PS5 RPG Dawnwalker Pulls a Witcher 3 with Free DLC Drops

I will wait for all the sequels to release so I can enjoy the story as it was intended by the devs.

@Czar_Khastik I hope you have the lifespan of a vampire. You're playing the long game, indeed!

Ah the old cut out parts of the game and then give them back as "free DLC" to get good PR tactic that CDPR mastered 11 years back.

@DennisReynolds I typically agree with what you have to say, but finding ways to complain about free content is pretty cynical. I don't think anyone would have ever accused the Witcher 3 as being feature-incomplete without the DLC.

@Czar_Khastik That's kinda weird imo. If you play them when released, you're still playing them as the devs intended.

I'm cautiosly optimistic about this one. I love vampires and we need a good vampire game after masquerade failed (though that it would fail was obvious considering it's development hell).

@wildcat_kickz I've always thought this. The stuff they gave out for TW3 was clearly stuff already meant for the main game but it was good PR if CDPR acted like it was free content. I mean come on do you really haircut DLC was something that they could only do post launch? In 2015 giving out free DLC was still pretty uncommon so it gave CDPR good PR for doing it and they knew that despite the content clearly being stuff they cut out to be gave back later. Not even complaining as it worked for them.

@DennisReynolds I mean, it could also have been stuff they wanted to put in the main game, but ran out of time to do. So, rather than ditch it all together, they kept at it and released it for free after the game came out.

@wildcat_kickz New stuff you need to restart the game for feels like you’re punished for playing early sometimes too. I’m worse off with the experience for paying more essentially.

@DennisReynolds This makes sense. It’s not like CDPR is totally honest as CyberPunk showed. Also, BG3 got praised for free stuff being added when it was the game actually having an end instead of abruptly all of sudden feeling extra unfinished. In their case I think they didn’t have it ready, but they got so much praise for real releasing a blatantly unfinished game then partially finishing it.

Getting to BG3’s end and finding it just outright missing after “17,000 endings leaked, oh no” along with many other obvious half baked things at the end ruined the game for me.
BG3 was a disaster for the industry in that it encouraged and praised devs for awful behavior and lying.

I actually don't like that all that much. I'm often done with games before they finish releasing all their stuff.
I don't see that approach much from Japan developed games. I often end up waiting for western games until they're done with their stuff and sometimes loose interest alltogether by then.

I really can’t connect with why devs do this. All this does is convince me to wait until I can play all content at once. Coming back to a finished game months down the line is not for me. This just smells of an industry wanting to mitigate the perceived damage of the used game market.

Mean this is cool but it’s kinda the expectation for most bigger games nowadays at least getting smaller updates for free

@Almost_Ghostly Have you read this person's username or ever read any of their comments? Haha