User blog comment:The Crimson Eagle/Freedom Cry standalone release/@comment-5174994-20140205191519/@comment-3046679-20140207234935

A DLC in itself -is- extra content. The absurd of releasing one as a standalone aside, releasing a dlc-for-a-dlc is ridiculous. Those who don't want to jump on this cashgrab bandwagon, and remain with FC being just a dlc for their copy of AC4, should receive the same stuff this standalone might have added ontop of it.

Because those two are supposed to be the same after all.