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Re:Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today” by blaser-waffle on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:15AM (#24420645)
The DLC thing is annoying, and is a serious problem for EUIV, but for Stellaris the biggest dealbreaker for me was that each patch or update completely changed the game. Totally altered X/Y/Z, did away with transportation methods, total 180.

So then you have to relearn everything. And it's a slow paced, very abstract game to be begin with so it becomes a slog.

Re:Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today” by mcv on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:17AM (#24421215)
EU4 has also had a few of those updates. Not every update changed everything, but some did.

I don't really have a problem with that, though. These games, especially a new one like Stellaris, are also a search for the right approach to the game they want. Sometimes they realise (based on feedback most likely) that they took the wrong approach and have to make dramatic changes. Would you rather they abandoned the game and release a new game that does it right, or that they update the old one? I quite appreciate Paradox's approach. You get way more value out of the game than with most other games. And if they did that with Stellaris, that gives me hope, because the initial version of that didn't work for me.

And if you really prefer the old version, you can just continue playing that.

Re:Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today” by IG_Semmelweiss on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:35PM (#24435727)
Also its important to add that a lot of the DLC content ends up in future patches.

They dont fix bugs only, they actually improve the game. For free.