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[–] Lizardking27 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think we need to admit that paradox is a shitty greedy company that cares more about selling a million DLCs than they do about making a quality product.

Paradox's business practices have always been greedy and over monetized. Not sure why anyone is surprised their latest product sucks.

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

Hmm, I've only played Stellaris from this company and that game is great. A bit pricey with all the DLC, but the alternative of releasing a new Stellaris every few years probably amounts to the same.
Also, I'd rather play a well fleshed out 8 year old game, than getting a bare boned husk with each iteration - which sadly tends to be the norm for 4x games.

[–] Lizardking27 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"A bit pricey"

My dude stellaris+all DLC is $350!

Furthermore, "releasing a new stellaris every few years" is not the only alternative. Look at all the games that exist that have regular free content updates.

Paradox needs to do better.

[–] konsn 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dont know about stellaris but I got Cities Skylines (1) with all the content DLCs at the time for under $50, which I consider a very good deal for the hours I put in. For reference, I paid roughly the same amount for BF5 which I played for about a month and then forgot about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure whether you got it on sale, or how many DLC you actually got, but it currently costs $380 for the complete package.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It was in a humble bundle way back. Same with EU4 and CK2 had their own bundles iirc. All were great deals if you didn't own it.

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

300 USD... a 'little' pricey

[–] Maggoty 2 points 2 months ago

In hearts of iron they always made sure to drop free content along with the paid content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The link suggests the opposite of what you’re claiming

you were of course supposed to keep access to the Beach Properties content until the patch that moves it to the base game arrived. Assets are replaced by the placeholder boxes, but as the waterfront zoning isn't available in the base game yet, I recommend holding off on loading saves with a lot of those zones.

Putting dlc content into the base game doesn’t sound like they are trying to sell millions of dlc

[–] SpacetimeMachine 7 points 2 months ago

Only because there was major backlash for releasing dlc content before the base game is even in a finished state and is still missing content that players feel should be in the base game.