Paradox Take over, Should I be worried?

[BigBeardedBadger]

I've played this game for over 300 Hours... Its a gem! One of my fav games.

And i'm real worried... mostly about the DLC prices. I would love to play the game but one of the reasons i played this game so much is because the DLC were so cheap or completely free.

I dunno i'm just worried, this game was near perfect in my opinion, id hate for them to ruin features in it that we love. Should i be worried?

[Flin Fredstone]

There has been only one DLC so far. It wasn't free and if it was expensive or not is for everyone to judge themselves.

If i were you i would not worry about something that has not happened yet. It makes you grow gray and old much faster.

[Alaskan Glitch]

Paradox is notorious for releasing barely playable games, and then adding hundreds of dollars of DLCs just to make the game playable.

There has only been one DLC, and it was released before the Paradox purchase. Now that Paradox owns the game, I would expect dozens more DLCs in the very near future and a crippling of the existing game to make it less functional without the DLCs that Paradox will be introducing shortly. It is their modus operandi with every other game they have released.

It is the reason why people go out of their way to avoid any game owned by Paradox.

[starlight78sso]

Originally posted by Alaskan Glitch:

It is the reason why people go out of their way to avoid any game owned by Paradox.

Yep, I started doing that after they basically ruined Surviving Mars. I'm also worried what they might do to this game, even though I havent played it in a while, I do really like the game.

[JamieLinux]

They may not do anything with it. They could just release a part 2.

[C4pM]

I don't see reason to worry for this title - it has been good value, regardless of whether it gets more DLC or not, and you won't have to buy any DLC. I'll be irritated if they introduce their needless, garbage launcher though.

The worry comes if they ever release Stranded: Alien Dawn II, where the price will be AAA for a stripped down version, and you'll end up paying 4x (or more) for an eventual feature complete game. Not exactly a worry - for me it just means I'll not be buying it, which is sad.

I get that they may have needed a bailout, or perhaps needed investment, but it's always sad when a company makes a calculated decision that they KNOW will upset at least a portion of their fan base. Why would anyone choose Paradox is the strange bit for me - they are a damaged brand for a lot of gamers, and one of the companies that have actively harmed the gaming industry with their insane, predatory DLC practises.

[Can'tTouchThis]

I doubt paradox are going to completely ruin the currently existing game. Probably just release a hell load of dlc. Maybe some big expansions, one thing is for sure though, all DLC will be massively overpriced.
Wouldn't be surprised if their launcher was added.
Maybe see a Stranded alien dawn 2, that'd be more likely something to be worrying about. CK3 was released with so many cut features from CK2 (some of which were great), many still aren't in CK3.

[Andrew_JF]

This game needs a jump start. Modding community has kept it alive.

[Can'tTouchThis]

Originally posted by Andrew_JF:

This game needs a jump start. Modding community has kept it alive.

Issue is if they update this we could lose the mods.

[Daedrius]

Hopefully they make a full on Colony DLC now.

[Caz]

Originally posted by JamieLinux:

They may not do anything with it. They could just release a part 2.

Which would have dozens of overpriced DLCs and the base game would be bare bones and lacking any meaningful content. This is Paradox's business model.

[Caz]

Originally posted by Can'tTouchThis:

Originally posted by Andrew_JF:

This game needs a jump start. Modding community has kept it alive.

Issue is if they update this we could lose the mods.

Nah. Paradox may have a questionable DLC business model, but they've always been good about mods.

[Mantastic]

Originally posted by Can'tTouchThis:

Originally posted by Andrew_JF:

This game needs a jump start. Modding community has kept it alive.

Issue is if they update this we could lose the mods.

I think the only real concern is if future updates break mods, which is a risk with any game that has such an active modding community.

That said, injto4ka has been extremely helpful with folks on that, and I'm sure that he and Haemimont will continue to be so they can be fixed and updated.

As for concern about Paradox, I'm going to be optimistic that they're not going to bombard the game with a bunch of ticky tacky DLC. The two companies did a good job with Surviving Mars on that.

[Black Jesus]

I've got experience with several of other games from Paradox and I will say this... It is very, very, very unlikely this game is gonna get DLC bombed? Why? Because the game is functionally dead. It has few mods, development has pretty much stopped, and if you look at Steam analytics less then a thousand people still play. It wouldn't make any sense to DLC bomb this game from a business standpoint.

Most likely what Paradox will do since they acquired not just the game, but the IP itself as well, is simply make a sequel and (hopefully) flood it with enough marketing to attract some semblance of a active community. But I am willing to bet money they are not gonna pull a Sims and drop 1,600 dollars of DLC for this game.

[Mantastic]

A sequel, especially if it's on a new engine that isn't so proprietary, would be delightful, but it also makes better business sense to put out some DLCs for the existing game as that's much more time and cost effective in terms of development.

As far the analytics, people will definitely come back to the game once more content comes out for it and it's known to still be actively developed.

I agree that this is definitely not going to be a DLC fest like Stellaris or The Sims. Honestly, the game itself just can't support that.

[Red Bat]

Given support for the game was previously dropped, it would take a monumental messup for changing owners to be anything other than a positive.