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[–] 103 points 3 years ago (11 children)

That's awesome. Also the lack of micro transactions makes me want to support them more. I kinda wish they had a donate button or something.

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  • [–] 82 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The donate button is buying the game and their previous titles.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The digital deluxe upgrade is basically that. You get some bonus stuff like extra bard songs, some cosmetics I think and the official Soundtrack. Stuff like that.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I almost never buy a game on opening day for full price. But fuck microtransaction nonsense -- as soon as the devs made an official statement about it, I was on board.

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  • [+] -11 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And?

    The key is that nothing in that DLC is needed to win the game. In fact, the only real game advantage at all is some camp supplies. The rest is art, character sheets (they're PDFs), and the soundtrack. It also allows Larian to throw a little extra at the early adopters who bought the game in early access.

    "Day 1 dlc" means nothing without context. Not all DLC is pay-to-win.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Buy the DRM free version on GOG if you haven’t already.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Sorry, dumb question, what's GOG?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It is another digital game store owned by CD Project, parent company of company that made the Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077. They originally started by selling old games that they would get running on newer OSes. They have since started selling new games and have an alright launcher that you can link to other stores to see your entire game collection.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Most importantly, GOG as a storefront does not allow DRM. If you buy a game on GOG and keep the installer around (on a drive that's regularly backed up), you'll always have the ability to play that game even if GOG's servers die.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I don't know why this sentiment is so popular. It's a single player game, most single player games don't have microtransactions... In fact I think it'd be odd and outside the normal if it did

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @qwertyWarlord @AlecSadler I would like to respectfully disagree. Witcher 3 had DLC. Skyrim had DLC. Dragon age origins also had DLC. Many many single player games had DLC. I'm not sure where you're looking.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Dlc and mtx aren't really the same thing tho.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The game has LAN support as well as steam cloud. While it's designed for single it handles multiplayer extremely well. The only annoyance I've ran into is that only one person can interact with a merchant at a time.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I bought it only because of their stance on microtransactions.

    It wasn't really on my radar because turn based rpgs are not my thing.

    I saw their press release and figured just for that upfront refusal to try rip everyone off to make money was good enough for me to buy the game and try it out.

    I love dnd so it can't be bad

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