Ridiculous DLC prices

[Roy]

There's no way to justify buying any of them. Why does the publisher think a little mod made by an idle dev should be priced the same as a full game that a thousand people spent 6 years creating?

[Klutch]

its not like ck2 where its totally barebones. ck3 vanilla is still awesome.

what dlc are you wanting?

[Bane Is A Big Guy]

Wait until sales.

[endymionologist]

Originally posted by Roy:

{...}Why does the publisher think a little mod made by an idle dev should be priced the same as a full game that a thousand people spent 6 years creating?

Setting aside the flaws with Marxist value analysis generally, I don't think your premise is correct. A DLC represents a portion of the ongoing work and will involve most of the staff as they integrate it into the base game.
Paradox software is not divided into two types, Original Game and DLC; there are three types, Original Game and DLC and Automatic Updates. The real travesty is that they charge no money for the Automatic Update portions, and this is why the base game seems to have so much more value than an individual DLC. You should be complaining that they are not charging a fair price for the ongoing work and asking if there is a way you can donate.

[Roy]

Originally posted by Klutch:

its not like ck2 where its totally barebones. ck3 vanilla is still awesome.

what dlc are you wanting?

Norwegian stuff (not cosmetics) and general gameplay extensions (court dlc maybe).

[Roy]

Originally posted by endymionologist:

Originally posted by Roy:

{...}Why does the publisher think a little mod made by an idle dev should be priced the same as a full game that a thousand people spent 6 years creating?

Setting aside the flaws with Marxist value analysis generally, I don't think your premise is correct. A DLC represents a portion of the ongoing work and will involve most of the staff as they integrate it into the base game.
Paradox software is not divided into two types, Original Game and DLC; there are three types, Original Game and DLC and Automatic Updates. The real travesty is that they charge no money for the Automatic Update portions, and this is why the base game seems to have so much more value than an individual DLC. You should be complaining that they are not charging a fair price for the ongoing work and asking if there is a way you can donate.

Your argument has merit. These prices still don't.
200 bucks worth of CK3 DLC is not going to increase my enjoyment of the game by 400%. There should be a diminishing price for diminishing returns on entertainment value.
Also they should fix basic stuff like letting me search for people who'd join my court, or people outside of my realm, etc.

[Hatch]

it's par for the course for Paradox, I don't know what to tell you

[brownacs]

Originally posted by Roy:

Your argument has merit. These prices still don't.
200 bucks worth of CK3 DLC is not going to increase my enjoyment of the game by 400%. There should be a diminishing price for diminishing returns on entertainment value.
Also they should fix basic stuff like letting me search for people who'd join my court, or people outside of my realm, etc.

That's not how pricing models generally work. What you're looking for is a balancing act between quantity of sales, overall production costs (software has a negligible production cost per unit) and price that then maximises profits. Subjective percentiles really aren't a factor at all, unless they in turn affect sales such that a rebalancing is required to maximise potential profits.

[Question Mark]

Originally posted by Roy:

There's no way to justify buying any of them. Why does the publisher think a little mod made by an idle dev should be priced the same as a full game that a thousand people spent 6 years creating?

Yeah, way overpriced. Sadly normal with this publisher. Wait for sales or get keys outside of steam if u don´t want to pay these stupid prices

[Athny]

Originally posted by Roy:

200 bucks worth of CK3 DLC is not going to increase my enjoyment of the game by 400%.

I mean, I disagree. the DLC's add hundreds of hours more of replayability & whole new playstyles that you can main or master in many different ways. like fr, yoinking the adventurers out of a DLC and keeping it full price is a scumbag paradox move.
But honestly, the subscription is worth it for the price & then waiting for sales or using instant gaming for DLC keys (its not stolen keys like other sites).
Even if you played a year straight, youd still be under the value of paying for all the DLCs at once than just using the subscription. use for few months, wait for sale - buy the key ones you want, enjoy those. ez pz
not defending their pricing, but the game has had 5 chapters of content now so ofc the total DLC cost will be high. It's like going to sims or EU4 and being mad cause the amount of DLCs, even if they reduced the cost - would still be ridiculously expensive given a time of content additions and sure base game is enjoyable but imo the added content is very much worth to experience playing.

[Jack Greedy]

Well, i agree that prices of dlc are too high, i own all dlcs for every Paradox game released, i just bought them near the release time so it was not so painful.
Only game i stopped with buying dlcs is Cities Skylines 2 as it is broken beyond the repair, and even new very good studio cannot help this situation enough.

As Athny wrote, Core Paradox games gives you thousands of hours of pure gameplay, replayability and fun. I can name my best 3 beloved games, Stellaris, CK3 and HOI4, not so far are Victoria 3 and EU 5 , yes they are so good.
Hence i ever playing Imperator with that glorious overhaul mod which keeps it alive after so many years.

But i can see problem with prices, i earn rather good money but im hard working since very long, now im near 50 and im happy becouse i can spend real deal of cash for gaming is it is my main hobby. BUT... there should be at least consideration from Paradox side about making DLCs prices lower, they should be more easy to get for younger players who don't have so much money yet.

So PLease Paradox step down with DLCs prices, you will earn gratitude of your fans and earn more clients! I support this idea.

[xycotta]

Originally posted by Roy:

There's no way to justify buying any of them. Why does the publisher think a little mod made by an idle dev should be priced the same as a full game that a thousand people spent 6 years creating?

Sure there is, the amount of time you play the additional content. When you have thousands of hours in a game a few hundred is chicken feed to what you would of spent doing othering things. If $30 increases my game time by a few hundred hours, that is an amazing investment. That is like eating McDonalds twice.