... does not feel like a vampire the masquarade game. Also the changes to the story were not really reflected in the gameplay. You play as an elder but the mechanics still reflect the thin blood you were supposed to play initially. Also a lot of mechanics from the tabletop like the humanity have been dumbed down. If you can get passed that, it's an average game that will pass the time.
Full disclosure, I didn't buy it. I used this map's free version when I played (I'm mostly waiting for the story dlc to come out to pick the game again. Did it for the witcher) To me, you don't get any significant gain from the paid version. The only thing that could remotely be interesting is the official guide updates or the hidden gem which you can find elsewhere. And that's just to have only one source instead of looking on the web. If you are interested in this map to get everything in one place, it would be more interesting to buy the guide. At least you'd have a real book instead of half the map. Since CDProjekt has (had?) money issues it feels more like a trade deal to sweeten loss they had with this game. Piggyback must have paid them just to include this as dlc, which in my opinion, they really need to fix the game. I think it's just here for the upfront investment and not for the abysmal sales this would generate. Moving programmer to fix the game instead having them working on project that will generate more money later is not cheap. So I'm not surprised they would accept deals from an third party company. Clearly it can slow the burn rate of this project. While I will not but buy the guide or the map, I don't really care. Most company would have just backed from the game and the controversy instead of working albeit slowly to fix the mess.
... "Deluxe editions" used to be that way: You got the full game and, if you wanted to add a little extra, you were awarded goodies that you could have passed without missing something. Sure It was at a time it was not so easy to google "XXX ost" but that makes it even more relevant now. It's more like giving a tip than actually adding content to your game (well not a tip like in the US, where tips are almost forced upon the client but more like in France where it's actually to reward the employee for an exceptional service.)
