• jorp@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I find this argument really annoying / entitled.

    Are they supposed to increase the scope of every iteration in the series and take an extra few years to make each one, or are they supposed to never release DLC? which would make you happy?

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      2 months ago

      I don’t think you accurately read their comment.

      They’re not spending years in development planning and creating new, exciting content. They’re holding back basic features from the beginning and selling them to you over time for many times the base game’s price.

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        2 months ago

        Yes because it’s a new game, putting all the features they developed in the previous base game and years of DLC would take them a long time. This is how software development works. They don’t just have everything feature toggled off…

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          2 months ago

          You make it sound like they start from scratch with every new game.

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            2 months ago

            Many core mechanics are different in each game, and even if they kept the code identical for the DLC mechanics the bulk of the work is asset creation, balancing, etc.

            There’s no universe in which you’re right

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      2 months ago

      I would like it to come out with the same number of win conditions that the previous ones had. diplomacy was a base feature in at least the last 2 games before it. it wasn’t a dlc feature before. they removed it this time, then added it back as dlc. they do shit like that every time.