civilization v complete edition and game of the year

Complete has more DLC than GOTY.

Complete edition will give you everything (all DLC's + Expansions) while GOTY will give you only DLC's.

Don't you all just hate how companies do that now? I try to NEVER buy incomplete games now. God... I stil think it all started with N64's "Expansion Pack..." FFS.

A Game of the Year edition was released on September 27, 2011. It includes all four of the "Cradle of Civilization" map packs, the "Explorers Map Pack", as well as most of the new civilizations (Babylon, Spain, Inca, Polynesia, Mongolia, and Denmark), their respective scenarios, and the official digital soundtrack. However, "Civilization and Scenario Pack: Korea" and "Wonders of the Ancient World Scenario Pack" are not included.

A Gold edition was released on February 12, 2013. It includes all "Cradle of Civilization" map packs, the "Explorers Map Pack", the "Wonders of the Ancient World Scenario Pack", all the DLC civilizations and the Gods & Kings expansion pack.

A Complete edition was released on February 5, 2014. It includes both expansions and all the DLC packs.

from Wikipedia

The Gold edition contains all of the GOTY content, plus the Korea and Ancient Wonders DLC packs and the first expansion Gods & Kings.

The Complete edition contains all of the Gold content, plus Scrambled Continents Map Pack, Scrambled Nations Map Pack, and the second expansion Brave New World.