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    11 months ago

    Baldur’s Gate 3 was probably the best game of this year (?), but it has an advert for the DLC as soon as you launch it

    However, it’s also probably one of the least-bad “triple A” games of this year when it comes to overall monetisation, that singular DLC of cosmetics and the soundtrack being the only one available

    Unfortunately, I think this one is a losing battle

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      11 months ago

      I was going to ask where the ad was, but I forgot that I turned off the launcher specifically because of that. I have no idea about PS but you can add the following on PC to skip the lau8

      --skip-launcher
      
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        Yeah, you absolutely can, but knowing to do that means that the advert has already delivered its message to you.

        Futzing around with the launcher settings seems like more work than just clicking “no” on an advert that pops up.

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          You’re right, once. But adding that one time means I never have to see the launcher again. Clicking no means extra launch time and looking at it every time I launch the game.

          But different strokes for different folks. If it’s not worth it to you then that’s cool. It was worth it for me and I thought I’d drop that for anyone else who may want it.

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            I have the same launcher settings set, so I mean I kind of agree? But you’ve seen the advert, and that’s basically all they want.

            I just think it’s kind of weird how people react to things once they’ve filtered their thinking through the hivemind of the internet versus before.

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      Sony didn’t have both versions readily available in the Playstation Store. While I did eventually purchase the DLC (which is the deluxe version, not a typical DLC), I’ll be damned that Sony didn’t make it easy to find the OG version in the store.

      And I put that on Sony, not the game publisher. Regardless, BG3 has been a breath of fresh air to gaming this year. About time a studio put out a full game without divvying it up into expansions and DLCs.

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        11 months ago

        I agree that BG3 is a great diversion from the usual. My point is kind of that if you’re a purist about this, you’re missing out on it, even though on the whole it bucks the trend.

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        I mean I guess Divinity never had ads unless you consider the launcher an advert for their other titles, given that that’s basically what it’s there to do?

        If you don’t consider anything in launchers to be adverts then I guess you can play BG3, because that’s where the advert for the DLC lives?

        I really feel like if Larian had only given you the soundtrack and not the cosmetics, and just not called it DLC, that people really wouldn’t be so up in arms about it.

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      Baldur’s Gate 3 has no dlc at all. It has no dlc even announced, let alone available for purchase. Stop making shit up lol. Their launcher has info about the different games they’ve made and their prices, but when you actually launch the game it has NO ad of any sort. You could only barely call the info in their launcher an ad in the first place.

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        kind of awkward that this both:

        it’s absolutely coconuts that you’re currently attempting to die on the hill of a giant “buy now” button not being an advert

        also, you do realise that the launcher is an advert? that’s its whole reason to exist. your take is essentially “you’re dumb because after you’ve clicked through the adverts, there aren’t any adverts”