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Post by Bismarck Jr on Jul 9, 2017 23:17:29 GMT
Paradox has never deleted content from a game, the DLC has only ever added to the base game. Don't not buy a game because you don't like the DLC that makes no sense at all. NetherFreek and Quintus Fabius agrees with me. You have to realize that each time a DLC is released, a free "update" also accompanies that DLC, but goes into your game regardless of whether you brought the DLC or not. Let me demostrate with a crude, crappy example but it should illustrate what I mean: You have a game that contains five features: abcde. The studios releases a DLC about the feature a, you decide to wait and so you didn't buy it yet. Your friend did. Your friend got his feature a improved to A. However, your feature a isn't available anymore because of a certain free "update" took away all of the old version of the feature a. All of it. And the feature A is locked away unless you brought the DLC#1. His game: Abcde Your game: bcde Now... wait about 6 months to 1 year... DLC#2 is released! It is about improving the feature c to C. Your friend as usual throws up money for it while you're satisfied with the base game. But wait... there is more! A free "update" is loaded to all games, taking away the old c, and leaves behind a feature C that remains locked unless you buy DLC#2. But you can't buy DLC#2 without also buying DLC#1 too (this part isn't a paradox-only problem because it's perfectly normal in other studios too btw). Your friend's game: AbCde Your own game after two free updates: bde. Are you happy with your base game while you see your friend enjoying the full-fledged game? Wait... you don't even have the base game anymore! What you have there on your computer is a half-baked cripple. A third DLC comes out, and you give up and buy that one along with the previous two and by the mercy of Paradox Interactive Studios, the previous two DLCs were going on a special discount, praise Allah! Praise Buddha! -Whatever you want- But the fourth DLC is going to cost you just much as your friend pays for, unless you're willing to put up with no feature d or D for an entire 6 months-1 year, waiting for a fifth DLC release then you'll buy the DLC#5 while buying DLC#4 at a special discount. Yay! Yuo is haz game with ABCDE just like yuor freind. But wait... DLC#6 is coming up.... The games that Paradox Interactive makes... I'm pretty sure that those games aren't limited to five features, so if you're playing EU4, you will have to naturally put up with such DLCs until they someday decided to make EU5 instead. So far... they already have a dozen DLCs milking the cash cow called EU4, a new one pops up almost regularly, and I think Johann is going to keep it up for yet another couple of years. V2, HOI4, EU4, and CK2 are all integrated with their saves system. You noticed how many each one of them has DLCs in comparison to their predecessors, so many, how many more? I think Johann and his Paradox Interactive team has struck gold on how to milk their franchises deeper. ...You know you can easily revert to previous forms right...?
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Post by Bismarck Jr on Jul 10, 2017 1:58:36 GMT
I'll be gone for an indeterminate amount of time.
Goodbye.
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Post by Antonio Santa Anna on Jul 10, 2017 5:54:20 GMT
When you stay up until 2 AM watching mapping videos, knowing that you need to go to sleep, but unable to leave without knowing what happens in Europe next...
Please help me...
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Post by Polenbal on Jul 10, 2017 6:09:05 GMT
When you stay up until 2 AM watching mapping videos, knowing that you need to go to sleep, but unable to leave without knowing what happens in Europe next... Please help me... I feel you
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Post by NetherFreek on Jul 10, 2017 8:01:54 GMT
Today the wait for wc3 equals the wait between wc3 and gog2 (270 days) and is therefore the second longest wait ever. 14 days left to equal the wait between ew4 and 3kc to make it the longest wait ever! Will this game get the disputable honour of achieving that! Sadly, i think so Well.... Congratulations (I guess) on being the longest wait ever!!! Hopefully ET needs this time to ensure this will be their best title yet.
