So i have been very positive about Planet Coaster for a long time but i have always been excited with a healthy dose of caution because sometimes hype makes you drunk in a sense that you buy it just because you think its the new mecca of theme park management games.
Anyways! I wanted to see the opinion of what you guys think of how DLC will be handles, what it will contain and to what extend it will be in the game.
The reason for this is because as of now a developer has avoided the question "Can we add our own flatrides/rollercoasters/scenery" pretty hard in the QA thread which can be found here.
Here is the response of one of the developers on the question regarding the inclusion of custom content.
Later on someone asked kinda the same question, check answer at B:
Now i am not sure you people are up to date about Elite Dangerous which is also created by Frontier Developments but that game made me really sad because of its approach of DLC because they basically went for my worst case scenario in DLC. By adding core gameplay elements on a later stage for money, something that should be in the game from the start to begin with or if its added as a feature creep it should be added as free DLC.
Take a look at this image of Elite Dangerous, this is a official DLC chart.
Let me repeat that core gameplay mechanics and elements are locked behind away behind DLC and this is a big concern. These are not expansion packs like RCT3: Wild! or RCT3: Soaked! which added something big to the existing mechanics plus added loads of rides, coasters, shops and scenarios.
I'm not accusing the developers of Planet Coaster that they are doing the same thing and i still strongly believe that the game will have proper workshop support for at least custom scenery but it would break me if this game had something like microtransactions where you can purchase rides for 3 euro a piece.
So what is your take on this? How do you want to see DLC appearing? Because there is a chance it is going to be included but it can be included in a proper way.
tl;dr:
Elite Dangerous, made by Frontier as well (albeit different team) has a big scheme of DLC which basically states you need to pay 120 euro to play all the core features of the game. Here i am just hoping that Planet Coaster won't start dealing with micro transactions or locking core gameplay behind a DLC pack.
Anyways! I wanted to see the opinion of what you guys think of how DLC will be handles, what it will contain and to what extend it will be in the game.
The reason for this is because as of now a developer has avoided the question "Can we add our own flatrides/rollercoasters/scenery" pretty hard in the QA thread which can be found here.
Here is the response of one of the developers on the question regarding the inclusion of custom content.
Later on someone asked kinda the same question, check answer at B:
Now i am not sure you people are up to date about Elite Dangerous which is also created by Frontier Developments but that game made me really sad because of its approach of DLC because they basically went for my worst case scenario in DLC. By adding core gameplay elements on a later stage for money, something that should be in the game from the start to begin with or if its added as a feature creep it should be added as free DLC.
Take a look at this image of Elite Dangerous, this is a official DLC chart.
Let me repeat that core gameplay mechanics and elements are locked behind away behind DLC and this is a big concern. These are not expansion packs like RCT3: Wild! or RCT3: Soaked! which added something big to the existing mechanics plus added loads of rides, coasters, shops and scenarios.
I'm not accusing the developers of Planet Coaster that they are doing the same thing and i still strongly believe that the game will have proper workshop support for at least custom scenery but it would break me if this game had something like microtransactions where you can purchase rides for 3 euro a piece.
So what is your take on this? How do you want to see DLC appearing? Because there is a chance it is going to be included but it can be included in a proper way.
tl;dr:
Elite Dangerous, made by Frontier as well (albeit different team) has a big scheme of DLC which basically states you need to pay 120 euro to play all the core features of the game. Here i am just hoping that Planet Coaster won't start dealing with micro transactions or locking core gameplay behind a DLC pack.
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