11.99€ for 2hrs of gameplay?

[Prt91]

Guys are you ok ffs?

[Mousie]

dude, just 2 hrs?? ive been playing this for 40hrs now x.x idk what youre doing but try again??

[YouMayCallMeMurray]

If you want to rush it, then don´t buy it?
I have spend 45 hours with Dredge by so far and loved every bit of it...
I think 43 euros out of this little gem is money well spend.

[Prt91]

Originally posted by Mousie:

dude, just 2 hrs?? ive been playing this for 40hrs now x.x idk what youre doing but try again??

45 hours on the last DLC? Hello?

[Alejandro Monteagudo]

Having just completed it...it is very much worth the money, if you like the game.

This one works best, I feel to enhance a new play-through, and dredge is one of the games I will come back once a year, sometimes twice and replay, precisely because I can do a whole run in a week after work or in a cloudy saturday.

if you are going to play it once and never touch it again I agree, it is on the expensive side

[SoloMan]

6 euro a hour is ok? how much is a movie?

[Prt91]

Originally posted by SoloMan:

6 euro a hour is ok? how much is a movie?

ok now explain to me wtf kind of reasoning is this? They doubled the price since last dlc, I prefere a 20€ DLC with much more instead of overpriced pills

[Tolkien Book Fan]

I have 5 hours so far. I have finished the story, finally got the 'evasion' achievement, and now have about ten aberrations to find, then I'm done.

[SoloMan]

Originally posted by Prt91:

Originally posted by SoloMan:

6 euro a hour is ok? how much is a movie?

ok now explain to me wtf kind of reasoning is this? They doubled the price since last dlc, I prefere a 20€ DLC with much more instead of overpriced pills

I wasn't trying to justify it against the last DLC I was comparing it too how much you spend for entertainment, if you go and spend $12 euro (I am aussie so not sure how much that is) on a movie that lasts 2 hours then whats the difference? dollars vs entertainment value

[Remnant Melody]

Then don't play it and get a refund or something. Games with less sometimes ask for even more just because its eye candy. You either like Dredge or you don't. The DLC could of been slightly lower, but ultimately it could of not been entirely their call if the publisher wanted more money. :P Critical thinking skills are hard, I know..... you'll get there.

Love game? Cool, DLC good, support devs good.

Cranky about game? Okay, DLCs bad, move on to another game.

There are worse investments to be made in the current age of modern 'AAA' gaming.. No one is going to convince you to be happy with your result so why bother.

[joshua.selvan]

Each to their own I suppose. There is one sliver of worth to this topic, though its not to complain about the added story or pursuits. Its about the worth of adding additional upgrades to your ship when there are no end game challenges which merit their existence. The way its set up, I find it hard to believe that any players would engage in the Iron Rig content before completing the base story - and if you've completed the base story, none of the upgrades you acquire on the rig have any worth. Its like unlocking the ice consumables from the ice field expansion after you've passed the need to keep fish fresh on your boat.

I'm happy the devs made this expansion and I'm enjoying playing it but if they decide to release another expansion I feel they'd have to include some sort of replayable endgame content if they want to add any more upgrade pursuits to your boat.

[RCMidas]

Originally posted by Prt91:

Originally posted by SoloMan:

6 euro a hour is ok? how much is a movie?

ok now explain to me wtf kind of reasoning is this? They doubled the price since last dlc, I prefere a 20€ DLC with much more instead of overpriced pills

Last DLC was smaller and less involved. This one was explicitly delayed in order to get right and not rush it. Feels about right. And hey, the best thing about games is that you can wait until they are on sale.

[RandomTurtle]

The refreshing thing about Dredge is it doesn't make things arbitrarily longer than it needs to be. It's a game that just plays. There is no modern "grind" that a lot of games seem to implement. You just do the gameplay.

Sure that leaves the game in a spot where money spent per play time is high but that isn't always the best metric to use to ask if you got value for money. This metric is kind of flawed when it comes to things like, for example; "The Blackstone Key" DLC for this game.

As that gives you a boosted rate of catching aberrations and a decent engine for more ship speed early on. So in that sense it makes the game faster as you'll spend less time trying to get the "catch all aberrations" achievement. So going by Money/Playtime metric this DLC is the absolute worst as you spend more money to make the base game shorter. Whereas the way I see it is you make the game better by allowing for rarer catches to spawn more easily, so less time trying to farm some of the more RNG dependant ones to catch (Trawl nets/Crab pots).

[Boiledteabag]

Its ok for a video game to have an ending, plus I'm pretty sure speedrunners get infinite playtime out of this game.
This dlc is designed to be tied into the games base content as you progress, so yeah if you beat the game, got all the secrets etc it will be 2 hours, but for someone who has is just starting or starting a fresh save gets way more out of it.

If you don't like your story/lore driven video game experience to have a end then go back to overwatch, dark and darker etc where you belong.

Don't give OP any awards, they are likely trying to clown farm, this is a nothing burger concern that anyone can justify to themselves and just say "nah I'm not buying it."

[ebryetas]

are you speedrunning bc there's no way lol
Just played for the first time and grabbed every base game achievement and it took me about 20 hours

[KathaBlanca]

Originally posted by SoloMan:

Originally posted by Prt91:

ok now explain to me wtf kind of reasoning is this? They doubled the price since last dlc, I prefere a 20€ DLC with much more instead of overpriced pills

I wasn't trying to justify it against the last DLC I was comparing it too how much you spend for entertainment, if you go and spend $12 euro (I am aussie so not sure how much that is) on a movie that lasts 2 hours then whats the difference? dollars vs entertainment value

This take is kinda nonsense because you're trying to compare different sorts of entertainment, which doesn't make sense. I can spend hundreds of euros for a concert, which nets me couple hours of entertainment for a big €/hour value. But games are not movies or other kinds of entertainment. I would pay ~15€ for a 2h movie in the cinema in my country, but sitting in it is part of the experience, so the price is much more reasonable. You could compare this DLC to a variety of other games and for most of the games you will pay ~30-45€ for 10-15h playtime (at least most of the games i played), which would result in a 3€/hour threshhold. I think the DLC is pretty good, but I also think, that 12€ is a bit overpriced for the content it provides.