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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 151 points 2 years ago (24 children)

The sad part is that the idea behind DLCs (to develop further content for a game already released, in exchange for additional money) is reasonable. Or it would be, if shitty developers didn't abuse it to the point that it stopped being "downloadable content" to become "dumb and lazy cashgrab".

I also think that CA isn't just being benign with this statement, or his whole "let us not be arseholes" approach towards development. He's being smart; player trust might be hard to measure but it has direct impact on word-of-mouth advertisement and piracy, so it's basically the difference between "everybody knows it, plenty bought it" and "the few ones who know it pirated it".

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Agreed. If CA charged a few bucks for the 1.6 update, I'd have bought it without hesitation. Same with 1.5.

The best example right now is Factorio. There's a new expansion coming out in October. It isn't free, but it adds basically an entire new game on top of an already excellent and fully fleshed out game. I'm gonna buy it the day it goes on sale without question and without waiting for reviews.

Then there's crap like Starfield where they added 1 mission for $7.

Slay the Spire is current $8.50. Starbound is $4.50 (both are on sale rn for future readers) if you're looking for a space game.

[–] 50MYT@aussie.zone 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Factorio DLC is going to break global productivity for a month when it's released in October.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Every single engineer and factorio fan I know have taken that day off. Nothing is getting engineered for like 4 days minimum

[–] 50MYT@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago

I've booked 3 days haha.

I've not touched factorio since Jan 2023. 5500 hours till then.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You would think that the kind of person who loves Factorio knows the rule: never book launch day off.

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