Why is this allowed? Game released TODAY and already has 2.3k€ worth of DLCs (Train Sim World 5)
Why is this allowed? Game released TODAY and already has 2.3k€ worth of DLCs (Train Sim World 5)
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I feel like a bunch simulation games do this (looking at you Sims)
Backwards compatibility
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It’s only “allowed” because there is a market willing to pay for this, sadly it will continue until these companies stop making money by doing this
1. It’s because there are many DLCs from older games
2. Train Simulator would like to have a word:
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The dlcs for 4 are compatible with 5, also this is a game for train fanatics which usually buy only their fav locomotives and maps (both in game and irl) the devs don’t expect anyone to buy everything since they know their target.
i feel like you’re not expected to buy all of them
Because ya’ll keep buying it.
Don’t look at this from a gamer perspective. Imagine for a second that you are really into trains, and you might want to get yourself a scale model train set. It comes with a few trains and some tracks. As you dig deeper into this hobby you learn that you can actually get more scale models of other kinds of trains. You can even get scale models of stations or even towns to put your trains in. Now imagine being outraged that all this costs money. This and other simulators like this are much closer to a digital version of model collecting than they are to call of duty, plus there’s a ton of licensing costs associated in the simulator space, so your outrage is severely misplaced imo.
Why are people recycling the same posts repeatedly about this? There’s another one that was just posted in another subreddit about the Sims 4 costing $1,200. Like don’t get me wrong I agree with you. But it’s a little strange
I mean it’s train simulator lol
Most of those add ons work cross version (to a point at least) so a lot them are DLCs from the previous versions that still work in the new version… ir don’t have to buy them twice.
Train Sim though is easily one of the most crazily monetized Sims out there though. One of the worst actually, so nothing by them surprises me any more.
Trucking sims are simular but not “guite” as bad. At least flight Sims give you the world by default.
Because there’s people that buy it. If people don’t buy it, it wouldn’t be there.
Why release the same exact fifa every year after year for 70-80 euros? Because people buy it. Simply don’t support the games/companies you don’t want to support. Support the ones you do, it’s as easy as that.
The days of game studios making games because they want to make great games is mainly over, unless we’re looking at indies.
They have a dlc for fast transit? What a scam
Nobody is forcing you to buy them all
Gimmie all your money!!
It happens because it’s a viable strategy to make a ton of money. If nobody bought games made by companies who are so blatantly anticonsumer, they wouldn’t do things like this. Vote with your wallet.
Just don’t buy it if you don’t like it or don’t agree with the pricing/practice/whatnot
It’s allowed BecOz it’s free market. Buy if u like it, don’t if u don’t.
Oh no, optional purchases!?!!?
Its just a video game why on earth would anyone stop them? Don’t like it don’t buy it.
Because people buy it.
Flight sim fans: first time?
Just skip this release and wait until Train SIM World 6 comes out in 10 months. These guys never stick to a release and are notorious for constant new versions which they charge full price on. TSW4 was out less than a year.
They then re-release updated DLCs for routes and locos they’ve done before making it even more of a scam.
But to your point of “why is this allowed?” – which authority do you expect to stop them?
Not sure how it is now… But those all work with the previous version and if you have the previous version, it gets updated to the new version.
just don buy those games/dlc
as long as people buy it they’ll sell it… there’s nothing more to it.
Man with the amount of people defending it no wonder modern games are this bad with monetisation nowadays
Now look at *any serious sim*
It’s not a game, it’s a life style.
OP you cant hold back people from living there life, let them be free.
Free market.
I’m surprised EA doesn’t do this for their sports games. Every player on base game is minimum stats named john doe, then you have to buy every player.
I keep waiting for that day that I suddenly realize I’m crazy into trains. I’m quite old so it feels like any day now.
Why would this not be allowed?
Are you really mad about the DLC in a game you never intended to play, or are you yet another person farming karma off of this?
Backward compatibility down to train sim world 2.