I don't know, it just looks like a €50 stand-alone expansion that could've been DLC for the first game. But now they get to sell it for more, and add new/more individual smaller DLC for this one.

Not been much of a fan of Frontier ever since Braben left. They started focusing very heavily on paid DLC since, especially back when for Elite Dangerous it was first just cosmetics, but they got greedy and now have paid early access for new ships, after the game was content starved for years. And before that instead of focusing on new content there was a long period where the only thing that got updated was a new microstransaction currency and raised prices of the DLC.

Doesn't feel much different with the Planet Coaster and Zoo games. They get littered with paid DLC, and it's almost taking The Sims forms of additional paid content.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You nailed to describe my frustration with Frontier perfectly. They really are the EA of Zoo and Theme Park games to the point I'm not buying their games anymore even when they're well made on a technical level and interesting to me. They're just way too greedy.

[–] Krakaval@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t get that amount of frustration. The zoo game from frontier that I bought years ago still get updated with new free content here and there. Sure there are DLC but you can perfectly play the initial game without any of them, or get them on a sale. Isn’t it ?

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As much as I hate being a corporate shill: ask yourself this. Is the game worth the asking price with no DLC? You don’t have to buy every DLC, that’s just the cost of the additional game development time. And maybe the game isn’t worth the price now, but in two years you can probably pick it and a few of the best DLCs up for the same price as it is now and get your money’s worth.

[–] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well I got the game back when it came out. I did not know the game would be leaning so heavily on paid content after that, so it often felt like missing out on new stuff. It was the same with Elite Dangerous, I backed that from Kickstarter, and then they pull shit like that paid early access content.

I'd say I easily got my money's worth out of both games for what I paid at the time. But it still feels like being screwed over when they start putting price tags on all new content. And it's often not even a lot of content that justifies the price tag. Compare this to games like No Man's Sky, that get free updates quite often.

I think this would've bothered me far less had the base games been free to play games, and then charge for DLC. To me Frontier turned into a greedy company so fast, it's really up there with EA, Blizzard Activision and Epic.

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rare for a PC Gamer review these days; that was actually quite well-written.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

They are decent for "non-mainstream" topics/articles.

Not to get all philosophical, but one could argue clickbait/random spam speaks more about society (human nature?) than pcgamer.

[–] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm so hyped for this game. Glad it's reviewing well.