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- Kaboom ( @Kaboom@reddthat.com ) English33•4 months ago
Its worse than that. They added an entire questline, gave you the first quest, and then charged 7 dollars per quest!
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) English20•4 months ago
Howards gone off the rails. He’s a corpo hack. Always was, but now he can shed the leather jacket and McDuck dive into his pool of Creation Coins with no shame.
- off_brand_ ( @off_brand_@beehaw.org ) English7•4 months ago
$7, but you a only spend $10 at a time! It ain’t gonna be 10 quests or 5 quests. It’s gonna be like 3 or six so you’ll be left with $9 in coins and feel like you’re wasting cash if you don’t spend another $10 to buy some other creation club shit.
God I fucking hate the premium currency tactic.
- Coasting0942 ( @Coasting0942@reddthat.com ) English4•4 months ago
If I’m reading it right, it’s a quest framework and one quest is free, the other is paid. So it sounds like we’ll be able to completely ignore the quest if you never visit CC content in the first place.
For free mod purposes, sounds like it should be easier for mod makers to create bounty hunting quests.
- Kaboom ( @Kaboom@reddthat.com ) English3•4 months ago
They put the intro guy at the entrance to cydonia, the only way to avoid it is dont upgrade to the latest patch.
- Coasting0942 ( @Coasting0942@reddthat.com ) English2•4 months ago
The intro guy to the second quest? Or the intro to the bounty quest framework?
- Kaboom ( @Kaboom@reddthat.com ) English4•4 months ago
Intro to the questline. And it’s not a framework, it’s a questline.
- Nate Cox ( @natecox@programming.dev ) English18•4 months ago
Damn, I was just thinking of giving SF another shot. Guess it wasn’t meant to be.
- BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) English3•4 months ago
aw man, cant play this game it has optional paid content 😔
- Nate Cox ( @natecox@programming.dev ) English23•4 months ago
It’s funny how people will chant “vote with your wallet” but when someone votes against business practices they don’t agree with using their wallet they’re all surprised pikachu about it.
Charging per quest in a micro transaction scheme (which isn’t really micro at a $10 entry fee) is shitty and I don’t want to support it by pumping their gameplay numbers right after announcing it.
- BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) English3•4 months ago
i agree. i also never picked up cyberpunk because of the same reason. also rock band or guitar hero for its hiding content behind paywalls. i just stop playing 99% of games actually
- Nate Cox ( @natecox@programming.dev ) English9•4 months ago
Fun fact: when you need to resort to hyperbole it’s a good indicator that your position may not have merit.
- BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) English1•4 months ago
it’s not that hyperbolic you’re just on a hate train 😂😂😂
or do you really think not all games have paid content? especially the ones i mentioned?
- Nate Cox ( @natecox@programming.dev ) English4•4 months ago
I think there’s a very clear and distinctive difference between an upfront, honest cost for a content pack; and breaking that content pack into itty bitty bits and charging for each.
The latter has an obvious goal of obfuscating the total cost of the content pack, so as to inflate it past what their market research indicates people would normally be willing to pay.
It’s dishonest and anti-consumer, and it’s foolish as the consumer not to push back against this practice before it becomes normal.
- BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) English1•4 months ago
i can see that definitely. but i also look at it at the way nearly every other game is already selling content like that but without the quest attached to it. i dont think its worth 7 bucks. too expensive. but i also dont think its a total outrage personally. then again i didnt even have to pay for it because i got 1000 free credit things. if i didnt get those, i wouldnt have bothered buying it
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English5•4 months ago
You deserve the downvotes here, just wanted to make that clear.
- BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) English1•4 months ago
why? please explain the reasoning
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English3•4 months ago
No.
- BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) English1•4 months ago
i knew it. you had no reason. you just felt like being an asshole. i hope it brightened your day to post such a pointless comment 😃
- Drag it thru daGarden ( @dragThruGardenPlz@midwest.social ) English15•4 months ago
- tal ( @tal@lemmy.today ) English11•4 months ago
I mean, that’s basically just paid DLC, and I’m not complaining about there being paid DLC for the Fallout series and Skyrim. I’m fine with content being sold.
But I would like the value to be reasonable. A lot of game developers that sell content in small chunks sell a pretty minimal amount of content for pretty significant prices.