I don’t really play their games enough to make the expansion pass stuff worth it for me, and coming back to play a game after a couple of months and finding like 3 new DLCs that I need to purchase (or get an expansion pass for a month and pay like $15 just to play a game for a couple of days) always leaves a bad taste in my mouth, especially since the DLCs always seem to focus more on reworking the core gameplay, making the game feel radically different than before, Stellaris was one of my favourite games maybe like 2-3 years ago? Now it’s like…fine, but has so much extra stuff grafted onto it and so many mechanics that just add more tedium than enjoyment to it.
I usually like to binge a game for a couple of days and then come back to them a few months later if I enjoy them, so paying a monthly fee for a game I don’t play every month doesn’t interest me, and needing to pay if I do want to play it sucks, and I’ll just play a different game instead. If they just let people play earlier versions of the game without needing jump through a bunch of hoops I wouldn’t mind so much. But I’m really glad their business model hasn’t caught on with the rest of the industry, I would hate to have to pay money every single time I wanted to play a game I already paid for previously.
I get it, in fact, I think theyre putting a band-aid over their own problems when they create so much DLC with such narrow focuses and refuse to have it be just a free update, or to just release a “new” game instead. Like EU4 has been at least 4 different games at this point, looking up gameplay from release to today is insane and its also disgusting that you cant really even play the game as it was unless you just find a cracked version of the game still uploaded somewhere.
I don’t really play their games enough to make the expansion pass stuff worth it for me, and coming back to play a game after a couple of months and finding like 3 new DLCs that I need to purchase (or get an expansion pass for a month and pay like $15 just to play a game for a couple of days) always leaves a bad taste in my mouth, especially since the DLCs always seem to focus more on reworking the core gameplay, making the game feel radically different than before, Stellaris was one of my favourite games maybe like 2-3 years ago? Now it’s like…fine, but has so much extra stuff grafted onto it and so many mechanics that just add more tedium than enjoyment to it.
I mean I kinda dont mind paying 15 dollars to play a upgraded version of a game I bought 14 years ago.
I usually like to binge a game for a couple of days and then come back to them a few months later if I enjoy them, so paying a monthly fee for a game I don’t play every month doesn’t interest me, and needing to pay if I do want to play it sucks, and I’ll just play a different game instead. If they just let people play earlier versions of the game without needing jump through a bunch of hoops I wouldn’t mind so much. But I’m really glad their business model hasn’t caught on with the rest of the industry, I would hate to have to pay money every single time I wanted to play a game I already paid for previously.
I get it, in fact, I think theyre putting a band-aid over their own problems when they create so much DLC with such narrow focuses and refuse to have it be just a free update, or to just release a “new” game instead. Like EU4 has been at least 4 different games at this point, looking up gameplay from release to today is insane and its also disgusting that you cant really even play the game as it was unless you just find a cracked version of the game still uploaded somewhere.