DON'T BUY ANY NEW DLC FROM STEAM

[Fletcher]

If you really want the game or a dlc, buy a steam key from a website. You can get the entire royal edition for +60% off or more. We can't let them continue this sleezy practice.

[Zanleer]

nah i don't mind supporting a game and company i like. and its not like paradox doesn't put almost everything on sale all the time.

[JerryCanTheThird]

Originally posted by Dragoon:

If you really want the game or a dlc, buy a steam key from a website. You can get the entire royal edition for +60% off or more. We can't let them continue this sleezy practice.

+1

[Hao Zhao]

Do you understand how key selling even works? People use stolen credit cards to buy keys and then they re-sell the keys at a fraction of the original price. Because they used stolen cards, even at a heavy discount, it's all profit. Don't talk about sleazy practices when you're buying keys originally purchased with someone else's misery

[Сааребас]

Originally posted by Zanleer:

nah i don't mind supporting a game and company i like. and its not like paradox doesn't put almost everything on sale all the time.

This.

Plus I also don't get the mindset of must be buying every DLC or the game isn't complete.
If you don't like the basegame, why on earth do you want to invest more money into it?

[Babarigo]

Originally posted by Hao Zhao:

Do you understand how key selling even works? People use stolen credit cards to buy keys and then they re-sell the keys at a fraction of the original price. Because they used stolen cards, even at a heavy discount, it's all profit. Don't talk about sleazy practices when you're buying keys originally purchased with someone else's misery

Care to put some evidence that all their keys are bought with stolen credit cards?
I know, we're on the internet and people tend to forget that they are supposed to bring some proof about their accusation, but considering how confident you sound about your accusations, it shouldn't be too hard.

[Licalia]

Originally posted by Babarigo:

Originally posted by Hao Zhao:

Do you understand how key selling even works? People use stolen credit cards to buy keys and then they re-sell the keys at a fraction of the original price. Because they used stolen cards, even at a heavy discount, it's all profit. Don't talk about sleazy practices when you're buying keys originally purchased with someone else's misery

Care to put some evidence that all their keys are bought with stolen credit cards?
I know, we're on the internet and people tend to forget that they are supposed to bring some proof about their accusation, but considering how confident you sound about your accusations, it shouldn't be too hard.

Honestly not ALL key sold are scam. But there is no way for you to know which are and which aren't. There was a huge incident in 2016(?) where someone sold stolen keys like that on G2A. A lot of them are aquired through differenced in regional pricing (but yes, also theft.). In the end key-sellers are a grey area AT BEST.

I usually only buy keys from humblebundle nowadays though their prices aren't really all that much cheaper. Steam Sales are enough for me personally.

Honestly I kind of understand what your are getting at. Paradox Games tend to have TONS of expensieve DLCs (that kept me away from most of them) but as of yet they have not continued that practice with CK3 in my opinion as they take their time with releases.

The Royal Edition isn't even all that expensive all things considered. 75€ for the base game and DLCs is perfectly fine for me. That's actually really common for a game + season pass.

Edit: if you want to protest (which is perfectly legitimate) don't buy/play the game AT ALL. That's what I did with Sims4. I simply stopped playing and buying after 3 DLCs because those micro-packs annoyed me so much.

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by пьяница:

Originally posted by Zanleer:

nah i don't mind supporting a game and company i like. and its not like paradox doesn't put almost everything on sale all the time.

This.

Plus I also don't get the mindset of must be buying every DLC or the game isn't complete.
If you don't like the basegame, why on earth do you want to invest more money into it?

Pretty much

[AC Denton]

Originally posted by Flickmann:

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

Why are you so hurt by how other people spend their money?

Because blindly throwing money at corporations makes the situation worse for all consumers. Not hard to fathom.

Legit.
People buying games at full price or preordering is so dumb

[PDX-Trinexx]

Keep it civil, folks. No need to insult each other.

[Flickmann]

Looks like Paradox HQ is on red alert.

[Yhvh10]

No. I’ll buy the DLCs. CK3 is great. Besides, there is almost always a massive sale going on with PDX games. Who even buys them at full price anymore asides from day 1 purchases?

Either way. Seriously, just relax. The reactions to this whole situation have been wayyy overkill.

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by Yhvh10:

Either way. Seriously, just relax. The reactions to this whole situation have been wayyy overkill.

Agreed.

[Klutch]

Not only are you putting your information at risk, your key can be invalidated at any point.