Why Timeline has to be a seperate mode?

[flywlyx]

Again what with those weird takes - no one is selling new game, Timelines is in all, X4:Foundation game, content, story and lore wise.
All this pointless discussion is you complaining it's outside of sandbox and somehow is dungeon - neither is true.

So, is it inside the sandbox now?
Steam is 2 clicks away from the sandbox, are you going to tell me steam is part of the sandbox?

How could he point to "similar game mechanic", if Timeline has "unique mechanic"?

Because he said:

There are way more small scenarios mission pack and mechanics that have nothing to do with dungeons and there are a lot of dungeons who are much more robust and long running than any small scenario.

[Witzzard]

Again what with those weird takes - no one is selling new game, Timelines is in all, X4:Foundation game, content, story and lore wise.
All this pointless discussion is you complaining it's outside of sandbox and somehow is dungeon - neither is true.

No one is claiming X-Timelines is not part of the X franchise.

X-Timeilines reminds me of the way games like Mass Effect have a multi-player extension. Never played Mass-Effect-multiplayer but I can't see much connection between the single-player and multi-player games.

X-Timelines is logically a different game from X4, however, Egosoft has decided to treat one as a DLC of the other. Maybe a bit confusing and a disappointment to some pre-existing players but not a major sin.

Makes you a bit special to be honest.
No one ever argued that Quick Battles and Sandbox Maps weren't part of any of the biggest RTS of the last decades. Or that Portal 2 or others were multiple games in one package, because there were multiple game modes.