I noticed the season pass for Mars is almost just as much as the base game...does this mean that half the game is playable atm? Ive not seen many game in which the season pass retailed as much as the base game, so im just a little confused as to why it's so expensive. Thanks.
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It doesn't. It means you're paying in advance for two future expansion packs. It's also happened for HoI4 (and PDX adjusted their offer, since the DLCs released were smaller than they'd originally intended, and the HoI4 season pass ended up covering 4 DLCs instead of two).
Ty for the response. Sounds like it's best to just hold off and wait to purchase this.
I don't think it's fair to say that currently only half the game is available. The game is not as good as it might have been, but it's not a bad product either. Whether the season pass is good value for money remains to be seen, but it's not uncommon for Paradox DLC to double the lifespan of their games.
I never understand why people buy season passes, or why publishers got away with them.
With a pre-order, at least the game in question exists. With a season pass, you are quite literally paying for a product that does not yet exist, and may never exist.
Stop self-exploiting.
With a pre-order, at least the game in question exists. With a season pass, you are quite literally paying for a product that does not yet exist, and may never exist.
Stop self-exploiting.
Season passes are a thing that works with Paradox because they're guaranteed to release several times more DLC than they promise with the season pass. People have no complaints about it because when Paradox fails to provide the value promised, they extend the season pass to cover more DLC/content packs until it meets (or potentially slightly exceeds) the promised value of the season pass. It's far less self-exploiting than paying for a large number of early access games are; sure, Early Access games on Steam might exist, but a large number of them could be anywhere between a tech demo and a working game and be meant for nothing more than to trick people into giving the deveolpers money before they jump ship since Valve set up Steam in such a way that if they do this, most of their "customers" won't realize it until well after the refund period lapses. With Paradox, if they say "X number of DLCs will be released" you can bet they mean "this is how many we can come up with at this exact moment" and that a lot more are on their way.