At this point PoE has gone the way of EVE to me. It is more enjoyable to read/watch someone else play it than waste the time and frustration of trying to play it myself
The first 30 minutes of each movie come with the monthly subscription. Any extra 30 minute segments are additional DLC with micro transactions for alternate endings for each character
He's going to weasle-word his way out of it by saying that just becacuse they are getting paid for name, image, and likeness doesn't mean they are "professionalized".... Weak sauce, but I guarantee that's his spin if he wants to stay at Clemson.
I have a hard time recommending any Paradox Studio game these days specifically because of their DLC policies. However, if you can get it on a huge sale, yes, they are worth it.
The DLC mostly is about the country focus trees. Get the DLC for the countries you play the most and you can skip the rest. The only exception would be if you love playing UK or Japan then Man the Guns actually makes creating navies slightly more enjoyable.
Which is how it should have always been. Win your conference and you're in. If you didn't, then there are still spots for you, but you better have beaten some really fucking good teams outside your conference since you couldn't win it.
With the guaranteed spot for a Group of 5 team, I could see Baylor or OK St actually downgrade to a group of 5 they could dominate and try for one of those guaranteed spots.