Predatory marketing is not "off topic"

[ˢʰᵉᶦᵏᵒ (Sgт.Ήєηηєѕѕу)]

Hi, I see that you are trying to hide reviews under the "*this game has gone through a recent period of off topic review activity."

so naturally I have the obligatory need to come here and tell you and everyone else that a negative review due to your absolutely horrendous and predatory dlc practice as a company most definitely on topic as to why no one should buy your game.

thanks

[Elitewrecker PT]

You'll notice that the reviews aren't hidden due to the season 9 announcement, but from activity earlier in the month due to drama about HoI4.

[Tactical Drongo]

You might also notice that OP is a lvl 0 steam user with a private profile and a nearly impossible to write name so anthing they say can be disregarded anyway.

[Richard]

Predatory marketing no one making you buy it.

[SaD-82]

Originally posted by ˢʰᵉᶦᵏᵒ (Sgт.Ήєηηєѕѕу):

so naturally I have the obligatory need to come here and tell you and everyone else that...

Good.
And my obligatory need in this instance is to say: I don't care and thus I didn't finish reading.
Good talk.

[-Singularity-]

Another wannabe crusader looking to make himself feel relevant,

[No.]

The price isn't the thing that bothers me about the DLC.
In fact, I'd pay more and even consider prepaying if it meant that they made the modders' lives easier.

[Kaelmato]

I'm pretty sure that it has nothing to do with their DLC policy.

It has to do with the chinese review bombing that occured earlier, having something to do with... India focus tree or something in HOI4, IDK. Essentially the chinese playrbase reviewbombed all paradox games, which have nothing to do with HOI4, which definitely classifies as 'off-topic review activity'.

[HappySack]

Welcome to all Paradox games since like 10 years ago, so you're a bit late.

[Ryika]

Guys, you can't expect OP to do research or base their opinion in reality.
They want to be angry, and they found a reason to be angry, so allow them to be angry.

[Existence]

I dont support the chinese cause in any way, but I am kinda glad it also contributed to Paradox getting cornered a bit.

They are lacking interesting concepts for their DLC for a while now for almost all their games. Hearts of Iron 4 cannot carry their company all by itself. They really need to reorganize and get their games and their DLC in order. I would argue that Stellaris hasnt had a good enough DLC for me to come back because of a DLC being out for years, I only came back to playing after 2021 in my own desire to play it again.

[ImperiusDamian]

Originally posted by Existence:

I dont support the chinese cause in any way, but I am kinda glad it also contributed to Paradox getting cornered a bit.

They are lacking interesting concepts for their DLC for a while now for almost all their games. Hearts of Iron 4 cannot carry their company all by itself. They really need to reorganize and get their games and their DLC in order. I would argue that Stellaris hasnt had a good enough DLC for me to come back because of a DLC being out for years, I only came back to playing after 2021 in my own desire to play it again.

A lot of us don't play games because of new and interesting DLC, we play games because we enjoy them as they are.

I haven't spent 27 and a half years playing Quake II because it has a bunch of neat DLC. I've spent 27 and a half years playing Quake II because it is a perfect game as it is.

[mss73055]

If you want to see a predatory market: the Chinese organ market!

( also you picked the Greek character set, not the latin one )

[VoiD]

Originally posted by ImperiusDamian:

Originally posted by Existence:

I dont support the chinese cause in any way, but I am kinda glad it also contributed to Paradox getting cornered a bit.

They are lacking interesting concepts for their DLC for a while now for almost all their games. Hearts of Iron 4 cannot carry their company all by itself. They really need to reorganize and get their games and their DLC in order. I would argue that Stellaris hasnt had a good enough DLC for me to come back because of a DLC being out for years, I only came back to playing after 2021 in my own desire to play it again.

A lot of us don't play games because of new and interesting DLC, we play games because we enjoy them as they are.

I haven't spent 27 and a half years playing Quake II because it has a bunch of neat DLC. I've spent 27 and a half years playing Quake II because it is a perfect game as it is.

That's great, you can roll back to the earliest version and simply play the game as it used to be on launch for ever, just like Quake II.

Meanwhile most o us enjoy having content that would have never existed for a fair price.

Originally posted by Existence:

I dont support the chinese cause in any way, but I am kinda glad it also contributed to Paradox getting cornered a bit.

They are lacking interesting concepts for their DLC for a while now for almost all their games. Hearts of Iron 4 cannot carry their company all by itself. They really need to reorganize and get their games and their DLC in order. I would argue that Stellaris hasnt had a good enough DLC for me to come back because of a DLC being out for years, I only came back to playing after 2021 in my own desire to play it again.

They didn't contribute to your cause, you contributed to theirs.

Your narrative is something less than 10% (in the worst case scenarios) reviews cover and have covered since the launch of every paradox game in the last decade, they never made a difference, you're just adding weight to the chinese nonsense over game mechanics and nationalism as that's hitting every game in recent months in much larger numbers.

Also, I don't know what you've been doing but they just released their best DLC for stellaris rather recently, the machine age is as important as Utopia, and has far more content.

[CrUsHeR]

Originally posted by Existence:

They are lacking interesting concepts for their DLC for a while now for almost all their games.

NGL, i wouldn't mind a working full-scale overhaul for Psionics and Genetics, same like the Machine Age did for Cyborgs and Robots.


The problem with these is that PDX is actively re-selling you an overhaul for game areas which were already handled by previous DLCs.

> Why did we buy those previous DLCs, if their content becomes obsolete by having to own another DLC for a much wider and deeper experience?
> Will the recent DLCs also become obsolete by additional revamps?
> Is this what we can expect from PDX for all future games and their DLCs?


CK3 became even worse. You had several DLCs where the focus was completely obscure. Example, what am i buying with Legends of the Dead? Diseases? Funerals? Legends?
Or why do i need to buy a Byzantium-themed DLC, just to have landless adventurers in western europe offering their service?

[Pervy]

To play the older versions of stellaris use the code: oldstellaris
It should allow you to play versions from even befor 2.0