Is there a worse company than Paradox?

EA

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>>380851081
EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda

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Just going to leave this here

>>380851202
>>380851265
Well, that was easy.
Also BioWare.

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This too

>>380851081

Thank god the fanbase is finally waking up to Paradox shit

>DLC out of their asses

Fans of this company always said: LOL the basegame is big enough so stop complaining
The problem is in EU4 there is a penalty on specific inventiopns and playing outside of europe without DLC is nearly impossible because its going to take hundreds of years to get the same level of development.
Well the way to stop that: Buy DLC

>DLC making games a big mess


This happened o Crusader Kings 2. The last 4 big DLC's made the game a huge clusterfuck of shit

Also
>SJW politics introduced into this game

Did prices go up in every currency or just a few? I swear I bought cities skylines and victoria 2 for 20 each but they're at 30 now.

>>380851697
More or less all, russians are now paying twice what they used to and so on.

>>380851345
Holy fuck, thats glorious.

>>380851446

Paradox prior to CK2 was a pretty good company. Content changing DLC was all essentially full sized expansion packs, and limited to just a few expansions per game (EU3 had 4, HoI3 had 3, every other game only had 1 or 2). There was other DLV, but it was all purely cosmetic or music shit that you really didn't need at all.

Then CK2 came along, and is sitting at 13 game feature changing DLCs. Previous Paradox games were complete at release, albeit buggy. Meanwhile, several of CK2's early DLC should have been part of the base game (Sword of Islam, Legacy of Rome, The Republic), and few have enough content to warrant their price (The Old Gods, Charlemagne, Rajas of India are the only ones, and Charlemagne is debatable). Most gameplay changing DLC simply feature a single mechanic that barely interacts with any other mechanics and usually doesn't work properly.

Subsequent games follow this same model. EU4 is sitting at 11 major DLCs, and the sasme criticisms of CK2's DLC apply. Stellaris and HoI4 both released in a horribly incomplete state, and have already seen 2 major DLC releases in one year.

I used to be a huge fan of Paradox, but they've completely broken the trust that I had given them.

>>380851423
>paid mods
I am sure that todd brought some paradox shares.

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>>380851081
Creative assembly

>release le 60 dollar game
>Preorder DLC
>3 $20 race packs
>2 $10 unit packs adding in new units
>Yet another $20 racepack now incoming
>60 dollar """expansion""" with new $20 and $10 DLC on the way
>And there'll be a third
>Neglecting history fans all the while.

>>380851345
That reminds me of this retarded "Hart aber gerecht" (hard but just) campaign here in germanistan a few years back where they created ads comparing pirates to hard criminals.

>>380853489

that's not even close to jewing imo, the only race that was legit bullshit was prob Beastmen

>>380851081
what worthless currency are you using

>>380853489
>Neglecting history fans all the while.
Yeah, you had to go a whole 2 years without a history game. Poor baby.

Why are history fans so autistic and whiny? They need an annual release, like call of duty, or they feel 'neglected' by a fucking corporation.

EA
Ubisoft
Gearbox
Topware

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Holy shit the steam review rating is tanking hard.
Get fucked paracucks.

>>380852981
>Paradox prior to CK2 was a pretty good company.
Hoi3 and paid patches (DLC)

>>380854534
They should get a vetting system that excludes poor 3rd worlders from having a say on the internet.

>>380853489
>history fags

Most successful game in the franchise by far, it single handedly let them double the development team into two parts, a dedicated history team and one for Warhammer

You guys should be grateful it saved the series after Rome 2

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>>380854860
>How dare these people complain about abusive practices instead of taking the paradox cock up their ass!
Get your fucking priorities fixed my man.

>>380854860
Steam reviews should just be regional. Chinks not getting a localization or Ruskies getting a price hike has no effect on me, so why show me a review score that has been heavily influenced by some foreigner's problems I don't care about?

