What day 1 DLC? The Deluxe edition cosmetic stuff?
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dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Just ignore the day 1 DLC.
AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Thatâs called a micro transaction, yes.
SCB@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Thatâs a courtesy for people who didnât pre-order but want the dice cosmetic. It was originally a pre-order exclusive but they changed it when asked to.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
âno additional purchasesâ their words, not mine.
AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Just clarifying what you meant. I thought I missed something. DLC to my mind is like... an extra race or somthing a bit more relevant than purely cosmetic stuff. Not going to argue semantics here, fair enough to call that a micro transaction and it's certainly DLC.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
âno additional purchasesâ their words, not mine.
ObsidianBlk@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Even excluding the cosmetics, this DLC includes the soundtrack. I havenât purchased it myself (yet), but Iâd imagine that a soundtrack to a game with over 200 hours of cinematic would be rather extensive (again, I have not seen it, so I donât know). Even if itâs only 30 to 40 minutes of music, at $10, thatâs at least on par with the cost of most albums anywhere else. I feel itâs got to be more than only 30ish minutes of music, though, so, for the album alone the price seems legit.
OrgunDonor@kbin.social â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Just to add more information about the sound track, it is 43 tracks in both MP3 and WAV formats. The runtime of those 43 tracks is 2:26:57.
mojo@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
What one of those items prevents you from having enjoyment in the game? You just start with a lil cool cosmetic cape. Itâs not a battle pass.
stillwater@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Whatâs the transaction?
Neato@kbin.social â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
$10 purchase for soundtrack, dice skin and some DSO2 cosmetics that everyone who bought the game in early access gets. This allows everyone else to purchase.
Neato@kbin.social â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
It's the soundtrack and some DSO2 cosmetics that everyone who bought the game during early access got for free. They're selling it to everyone else for $10.
Technically it's DLC, not MTX as MTX almost always entails individual purchases of items, usually in-game. It's more of a Collector's Edition than anything. That no one seems to care about, even the people who detest predatory practices.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
There are items with in game power in that bundle.
Neato@kbin.social â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Do you mean the Mask of the Shapeshifter? That allows, once per long rest, to change appearance to another random character. Effectively a Disguise Self cast.
There's also the dagger that's 4-7 weapon. But I replaced that before I even dealt with the goblin camp. There's so many magic items I wasn't worried about it.
The biggest coup is the hat and cape. They offer no bonuses but they look so fly I'm probably never taking them off.
joe@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
You consider DLC a microtransaction?
Nipah@kbin.social â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Microtransactions are 'small' purchases made in a game (or via some kind of store that allows you to buy stuff to be used inside of a game).
DLC is any additional downloadable content that is not included with the game (so something like a day 1 patch wouldn't be considered DLC, I'd say).
All microtransations are DLC, but not all DLC are microtransactions, generally (before someone comes along with some kind of physical microtransaction or something I guess)
I personally just view microtransations as anything that isn't 'playable content'. So buying a mount from an in-game store would be a microtransaction, while buying an expansion wouldn't be. Map packs kind of blur the line in this instance, because one could argue that they're essentially 'world cosmetics', but its a hard and fast rule and not something I'd try to enforce as a law, ya know?
joe@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Itâs clear that there are multiple different definitions that people have for âmicrotransactionsâ. I think itâs safe to assume that larian has a definition similar to mine. No time in the game that Iâve noticed did I get prompted to buy the DLC. In fact, I didnât buy it; it seems early access people got it for free.