Quoting: anewsonCompare CK2 or Stellaris with games that have seen constant content updates without paid DLC (Project Zomboid, Valheim, Caves of Qud, NMS, ...), constant content updates with much more gamer-friendly DLC releases (eg, Deep Rock Galactic, Don't Starve, ...), or, dare I say it, even F2P games like Apex or PoE which see constant content updates without locking gameplay mechanics behind paywalls, and make their money off of cosmetics

So you prefer microtransactions then. That's fine, I don't. I prefer, as I said earlier, well thought out DLC expansions.

There are some exceptions, such as Hello Games NMS, who just do free content, somehow. It's been suggested that they only do all those free updates because of the shit-show of a launch they had, but I don't believe that, at least not any more. It's been years and they're still releasing content for free, riding on the sales of the base game. Impressive.

So there are exceptions, definitely. But normally after release if you want continuity you have to accept either DLC, or microtransactions. Paradox do DLC, which is increasingly rare these days. Deep Rock Galactic, Apex, PoE, Diablo, and most other do mtx. They're both viable, but I definitely have my preferences.

Calling Paradox a cash-grab publisher for doing DLC? Insultingly petty and wholly disingenuous.

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Quoting: JarmerFunny enough, it was Paradox's predatory scam dlc behavior

What what? Predatory how? A scam??

Paradox are one of the few publisher's with a well established, regular, value add DLC regime. They support their games YEARS after release. Stellaris, for example, released over 7 years ago, but some of the DLC modules released are just £9 yet add swathes of content.

I wish other publishers would take note instead of trying monetise micro-transactions.

I'll take properly thought out DLC any day over cosmetic shite, Battle passes and "Seasons".

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Quoting: LachuAnd what about Lutris and Proton?

What about them? I'm not sure what you're getting at - the article is about Diablo 4 coming to steam, which will use Proton and has been proven to work. Not sure where Lutris comes into this.

Lutris allow to install proton and use it to non-Steam games/programs.

Well, yeah. You can still do that to install Battle.net and Diablo 4 from the Blizzard store, definitely. Still an option. But as the article points out, if you've already bought it on the Blizzard store, you'll have to buy it again on Steam if you want to play with Steam friends, sadly.

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Quoting: LachuAnd what about Lutris and Proton?

What about them? I'm not sure what you're getting at - the article is about Diablo 4 coming to steam, which will use Proton and has been proven to work. Not sure where Lutris comes into this.

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They broke $50K/month! Lovely. Lemme just grab the full graphic - it gives me a nice warm feeling every time I see it!

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Quoting: kaimanit's relying on a "xbox game services" component, which it tries to download from the Windows App Store

Microsoft gonna Microsoft.

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Man, the Indie term is as useless as AAA these days! I still think of it as meaning "four, maybe five or less on the dev team, no publisher", or vaguely along those lines. But then you see "Indie hit" bandied about and the team is like 20+ and decade long publishing deals!

Doesn't help that having a big hit will change the landscape. I think Megacrit (Slay the Spire) only had around 4 staff when they launched StS, but their web page lists nearly 10 now, and there are media reports of the team hitting 25 staff! Obviously a huge influx of money will change the studio, but they still hang on to that "indie" tag.

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Quoting: poke86Forza Horizon 5 is broken as well after yesterday's update :(

Yep, as noted in the article.

Sceptic in me notes that these are XBOX/Microsoft titles. Hmmm.

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Quoting: elmapulGYLT? i've been waiting forever to play this, when this launched for pc?

Well that looks absolutely terrifying. I'll... pass!

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Quoting: dOwN_lOaDGood gameplay for this type of game, very good difficulty, but if you do the upgrades the wrong way, shit..
A great time pass!

You can re-roll them

True, and although I haven't played it for a few months, doesn't this one let you "banish" upgrades you don't want? It makes getting the right build much more feasible than certain other horde-survival games.

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