>>380855298
>Steam
>Having reasonable features

Maybe you can mod it? That'll be 8.99$ plus tip

>>380853489
Keep spitting in Warhammer
Thanks to it CA is making 3 history games so stop whining

Warhammer saved CA after the flop of Atttila and the huge bad PR of rome 2

Besides, each race actually plays differently so its worth it

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>increasing the prices just in time for the summer sale
so this is the power of pc gaming

>>380855298
>a price hike has no effect on me
>Implying that is not a slippery slope
If they increase the prices in a third world shithole and people still pay for the game then whats stopping them from doing the same for people with more money like in first world ones?

>>380851423
>get our cut
>third-party mods made independently
>our cut

what

>>380853489

Didn't you also have to pay to have blood in it?

Paradox is awful because they have a large and significant defense force of drones who haven't woken up yet. This is because they used to be a pretty good company.
These are the type of people that see absolutely nothing wrong with semi-annual $20 DLC that adds critical features to the game.

>>380854639

I never really played the HoI games. EU, EU2, CK1, Victoria, EU3, EU:R, and Victoria 2 were all released in a complete state, and their expansions were all truly additions and sufficient in size to be worth the expense.

>>380855983
>Critical features
>Game was fully playable before they were added

???

>>380856095
Playable does not equal complete parashill.

>>380856095
They change things in the base game, most notably base tax into development, and then charge money for the ability to improve development.

>>380856095

They release patches that contain part of a feature, so that people without the DLC experience the downside but can't get the benefits.

>>380856225
Without DLC Paradox would've stopped updating EU4 5 years ago.

>>380856258
That's 1. Can you name anything in Mare Nostrum or Mandate of Heaven that's "critical"?

>>380856095
>have to pay money to get a "spearhead" feature
>something which should have been there Day 1

>>380851345
>johan

Fucking faggot country needs to be nuked.

>>380856345
>Without DLC Paradox would've stopped updating EU4 5 years ago.
Are you really implying you need a constant stream of bullshit DLCs to keep a game updated? Fuck off.

>>380856345
>Without DLC Paradox would've stopped updating EU4 5 years ago.
You say this like it's a bad thing.

>>380856471
Yes? You can roll back to earlier patches so you lose literally nothing from the game being updated.

Why is it always so obvious when people who don't even play games try to have an opinion on something?

>>380856345
>Without DLC Paradox would've stopped updating EU4 5 years ago.
Good. It's been nothing but feature bloat for the past two years at least.
>>380856345
>Mare Nostrum
They made espionage somewhat useful.
>Mandate of Heaven
They made Japan functional.

Paradox should have released one large expansion a year for about $25 and focused primarily on fixing things that were barely functional. Instead we got shit like Cossacks.

A shame because I was interested EUIV. But if the devs are going to lock key features behind downloadable ""content"" then it makes zero sense to support this practice by buying the game.

>>380851081
>tfw we finally have SimCity killer
>killed by their own publisher
Wow fuck you Paradox.

>>380856528
And then we would have gotten something new and good instead of nothing and jewery for five years straight.

Acting like it's fine that a company is actively making their game worse because of incompetence and a need to jew their customers because you can still play the old shit is fucking retarded.

>>380856612
Sick deals on Pirate Bay

>>380856612
Buy base if need it it so much, pirate DLCs. If you have cool friends you can also just pirate everything and tinker with it for multi

>>380856612
Buy the base game, pirate the DLC. It's win-win.

>Russians have been able to buy games on Steam for cheap for years because otherwise they would just pirate them (and they still do)
>prices are adjusted to compensate for the weak ruble and normalise them against other markets
Bwaaaa, Paradox are evil! EU is evil! NATO is evil! Ukraine is evil! The US is evil! Everyone is RUSSOPHOBE!

what is this monopoly money currency?

Quick question:

I know that pirating the CK 2 dlcs works but does the same trick work for EU 4 dlcs?

