If I were to only play 1 game ever, then the DLC system might be ok, it's basically a subscription system. But since I'd only play a campaign every other year or so, I'm not going to fork out that much money for 1 campaign. And it's way too annoying to play some game with obvious parts missing + in game ads, so now Paradox gets no more money from me.

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I feel Paradox DLCs are the better way of DLCs. They add good content but you absolutely can enjoy the game without them

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

They add good content but you absolutely can enjoy the game without them

Respectfully...such as?

[–] SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I loved EUIV early on, but have left it alone for a while. Now, whenever I get the urge to play again (and I do), I have a look at everything that popped up in the meantime and it's just overwhelming. Sure, I could play the snapshot I have but then the game keeps getting patched so you get stunted new mechanics that need the DLCs to function properly. I could revert to a previous patch, but what was the patch in march 2021? Do I still find it in the steam options?

And if you want to bite the bullet and just buy the whole DLC collection it's around 100 euro for a couple of years. or something like 300 for the whole package? I do appreciate the quality that paradox churns out though.

This is why I've been holding off on getting victoria 3.

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can you expand on this in-game ad thing? I love paradox but it’s been loooong time since I played one of theirs.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Here's an complaint thread (not mine) with a screenshot: https://old.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/suurzs/paradox_this_is_unacceptable_in_a_paid_product/

I personally get more annoyed by in game presentation of features and then getting hit with a "you need to pay extra to use this", that's basically an ad as well and it's constantly there in the main gameplay loop. Bye bye immersion. It's an annoyance every time that you are confronted with it, which in most paradox games is basically all the time. It's like buying a car and then having to pay extra to unlock the seat heating that is already installed.

I could probably work around it by not auto updating paradox games and installing mods to remove some of the ads, but for 1 campaign every 2 years that's just not worth the hassle for me. So I simply don't play paradox games anymore.

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Ya I agree. I do not like that either