Paradox are "making adjustments" to Bloodlines 2's day-one vampire clan DLC plans, following backlash (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
from simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world on 27 Aug 15:10
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etchinghillside@reddthat.com on 27 Aug 15:13 next collapse

Good to hear.

To save anyone from digging for more details – “making adjustments” was all the info that was given by a trusted source in a community message in their Discord.

Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 00:26 next collapse

Good. I mean, who does this? You’re selling flight tickets before the plane is even built. At least wait until the game is released to gage if players even want a DLC.

Even still, you’ve shown your hand. Now players think that you were sectioning off development of certain aspects of a game to then later sell off for extra cash instead of focusing on releasing a fully built game. Terrible mistake.

Klear@quokk.au on 28 Aug 07:59 collapse

You're selling flight tickets before the plane is even built.

I'm pretty sure that's actually happening in some cases.

Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 08:04 collapse

With the state of the world rn, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that was the case.

bless@lemmy.ml on 28 Aug 12:57 collapse

Hear me out: funding a plane on Kickstarter

Nico_198X@europe.pub on 28 Aug 08:21 next collapse

what is the future of this IP? i feel like Paradox has fumbled this at every turn.

shani66@ani.social on 29 Aug 05:54 collapse

Dead. Well, they’ve did a rebrand on an internal team back to the name white wolf, but a rebrand doesn’t mean anything. Maybe paradox will change going forward, but they seem to genuinely hate the WoD franchise so I’m not holding my breath.

Nico_198X@europe.pub on 29 Aug 07:01 collapse

oddly enough i think they actually love the IP, but are just legit terrible at managing it. maybe their ideas are just bad. XD

i’ll stick with Onyx Path. they should have just done that.

PushButton@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 08:43 next collapse

Paradox was a company I was looking for in the past. Now, they became a hard pass since, what… City skylines 2? Or something…

The never ending DLC abuses and the drop of Linux support on top of buggy releases (and DLCs) made me do a 180 degrees with them.

It’s kind of sad really.

Glamborghini@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 12:56 collapse

They seems to fully turn the corner to oblivion with their handling of the debacle that was CS2. Just a failure from top to bottom. A far cry from the glory that original Cities:Skylines was. Now it’s just constant DLC’s that paywall basic mechanics. Surprised they haven’t made the games in monochrome and charge for DLC color packs.

leave_it_blank@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 12:49 collapse

My plan was to buy it on release, but the moment I read they would release clans as DLC the game was dead to me.

I’ll check back in a year or two. Maybe then when everything is in one package.

Redacted@lemmy.zip on 28 Aug 15:34 collapse

Verbatim my thoughts as well. I dont even like either of the clans in the dlc, its the principle