Anomoly more expsensive then biotech?

[Josef.PP]

I havent played it yet but and i might no since the price but is there any way that this is going to be bigger then biotech?

[Resident NATO Freedom Enjoyer]

The amount of content even upon a glance at the store pages is very lackluster. Anomaly seems to be almost entirely events or items based around those specific events. Biotech added new gameplay features and content that basically changed a lot of the base game.

Frankly there's no point arguing the price, a lot of the fanbase to their own detriment would pay hundreds for the DLC if they could. Unfortunate really, we could hold a higher standard for things and get way more and way better stuff but the people who would appreciate that most are also the ones stamping out any critic in sight.

[HunterSilver]

They're the same price, Biotech just has a 10% discount at the moment.

[Suwako]

Originally posted by Resident NATO Freedom Enjoyer:

Frankly there's no point arguing the price, a lot of the fanbase to their own detriment would pay hundreds for the DLC if they could. Unfortunate really, we could hold a higher standard for things and get way more and way better stuff but the people who would appreciate that most are also the ones stamping out any critic in sight.

People will buy the game if they think it's worth it. This game had no marketing, was in beta for nearly 5 years, and a decade later people are still buying it enough that there is no need for it going on discounts to attract people, as those who are interested have already bought it.

Before you say "but sales will grow the fanbase" listen, in a word of 70 dollar AAA garbage that you play over the weekend and never touch again. Anyone worth their salt would look at the reviews, see the positives AND negatives. Most with hundreds if not thousands of hours of in-game time and they should have a clue of what to expenct. If they're sitting there thinking; "Hey, for 20 bucks? at .05 cents USD an hour of fun for 500? While also getting updates a decade later? Nah, not convinced" Then honestly? Good riddance.

[BingusDingus]

Originally posted by Suwako:

Originally posted by Resident NATO Freedom Enjoyer:

Frankly there's no point arguing the price, a lot of the fanbase to their own detriment would pay hundreds for the DLC if they could. Unfortunate really, we could hold a higher standard for things and get way more and way better stuff but the people who would appreciate that most are also the ones stamping out any critic in sight.

People will buy the game if they think it's worth it. This game had no marketing, was in beta for nearly 5 years, and a decade later people are still buying it enough that there is no need for it going on discounts to attract people, as those who are interested have already bought it.

Before you say "but sales will grow the fanbase" listen, in a word of 70 dollar AAA garbage that you play over the weekend and never touch again. Anyone worth their salt would look at the reviews, see the positives AND negatives. Most with hundreds if not thousands of hours of in-game time and they should have a clue of what to expenct. If they're sitting there thinking; "Hey, for 20 bucks? at .05 cents USD an hour of fun for 500? While also getting updates a decade later? Nah, not convinced" Then honestly? Good riddance.

If you consider youtubers marketing than the game had a fair bit, watching Petecomplete play his icesheet game series is what originally convinced me to buy the game.

[Suwako]

Originally posted by BingusDingus:

If you consider youtubers marketing than the game had a fair bit, watching Petecomplete play his icesheet game series is what originally convinced me to buy the game.

That was only AFTER release. The decision that this game would never (If rarely) go on sale was made before steam. Once it hit steam, even without the youtubers, people were raving about how good it was, rightfully so.

Side note, I also watched the petecomplete icesheet thing. Oh Cambiar. My sweet sweet cannibal love. You can butcher me and eat me any day.

P.S. Was the desert one any good?

[Astasia]

Originally posted by BingusDingus:

If you consider youtubers marketing than the game had a fair bit, watching Petecomplete play his icesheet game series is what originally convinced me to buy the game.

I don't believe RimWorld has had any sponsored streams/videos. Marketing implies money spent on getting the word out. People streaming the game on their own because they enjoy it isn't marketing.

Originally posted by Josef.PP:

I havent played it yet but and i might no since the price but is there any way that this is going to be bigger then biotech?

Content-wise it's the largest DLC yet, it's basically twice the size of Biotech. It's has 50% more def size, and like 125% more asset size.

[Hykal]

Cube.

[Bolt ⚡]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Originally posted by BingusDingus:

If you consider youtubers marketing than the game had a fair bit, watching Petecomplete play his icesheet game series is what originally convinced me to buy the game.

I don't believe RimWorld has had any sponsored streams/videos. Marketing implies money spent on getting the word out. People streaming the game on their own because they enjoy it isn't marketing.

Originally posted by Josef.PP:

I havent played it yet but and i might no since the price but is there any way that this is going to be bigger then biotech?

Content-wise it's the largest DLC yet, it's basically twice the size of Biotech. It's has 50% more def size, and like 125% more asset size.

I don't believe that to be true. It feels smaller compared to Biotech. I am atleast 8 hours in and haven't felt that it'll impact more than just this Horror themed save.

[Drax]

Originally posted by Suwako:

Originally posted by BingusDingus:

If you consider youtubers marketing than the game had a fair bit, watching Petecomplete play his icesheet game series is what originally convinced me to buy the game.

That was only AFTER release. The decision that this game would never (If rarely) go on sale was made before steam. Once it hit steam, even without the youtubers, people were raving about how good it was, rightfully so.

Side note, I also watched the petecomplete icesheet thing. Oh Cambiar. My sweet sweet cannibal love. You can butcher me and eat me any day.

P.S. Was the desert one any good?

Absolute BS. I've been playing since the early alpha days and this game pretty much ALWAYS had a bunch of attention surrounding it. One of the big reasons for that is how it took the style of Prison architect right when that was booming in popularity. To act like this game was ever a lesser known indie is just ridiculous. They had far more sales than most games do so early in development with fairly well known youtubers covering it back when it was an Alpha with about 3 hours worth of content.

