, we should hold them at least /somewhat/ accountable for this. now, understandably, gog isn't the biggest player [like valve] so gog probably doesn't have a /huge/ amount of choice, [because the alternative is paradox just jumping ship. some of their commentary on offering an upgrade path for the games has been...dismal, at best and one can imagine that any action from gog that doesn't line up with what they want will result in paradox doing just that] but the choice /does/ exist. even if they just said something along the lines of, "this seems cool, but our audience would probably buy more of it if you included some extra gameplay along with these avatars" and not just outright rejecting the "dlc."

in point of fact, if they did it this way [say, a quest to unlock these avatars or something like that] they could get away with charging MORE for this, but nope. paradox are greedy and sadly, gog has to bear the brunt of paradox's silliness.

but, again: gog DOES have a choice. they just don't exercise it enough [i can understand why. that doesn't mean i like it.]

again: this ACTUALLY happened in the original dragon age [again, ea. are you spotting a pattern here?] - if you didn't buy any of the dlc, they'd seed npc's into the game at campfires to talk up the dlc. it'd be a whole conversation branch and everything and boom! right at the end, they'd have a massive "you can buy this on our storefront" bubble. from the npc, naturally, this would wreck your immersion.

it's sad, but we're probably past that point. :(
nintendo has already turned down the dark path. don't give the more ideas. :p

[breath of the wild has dlc and the switch is going to get paid online multiplayer systems.]

And if gOg refused to sell this DLC, the same people complaining here now would complain that that it is sold on Steam, but not here. So...*shrug* damned if you do and damned you dont

I must admit that it does bug me when the char portrait does not match the char I generated in an RPG game, but not enough to pay extra to fix it.

Hmm, I played SW: tOR for a while but I didn't check its shop. If that's really a thing, oh well.

"In a time past gaming world experienced a change through an upheaval scholars call 'Change of Marketing Strategies'. The Creators allowed unholy forces to slip into gaming domain; the nefarious offspring of this cataclysm was an evil force called 'microtransactions'. Yet we did not banish it..."

Another thing to also keep in mind is almost all of these agreements are done by contract. It's not unfeasible to think that Paradox presented GoG with a contract to sell Tyranny (or any of there titles) on the condition that they must also sell any current or future DLC, no matter what it is. Say no and not only are you not selling Tyranny, but you probably aren't selling many other Paradox titles.

Easy sir. Nothing is a strong word. Try to play Shadow Warrior 2 Multiplayer without a GOG account with that same game on it. Or King Arthurs Gold Multiplayer without putting your serial into an account on the dev's site. Games like Project Zomboid prove that DRM free multiplayer is possible.