>>380856901
Yes. The same method is used to unlock DLC in all Steam games.

>>380852981
HOI4 is even worse imo. At least base CK2 dlc (until they completely ran out of ideas) brought new mechanics to the table. Paradox just keeps shitting out focus trees (basically scripted events) for a handful of countries while the base mechanics of the game is broken as fuck

>>380856879
>prices rise for everyone
>prices rise most for russia
>people take screenshots of the most egregious price hikes

>Y-YOU JUST LOVE RUSSIA

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>>380856424
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>>380852031
he's right though. Pirates are amoral communists.
No respect for property = communism

>>380851345
What's CP?

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>>380851081
Wizard works
Seriously non-meme answer they were the og of garbage. They never made a single decent game.

>>380857089
>intellectual property
>legitimate property
Nice meme my friend.

>>380857151
How new?

>>380857089
I do respect property, I just don't consider a bunch of bits to be such.

>>380851081
When is Cities going on sale?

>>380857203
Never played their games

>>380853489
It's objectively better value than any of the history games where you just getting 4 factions reskinned into like 12

>>380857175
>>380857264
just admit you are a communist then

So apparently all Paradox games and some of their DLCs were all bumped in price, is Paradox trying to kill itself or something?

>>380851081
EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Activision, Rockstar (or take-two rather), Square Enix.

>>380857387
Quite the opposite - it's my computer, so anything currently running on the system, consuming my resources, is mine to use as I see fit.

>>380857089

There are arguments against IP from the perspective of every major political ideology, as well as non-ideological/pragmatic arguments.

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>>380851081
>Cities Skyline DLC
>Adds winter map theme
>Like 20 bucks

>>380857484
And they're all shit. What's the point of inventing something if everyone else will just steal it?

IPs only have temporary protection, some as short as 10 years.

>>380857468
then let's take it to its logical conclusion
if you consume a product, it requires your income, so anything within the factory it came from is yours to use as you see fit. you now have partial ownership of the factories aka the means of production.

>>380857651
What about disney's mickey mouse whose nearing a hundred with no signs of stopping?

>>380857374
Just google it.

>>380851081
It is literally illegal in Sweden to increase the price of a product and put it on sale to make it seem like a good deal for the consumer.
I hope they get brought to court.

>>380857708
1/10 bait or retarded

Gearbox

>>380857418
They expect by putting bullet on their head will make them gain additional life.

>>380857770
>It's illegal to make a fake sale
Jesus christ. Consumer protection is great but that seems a little too far imo

>>380857908
Not that guy but how could you say that's too far? A fake sale is literally nothing buy lying to a customer. Of course that shit should be illegal.

>>380857731
A very, very interesting read that can only be done by a single company, because lobbyists and money rule America.

https://artlawjournal.com/mickey-mouse-keeps-changing-copyright-law/

It's the exception to end all exceptions.

>>380857908
Why? Unless someone runs logs, there's no way to fact check, and you end up in a well-calculated scam.

>>380857908
>Making fraud illegal seems like taking it a little too far
How cucked are you retarded Americans?

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>>380851081

>>380857908
Too far like what? Since when it is okay for a company to fool their customers?

>>380857742
>child porn
How the fuck was i supposed to know that it was this? And wtf is wrong with that guy to compare cp and Piracy? And wtf is wrong with that dev to say they both the same?

>>380858006
*price check

>>380857908
The consumer shouldn't be expected to know the ins- and outs- of a company just to make a purchase. It's their job to be upfront.

>>380857151
Apparently it's something that's not as bad as piracy

>>380855791
But they are not made independently to be fair.

>Grand strategy
>Obvious lawyers in the thread

Is grand strategy the best genre for smart people?

>>380857651
>What's the point of inventing something
Irrelevant. You cannot own an idea.

>IPs only have temporary protection, some as short as 10 years.
That's completely incorrect though, outside of patents.