Furthermore, all of your comment is just cope pretending that overpaying for lackluster content is somehow justified because they 'deserve it'. Ignoring that this is the VERY type of sentiment that all fanboys use for plenty of anti-consumer companies (like Blizzard) and one of the primary reasons for them becoming that way was because their fanbase didn't hold them to any kind of standard. But no, you're different... They're different. Apparently.

History has proven that this kind of thinking is downright damaging to the industry. At the end of the day, games are a business. They could half the price of these DLCs and still make a ludicrous amount of money for the effort they put in. When you look at the developers for games like Terraria that only charged €10 for the game, whilst releasing free content consistently, it's ridiculous you think Rimworld's developers deserve your money or positive perception.

[Hykal]

Don't like don't buy.

[Steelfleece]

Originally posted by Hykal:

Don't like don't buy.

I still just don't understand the 'I must buy all DLCs before even playing the game' mentality that keeps showing up here. I don't have Royalty still. Not in a rush for Anomaly. May buy both at some time. I'm not gonna blame the price sticker or hate on people who did buy them immediately. I consider them plenty affordable and recognize everyone has different tastes.

[Supahz]

Originally posted by Drax:

Originally posted by Suwako:

That was only AFTER release. The decision that this game would never (If rarely) go on sale was made before steam. Once it hit steam, even without the youtubers, people were raving about how good it was, rightfully so.

Side note, I also watched the petecomplete icesheet thing. Oh Cambiar. My sweet sweet cannibal love. You can butcher me and eat me any day.

P.S. Was the desert one any good?

Absolute BS. I've been playing since the early alpha days and this game pretty much ALWAYS had a bunch of attention surrounding it. One of the big reasons for that is how it took the style of Prison architect right when that was booming in popularity. To act like this game was ever a lesser known indie is just ridiculous. They had far more sales than most games do so early in development with fairly well known youtubers covering it back when it was an Alpha with about 3 hours worth of content.

Furthermore, all of your comment is just cope pretending that overpaying for lackluster content is somehow justified because they 'deserve it'. Ignoring that this is the VERY type of sentiment that all fanboys use for plenty of anti-consumer companies (like Blizzard) and one of the primary reasons for them becoming that way was because their fanbase didn't hold them to any kind of standard. But no, you're different... They're different. Apparently.

History has proven that this kind of thinking is downright damaging to the industry. At the end of the day, games are a business. They could half the price of these DLCs and still make a ludicrous amount of money for the effort they put in. When you look at the developers for games like Terraria that only charged €10 for the game, whilst releasing free content consistently, it's ridiculous you think Rimworld's developers deserve your money or positive perception.

Shhhh, stop talking sense... you'll only get into trouble!

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Bolt ⚡:

I don't believe that to be true. It feels smaller compared to Biotech. I am atleast 8 hours in and haven't felt that it'll impact more than just this Horror themed save.

The devs have stated it's the largest expansion; The dev team is the largest it has been and this expansion has taken longer than the others; Anyone can look at the game files to see it's much chunkier than previous expansions.

Whether you think the theme is more limited or not isn't what is being discussed here, the OP asked if this was a larger expansion than Biotech and it objectively is, and for the same price as Biotech. The DLC has many (many) new events, many new objects and creatures, many new abilities/rituals/mutations, new progression systems, and new mechanics, it's a very beefy expansion. Yes it's all hyper focused on the horror theme though and if you aren't interested in that or don't see yourself wanting to engage with that every playthrough it might have less replayability for you.

[Meanator]

it's just as big if not bigger so if you like what it advertised then get it. otherwise don't bother.

[Suwako]

Originally posted by Drax:

Absolute BS. I've been playing since the early alpha days and this game pretty much ALWAYS had a bunch of attention surrounding it. One of the big reasons for that is how it took the style of Prison architect right when that was booming in popularity. To act like this game was ever a lesser known indie is just ridiculous. They had far more sales than most games do so early in development with fairly well known youtubers covering it back when it was an Alpha with about 3 hours worth of content.

Furthermore, all of your comment is just cope pretending that overpaying for lackluster content is somehow justified because they 'deserve it'. Ignoring that this is the VERY type of sentiment that all fanboys use for plenty of anti-consumer companies (like Blizzard) and one of the primary reasons for them becoming that way was because their fanbase didn't hold them to any kind of standard. But no, you're different... They're different. Apparently.

History has proven that this kind of thinking is downright damaging to the industry. At the end of the day, games are a business. They could half the price of these DLCs and still make a ludicrous amount of money for the effort they put in. When you look at the developers for games like Terraria that only charged €10 for the game, whilst releasing free content consistently, it's ridiculous you think Rimworld's developers deserve your money or positive perception.

1- I never said it wasn't popular, only that it exploded after hitting steam. What are you on? Stop being delusional to make your point. The couple hundred thousands turned into millions of customers when steam rolled around.
2- If the content is 'lack luster' nobody is forcing you to buy the DLC. If a product does not sell, they wont make more of it. After 10 years, people are still buying the game, and DLC. Obviously they're making more of it because it's selling. You also have 52 hours in-game, how invested are you truly, that you you're trying to argue about a game you have 52 hours in, and even if you did play hundreds of thousands of hours before 1.0, it's changed so much its not even the same game any more. So you can try, but considering you havent even played it recently, but have played 50 hours of counter strike 2, its hard to take you seriously.
3- I will pay whatever I think a game is worth, and after 1.552 hours on steam, and way double that since A9 I would rebuy this game every DLC if i was forced to, even to this day I gift-purchase this game constantly. This has been the best money-to-time purchase i've made in my entire life.

Get off your hate chair, you Simply dont like this game and are seething that others are enjoying it.

You own multiple versions of Skyrim, complaining about fans buying 'overpirced' DLC, you're the definition of;
"people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"