Does the Galaxy Edition include all DLCs?

[Kensei]

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[Radene]

No. It includes some collector's goodies like the soundtrack, wallpapers, an audiobook, and such.

But still base game.

[Apeironic_Entelechy]

The galaxy edition includes what it says it includes, since it does not mention including all the DLC's you can be sure that it doesn't include them.

[Kensei]

I see. Thanks. Imma pass.

[Apeironic_Entelechy]

Originally posted by Kensei:

I see. Thanks. Imma pass.:2016imnotcrying:

Happy to help, also understandable choice. I bought Nova edtion and was happy about it but there really isn't any major reason that anyone needs to buy anything other than standard edition.

[Kensei]

Originally posted by Fourthspartan56:

Originally posted by Kensei:

I see. Thanks. Imma pass.

Happy to help, also understandable choice. I bought Nova edtion and was happy about it but there really isn't any major reason that anyone needs to buy anything other than standard edition.

That's what I thought, but then there are a bunch of story DLCs and some Megastructure DLCs, with a combined cost exceeding that of the base game. From scanning the content it seems like a lot of them are not worth the asking price in the first place. I don't like it when devs treat me like I fail basic math, so Imma skip this for now. If at some point theres a bundle that makes sense, maybe next year, I may pick it up. Pity, seems like a cool game.

[Apeironic_Entelechy]

Originally posted by Kensei:

Originally posted by Fourthspartan56:

Happy to help, also understandable choice. I bought Nova edtion and was happy about it but there really isn't any major reason that anyone needs to buy anything other than standard edition.

That's what I thought, but then there are a bunch of story DLCs and some Megastructure DLCs, with a combined cost exceeding that of the base game. From scanning the content it seems like a lot of them are not worth the asking price in the first place. I don't like it when devs treat me like I fail basic math, so Imma skip this for now. If at some point theres a bundle that makes sense, maybe next year, I may pick it up. Pity, seems like a cool game.

That's your decision, if the existence of DLC offends you then Paradox probably won't be the company for you. They support their games for years with free and paid DLC.

[Radene]

Originally posted by Kensei:

Originally posted by Fourthspartan56:

Happy to help, also understandable choice. I bought Nova edtion and was happy about it but there really isn't any major reason that anyone needs to buy anything other than standard edition.

That's what I thought, but then there are a bunch of story DLCs and some Megastructure DLCs, with a combined cost exceeding that of the base game. From scanning the content it seems like a lot of them are not worth the asking price in the first place. I don't like it when devs treat me like I fail basic math, so Imma skip this for now. If at some point theres a bundle that makes sense, maybe next year, I may pick it up. Pity, seems like a cool game.

Paradox does that with all their games. New content/DLC keep getting added, 2-3 per year, and all games stay in active development.

All of the major updates have a lot of free content, too. Staggered like that it's not that much of an expense, but buying all of them at once is not cheap indeed.

[Army Pea]

It’s a strange DLC model which , understandably, turns off many gamers who don’t dig under the surface.

Once you play Stellaris through a few patches and a DLC , it becomes obvious that the developers put a lot of heart and soul into their games and to me that’s worth the price.

[Geredis]

The thing with a lot of the Stellaris DLC is that...on their own, it doesn't seem like they add much to the game. However, quite often, while the game may "only" add two or three features per story/race pack, even one or two fo them really freshens the game up I've found, and in teh case of the event packs...it works really well in teh context of the game. Sure, seeing them isn't guaratneed, and maybe it is only one or two new event chains thrown in...but you're also looking at A LOT of new events within each fo those chains that make things very interesting.

[markdb92]

there is some dlc which expands on a previous dlc they released that paradox has put out.

[UBIQUE]

While some of their DLC content should have been in the base game or free ( portraits and species packs ), the other DLC is resonably priced compared to say anyone published by EA.

[Apeironic_Entelechy]

Originally posted by WALLY:

While some of their DLC content should have been in the base game or free ( portraits and species packs ), the other DLC is resonably priced compared to say anyone published by EA.

I don't see why portraits or species packs should be in the game or free, they're purely cosmetic content that one loses nothing if you choose not to purchase it. That sounds like the most innocuous kind of paid content.

