Stellaris released 10 years ago today

Also I know some of you all running genocidal empires, I don’t judge (usually)

Also how many times have they reworked surface building, I picked it up again about a month ago and hey yeahhh let’s go read some patch notes, good times

Also at least it let me craft my berry own socialist polity

centrist

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    14 days ago

    There was some update, I want to say maybe…6-7 years ago? Where Stellaris was my absolute favourite game of all time. Unfortunately they update it so much and change it so much that it is unrecognisable, almost a completely different game, and I don’t have several hundred dollars to spend on all the mandatory DLC I don’t have.

    …Damn. I needed to work today, but I guess I’ll just be playing Stellaris all day now.

    • Orbital [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I don’t have several hundred dollars to spend on all the mandatory DLC I don’t have.

      I haven’t bought an expansion in at least 5 years and thus don’t own the most recent 19 DLC or so.

      If by mandatory you mean “considered a must have” the serious stellaris heads may have some insights on that. AFAIK no DLC is literally mandatory

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        13 days ago

        I meant in the way Paradox games will make their DLC a core part of the new game mechanics and then lock those mechanics for the player if they don’t have the DLC, but not the computer players. It isn’t as bad in Stellaris as it is in EU4, where the game literally becomes impossible to win without the DLC, but it still is a shitty business model that I hate.