>>380851345
He's not wrong

>>380857742
>cp is a UNIX command for copying files and directories
Okay? Still doesn't explain anything.

>>380855791

Modders use existing assets the developers made to make their mods.

>>380858176
>You cannot own an idea.

What's the point of having ideas? For the benefit of everyone but you?

>>380858065
fuck off

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>>380851081
>R$

>>380851081
>Raising prices before summer sale
Every body is doing it, they all got jewed years ago when rockstar did with a couple of other jew publishers

>>380851202
Paradox DLC policy is somehow worse than EA nowadays

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>>380851446

>>380858265
The point of having ideas is to find the best way to make a product or offer a service. The latter are things you can actually state unique and exclusive ownership of.

>>380857908
Retard.

>>380858265
There's no "point to having" ideas.
Ideas are a thought, nothing more. Fuck off with your thought-police bullshit.

>>380858380
So no point then? The service is what you need to come up with. Ideas are merely an addition and useless on their own.

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Hearts of Iron IV is so bad it hurts me
>Planes can teleport to provinces, you can't really intercept them
>Planes and ships require no gas to conduct movement or missions, so enjoy Bolivia's massive navy
>The AI is retarded. Even by Paradox standards
>The combat system is so simple it may as well not even be there
>National focus trees are a horrible substitute for events and decisions
>DLC jewing went absolutely nuts on HOi3 and has, evidently, gotten incredibly worse on IV

Darkest Hour will always be the best version of the game. Fuck Paradox InJewractive.

>>380858006
Sales are just advertising. If you buy anything because it's 'on sale' you deserve to get scammed. If it was something you actually bought regularly you'd instantly know if the price is actually on sale
>There's no way to know the msrp of a product in the past
Yes there is its called the internet
>>380857991
>Lying to the customer
As is bullshit terms like 'will make your life easier', 'guranteed for (the products life), and how car salesman offer to throw in worthless leather protection packages for free if you buy their car. If sweden banned all that shit too it'd be great otherwise this is nothing more than politicians passing pointless laws to pretend to care about consumer rights

>>380858002

Except the Copyright Act of 1976 wasn't written specifically for Disney. It was enacted to bring US copyright law into alignment with the Universal Copyright Convention and to participate in drafting the Berne Convention, all of which were ultimately derived from French copyright law (which has a very different philosophical basis than Anglo-American copyright law). Naturally, Disney supported this move, but it wasn't done specifically for Disney. The subsequent copyright extension acts were basically sponsored by Disney, with support from several other media companies.

Source: I spent two years in law school studying IP law (planned to be a patent attorney)

>>380858325
It's gotten slightly better with Stellaris. Though not by much.

CK2 is probably the worst jewing they have done, and some of the worst DLC jewing of any game ever apart from stuff like Sims 3 and the really niche stuff like Train Sim.

>>380858452
Services are existing instances of a thought out scheme or project. You need thought to make a service.
>>380858496
>advertising
More like misleading marketing which does nothing but annoy or hurt the consumer financially. Shills pls go.

>>380858435
You're mixing the legal term of "ideas" together with your own notion of what an idea is.

>>380858498
That only extends it by 50 years. Note the other multiple changes.

>>380858087
But on the other hand, being "on sale" doesn't make something any more worth it.

>saying something is $80 instead of $100 minus $20 is fraud

>>380855691
>whats stopping them from doing the same for people with more money like in first world ones?
Working economy and laws

>>380851423
>while we still get our cut
You already sold the game, you fags. That was your cut.

>>380856528
The point is than EU4 was shit at launch and it's still shit. I regret buying a bunch of it's DLCs, because the game never became not terrible.

>>380858496
>As is bullshit terms like 'will make your life easier'
That's an entirely subjective statment, rather than a lie. A person can make their own judgement on the matter.
>'guranteed for (the products life)
Such guarantees are protected in most places. That is not a lie,
>and how car salesman offer to throw in worthless leather protection packages for free if you buy their car.
There's no possible way you could call this a lie.