[Kensei]

Originally posted by Fourthspartan56:

Originally posted by WALLY:

While some of their DLC content should have been in the base game or free ( portraits and species packs ), the other DLC is resonably priced compared to say anyone published by EA.

I don't see why portraits or species packs should be in the game or free, they're purely cosmetic content that one loses nothing if you choose not to purchase it. That sounds like the most innocuous kind of paid content.

That is so wrong, it represents everything disfunctional in the current industry. If that is your approach, how about having an X instead of a portrait? Just cosmetic right? So what if your race looks like walking sausages but are supposed to be robots. Just cosmetic. This is the logic that lets EActivision fart in player faces and charge for it.

Paid Cosmetics are for multiplayer games where you cannot upset balance between players. In single player games, those should be free. Single player games get value by content. Meaty content. One DLC for 20$ that has new races, new units, new structures, new music, new whatever, is much better than 5 DLCs 5$ each that sport a similar amount of content + cosmetics.

Your statement parrots many people who give free passes to such practices and results in the avalanche of garbage spewn out by companies. Take a look at The Sims 3 for example, 600$ worth of DLC's, 350 of which is cosmetic. In a game about cosmetics. In a single player game, where the choice of wallpaper is more important then let's say the color of your Deagle in CS:GO.

I would re-evaluate your position if I were you. I've watched a few of the reviews, and the game looks good. I was even tempted to buy the bundle. But I did check out Paradox's other releases, and I noticed a trend of DLC stacking in a "buy your guns for 5$, now buy your bullets for another 5" fashion. Therefore I will either wait for a full game release with all the content, not just some cosmetic stuff thrown in, or I will perhaps forget about it entirely.

This is of course my point of view, and you may disagree with it, but I couldn't resist pointing out a flaw in your logic.

[Richon]

Originally posted by Kensei:

Originally posted by Fourthspartan56:

I don't see why portraits or species packs should be in the game or free, they're purely cosmetic content that one loses nothing if you choose not to purchase it. That sounds like the most innocuous kind of paid content.

That is so wrong, it represents everything disfunctional in the current industry. If that is your approach, how about having an X instead of a portrait? Just cosmetic right? So what if your race looks like walking sausages but are supposed to be robots. Just cosmetic. This is the logic that lets EActivision fart in player faces and charge for it.

Paid Cosmetics are for multiplayer games where you cannot upset balance between players. In single player games, those should be free. Single player games get value by content. Meaty content. One DLC for 20$ that has new races, new units, new structures, new music, new whatever, is much better than 5 DLCs 5$ each that sport a similar amount of content + cosmetics.

Your statement parrots many people who give free passes to such practices and results in the avalanche of garbage spewn out by companies. Take a look at The Sims 3 for example, 600$ worth of DLC's, 350 of which is cosmetic. In a game about cosmetics. In a single player game, where the choice of wallpaper is more important then let's say the color of your Deagle in CS:GO.

I would re-evaluate your position if I were you. I've watched a few of the reviews, and the game looks good. I was even tempted to buy the bundle. But I did check out Paradox's other releases, and I noticed a trend of DLC stacking in a "buy your guns for 5$, now buy your bullets for another 5" fashion. Therefore I will either wait for a full game release with all the content, not just some cosmetic stuff thrown in, or I will perhaps forget about it entirely.

This is of course my point of view, and you may disagree with it, but I couldn't resist pointing out a flaw in your logic.

You're clearly not an artist, and have no conception of the kind of work that goes into it. Let me guess, you also expect your musically inclined friends to perform for free? Or for peanuts?

[Kensei]

If I pay for a band to perform, I expect the singer and the guitarist to be there as well. When I hire a band, I don't pay each musician separately, because I pay the band. When you buy a game, you pay a company, not each developer.

Using your train of thought, it would be much better if you had to buy the GUI, the AI logic and the Player Assets sepparately, so as to pay the 2d artists for the HUD, the coders for the logic and the 3d artists for the models.

I have a very deep understanding of the amount of work going into a single asset, doesn't mean I will tolerate greed.