2K developer weekend on Steam - still no sale on DLCs
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aguliondew
Prince
Yea I am waiting on that bundle deal too. Alot of dlc content but they add upto the cost of the base game.
thecrazyscot
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"I can't believe this luxury good I want is not available more cheaply!"
You obviously want the DLCs, just buy them already.
You obviously want the DLCs, just buy them already.
Katakanja
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Isn't this what the AI is thinking when it constantly tries those ridiculous 1gpt for all your luxuries trade offers?
kaspergm
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I want them, but I am patient ... and stubborn.
I will wait.
WillowBrook
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Yeah, I've just about given up waiting for a sale. But as I still have six R&F civs I've not played yet, it will be a little while longer before they get more of my money.
nzcamel
Nahtanoj the Magnificent
I've got them right away even if I won't play as them anytime soon cos I love having as big a roster to play against as possible 
I think i can save more money buy not buying the DLCs i dont really want/need (like SEA) than waiting for a bundle with all DLCs and a 20% discount...
Edit: I only bought Australia and the Viking Scenario Pack (because of additional CS and natural wonders)
Edit: I only bought Australia and the Viking Scenario Pack (because of additional CS and natural wonders)
bonafide11
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I'm a sucker and would snatch up any DLC Firaxis released, even if it's a civ I never intended to play as.
historix69
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The Deluxe Edition on 60% sale is now cheaper than the 6 DLCs.
(Deluxe + R&F together on sale are now cheaper than the regular price for Civ6.)
(Deluxe + R&F together on sale are now cheaper than the regular price for Civ6.)
Katakanja
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I mentioned this the last time the DLC never goes on sale topic came up - I think not discounting individual DLCs is actually a Firaxis sales policy now. The individual DLCs for XCOM2 have never gone on sale either - only the expansion and the season pass which includes all 3 of the smaller packs that are similar in scale to Civ's civilization & scenario packs. Since Civ VI doesn't have a separate season pass, my theory is that sometime later in the year they will release a bundle containing the 6 deluxe edition DLCs and then only offer sales discounts on that package.
I often play multiplayer and if one player has the DLCs you (without dlc) play with all the DLCs, too, even if you are the host. i.e. map generation has all natural wonders / new city states, and random AI can spawn as any civs. The only restriction is that you can't pick the ones you do not own.
Timodelphia
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I finally gave in our the holidays and purchased them all.
I've played 9 or 10 games of Civ 6 so there's a lot of Civ's I haven't played from the original list ! I have had the Australia DLC and the Persia/Macedonia but I only played Australia... I don't mind shelling out for extras but 2 civs for £5 is not great value if it's just gonna be an AI to me... The expansion R&F is like the price of a full game ? Now there are endless updates and patches and 2 variants of one game... Great ! pffffft
Morningcalm
Keeper of Records
Frankly none of the DLC are priced right in my opinion--too expensive. Especially the Viking scenario.
Oh I checked... £4.49 for One Civ ! Nubia
.... £8.99 Khmer & Indonesia....
It's not the money that bothers me... It's lack of value ! Just the pure greed of the devs squeezing out every penny for hardly anything... Should concentrate on fixing all the bugs and designing a proper UI before squeezing customers endlessly ....
Jackanape
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If it's "hardly anything", then why do you care about the price? If it has no value to you, don't buy it. For those to whom it has value, it seems priced properly.
The whole "I want something, but I don't want to pay for it" thing is getting really old.
Bernie Sanders called: he wants his campaign platform back.
The whole "I want something, but I don't want to pay for it" thing is getting really old.
Bernie Sanders called: he wants his campaign platform back.
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JFD
Kathigitarkh
Comments like these are really unfortunate... Firaxis - the devs - don't set the price. They also don't necessarily set the agenda for what to work on.
Personally, while I would enjoy having the DLC, my potential enjoyment of the DLC does not outweigh the unhappiness I would get from knowing that I was conned into buying the game under one set of expectations only to find out that the Deluxe Edition would receive additional DLC and become the only viable method of getting a discount on any DLC. As it is I'm hesitant to buy any future products relating to this game because I don't want to make the same mistake of getting locked into a bad deal.
I would be willing to purchase a Season Pass, or even very moderately discounted DLC. But I have no intention to repurchase the game, and if rebuying the game is cheaper than buying the DLC, I'd obviously be insane to do the latter too.
There are people out there who would pay several thousand dollars on a few images of an anime character in a mobile game.
But I think almost everyone can agree that those images aren't actually worth several thousand dollars just because a tiny amount of people are willing to pay it. Mobile game developers overprice their microtransactions because they are aware that the foundation of their market is a caste of "whales" -- those with a great amount of money and a scant amount of sense -- who will pay any amount for a good regardless of what that good is actually worth. To them, yes, it is priced properly. To the majority of people it is absolutely not, but those people don't matter because they don't have as much money.
This may indeed be a successful business model, but it's hardly something to praise and it's certainly not something that a consumer of a relatively-unafflicted franchise should be defending, much less with a childish attempt at politics tossed in. This isn't a cheap game, so it can afford to use tactics that are better than this. Unless, of course, you're seriously going to argue that the DLC is a better value than Rise & Fall or something.
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