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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I absolutely hate DLC that integrates with the main game and gives you OP weapons.

There was one game that the DLC gives you the second best weapon at the start, as a thank you for preordering. But I didn't preorder, I bought the ultimate edition. So wtf.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I find the DLCs / preorder bonuses that give you really powerful weapons at the beginning of a game just… bizarre? Like, okay, thank you for the thing that completely ruins the progression?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Paradox games in a nutshell.

[+] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but it's a sustainable model that allows for longtime development and product lifetime. It's also completely voluntary since base + utopia + synthetic dawn are 85% of all worthwhile content on their own

Like, microtransactions are garbage, but the industry has shifted to a point where you're out if you don't have a long term payment model. The paradox model at least puts a cap on what the whales can pay, and actually gives them more content in return.

It's the least bad model out there. At least for companies too big to pull a factorio/terraria

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TBH I much prefer the cosmetic micro transaction and even loot boxes to this system. Because now you’re locked out of content if you don’t pay extra, while with the other models don’t screw over the players who don’t want to/can’t pay

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather have subscription model + frequent dlc + ads in game the microtransactions

Not that I would accept that combo either, but unlike microtransactions, it wouldn't literally ruin lives

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is litterally microtransactios

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

If you think 15 bucks for actual additional content is a microtransactions than you need to read up on the definition

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which sucks so much because Surviving Mars is one of my favorite games of all time.

And they messed up that one after the original devs left.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have no idea what happened with the development of that game in any fashion. I just bought it and like what I played. I never looked into it because I figured most of it was going to be Paradox being Paradox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is FF15 to me.