This game has just received an update?

[MarcusPy]

Does anyone know why this game has just received an 800+ mb update? I'm not sure what changed/was added

[Bluebottle]

ad for some game by 11 bit

[Dr]

ad for <the alters>

[Doko]

Oh joy, updates to cram in more ads, just what I always wanted...

[MarcusPy]

Oh well, that sucks

[Bobywan]

You must ask yourself only 2 questions:
Do you like frostpunk ?
Have you heard of this other game by another mean ?
There isn't that much way to advertise for smaller companies. This way is cheaper.
I am looking forward to see more about the alters. The sci fi idea behind it looks very interesing.

[Slye_Fox]

Originally posted by Bobywan:

Do you like frostpunk ?

Yes.

Originally posted by Bobywan:

Have you heard of this other game by another mean ?

No

Do I want to download almost a gig of data for something that can literally be done via a news post?
Hell No!

[Esmarix]

Originally posted by Bobywan:

You must ask yourself only 2 questions:
Do you like frostpunk ?
Have you heard of this other game by another mean ?
There isn't that much way to advertise for smaller companies. This way is cheaper.
I am looking forward to see more about the alters. The sci fi idea behind it looks very interesing.

still annoying since I the update is so large I got excited for new content :) oh well

[Lord Of Dorkness]

Originally posted by Esmarix:

Originally posted by Bobywan:

You must ask yourself only 2 questions:
Do you like frostpunk ?
Have you heard of this other game by another mean ?
There isn't that much way to advertise for smaller companies. This way is cheaper.
I am looking forward to see more about the alters. The sci fi idea behind it looks very interesing.

still annoying since I the update is so large I got excited for new content :) oh well

Yeah...

I get the smaller studio bit, I really do...

But it would be a lot less egregious if these ad updates were a couple of nice PNGs with a couple of megabytes worth of data, instead of near a whole indie game by themselves.

...Actually, I think a lot of even recent indie games are SMALLER then the 860 something that this update was.

[MarcusPy]

I get that they need to advertise their content somehow but when i saw an update that is almost a 900mb large, i thought they maybe have added some new content instead of some elaborate advert

[MonkehMaster]

ah, so thats what the update was for... more ads, figures

guess ill have to allow the update, then manually remove the nonsense myself from the games files, so im not being harassed by advertisements.

only solidifies my opinion on buying any more games from this studio.

they have many ways to advertise outside of forcing it in no content updates for this game, especially for advertising games i have no interest in, basically shoving them in my face.

not to mention passing off "frostpunk 2" as a sequel to the frostpunk series, after removing the city building aspect in the second one, which was the whole focus in the first one... in the first place.

in the end, shoveling ads into this game, plus removing what i liked about the series in general, secures my mind in not buying anything else from the studio... but in the long run saves me money to buy games from other studios who dont do this type of stuff.

[Chilltex]

They did this for FP2, is anyone really surprised at this point? 11 bit seems to have a disconnect from gamer's. I mean why do they think this is a good form of marketing? Sure is cheaper for them, but seems highly invasive. Forcing installs of unwanted/unneeded aspects in our games, makes it bloated. FP2 seems like when they introduce a launcher with their games also. When a company forces stuff from outside a game, into their game, you know they will jam anything they want into it. Hopefully they do not do spyware/malware in the future, but it wouldn't surprise me any if they do.

[Doko]

I don't think it's smart to start making excuses for why games should automatically have ads crammed into them.

Games are games, not TV commercial spots, don't make excuses for a slippery slope you clearly don't care about as some of us do.

I care for games to stay as they are, video games, not an ad spot or a billboard. I don't care how "small" X/Y studio is, you can advertise on Youtube and anywhere else on the vast internet, just not inside the game itself.

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by Doko:

I don't think it's smart to start making excuses for why games should automatically have ads crammed into them.

Games are games, not TV commercial spots, don't make excuses for a slippery slope you clearly don't care about as some of us do.

I care for games to stay as they are, video games, not an ad spot or a billboard. I don't care how "small" X/Y studio is, you can advertise on Youtube and anywhere else on the vast internet, just not inside the game itself.

yep, most people dont like being harassed by advertisements, not to mention forced in a game, which also uses (in loads of cases), peoples payed for internet bandwidth, that may be limited due to isp.

they have a forum/store page for frostpunk 2, they have youtube/etc.. and many social medias, no reason to shovel it into old games and annoy, hassle or harass customers with the ads.

[Azrael]

Should added the lie 'general fixes and improvements' to the update to sell the update better with the general playerbase

[John Rick]

was hoping for a new map :D haha