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.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (9 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.

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 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.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Ya I agree. I do not like that either

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