What's with the DLC prices?

[Fantoche]

I get it Paradox is known for milking its players but the knight and court is over 40$ and the next one even more expensive? They almost cost as much as the base game

[The Former]

This post[forum.paradoxplaza.com] from way back pre-launch should hopefully explain:

Question 7: What kind of content can we expect post-launch?
Our DLCs will be split between Flavor Packs and Major Expansions.

• Flavor Packs - SRP $6.99: in-game content focused on a theme or a region.
  
• Major Expansions - SRP $29.99: larger, meatier expansions with content and mechanics to expand and enrich your experience.
  
• Free Updates: As usual, each Major Expansion will be accompanied by a free update that will provide new features, fixes and changes to improve our players’ experience.

So basically, it's more money because it's bigger and meatier. A lot of work went into it, it brings a lot of new features, and so it costs quite a bit of money.

It costs no more than Royal Court, for the record, so it could simply be that the value of your local currency has dropped substantially since Royal Court. Wouldn't surprise me, as that's the world we're in today.

[Fantoche]

How "meatier" are these say, compared to fluff DLC from CK2?

[Fluff Bunny]

With CK2, I got the expansions once they were 75 or 80% off... I intend to do the same with CK3. I can wait.

[Bordric]

Paradox is known for not milking players but having games that are popular and played for over 10 years. Very few come close to that.

[JC]

Or you could just wait and see if they do a humble bundle, like the did for CKII, EU!V, Cities, surviving mars and Stellaris over the last couple years. Maybe in a few years they will do this with CKIII. But seeing i prefer gal civ over stellaris, and i don't really like EUIV, i didn't bother, but 20 bucks for a whole ton of DLC was a great deal if you enjoyed the game.

[ambi]

do you want some DLC for your DLC?

[The Former]

Yes. Yes I do.

[Bordric]

Can we get some real cheese with our DLC?

[Dedmoin]

Chapter 1 is discounted with 50%, yoohoo!

1 DLC for 24,- ?!
+ 2 flavor packs for 10,- each?!

lol no way

[Benchwarmer]

Luckily I got the Royal Edition from official reseller site for 38€ about year ago. It's sad to see that one expansion can cost now 30€.

Paradox needs a walk of shame.

[Nota]

Hmmm.... 38CAD for a DLC, or 60CAD for Age of Wonders 4, the best 4x release in the last two years.... Choices choices.

Seriously though, if paradox is being priced out of the market by ANOTHER GAME THEY PUBLISHED then I really have no words, make your DLC's affordable. A 38 dollar DLC better be like "War of the Chosen" levels of content for Xcom 2. This does NOT look like that.

[Fogey Gamer]

Sigh...Don't buy it then. If this model wasn't working then Paradox wouldn't use it. It seems highly likely that this model is working. It means people are willing to spend the money asked.

[Pogey-Bait]

I bought it because I can afford it. If you can't afford it, don't buy it. Easy.

[diji]

Originally posted by Lockfågel, Paradoxriddaren:

This post[forum.paradoxplaza.com] from way back pre-launch should hopefully explain:

Question 7: What kind of content can we expect post-launch?
Our DLCs will be split between Flavor Packs and Major Expansions.

• Flavor Packs - SRP $6.99: in-game content focused on a theme or a region.
  
• Major Expansions - SRP $29.99: larger, meatier expansions with content and mechanics to expand and enrich your experience.
  
• Free Updates: As usual, each Major Expansion will be accompanied by a free update that will provide new features, fixes and changes to improve our players’ experience.

So basically, it's more money because it's bigger and meatier. A lot of work went into it, it brings a lot of new features, and so it costs quite a bit of money.

It costs no more than Royal Court, for the record, so it could simply be that the value of your local currency has dropped substantially since Royal Court. Wouldn't surprise me, as that's the world we're in today.

Doesn't help that Royal Court doesn't really add anywhere near enough to justify its bloated cost. It feels like all the work went into graphical work like the models and you end up paying for that rather than for the design of interesting game mechanics.

[Sir Snuffles]

in all honesty the price doesn't justify the content... HOWEVER the free content you get with the expansions almost is on par with the paid content. so if you'd like to support the devs id say still buy it