Ktulu
Warlord
I play PC games and "dumbed down" console games. Both formats have their advantages/disadvantages, some games I'd rather play on a pc others on a console. DLC is the same either way.
Let's face it. Strategy games are the last thing that PC gaming has as it dies out for the simplicity of console geared games.
I agree with you. We shoudn't have to pay for DLC. If the developers and Publishers actually repected us as gamers they wouldn't have done this, but they see us as cash cows instead. So yeah we are stupid enough to pay for it.This concept does make me mad. It's because the game has to be steambased instead of like it's always been. So now we have the players by the balls, and we can charge them more for civs and other options for the game. And they are stupid enough to pay for it. I don't think you should have to pay for any DLC.
DLC just gives developers $$$ to build add-ons for the game. It gives people more choices as they can pick what they want and don't want.
For example, lets say they come out with an expansion for $30 that includes 5 additional civs, 10 new scenarios and 5 new maps.
What if of those 5 additional civs, only 2 interested you...and what if of those 10 scenarios, only 5 interested you...and maybe you didnt care about the maps.
Now if they break them down into DLC's, you can select 2 civ's for say $6 and 5 scenario's for $10 = $16-$20 total cost compared to the $30 that you would have paid for the whole expansion.
I see this more as giving freedom to users to choose what they want than to call it a PC gaming killer...
What I don't understand is why we, the ones who actually are saving tree's & giving developers more money(by purchasing digital copies), have to wait until retail release to play this game.
The game is already complete! users who purchase digital copy should get the advantage to play it earlier. Those who want to further waste money and trees by purchasing the physical copies should be the ones who have to do the waiting.
This gives more incentive for purchasing digital copies and therefore helping developers and the Earth. Now doesn't that sound more business friendly?
What are you talking about? Actually, scratch that, you don't seem well informed and I'm not getting dragged into some sort of crazy argument with you. PC games are teh d00md, you called it. Grats.
Instead you should pay for expansion packs!
What I don't understand is why we, the ones who actually are saving tree's & giving developers more money(by purchasing digital copies), have to wait until retail release to play this game.
The game is already complete! users who purchase digital copy should get the advantage to play it earlier. Those who want to further waste money and trees by purchasing the physical copies should be the ones who have to do the waiting.
This gives more incentive for purchasing digital copies and therefore helping developers and the Earth. Now doesn't that sound more business friendly?
Dont confuse expansions with DLC-packs. They are not and cannot be the same. DLCs have to function in any combination there of, and as a consequence they CANNOT modify or replace the main executable or ruin the mods, so they can never bring any new features to the game engine and have to be limited to content only. Expansion packs on the other hand are cut-off milestones which DO replace executables and as a consequence can add anything new they like and that makes them worth my money. Whether they will include content from released DLCs is less improtant.
Looks like the AI is still pretty dumb. They cheat at higher levels even though we were told that they wouldn't have to because the AI would be "smarter".
Looks like the AI is still pretty dumb. They cheat at higher levels even though we were told that they wouldn't have to because the AI would be "smarter".