Why are you doing limited time DLC's in Early Access?

[Jason]

What is the point of giving a limited time DLC in your halloween event? You're in Early Access. I shouldn't have to keep my eye on this game every other week because of fear of missing out on your free fomo dlc. I'm disappointed.

[ling.speed]

Actually agree... does not matter if its dlc, or patched in, EA or not, timed content sucks.

[ling.speed]

Originally posted by Winchester:

Originally posted by ling.speed:

Actually agree... does not matter if its dlc, or patched in, EA or not, timed content sucks.

They do it because they have no intention of developing the game, they hope to squeeze money out of this scam and I am not trolling , I'm dead serious. Do not support these developers please! Save your money for more important games you care about!

You are right brother, i requested a refund! Lets see if they dare to hold my 0$ back.

[Shuriko]

Originally posted by Winchester:

Originally posted by ling.speed:

Actually agree... does not matter if its dlc, or patched in, EA or not, timed content sucks.

They do it because they have no intention of developing the game, they hope to squeeze money out of this scam and I am not trolling , I'm dead serious. Do not support these developers please! Save your money for more important games you care about!

Uhm the question was regarding the halloween dlc I assume since it was a timed dlc.
How can they earn money on that since THAT dlc was free?

It feels like people are jumping on a negative bandwagon here just to express dissatisfaction towards earlier games / projects the devs have had.

To be fair the Halloween dlc was free and a nice "tip of the hat" for people that already owned the game.

Whilst they arent that active here on the steam forum they are talking alot of the discord of whats to come. If you find you have questions why not head into discord and ask them there? It wont cost you a dime either.

[Shuriko]

Originally posted by theworld:

Originally posted by Winchester:

they still prioritize squeezing money

"The Haunted Nights Castle Pack DLC can be redeemed here at no cost."

Squeezing money with a... _FREE_ DLC?

Ya beat me to the punch there

[GeneralClayman]

what are you on about? the only limited dlc there were was halloween reskins and Razer cloak + helmet skins. They're free and added nothing in peculiar.

[kirara209]

Oh no. I missed out on the limited time dlc that was completely free and only contained superfluous cosmetic reskins...

[morrokain10587]

I honestly don't understand how the Halloween event would even make the devs any money... For example, how is DLC marketing and an update not marketing? It would be one thing to accuse the dev team of something like that if the DLC wasn't timed and went on sale after the event - which is what I expected really.

I still think they will do that eventually, but they might be waiting until after the big update exactly because of all the posts like this.

I have asked this question many times and have not once gotten a straightforward answer, how does keeping the PvP population alive make the devs money in a more sustainable way that additional content couldn't? Because if the devs "abandoning" the game is just the PvPers going away, thats just the natural process of PvPers getting bored and doing something else.

Are there issues that still need to be addressed? Yes. Are there holes in the content experience that could be filled in? Also yes. But unless the big update slotted for next year turns out to be a disaster, I think it is way too soon to be making these kinds of assumptions. I get that there was a history of this sort of thing happening, but there doesn't seem to be actual information put forth on why its even important. Its just generalized statements complaining about some nebulous malicious intent.

[Suzaku]

Originally posted by Winchester:

Originally posted by Shuriko:

Ya beat me to the punch there

It's called marketing, Look it up.
They introduce updates / timed features as "DLC" It's a marketing strategy instead of of calling itself an update. Nobody would've looked twice if it said: "Halloween update".

I swear you sheep are so predictable on wonder you fall for all these baits.

So the entire basis of your complaint is semantics.

K.

[Admiral Orange]

Well, to be fair, nearly all games in the like are far worse. The quasi mmos... leave far more of a bad taste in your mouth. Frankly speaking, they have provided a solid game... of this genre. DLCS/addons/new content, always a sore point. Much of this would be a'n (solid game good) dlc... worse. I sincerely want them to keep improving. While I might now, or in terms of additional content want a (Vast) deal more?... They have provided a decent deal of content. For my money. Beyond that I would hope for improvements /or better.

[Tharkkun]

Originally posted by Winchester:

Originally posted by ling.speed:

You are right brother, i requested a refund! Lets see if they dare to hold my 0$ back.

I mean, even if the dlcs have nothing to do with the coding department, the fact their given situation of how angry and disappointed the community is with the lack of communication from the development side, they still prioritize squeezing money instead of having literally a bunch of people in the forums communicating the process of development. By the time the game will launch, the reputation will fall so low that not even the marketing team will be able to overcome the loss of money. Bunch of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

There's a news section right above your games in the Steam Library. They announced it like a week before it was available. I'm sure it will be free next October as well.

