Very surprising. The game looked like it had a lot of potential and could've been the most popular sims alternative, but it's suddenly been cancelled.

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[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 123 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Without endless dlc? Who do you think Paradox is???

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They'd charge you for your sims' water bill if they could

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 4 months ago

Paradox DLC tends to have quite a bit of content in it though. Certainly more than EA tends to give you.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Paradox's current DLC model is pretty nice, tbh.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean, you say that, but a new player looking to get into Stellaris or CKII is looking at a $300 bill if they want all the content. In fact that's what prevented me from getting into Stellaris, I own the base game, but when I discovered I'd need to shell out an additional several hundred dollars, even during a sale, for not only new species but just for base game mechanics, I stopped in my tracks.

Compare with Civilization, I own Civ V and Civ VI and all the released content for each, pretty sure I bought each of those for less than $20.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I did see an announcement earlier this year that they were folding some DLC into the base game for either CK3 or HoI4 because it was difficult to balance the game with all of the different DLC permutations possible. I think it would be smart of them to do this in general, maybe after a DLC is past a certain age, pull it into the base game.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just buy Paradox games on sale too if you're comparing it to sale price of other games.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That WAS the sale price. It's $200 something dollars for the complete set of Stellaris normally, on 50% sale that's still $100+ for everything. Pretty sure CKII was worse.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

CK2 is trash.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

That's not remotely the point here.

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I would have agreed some time ago, but they've shot the prices through the roof lately.