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Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game (www.pcgamesn.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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And have we come full circle to god damn horse armor.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

This year‘s CK3 DLC package is also very close in price to the „base game.“ Naturally, it provides nowhere near as much content and I refuse to believe it requires nearly as much work to make either.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Paradox DLC policy is why I don't play Paradox games anymore.

If I were to only play 1 game ever, then the DLC system might be ok, it's basically a subscription system. But since I'd only play a campaign every other year or so, I'm not going to fork out that much money for 1 campaign. And it's way too annoying to play some game with obvious parts missing + in game ads, so now Paradox gets no more money from me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I feel Paradox DLCs are the better way of DLCs. They add good content but you absolutely can enjoy the game without them

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

They add good content but you absolutely can enjoy the game without them

Respectfully...such as?

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

Yeah I loved EUIV early on, but have left it alone for a while. Now, whenever I get the urge to play again (and I do), I have a look at everything that popped up in the meantime and it's just overwhelming. Sure, I could play the snapshot I have but then the game keeps getting patched so you get stunted new mechanics that need the DLCs to function properly. I could revert to a previous patch, but what was the patch in march 2021? Do I still find it in the steam options?

And if you want to bite the bullet and just buy the whole DLC collection it's around 100 euro for a couple of years. or something like 300 for the whole package? I do appreciate the quality that paradox churns out though.

This is why I've been holding off on getting victoria 3.

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

Can you expand on this in-game ad thing? I love paradox but it’s been loooong time since I played one of theirs.

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

Here's an complaint thread (not mine) with a screenshot: https://old.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/suurzs/paradox_this_is_unacceptable_in_a_paid_product/

I personally get more annoyed by in game presentation of features and then getting hit with a "you need to pay extra to use this", that's basically an ad as well and it's constantly there in the main gameplay loop. Bye bye immersion. It's an annoyance every time that you are confronted with it, which in most paradox games is basically all the time. It's like buying a car and then having to pay extra to unlock the seat heating that is already installed.

I could probably work around it by not auto updating paradox games and installing mods to remove some of the ads, but for 1 campaign every 2 years that's just not worth the hassle for me. So I simply don't play paradox games anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ya I agree. I do not like that either

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I buy base Paradox games just so i can mod the cracked version with all dlc through steam.

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

Care to elaborate?

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

English is not my first language. So basically how it works is you buy the base game and then you can download mods on workshop. Then you download the cracked version (preferably with the latest patch.) Then you launch the game through steam and select the modlist you wanna play, then you launch the cracked version and it will have that same modlist. I tried it with CK3, HOI4 and Stellaris but i bet it's the same with all of their games. Only thing that sucks is you can't easily download the latest patch for cracked version, but you can stop steam updates while you finish one playthrough or something. Hope this helps if you need better explanation dm me

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

This works because Clausewitz games store mods in Documents instead of somewhere specific to the install

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

Thanks! I thought it was something like that

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

Kind of like Monster Hunter Rise's DLC being almost the same price as the game, while having no campaign at all, unlike Iceborne.