Fake sales on the other hand are pure misinformation and nothing more. They abuse the inability for information to be easily obtained by the consumer.

>>380855279

Stop living in a country where the value of your money is in free-fall.

>>380858265

US copyright did not apply to foreign works in the 19th century. Charles Dickens licensed US publisher to print authorized versions of his works and to advertise them as such, and those authorized versions vastly outsold the unauthorized versions.

In the 18th century, there were many innovations in steam engines that the British crown did not grant a patent. The inventors ended up creating joint companies to coordinating sharing schematics and plans, and then made their money through offering technical support services. Today, Red Hat and many other companies use a similar model, in which the basic product is free, and the revenue comes in the form of providing technical support for the free product.

>>380853489
>Every single DLC has been worth it apart from Beastmen
>History game comes out in 2019/2020 and is a major overhaul and not a reskin like the last few games
>Bitching about modern CA

Please end yourself. Modern CA is good.

There are a billion other companies who are infinitely worse like Blizz/Ubisoft/Bethesda/Paradox and motherfucking EA the killer of entire game companies

>>380851345
Well he is right.

>>380858484
Not even scratching the surface with that post either
>The AI can instantly launch naval invasions without first preparing, some thing that's supposed to take months early on
>AI keeps drawing battle lines and assigning troops to them at what seems to be completely random, enjoy capturing a province bordering a neutral country and having the AI automatically setting up a front line and assigning half your army to it
>Can't not use front lines or get massive penalties
>Enemy armies can somehow move through, capture and block supplies through a province faster than your own armies can move to catch up to them despite there being no actual military presence involved
>Peace treaties are completely ridiculous, you can be in a war with two major powers who are also at war with each other, and somehow end up signing away territory you captured to a faction you're at war with because reasons
>War contribution is not determined by what you've accomplished but by how many troops you've lost, so if you do much better than an ally endlessly throwing bodies at the enemy you'll somehow end up worse off
>Planes might as well not exist due to how bad they are outside of carriers/naval bombers wasting factories and manpower on planes is always a net loss

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>>380858065
Pirates are usually also consumers of cp.
It's a fact.

You guys think HoI4 will go lower during summer Sale than the 50% we have now?

>>380859008
What the fuck does Patents have to do with anything?

>>380858837
>Pure misinformation
>But all those other terms aren't because they're 'subjective' even if they add nothing of value to it
Go and stay gone Schlomo your not fooling anyone.

>>380859252
Yes, everyone knows this, just like how everyone knows that playing video games means you're more likely to commit violent crime.

>>380858171
>Obvious lawyers in the thread
Lol what? I only see poor kids and thirdworlders who can't afford cheap dlcs.

>>380851081
Nintendo, just look at the switch.

Outdated piece of shit with only one "good" game, with a handful of overpriced shovelware.

They're holding the industry back.

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>>380851446
every time

>>380859386
That's the entire generation of consoles in a nutshell anon, why does the Switch stand out in particular to you where the Xbone, Wii-u and PS4 got a pass?

>>380859332
>zero basic logic skills
>arguing in favour of greater consumer protection makes me a jew
Holy shit are you retarded.

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>>380851446

>>380856424
Yes, lets bomb an entire country because there's a retarded game dev living there. By that logic both the US and Canada should be nuked several times over.

>>380859090
The more I hear about this game the more it depresses me that i will eventually end up buying it to play with my casual friends so that I can eventually convince them to play something else

>>380859569
Quebec is the only good part of Canada.

>>380859496
stfu faggot, the ps4/xbone are basically pcs.

Nintendo's a baby company

>>380859513
Never try to get an American to get that corporate dick out of their asses anon, they really, really like it that way apparently.
>B-but someday I c-could be the c-corporate dick u-up someones ass!
Is there a more cucked mentality than this shit?

