you know i have a love hate relationship with dlcs.

Amber

example of good dlc: (ignore the developers) factorio with the space expansion dlc. you don't need it to play the game (and actually, i prefer the space exploration mods).

example of dlc that's bad:
snowrunner. oh my god. oh you want to play a level? DLC. you want a truck? DLC. I have spent so much on snowrunner just to get decently progressed in the game it's a total scam.

Amber

don't believe me?

@puppygirlhornypost2 As an American Truck Simulator enjoyer (don't laugh, it's calming) I feel both seen and attacked.

Amber

@[email protected] i own snowrunner, american truck simulator, space engineers. those three games alone my god. not to get into train simulator or anything else

@puppygirlhornypost2 Anything from Frontier...

*cries in Stellaris DLC*

Amber

@[email protected] at least ATS is not that bad because you get large portions of the map to explore or an entire new job type

Amber

@[email protected] play snowrunner and you'll understand because it's the same regurgitated jobs on all the maps and you have like 10m^3 of playable area

:neobot_book: *Ada, neptunyl⁷-hydroxide :neptune:

@[email protected] dlc that's the worst disguised as good: paradox interactive's dlc spam which reworks base game features.

this makes the feature either non functional or very unbalanced in the game without the dlc, because both the ai has access to it and the game's balance does not take into account not having the dlc.

also, people don't mind it because if you have someone to host a multiplayer game that has the dlc everyone has it, so you can't actually complain because it's technically free!

Shiri Bailem

@puppygirlhornypost2 seriously, I get it in the moment... each of them usually makes sense in the short term... but honestly you either make it a new game, new edition, or whatever and reset the damn pricing.

Some games I pirate not because I would never pay for them, it's because I'd never dream of paying for them all at once and it's not worth paying for them piecemeal.
@varimbehphen

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@ada @puppygirlhornypost2 another kind i'd like to point out is fighting games, if you play competitively

because you might just be dropped in a match against a character you don't have, so you can't ever practice against it, or study a combo from them in game (to find out how to counter)