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.
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?
Paradox games in a nutshell.
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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
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But then still, most people wouldn’t pay over the standard full price of a game, no matter how big it is. So that’s actually less sustainable for a company
Well that’s a flagrant lie. Baldurs Gate 3.
How much is baldurs gate? It’s standard full price isn’t it?
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
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
This is litterally microtransactios
If you think 15 bucks for actual additional content is a microtransactions than you need to read up on the definition
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.
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.
This is FF15 to me.