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Post by Desophaeus on Jul 10, 2017 11:49:12 GMT
Today the wait for wc3 equals the wait between wc3 and gog2 (270 days) and is therefore the second longest wait ever. 14 days left to equal the wait between ew4 and 3kc to make it the longest wait ever! Will this game get the disputable honour of achieving that! Sadly, i think so Well.... Congratulations (I guess) on being the longest wait ever!!! Hopefully ET needs this time to ensure this will be their best title yet. £I'm not holding out on much hope because of the inverse relationship between the hype and the results. Considering what happened to GoG2 and EW5... if we purposely keep down the hype, then somehow WC4 turns out great!
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Post by Desophaeus on Jul 10, 2017 11:50:12 GMT
I'll be gone for an indeterminate amount of time. Goodbye. Oh okay, I wish you well during your hiatus.
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Post by Laurent de Gouvion on Jul 10, 2017 11:55:27 GMT
saltin, there's now a custom RP banner? Seems pretty good - a cavalry charge is always imposing, and I think the banner applies to many historical periods somehow.
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Post by Imperial RomeBall on Jul 10, 2017 12:01:16 GMT
saltin , there's now a custom RP banner? Seems pretty good - a cavalry charge is always imposing, and I think the banner applies to many historical periods somehow. To the Cavalry and their charges! 865-331 BC / 1945-2017 AD
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Post by Quintus Fabius on Jul 10, 2017 12:18:36 GMT
saltin , there's now a custom RP banner? Seems pretty good - a cavalry charge is always imposing, and I think the banner applies to many historical periods somehow. To the Cavalry and their charges! 865-331 BC / 1945-2017 AD To the husarii!
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Post by Desophaeus on Jul 10, 2017 16:07:42 GMT
All of this talk about anticipating games and so forth... I just checked when they would have a major sale on Steam... I knew it's going to be a long wait until the Autumn sale but I didn't realize it's THAT long... Maybe I should go ahead and buy Terraria at full price anyway. It's only $10 and I tried out the trial version already, and I liked it.
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Post by saltin on Jul 10, 2017 18:21:07 GMT
saltin , there's now a custom RP banner? Seems pretty good - a cavalry charge is always imposing, and I think the banner applies to many historical periods somehow. Glad you liked it and yes eventually I would like every board to have its own personalised/theme matching banner like the RP board currently has (same for WC3 category and Game Modifications board as well). I am open for input if anyone would like to suggest an idea/theme/pic for these banners. The only restriction is for the image to be royalty free ie:public domain or original material. Also I can replace the existing banners if anyone makes better looking ones and is willing to let us use them Here are the 3 custom banners made so far: WC3 category : RP board; Game Modifications board;
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Post by Desophaeus on Jul 10, 2017 18:40:21 GMT
Just went on the laptop solely to see the banners, saltin . I recommend that if you pick generals to insert into the WC3 banner... Pick somebody who doesn't look almost as if he had some weird lip surgery like Bai. But then... Monty looks so annoying with his goofy-looking portrait too, so you could accidentally picked somebody else that's equally annoying or weird. Perhaps a poll so you will know to be safe? lol
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Post by Quintus Fabius on Jul 10, 2017 18:44:47 GMT
Just went on the laptop solely to see the banners, saltin . I recommend that if you pick generals to insert into the WC3 banner... Pick somebody who doesn't look almost as if he had some weird lip surgery like Bai. But then... Monty looks so annoying with his goofy-looking portrait too. Perhaps a poll? lol saltin, I suggest the four most OP generals ingame on the banner (you know, the ones whose names start with B, G, G, and P): Budyonny, Graziani, Gamelin and Portal
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Post by Desophaeus on Jul 10, 2017 18:49:32 GMT
Just went on the laptop solely to see the banners, saltin . I recommend that if you pick generals to insert into the WC3 banner... Pick somebody who doesn't look almost as if he had some weird lip surgery like Bai. But then... Monty looks so annoying with his goofy-looking portrait too. Perhaps a poll? lol saltin , I suggest the four most OP generals ingame on the banner (you know, the ones whose names start with B, G, G, and P): Budyonny, Graziani, Gamelin and Portal I feel embarrassed to not know one of them... Um... *hides the stupid question* Who's Portal? (I guess he's so underpowered, I couldn't bother seeing him there in the academy! )
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