Not only that but they did just communicate their plans for the next big content update.

[Splashbang]

Originally posted by Winchester:

Originally posted by Shuriko:

Ya beat me to the punch there

It's called marketing, Look it up.
They introduce updates / timed features as "DLC" It's a marketing strategy instead of of calling itself an update. Nobody would've looked twice if it said: "Halloween update".

I swear you sheep are so predictable on wonder you fall for all these baits.

Before you start talking smack about marketing, make sure you're not talking about it to people who've worked in marketing and sales. I've worked in marketing and i can tell you right now that this has got nothing to do marketing.

A FREE DLC is not part of any marketing scheme. It's a non-obligated bonus to the community. That's the first thing you haters need to 'squeeze' through your heads.

The DLC for this game have zero effect on anything.

A marketing scheme would include advertisement campaigns and more. What advertisement campaigns have been made for this game? I sure as hell haven't seen any.

The fact is, that someone got butt hurt over a FREE DLC that was added during the Halloween event. The rest just jumped on the hate wagon. They were butt hurt because they were too late to the party and didn't get to download it, for FREE.

Here's another fact, before you start going off on the price tag on the game itself.

Development studios are not charities, they're companies and and like all companies, they need to make money to stay afloat. Before you mention transparency, then let me just say this. This developer have been more than transparent with the development process of their game, compared to a lot, if not most developers out there who release their games in Early Access.

That being said, the total price tag for this game with the founder's pack is still cheaper than most Early Access titles.

Just an FYI: I don't have the FREE DLC either. Do you see me, making a hate posts on their forums because of it? No. It's called being mature and acting one's age. If you're an adult and you get butt hurt over these things, yeah.. You're best off steering clear of any Early Access titles, period..

That being said, Halloween is a seasonal event.. I'm sure they'll add it next year as well.

[Godspeed]

Originally posted by Grumps:

That being said, Halloween is a seasonal event.. I'm sure they'll add it next year as well.

You don't even need to wait that long, you can invite someone who HAS the DLC to your clan, get them to build the pieces and leave.

Works that way with items to, like the razor DLC helm and cloak and the immortal king DLC. Can have someone craft the stuff up and just give it to you.

All the DLC items are already in your vrising data, the ability for them to drop or be crafted is the only thing that is actually locked to the DLC purchase.

[ling.speed]

Originally posted by Winchester:

Originally posted by Shuriko:

Ya beat me to the punch there

It's called marketing, Look it up.
They introduce updates / timed features as "DLC" It's a marketing strategy instead of of calling itself an update. Nobody would've looked twice if it said: "Halloween update".

I swear you sheep are so predictable on wonder you fall for all these baits.

I mean yeah of course its a choice. But there is a thin line between corpos milking easily gullible consumers and a small-ish studio using their tools and doing some marketing.

There is hardly anyone to "scam" here, majority of players of small games have good control of their wallets.

And there is simpler explanation too. When making a game you build tools for your buissness model well before you release beta. Here they go with cheap main game and support through cosmetic DLC. Standard and consumer friently. So for the devs, having already prepared the implementation of cosmetic DLCs this is literally easiest, lest work intensive way to add free bonus/timed content to their game.

The fact that it makes us look at their store is a nice bonus.

But is it really wrong? I mean look at the main menu, they have draculas pack right there? Is that bad too? Are companies not allowed to advertise on their own product?

Like if the ingame build menu had "buy dlc" button, or a popup, that would be annoying and you'd be compeltely right in bashing it. But this? You say we are sheeps, while copying whatever "mob IQ" outrage happened on other forums. You are here with us, just a different fur collor.

[eternally cursed]

bruh, let me guess youre one of those people who really dont play the game anymore?. So its there fault?. I can understand the updates but asfar as money hungry goes look how many dlc they have i dont see anything money hungry. Even I have the free and non free dlc. Its Early access not a completed game. Who knows maybe they game will do a Star Citizen. Do you see any people complaining about Star Citizen's Membership prices and Ships? Now thats a game where this argument would be valid

[chicken jockey]

Originally posted by Winchester:

Originally posted by ling.speed:

Actually agree... does not matter if its dlc, or patched in, EA or not, timed content sucks.

They do it because they have no intention of developing the game, they hope to squeeze money out of this scam and I am not trolling , I'm dead serious. Do not support these developers please! Save your money for more important games you care about!

What games do you recommend then