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[–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world [S] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I used to be a big fan, not so much for their Grand Strategy games (I've played CK2, Victoria for about ~15 hours each and it didn't click), but because they worked with Colossal Order, the creators of Cities in Motion (upon which Cities: Skylines is based).

They really have become a European EA.

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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 9 months ago

Yep...i fell for ck3. Buying that and for viki 3 because both were really hyped and i never played the predicesor. They dont get me with eu5 nore with all their recent DLCs

Imperator Rome was the first sign if we look back...just dropping something because it didnt make enought profit from the get go

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[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

It’s ironic considering they were there to replace EA for the city building SimCity series with Cities: Skylines when SimCity 2013 utterly shit the bed.

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[–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world [S] 1 point 9 months ago

I believe SimCity 2013 was the last EA game I played. I even pre-ordered two copies (one for myself and one for my brother).

They basically committed fraud by knowingly misrepresenting the nature of their product. The early promo videos pitched a complex non-statistical, agent-based simulation. That was of course de facto discarded and the whole game was a dysfunctional attempt at making a "live service" style multiplayer game in genre that's in many way fundamentally a single player experience.

Paradox feels marginally better than EA these days.

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

Damn. I didn't think Paradox's DLC practices could get more scummy but here we are, they actually did it!

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 point 9 months ago

Oh. Damn. Like tbh I don't mind Paradox's big dlc model. It can add a lot of life to a huge game, but im disappointed by even trying to normalize renting parts of a computer game sucks to me

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Thia is going to sound crazy but id patron Paradox for major expansions. Exclusive updatea, early access, priority feed back, cool. Then just add it the base game. Going to content rental model though? That sucks.