“Thanks to our community for the frank feedback on Bloodlines 2 and the Premium Edition. That feedback made it clear: Lasombra and Toreador belong in the base game, so that is what we are doing,” said Marco Behrmann, White Wolf Executive Vice President and Bloodlines 2 Executive Producer.
“Sorry we couldn’t get away with it” vibes
“After backlash,” of course.
You heard it here first, folks. Businesses will try to fuck you over if they can get away with it.
It has nothing to do about keeping the lights on.
Everyone knows that.
But, at the very least we should be congratulatory on this - it’s bad that clans were contained to DLC in the first place and Paradox needed a good kick, but since they’ve been pliable we should give them a pavlovian pat on the head.
If you leave no room for ‘rehabilitation’ there is no reason to try to do better.
First time? Paradox games are the definition of learned helplessness. This game will be a dlc shitfest in time, just like all of their other scammy games. They just learned to not announce it ahead of time with this IP.
Realistically, this game’s got bigger problems than what its DLC strategy is.
I’m just waiting for the reviews to see if it’s another Redfall
From the gameplay footage, it looks like a studio that’s only ever made walking simulators before is making their take on Dishonored. Maybe that’ll be pretty good, but I’d be surprised. What it certainly isn’t is an RPG that’s anything like Bloodlines 1, lol.
Mind elaborating/telling me the problems? Ive been wanting to try the game but the dlc crap made me wait at least until the clans were added to base lol
If you’ve played the first game, watch their video demo of some gameplay. They’re just not even similar. It’s bold to call this a sequel for how little they have in common.
I love VTMB, but the gameplay was never the highlight, it was always the writing. If the story and characters are well written and it ties into VTMB1 somehow, I’ll consider the title justified. The writing is a pretty high bar, though.
I don’t consider it so much as the combat should be better or the writing should be good, but the fact that it’s just a very different style of game altogether. There will be nothing like the character sheet from the first game in this new one, I’ll wager, nor the RPG mechanics that go along with that. Making that kind of game is even further outside the wheelhouse of the developer making this new one, so it would be an even taller order. It’s not often that a sequel to a game changes genre or subgenre, but it’s not usually a welcome change. There was only one game in the Zelda series like Zelda II, after all.
I’ll wait. Experience shows that the next dick move will come soon after.
I have no problem at this point to wait another two or three years.
“Sorry we couldn’t get away with it” vibes
The publisher is paradox isn’t it? They’ve done this with nearly all of their recent games.
The only difference is that the games they published are left to die after the backlash and the games developed in house continue to be developed but with a slightly less invasive dlc policy for a few months.
Very much so sorry we couldn’t get away with it. This time.
They and other publishers will inevitably try this Capcom crap again so don’t reward them with sales for “apologizing” for behavior that they shouldn’t have done in the first place.
If the game is good I’ll buy it, if it isn’t I won’t. Fuck everyone who had a say in the original dlc decision but I’m not gonna pass up on a decent title if they manage to deliver.
Okay the barest minimum possible has been achieved, now bring back hardsuit and make a game worthy of its sire.
Wow, great job team, now add more than the game from 2004, thx.
