Yeah, sorry, I don’t care, still not buying the game or the DLC. Maybe I’m harsh, but I don’t give a crap if the game originally had only half a clan planned and now it expanded to six - locking a significant portion of the game behind launch day DLC is a scummy, greedy and user-hostile practice that I will not support, no matter the reason.
Bloodlines is one of my all time favourite games. It’s not perfect gameplay wise, but it has probably the best world, characters and atmosphere I’ve encountered. I just love it.
Whenever Bloodlines 2 was announced I got excited. Then it went through developer hell and my expectations dropped to zero. Nowadays after I’ve seen and read couple previews and hands-ons, my hopes went up a notch and I started to get excited again.
Then release date and price got announced and I was like WTF? Cold shower. I know, it’s Paradox and the have billions of DLCs for everything, but still… Day one DLC should be a crime! If you feel the game is worth more or you have so much content you need a DLC (lol), either pack all in and rise a price bit or release that DLC later, not day one.
I’m a patient gamer with huge back log, so I probably wouldn’t buy at release anyway and wait for sale, but it still sucks to hear such a bullshit. I hope it’s going to be good game, or at least okish game with good story, characters and atmosphere, but it feels like they’re already tripping their legs with such moves.
I’ve never had a problem with it since I read an article showing that if you don’t have dlc then basically you just get less game. And for this game it doesn’t matter, unless you’re doing multiple playthrough or you only want malkavian then it won’t even affect your gameplay experience.
And for this game it doesn’t matter, unless you’re doing multiple playthrough
But that’s the thing, they’ve put the most popular option behind the DLC paywall. And popular because it’s a good standard option. It’s not like the Nosferatu or Malkavians, which are popular as secondary options for a weirder later playthrough. That would be bad enough, as a day-one DLC, but doing it with the Toreador is so much worse.
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Yeah, sorry, I don’t care, still not buying the game or the DLC. Maybe I’m harsh, but I don’t give a crap if the game originally had only half a clan planned and now it expanded to six - locking a significant portion of the game behind launch day DLC is a scummy, greedy and user-hostile practice that I will not support, no matter the reason.
Bloodlines is one of my all time favourite games. It’s not perfect gameplay wise, but it has probably the best world, characters and atmosphere I’ve encountered. I just love it.
Whenever Bloodlines 2 was announced I got excited. Then it went through developer hell and my expectations dropped to zero. Nowadays after I’ve seen and read couple previews and hands-ons, my hopes went up a notch and I started to get excited again.
Then release date and price got announced and I was like WTF? Cold shower. I know, it’s Paradox and the have billions of DLCs for everything, but still… Day one DLC should be a crime! If you feel the game is worth more or you have so much content you need a DLC (lol), either pack all in and rise a price bit or release that DLC later, not day one.
I’m a patient gamer with huge back log, so I probably wouldn’t buy at release anyway and wait for sale, but it still sucks to hear such a bullshit. I hope it’s going to be good game, or at least okish game with good story, characters and atmosphere, but it feels like they’re already tripping their legs with such moves.
One of your all-time favourites, fails to spell the name correctly.
Bloolimes 2 acidic Bloogaloo.
Thanks for pointing out at my sausage fingers typing error. Corrected.
I’ve never had a problem with it since I read an article showing that if you don’t have dlc then basically you just get less game. And for this game it doesn’t matter, unless you’re doing multiple playthrough or you only want malkavian then it won’t even affect your gameplay experience.
But that’s the thing, they’ve put the most popular option behind the DLC paywall. And popular because it’s a good standard option. It’s not like the Nosferatu or Malkavians, which are popular as secondary options for a weirder later playthrough. That would be bad enough, as a day-one DLC, but doing it with the Toreador is so much worse.