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'Worse than horse armour'—Age of Mythology: Retold is charging $6 for 22-year-old jpegs, giving the DLC 'very negative' Steam reviews before the game's even out (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s more like we didn’t like pay2win on online games, so they started making it “just cosmetic” in those, and somehow now people think it’s acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?

Warhammer: Total War really annoyed me on it's DLC. Some the DLC factions were already in the base game. I would be paying to unlock factions that were part of the dev cycle.

I could at least understand it, if the factions were released after the base game.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

See this, this I get. This is an actual reasonable problem. And we could be talking about it wrt Retold, since Freyr is a day one DLC.

Personally I'm not too concerned with it because even if you ignore Freyr, the cost of Premium is $25 AUD more than standard, and it includes two future DLCs (which they've already said will be $15 USD, probably $20 AUD each). So Premium is worth getting just for the two future pantheons. And since Premium includes Freyr in addition to the future pantheons, it ends up not looking like an added cost in the way it would otherwise.

But it still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth that there's actual playable content not included for free that's available day one. And it would leave me very angry if the prices had ended up such that the best deal for everything except the day-one DLC actually cost less than the best deal for everything including Freyr. But all this discussion about cosmetics. Not even interesting cosmetics like unit skins, but something that's basically just profile pictures. Is annoyingly distracting from that conversation.