That’s why I just pirated all of the DLC for Stellaris. You can either pay a 10$/m subscription to access all of the DLC, or you can pay $290 to get all of the DLC at its absolute cheapest in a -27% off bundle. Fuck that noise, I don’t like any game enough to spend $300 on it.
Fair enough, that is an option. I meant if you specifically want the whole package. Nothing turns me off of a game quite like going to the store page and seeing $300 worth of DLC to go through. Though, many of those DLC are almost just as expensive as the base game. More expensive if you consider the sales the base game has.
Speaking to BL4 in particular, it certainly doesn’t make me feel good to have to parse a chart to see which DLC I have to buy to get the thing that I want, but with Paradox games, I definitely don’t want all $300 of DLC, especially at the start and they’re all in a readable linear list. I think I bought 3 expansions for Cities: Skylines, and the others didn’t speak to me, so especially on a sale, it’s not a high buy-in. The “whole package” would include tons of stuff I had no interest in using.
I’m more of a “grab everything and get rid of the stuff I don’t like next time I play” kind of person. There’s just too much DLC to look through for me to really find what I like, figure out how their systems work with each other and actually feel to play, etc… I’d rather just experience it first hand. Though I will say that if I like a DLC enough and it doesn’t cost too much, I’ll buy it. I think I’ve done that with Nemesis and Utopia so far.
That’s why I just pirated all of the DLC for Stellaris. You can either pay a 10$/m subscription to access all of the DLC, or you can pay $290 to get all of the DLC at its absolute cheapest in a -27% off bundle. Fuck that noise, I don’t like any game enough to spend $300 on it.
Why was it not an option to buy just the DLC you wanted?
Fair enough, that is an option. I meant if you specifically want the whole package. Nothing turns me off of a game quite like going to the store page and seeing $300 worth of DLC to go through. Though, many of those DLC are almost just as expensive as the base game. More expensive if you consider the sales the base game has.
Speaking to BL4 in particular, it certainly doesn’t make me feel good to have to parse a chart to see which DLC I have to buy to get the thing that I want, but with Paradox games, I definitely don’t want all $300 of DLC, especially at the start and they’re all in a readable linear list. I think I bought 3 expansions for Cities: Skylines, and the others didn’t speak to me, so especially on a sale, it’s not a high buy-in. The “whole package” would include tons of stuff I had no interest in using.
I’m more of a “grab everything and get rid of the stuff I don’t like next time I play” kind of person. There’s just too much DLC to look through for me to really find what I like, figure out how their systems work with each other and actually feel to play, etc… I’d rather just experience it first hand. Though I will say that if I like a DLC enough and it doesn’t cost too much, I’ll buy it. I think I’ve done that with Nemesis and Utopia so far.