Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets!

[Tripas]

So Amplitude has been bought by Sega which, I mean, it's good for them, they get some much deserved financial stability from it. But this obviously means that the grand tradition of Sega games having BS DLC practices will most likely continue, and chances are it will be something along the lines of locking some lore-essential faction as pre-order DLC.

So place your bets! Which faction do you think will end up being sacrificed to the altar of Sega. Remember: the more popular and essential to the lore a faction is, the greater the odds.

My money's on the Cravers.

[JH]

I'll bet on Sophons. Cos you know, "Sophons are hard at work... selling out to SEGA"

[Phantus]

Vaulters. The only two they have announced as playable are the two you mention, Cravers and Sophons. They'll have to tear out one of the other 6. Worse than that is their new "campaign DLC is now a full priced, standalone game" strategy. Far more predatory. Sad day. I was hoping CDPR would buy Amplitude or Sega for that matter.

[OuchThatHurt]

All races will now be sold as DLC unless you buy them you just game the game in map mode that let's you view the maps with no actions possible with in game pop ups saying SEGA loves your money buy our DLC

[Tripas]

引用自 Phantus：

Vaulters. The only two they have announced as playable are the two you mention, Cravers and Sophons. They'll have to tear out one of the other 6. Worse than that is their new "campaign DLC is now a full priced, standalone game" strategy. Far more predatory. Sad day. I was hoping CDPR would buy Amplitude or Sega for that matter.

You know, I'd be inclined to think the same way... if it wasn't for the Total War: Warhammer game. I mean, I'm not exactly the biggest Warhammer buff (I find the W40K much more fun anyway) but when you just start THINKING about the very basics of that setting, you start with the Empire and the Chaos and then start expanding from that starting point into the rest of the world.

But they still took one of those two factions and made one of them into DLC. And Chaos is already IN THE GAME, they're the main antagonists of the campaign, so there's no excuse for them not being part of the base game but nope, they're sold as pre-order DLC.

So who's to say they won't pull a similar move with Endless Space 2? They just need to find the faction that's the most popular to pull out and sell it separately.

[Rolhn]

Remember this is Sega we are talking about, they are probably gonna take a great game and turn it into another Sonic 06, and if you never heard of it then good, it freaking so much ass it was amazing the people who made it Sega didn't hang themselves in shame at the abomination they created.

[Mrax]

For now I would rather wait and see how this situation develops, before I judge if the takeover by SEGA was positive or negative (but I have to agree that it is unlikely that SEGA changes any policy only for Amplitude). Regarding DLCs I see no problem, but I am used to paradox games, so nothing in this regards can surprise me.
I plan on buying this game anyway, thats why I will preorder as soon as possible (however this takeover rises the question if there even will be an early access program for this game). I would bet on the United Empire being a preorder DLC in sort of a "Humanity DLC" including them and maybe the Pilgrims (if they still exist).

[OuchThatHurt]

What was a day one purchase for me is now a wait and see what happens due to this, Day one DLC is never a good thing IMHO and it's even worse it seems to be cut content or a key faction due to lore ect...these are the things we've seen from Relic/Thq and CA since SEGA aquired them.

I wonder what race is the most popular and I wonder how SEGA will justify asking Amplitude to cut that race and make it DLC.

[Nyx]

引用自 Tripas Bye TF2, it's been fun：

So Amplitude has been bought by Sega which, I mean, it's good for them, they get some much deserved financial stability from it. But this obviously means that the grand tradition of Sega games having BS DLC practices will most likely continue, and chances are it will be something along the lines of locking some lore-essential faction as pre-order DLC.

So place your bets! Which faction do you think will end up being sacrificed to the altar of Sega. Remember: the more popular and essential to the lore a faction is, the greater the odds.

My money's on the Cravers.

the publisher for endless space 2 is still amptitude what ever game comes after this might have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ polices

[Carnwulf]

引用自 VikingDream - OuchThatHurt：

What was a day one purchase for me is now a wait and see what happens due to this, Day one DLC is never a good thing IMHO and it's even worse it seems to be cut content or a key faction due to lore ect...these are the things we've seen from Relic/Thq and CA since SEGA aquired them.

I wonder what race is the most popular and I wonder how SEGA will justify asking Amplitude to cut that race and make it DLC.

The same lame excuse Total war came up with why Chaos DLC could not be free. Production cost, bla bla, we really want to give it to you for free but we cant *sniff* (crocdile tears falling)...

[Tripas]

引用自 Nyx：

引用自 Tripas Bye TF2, it's been fun：

So Amplitude has been bought by Sega which, I mean, it's good for them, they get some much deserved financial stability from it. But this obviously means that the grand tradition of Sega games having BS DLC practices will most likely continue, and chances are it will be something along the lines of locking some lore-essential faction as pre-order DLC.

So place your bets! Which faction do you think will end up being sacrificed to the altar of Sega. Remember: the more popular and essential to the lore a faction is, the greater the odds.

My money's on the Cravers.

the publisher for endless space 2 is still amptitude what ever game comes after this might have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ polices

Nnnnope, Endless Space 2 is going to be published by Sega now.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/07/05/sega-amplitude-endless-space-2/

[OuchThatHurt]

引用自 Antoni：

SEGA, Capcom, EA, Stardock and even Paradox (did i miss anybody?)

Everybody loves the DLC gravy train these days.

Ubisoft, KoeiTechmo, IdeaFactory, Square Enix ....there's others but Japan has some hard core DLC making Studios because fan boys lap up that ♥♥♥♥ ...I know I lap up some of that anime goodness but ♥♥♥♥ it you only live once lol

[Varivox]

引用自 Tripas Bye TF2, it's been fun：

So Amplitude has been bought by Sega which,

Oh no...god...really?

smh...

a sad day indeed...

It's sad that Amplitude teamed up with Sega since Amplitude was a company I had 100% loyalty to and Sega is a company that...I like their IPs..and that's it... I love Warhammer and I love Total War so buying TWarhammer would sound like a no brainer right? No, I still waited to buy the game for about 2 weeks.

I'm thinking ES2 just went from a day 1 buy to a "wait and see" kinda game...

[Ploogie]

Hey... atleast we can play it on the sega console now! right?!? oh...wait..a...minute..damn

[Frogsquadron]

I understand the joke (I even find it amusing, to a degree), but I'm gonna have to state the obvious:
Endless Space 2 will be released to Early Access with four factions, two of which have already been announced (Sophons & Cravers).

Four more factions will join the game post-EA, bringing the total for the official release to a total of eight factions. Similarly to Endless Legend and the first Endless Space, one of the eight factions will be designed by the community through a G2G contest.

That contest, by the way, will be starting in the coming weeks, so if you guys have been daydreaming about how that creation of yours would be a great fit, make sure to stay tuned for the upcoming announcement...

[Rolhn]

Mr. Developer! IF we have the Sophons and Cravers does this mean the races of the first game are coming back or are a few being removed to be swapped out for others? Will we have our Vaulters cause I really loved them in Endless Space and Endless Legend.