I agree on the addiction thing. From a higher up level I don't really mind it at all, since I would never be enticed by this. But there are TONS of gamers who would, and this feels like the industry just blatantly taking advantage of peoples addictions.

Kind of reminds me a lot about all the app-based sports gambling right now which is a pandemic in my mind.

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Ahhhh one of the oldest tricks from incompetent corporate management teams.

"Everyone knows our name now and we are synonymous with layoffs, the death of games, horrible management and just general negligence in every possible way?"

"CHANGE THE NAME ...!"

"Also generate some random marketing corporate speak"

"Ladies and Gents, I think we are done here, good job all around, bonuses to everyone."

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: JarmerSo now I guess they're just going back to their cash cow: dlc for stellaris. What is the total cost of buying the game with all expansions in 2024? Like $200 or something insane?

Haha, optimist. More than double. Figuring out all this DLC stuff feels like work to me. I'll just skip it and go play something else. It's not like I have a shortage of games to dump my time in.

HOLY SHITBALLS - I thought you might be joking ... but you aren't!!! It's OVER $400 if you buy the game and all expansions.

$40 base game
$372 dlc
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$412 total

WHAT. THE. HELL.

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Paradox just keeps getting worse over time. I'm pretty uninterested in supporting anything by them at this point.

Just recently they released the Lamplighters League by one of my fav dev's, but forced day 1 content based dlc (which means instantly I'll never buy it) and then abandoned the entire game and laid off the entire studio.

Then they released the star trek grand strategy game in a beyond broken unplayable state. Which is really incredible since they had Stellaris to go off of. Then they abandoned it as well.

So now I guess they're just going back to their cash cow: dlc for stellaris. What is the total cost of buying the game with all expansions in 2024? Like $200 or something insane?

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Quoting: Tevur

Quoting: Liam Dawehttps://twitter.com/PLAYTR0N/status/1778464518529491068 [External Link]

https://twitter.com/PLAYTR0N/status/1778465526978629866 [External Link]

Sadly, thanks to enshittification of TPFKAT (the plattform formerly known as Twitter), without an account I can only see those two posts and not the whole thread.
Would you kindly share it as copy+paste, screenshot or something? :grin:

I had the same experience trying to follow back through the sewers of twitter - but at some point we have to just give up, the raw shit just isn't worth wading through anymore. So many diseases.

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Quoting: Liam DaweThey had a bit of a meltdown at me on X/Twitter of my poking on this...not a good look.

https://twitter.com/PLAYTR0N/status/1778464518529491068 [External Link]

https://twitter.com/PLAYTR0N/status/1778465526978629866 [External Link]

LOLOLOLOL

I love it so much :heart: Makes my cold dark heart warm up a bit when con artists get all ruffled when people start to question things.

Also I love how they're dropping in comparisons to Apple Pay and PayPal. Two gigantic industry titans who **GASP** have an actual product that isn't a scam, which people use daily around the globe.

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Quoting: Vortex_AcheronticOr it will be just another Ouya story. Things will go silent and then plans will be discontinued 😅

well .... but wasn't the Ooya an actual real thing that was just mismanaged to death? This Sui garbage is an out and out obvious scam that will never exist and is specifically designed to never exist. The only point here is to milk braindead crypto investors out of what little cash they have left.

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Quoting: MohandevirI was affraid I would not be able to play Jedi Survivor before they decide to put EA anticheat into it too... Turns out this game is a mess, performance wise. I ended up uninstalling it after a couple of hours of play, because there is no computer on the face of our planet that can run it without major stuttering issues. I regret buying it in the first place and with this news, I won't buy an EA game again.

sounds pretty much run of mill these days for a ue4 release. I basically have to look up all the games on wikipedia and check to see what engine they are running. UE4 is almost guaranteed to have awful performance with tons of stuttering.

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Love AtomTeam!

I downloaded the demo, and unfortunately the linux version had just a black screen (missing into cinematic I guess) and no audio at all (but that's not this game, that's a system wide issue for me for whatever reason).

So I changed over to proton and it ran wonderfully.

Has a super retro feel to it, but so far so good. Definitely brings back the old school feel of Baldurs Gate 2 or similar. Combat seems fine, exploring does as well. I already like that they reward exploring with secret items, etc... and have hidden treasure that you must dig up.

Will definitely wishlist! I won't support pre-order or kickstarter, but will gladly track the development and look forward to release!

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaMan, I've waited for this game for years.

Very cool to see an "AAA" game launching just fine on PC : decent performance (runs smoothly on a 6-year old rig), no microtransactions, no invasive DRM or kernel-level anti-cheat, good story/graphics, and an overall great experience with Proton.

I'm having a blast with it !

same here! I just did the big fight at barren light (not a spoiler) and man alive, the production value is so high! It's really like playing a scene from a movie. Loved it.

I also have to LOLOLOL so loud at all the face stuff. Cmon people, it's so absurd, I can barely tell if you're joking or not.

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