I absolutely hate DLC that integrates with the main game and gives you OP weapons.
There was one game that the DLC gives you the second best weapon at the start, as a thank you for preordering. But I didn't preorder, I bought the ultimate edition. So wtf.
I find the DLCs / preorder bonuses that give you really powerful weapons at the beginning of a game just… bizarre? Like, okay, thank you for the thing that completely ruins the progression?
Paradox games in a nutshell.
I love Paradox games so much but my god yes. After Stellaris I vowed to never buy one of their games again. It INFURIATED me that they had a thing you could buy that was specifically for all the DLC and then released more DLC and didn't include it in that first pack. Made you buy them all individual or to buy a Season Pass which wasn't mentioned or noted or even suggested would be happening.
Pricks.
Which sucks so much because Surviving Mars is one of my favorite games of all time.
Yeah, but it's a sustainable model that allows for longtime development and product lifetime. It's also completely voluntary since base + utopia + synthetic dawn are 85% of all worthwhile content on their own
Like, microtransactions are garbage, but the industry has shifted to a point where you're out if you don't have a long term payment model. The paradox model at least puts a cap on what the whales can pay, and actually gives them more content in return.
It's the least bad model out there. At least for companies too big to pull a factorio/terraria
This is FF15 to me.
