They should have just put a fork in it when it became very apparent early on it was too ambitious for the studio to handle. And that was long before it blew up in popularity. Now the game has been unprofitable for the past few expansions and their owners are coming to collect. Live service was a massive, greedy mistake as Bungie is also not learning with D2.
Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead'
Submitted 8 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
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sleepmode@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I fuuuuuucking KNEW IT.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
But grim dawn has classes in the dlc expa sions 🤔
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Apparently in 2018 the devs stated publicly they’d never add paid content to the game. At least that’s what the fans state. I dunno.
I bought it a year ago, played it for ten hours. It’s a fun little game.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Ah. I didn’t know they said that. It’s definitely shitty to go back on that promise. Although in a vacuum, I think this is the kind of non-cosmetic content that’s somewhat acceptable to me as paid DLC. It’s not a competitive game and assuming the class is balanced, it’s just adding content that gives more variety. I’ve been fine with paid DLC in other big games as long as it’s a worthwhile amount of content for the price and it’s sold in a straightforward way without any funny business. Given that this game has online co-op, I think it makes sense that they’re gonna keep the content expansion free so it doesn’t divide people who would want to play together (also I guess there is trading, but I’m a CoF player so…) and then this is something that mostly just affects someone’s individual experience. Like if you were going to be happy enough to keep playing the game with existing classes, then this doesn’t really affect you.
So in principle I’m ok with this… but like I said, the bigger issue is them going back on their word.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Grim Dawn is not a live game service.
Last Epoch promised to only have MTX and pay only once to get the full experience. That’s not the case anymore.
Last Epoch studio got bought out and people were afraid they were gonna get enshittified and it is happening right now.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
When did the buyout happen?
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Yeah. But think about the shareholders. They are way more important than the customers. The customers can go fuck themselves.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 1 hour ago
But this one really stings.
Text is the easiest thing to fix in a game. And that just reeks of shotty work, especially in a MMO.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Shoddy? Or shitty? Honestly probably both. Lol.
But in case you didn’t know.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
It’s not an mmo.
It’s an arpg
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
Mmos and arpgs are intrinsically linked by their gameplay loops. Admittedly, this can vary to a greater or lesser degree depending on the specific games being compared, but Diablo 2 was, in many ways, proto-WoW.