Its worse than that. They added an entire questline, gave you the first quest, and then charged 7 dollars per quest!
$7, but you a only spend $10 at a time! It ain’t gonna be 10 quests or 5 quests. It’s gonna be like 3 or six so you’ll be left with $9 in coins and feel like you’re wasting cash if you don’t spend another $10 to buy some other creation club shit.
God I fucking hate the premium currency tactic.
Who knows? It’s an early access paid mod, meaning they only did the first two quests, and promised more.
If I’m reading it right, it’s a quest framework and one quest is free, the other is paid. So it sounds like we’ll be able to completely ignore the quest if you never visit CC content in the first place.
For free mod purposes, sounds like it should be easier for mod makers to create bounty hunting quests.
Yes you’re reading it perfectly, Bethesda as usual actually isn’t being as money hungry as they could’ve.
People still gonna hate though, that Starfield/Bethesda hate train is way too well entrenched.
They put the intro guy at the entrance to cydonia, the only way to avoid it is dont upgrade to the latest patch.
The intro guy to the second quest? Or the intro to the bounty quest framework?
Damn, I was just thinking of giving SF another shot. Guess it wasn’t meant to be.
It’s funny how people will chant “vote with your wallet” but when someone votes against business practices they don’t agree with using their wallet they’re all surprised pikachu about it.
Charging per quest in a micro transaction scheme (which isn’t really micro at a $10 entry fee) is shitty and I don’t want to support it by pumping their gameplay numbers right after announcing it.
i agree. i also never picked up cyberpunk because of the same reason. also rock band or guitar hero for its hiding content behind paywalls. i just stop playing 99% of games actually
There was a quest like this in the original Dragon Age. A dwarf merchant in your camp who told you about a quest but then the game said you had to buy the DLC to complete it.
There was also one where you stumble upon a thing that crashed from space and its this whole totally-not-superman story, and it starts just fine, but the next step involved a NPC literally telling you to buy the DLC to continue.
in two seperate playthroughs, this was the among the first things I encountered in the game.
Which is why I never bought any DA:O DLC, and never bought any of the subsequent titles. because fuck. that. shit
I mean, that’s basically just paid DLC, and I’m not complaining about there being paid DLC for the Fallout series and Skyrim. I’m fine with content being sold.
But I would like the value to be reasonable. A lot of game developers that sell content in small chunks sell a pretty minimal amount of content for pretty significant prices.
