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Very surprising. The game looked like it had a lot of potential and could've been the most popular sims alternative, but it's suddenly been cancelled.

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 94 points 11 months ago (28 children)

I guess no game is better than a shitty one, but can someone please make a modern sims game that's not EA and their endless DLC crap.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 123 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Without endless dlc? Who do you think Paradox is???

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Paradox's current DLC model is pretty nice, tbh.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean, you say that, but a new player looking to get into Stellaris or CKII is looking at a $300 bill if they want all the content. In fact that's what prevented me from getting into Stellaris, I own the base game, but when I discovered I'd need to shell out an additional several hundred dollars, even during a sale, for not only new species but just for base game mechanics, I stopped in my tracks.

Compare with Civilization, I own Civ V and Civ VI and all the released content for each, pretty sure I bought each of those for less than $20.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I did see an announcement earlier this year that they were folding some DLC into the base game for either CK3 or HoI4 because it was difficult to balance the game with all of the different DLC permutations possible. I think it would be smart of them to do this in general, maybe after a DLC is past a certain age, pull it into the base game.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just buy Paradox games on sale too if you're comparing it to sale price of other games.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That WAS the sale price. It's $200 something dollars for the complete set of Stellaris normally, on 50% sale that's still $100+ for everything. Pretty sure CKII was worse.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

That's not remotely the point here.

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