That’s more than the price of a new AAA release.
For the love of god, Paradox games ON SALE at -75% were still around 80€. DLCs can of course be bought later, but who honestly has the time to properly asses these games during the duration of an average sale, to see if further investment into DLCs is worth it. Sure, I could go with option c) buy the vanilla game at low price and hopefully be able to ignore the fact that I’m not getting a complete experience.
So what’s my point? 3 years after release when I feel like trying out one of these games I’m really not inclined to a) spend a minor fortune up front to get a complete experience or b) spend several hours researching the various dlcs, trying to eliminate the needless ones to cut down the cost, at which point I’m already disinclined towards purchase. Yay.Īnd these are games where most of the DLCs have some substance to them, meaning no time savers or other consumable mtx bullshit that plagues some other genres. Gold default price (all dlcs minus Gathering Storm) is 100€, so you save about 30 bucks. Come on, man.Ĭivilization 6: 2016, 107€ worth of dlc. I actually own all the dlcs for this one because I kept buying them over the years, but this example will be relevant to my point at the end.Įuropa Universalis 4: 2013, 361,72€ (!!!) worth of DLC. Jesus fucking Christ Paradox, stop updating the fucking game already please. One of the more reasonable offerings.Ĭrusader Kings 2: 2012 (!!!) release date, 300€ worth of DLC. Not to mention the various editions that plague all Amplitude games.Įndless Space 2: 2017 release date, 50€ worth of DLC. Fortunately I’m only missing 4 dlcs for this one which cost a measly 52€ total. Pass.Įndless Legend: 2014 release date, 80€ worth of DLC. The game is on sale right now and I can’t help but wonder if they’re trying o sell me a game or a way to squeeze more money out of me. Gal Civ3, came out in 2015, has 95€ worth of DLC. Seeing how the game is now 3 years old I did the reasonable thing - refused to play an incomplete game and skipped on buying the bundle and the missing DLC. Civ VI now has a new DLC called Gathering Storm which costs 40 bucks.
Turns out that these new bundles mean fuck all because the goddamn DLCs keep coming. My library is full of them so I thought I’d check which DLCs I’m missing for some of them and I quickly realised I’d be paying upwards of 40 dollars for dlcs for titles that are at this point 5+ years old.Īnd then bam, Fanatical comes out with a Civ VI Gold bundle.
For the past few weeks I’ve been shopping around, trying to get some 4x to get back into the genre.
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