Yes it matters. Very very much. Imagine if you ordered a pizza for $8, $1 a slice. The delivery guy drops it off and you pay, then open the box to find half of the pizza in the box locked in another military grade security box with a slot for your credit card and a flyer that is advertising the 4 remeining slices as two separate expansions, and an expansion pass for $4, or $2.50 for two slices. When I was younger , expansions meant actual expansions. You bought your game for $50/$60 or whatever, had a blast, a ton of customers also wanted more, then a short time later you got an expansion which is the same size of the original game or bigger.