Hello Stellaris Community,
My name is Davide, and I am the Product Marketing Manager for Stellaris. As you may have heard, the Grand Archive Story Pack will be released on October 29th!
Today, I’d like to discuss some changes we are making to the bundles offered on Stellaris.
The goal of these changes is to offer better value for players and help them choose the bundle that’s best for them. The overall question is “What would we recommend to a new Stellaris Player, considering all the options available”? Our conclusion is (obviously) “it depends” - on what kind of experience you have and the things you’re interested in. We mapped three possible routes:
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For those who want to try it all and choose what they like best, those who just don’t want to commit to buying all the DLC upfront, or even players who haven’t played for a number of years and find themselves wanting to venture back out into the galaxy, we offer the Expansion Subscription, which includes all DLC released for Stellaris including brand new releases. Offered in 1, 3, and 6-month lengths, the expansion subscription is a great deal for a certain subset of our players and gives them the freedom to pick and choose what content they enjoy playing with. Subscribers to the expansion subscription also share their DLC in multiplayer, meaning if you have a subscription and your friends only have the base game, they can use the DLC from your subscription while playing multiplayer with you. (This includes Rick the Cube, we know what’s important!)
To try and help new players, we experimented a bit over the last few months, and we have reached a set of bundles that we are satisfied with. These changes are also informed by your opinion - at the very start of the project, we ran surveys asking our community what Stellaris content you would recommend to new players. We designed the Starter Packs based on this feedback and we are extremely happy with them. (Thank you!)
Let’s discuss the latest changes:
The ‘Stellaris New Player Edition’ becomes the ‘Stellaris: Starter Edition’
We are changing the New Player Edition. Our current iteration features Galactic Paragons, which we chose because we believe that its improvements to the leader system make the game experience more enjoyable. However, in hindsight, we think Galactic Paragons is not the best option for a new player. We also wanted to approach this reorganization to offer better prices to new players and have the option to offer deeper discounts during sales to our new and prospective players. Therefore, we have opted to replace it with Synthetic Dawn, which is a beloved Story Pack. We are also adding the Galaxy Edition Upgrade pack, as it adds some nice things (including the full OST, including tracks from all the DLC) and, overall, only impacts the final retail price a little. And, to enable us to be even more aggressive on discounts, we will make it available as a package - which means its price will not scale based on what DLCs you own.
Finally, the name change aligns Stellaris with what the other Grand Strategy Games from Paradox are currently offering.
Stellaris: Starter Edition - 49.99 USD
But wait, we already have a Starter Pack!
You are absolutely right. The current Starter Pack will be renamed to the Upgrade Pack. We hope that this will offer a clear path forward to new players who are having a hard time deciding what content to get next. This bundle’s price will also scale dynamically based on a player’s owned content, meaning that if they’ve purchased a DLC in the pack on its own, the price of that DLC will be removed from the price of the new Upgrade Pack.
Ultimately, we believe this will also make it easier for you to answer the “What should I get?” questions that we see coming from new and potential players on various platforms and, of course, your friends (but remember, they can also just get the base game and access all the content you have if you play multiplayer together!).
Of course, if you have suggestions for better names or a different selection of content to recommend to new players, we will be thrilled to hear from you and will continue to develop our bundle offerings based on player preferences and feedback from our community.
Thank you all for playing Stellaris, and we’ll see you in space!
My name is Davide, and I am the Product Marketing Manager for Stellaris. As you may have heard, the Grand Archive Story Pack will be released on October 29th!
Today, I’d like to discuss some changes we are making to the bundles offered on Stellaris.
The goal of these changes is to offer better value for players and help them choose the bundle that’s best for them. The overall question is “What would we recommend to a new Stellaris Player, considering all the options available”? Our conclusion is (obviously) “it depends” - on what kind of experience you have and the things you’re interested in. We mapped three possible routes:
For those who want to try it all and choose what they like best, those who just don’t want to commit to buying all the DLC upfront, or even players who haven’t played for a number of years and find themselves wanting to venture back out into the galaxy, we offer the Expansion Subscription, which includes all DLC released for Stellaris including brand new releases. Offered in 1, 3, and 6-month lengths, the expansion subscription is a great deal for a certain subset of our players and gives them the freedom to pick and choose what content they enjoy playing with. Subscribers to the expansion subscription also share their DLC in multiplayer, meaning if you have a subscription and your friends only have the base game, they can use the DLC from your subscription while playing multiplayer with you. (This includes Rick the Cube, we know what’s important!)
To try and help new players, we experimented a bit over the last few months, and we have reached a set of bundles that we are satisfied with. These changes are also informed by your opinion - at the very start of the project, we ran surveys asking our community what Stellaris content you would recommend to new players. We designed the Starter Packs based on this feedback and we are extremely happy with them. (Thank you!)
Let’s discuss the latest changes:
The ‘Stellaris New Player Edition’ becomes the ‘Stellaris: Starter Edition’
We are changing the New Player Edition. Our current iteration features Galactic Paragons, which we chose because we believe that its improvements to the leader system make the game experience more enjoyable. However, in hindsight, we think Galactic Paragons is not the best option for a new player. We also wanted to approach this reorganization to offer better prices to new players and have the option to offer deeper discounts during sales to our new and prospective players. Therefore, we have opted to replace it with Synthetic Dawn, which is a beloved Story Pack. We are also adding the Galaxy Edition Upgrade pack, as it adds some nice things (including the full OST, including tracks from all the DLC) and, overall, only impacts the final retail price a little. And, to enable us to be even more aggressive on discounts, we will make it available as a package - which means its price will not scale based on what DLCs you own.
Finally, the name change aligns Stellaris with what the other Grand Strategy Games from Paradox are currently offering.
Stellaris: Starter Edition - 49.99 USD
- Stellaris
- Stellaris: Utopia
- Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack
- Stellaris: Galaxy Upgrade
But wait, we already have a Starter Pack!
You are absolutely right. The current Starter Pack will be renamed to the Upgrade Pack. We hope that this will offer a clear path forward to new players who are having a hard time deciding what content to get next. This bundle’s price will also scale dynamically based on a player’s owned content, meaning that if they’ve purchased a DLC in the pack on its own, the price of that DLC will be removed from the price of the new Upgrade Pack.
Ultimately, we believe this will also make it easier for you to answer the “What should I get?” questions that we see coming from new and potential players on various platforms and, of course, your friends (but remember, they can also just get the base game and access all the content you have if you play multiplayer together!).
Of course, if you have suggestions for better names or a different selection of content to recommend to new players, we will be thrilled to hear from you and will continue to develop our bundle offerings based on player preferences and feedback from our community.
Thank you all for playing Stellaris, and we’ll see you in space!
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