>>380858961
Gimme greencard

>>380859569
I really wish california was nuked 2bh

>>380858675

I was just saying that one particular act was not written specifically for Disney. The subsequent acts were. The article that was linked seemingly implied that they were all written for Disney, rather than only the post-1976 laws.

I still think we should repeal the Copyright Act of 1976. Replace it with the previous copyright filing requirements, make the copyright last for 10 years, and then allow 10 year extensions. Make the initial cost of filing $100, and then make each subsequent extension cost 100 times more than the previous. Extension 1 costs $10k, extension 2 costs $1M, extension 3 costs $100M, etc. If they want an indefinite copyright, then they'll have to really pay for it.

>>380859569
>By that logic both the US and Canada should be nuked several times over.
>Implying that's a bad thing

>>380851381
Bioware is EA

>>380859513
By your own logic I can release some worthless DLC, bundle it with all my base games, no longer sell the base games by themselves and sell my new DLC bundle at higher than the regular price because the DLC bundle is a new product that adds subjective 'value' to the product.
It's the same situation that preys on consumers lack of information but somehow you seem to think they're not equivalent.

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>>380851446
>>380859451
>Kurokawa is still alive
what the fuck?!
I thought this guy is as dead as ReliableEchiiDelivery

>>380859059
>>380858178


So all crimes are equal?

>>380859857
No. But the one who commits it is about as deranged in some cases. Should we treat torturing a cat different from torturing a dog?

>>380854512
>Topware
whats your beef with them?

>>380860002
Just because you used different animals doesn't mean there's a difference, whereas there's a huge difference between a shoplifter and a serial killer/rapist.

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>>380859821
That's not preying on purely a lack of information, though. A customer with more information would not be in any better of a position; they'd still be fucked if they wanted to buy the new game. It is not equivalent.

You've also taken the ass retarded step to assume I'm against other consumer protection laws because I said that your other situations are not equivalent to a fake sale. I'm not wasting my time with your retardation any longer. Kill yourself.

>>380859840
REDS turned into a normie

>>380860036
Not him, but they introduced microtransactions in Two Worlds 2.

>>380860124
Oh yeah? Do you think the majority pays for CP?

>>380860183
RIP
He was a fag but at least he always delivered.

>>380860002
no because both are animal abuse
you can't compare crimes like speeding with murder

>>380859712
If it's not specific to Disney then it's not related to the question, which was "What about disney's mickey mouse whose nearing a hundred with no signs of stopping?"

>>380859334
Today you are pirating games - tomorrow you may start a race war

>>380860245
How the fuck should I know?
I don't see how that's related at all.

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>>380860245
Of cource they do. CP is extremely expensive. Just ask this gentleman

>>380859857
Both pirates and cp watchers are depraved monsterd who don't care about people suffering from their actions.

>>380860152
>a consumer with more information would not be in any better of a position
And neither would they be if I owned all the storefronts for my product (e.g. steam) and raised my prices universally while claiming it was on sale. Both parties would have no choice but to purchase the product or not buy it at all. Both would still be fucked if they wanted to buy the game.

>You also assumed I'm not against other consumer protection laws
And I argued that unless sweden actually codified and implement all those consumer protection laws then those laws are nothing more than easily circumventable statues that provide nothing but a false sense of security for consumers.

>I'm too retarded to make a coherent logical statement. Kill yourself
Kys

>>380860442
>How the fuck should I know?
Stop pretendng we are on 4chan.

>>380851081
Take Two and Rockstar do this. The first Steam Sale GTA was part of, they raised the price to something outrageous, threw in a shark card, dropped it to 60 dollars and called it a bargain.

>>380860564

In one scenario an innocent child is being abused, in the other an adult gets a little bit less money than usual. If you can't see the difference then you're an autist.

>>380860685
The more you speak the less sense you make.

