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    586 months ago

    Its worse than that. They added an entire questline, gave you the first quest, and then charged 7 dollars per quest!

    • @[email protected]
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      296 months ago

      Howards gone off the rails. He’s a corpo hack. Always was, but now he can shed the leather jacket and McDuck dive into his pool of Creation Coins with no shame.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 months ago

      $7, but you a only spend $10 at a time! It ain’t gonna be 10 quests or 5 quests. It’s gonna be like 3 or six so you’ll be left with $9 in coins and feel like you’re wasting cash if you don’t spend another $10 to buy some other creation club shit.

      God I fucking hate the premium currency tactic.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      If I’m reading it right, it’s a quest framework and one quest is free, the other is paid. So it sounds like we’ll be able to completely ignore the quest if you never visit CC content in the first place.

      For free mod purposes, sounds like it should be easier for mod makers to create bounty hunting quests.

      • @[email protected]
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        106 months ago

        Yes you’re reading it perfectly, Bethesda as usual actually isn’t being as money hungry as they could’ve.

        People still gonna hate though, that Starfield/Bethesda hate train is way too well entrenched.

          • @[email protected]
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            36 months ago

            Because I don’t think they’re as shitty as people claim? And I understand that Bethesda isn’t just a shitty group of corporate managers, but also a team of people who have devoted their lives to these franchises.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        They put the intro guy at the entrance to cydonia, the only way to avoid it is dont upgrade to the latest patch.

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        96 months ago

        Who knows? It’s an early access paid mod, meaning they only did the first two quests, and promised more.

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          26 months ago

          To continue this quest, please insert credit card.

          To access this quest location, please insert credit card.

          To complete this quest, please insert credit card.

  • Nate Cox
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    306 months ago

    Damn, I was just thinking of giving SF another shot. Guess it wasn’t meant to be.

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        It’s funny how people will chant “vote with your wallet” but when someone votes against business practices they don’t agree with using their wallet they’re all surprised pikachu about it.

        Charging per quest in a micro transaction scheme (which isn’t really micro at a $10 entry fee) is shitty and I don’t want to support it by pumping their gameplay numbers right after announcing it.

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          46 months ago

          i agree. i also never picked up cyberpunk because of the same reason. also rock band or guitar hero for its hiding content behind paywalls. i just stop playing 99% of games actually

          • Nate Cox
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            156 months ago

            Fun fact: when you need to resort to hyperbole it’s a good indicator that your position may not have merit.

            • @[email protected]
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              16 months ago

              it’s not that hyperbolic you’re just on a hate train 😂😂😂

              or do you really think not all games have paid content? especially the ones i mentioned?

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                46 months ago

                I think there’s a very clear and distinctive difference between an upfront, honest cost for a content pack; and breaking that content pack into itty bitty bits and charging for each.

                The latter has an obvious goal of obfuscating the total cost of the content pack, so as to inflate it past what their market research indicates people would normally be willing to pay.

                It’s dishonest and anti-consumer, and it’s foolish as the consumer not to push back against this practice before it becomes normal.

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                  16 months ago

                  i can see that definitely. but i also look at it at the way nearly every other game is already selling content like that but without the quest attached to it. i dont think its worth 7 bucks. too expensive. but i also dont think its a total outrage personally. then again i didnt even have to pay for it because i got 1000 free credit things. if i didnt get those, i wouldnt have bothered buying it

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        116 months ago

        After the shit show of a release that was starfield, yeah, I’ll avoid playing the game with optional paid content that reeks of greed.

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      There was also one where you stumble upon a thing that crashed from space and its this whole totally-not-superman story, and it starts just fine, but the next step involved a NPC literally telling you to buy the DLC to continue.

      in two seperate playthroughs, this was the among the first things I encountered in the game.

      Which is why I never bought any DA:O DLC, and never bought any of the subsequent titles. because fuck. that. shit