• V0lD@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, but it’s a sustainable model that allows for longtime development and product lifetime. It’s also completely voluntary since base + utopia + synthetic dawn are 85% of all worthwhile content on their own

      Like, microtransactions are garbage, but the industry has shifted to a point where you’re out if you don’t have a long term payment model. The paradox model at least puts a cap on what the whales can pay, and actually gives them more content in return.

      It’s the least bad model out there. At least for companies too big to pull a factorio/terraria

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      11 months ago

      Which sucks so much because Surviving Mars is one of my favorite games of all time.

      And they messed up that one after the original devs left.

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        11 months ago

        I have no idea what happened with the development of that game in any fashion. I just bought it and like what I played. I never looked into it because I figured most of it was going to be Paradox being Paradox.