>>380860770
And this is why I don't buy games until they are dirt cheap and come in GOTY editions with DLC bundles. In Paradox's case I pirate them. Fuck shady practices. I hope the whole industry crashes so the only ones left making games are people who actually care about them.

>>380860770
remember when companies were after customers and not money?

>>380861703
No. There was literally no time like that.

The whole gaming crash happened for the complete opposite reason.

>>380861626
You can't buy GTA V in any bundle unfortunately. That's how they jew you. All of it is multiplayer content that requires you to spend hundreds of hours or hundreds of dollars to get. Literally F2p tier behind several layers of paywalls. Actually the CEO of take two thinks people who don't buy their shark cards are leeches according to an interview he did. This is why I will probably not support them again.

>>380857908

It's not only unfair for the customer, it's also a very shady business practice and very damaging to free market competition compared to other firms who do not practice this.

>>380860787
Autists are ones who lack empathy ie people like you.

>>380862171
And as such I haven't bought it. Maybe someday when it's <$10

>>380862657
If you think losing a bit of money is just as bad as a child being raped then you're the one who lacks empathy, autistic faggot.

>>380863367
The fact that you think everybody knows your obscure weeaboo game only proves my point.

God you're autistic. Stop replying to me at once.

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>>380863880
Wrong thread

>>380857908
its illegal in all EU too, and you cant understand why because you are a subhuman niggershit

>>380856954
I didn't have much time yesterday, but it looked like the only way to get the dlc was with a modified Steam dll. Is there an alternative, I'd prefer not to mess with Steam.

>>380854364
You realize Warhammer is essentially seeing an annual release? It wasn't even a year old when the sequel was announced.

>>380857089

The entire concept of an IP is just a state-issued license to monopoly. It's not a "real thing" and it's the most anti-competitive concept ever conceived. It's not a real thing when one company rips off another company's product and makes a better, cheaper version and it's not a real thing when someone decides to download a Paradox game.

>>380857908
The only way to price-gouge legally is by adding something to the game, pretty certain Rockstar did that with GTA5 just before a sale by making it so you could only buy the game with a shark card included.

>>380866406
intellectual property is just as arbitrary as real estate property, I don't see your point

>>380851423
Most Jewish thing I read today

>>380855812
Yeah but it's sadly a usual thing for CA's games so no one comments on it since they are used to seeing that.

>>380866767

No it isn't. Real estate, i.e an example of private property, is somewhere that you can build on, live off of, farm on, etc etc. It's an immutable physical reality, for someone to seize it from you if you had already claimed it would be an act of aggression. A violation of IP law doesn't imply stealing in any context. The only situation where it could be considered something remotely in the vicinity of stealing is if one company made and sold a product using the exact same labeling of an existing product. If I play a game I had no intention of ever buying, but I didn't actually steal a physical disc, what exactly has the company that made the game missed out on? There's no lost profit, there's been no loss of private or personal property, nothing that affects their livelihood whatsoever.

>>380866767
>>380867441

In addition the nearest analogy between say piracy and real estate would be if a person were to squat on property and use the facilities without the consent of the property's owner, but that analogy fails because the squatter takes up space on the property, raises maintenance costs etc

>>380859569
Sweden would get nuked eventually after it finally transitions into a terrorist caliphate state. Better start early.

anyone got the pic of the review that was flagged as abusive by paradox for making fun of their DLC policy?

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>>380857089
Reminder that trying to make money off a product that can be trivially copied and redistributed an infinite amount of times is the height of idiocy and shows a clear lack of understanding of basic market supply and demand. The fact devs can make money at all is a testament to the naivete and good nature of their customers. Ideas are not property and never can be by virtue of the fact that you cannot give an idea to someone else and in turn lose it. Once given, both have it. There is no such thing as 'intellectual property' because you cannot own information given to others, nor control what they do with it. Fighting this means fighting the very way the universe exists.

>>380870265
thanks

>>380858065
The devs is greedy. He is looking for justification for his greed.