Comment on Borderlands 4′s New $30 Expansion Pack Isn’t Winning Over Fans
Nelots@piefed.zip 6 hours agoThat’s why I just pirated all of the DLC for Stellaris. You can either pay a 10$/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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Why was it not an option to buy just the DLC you wanted?
Nelots@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.
Nelots@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
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.. 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.