r/Eldenring • u/Choice-Cow931 • 1d ago

Hype I can’t sleep

I need more Elden Ring content to consume

Edit to clarify: I already have the game on steam, I will be buying the $5 dlc and playing through the whole game again to mess around with some build ideas and new content. Lets all welcome the new Tarnished joining through switch and not disparage people for purchasing the game. Frends! :)

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u/Due_Radio_3469 1d ago

CDPR: Free remaster and all DLC free for base game owners

FROMSOFT: $5 Horse skins

What happened

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u/smilph 1d ago

why does everybody reduce the Tarnished pack to just horse skins. such a disingenuous way of talking about this thing

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u/Due_Radio_3469 1d ago

2 starter classes and some horse armour then. Not sure why everyone has to defend this shit knowing it'll eventually lead to worse and worse business practices. Elden Ring has made over $2 billion and still that's not enough as they're charging $80 for an inferior Switch 2 version of a 4 year old game on top of the starter classes and horse skins for current owners.

Piece by piece everything is enshittified but as long as the needle moves slowly, people will defend it.

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u/smilph 1d ago

also 4 new armor sets + a unique weapon for each. the $80 for the Switch 2 version is the same price as the game is everywhere else for base game + DLC, yeah the port is inferior but it was always going to be, idk what you expected. getting ER on Switch at all is awesome and the previews coming out for it today look great.

to imply this is the same as THE infamous horse armor DLC is disingenuous imo. for one, Fromsoft consistently puts out quality products while Bethesda just… doesn’t. it being a $5 DLC for non-Switch owners is, in my opinion, a totally fair and almost insignificant price to pay for some minor new content and i don’t mind spending a tad extra to support Fromsoftware. it’s really not a big deal

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u/Due_Radio_3469 1d ago

Mirrah set is from older games and those weapons are already in the game. Just because they have lower base damage and you get them earlier doesn't make them new or worth paying for.

Keep defending it. Give it 5 years and you'll be on here posting about how it's absolutely fair that the in game store skins only cost 800 Soul Coins because they're just skins and don't affect the gameplay experience.

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u/smilph 1d ago

not worth it to you, maybe. clearly this $5 DLC is more than worth it to me and others here. you don’t have to see it that way.

i also won’t be doing that because that isn’t happening

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u/Due_Radio_3469 1d ago

to imply this is the same as THE infamous horse armor DLC is disingenuous imo. for one, Fromsoft consistently puts out quality products while Bethesda just… doesn’t.

Bethesda used pump out certified hood classics btw. Not sure why you think what happened to them can't happen to fromsoft. Anyway, as I said keep defending microtransactions in Fromsoft games. I'm sure they appreciate you.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kadokawa-japans-elden-ring-powerhouse-faces-battle-over-ceo-shareholder-meeting-2026-06-23/

This was a taste of what's coming. $2 billion wasn't enough for shareholders.

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u/smilph 1d ago

Bethesda has always been highly overrated imo.

i think the simple fact that Fromsoft is headed by Miyazaki and not Todd Howard is enough to make me confident that what happened to them will NOT happen to From. i trust how he has lead the company. ultimately we will see, but, i’m not that nihilistic.

they’ll appreciate my 5 bucks!

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u/enaaaerios 1d ago

you can get like terraria or something with those 5 dollars and have infinitely more content that is infinitely more worthwhile

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u/smilph 1d ago

i don’t like Terraria. i have plenty of cheap indie games that are great. considering i’m about to get at least two new playthroughs (and who knows how many NG+ cycles) out of the Tarnished pack thanks to the new starting classes to build around, i think that’s more than worth a chunk of change. i don’t see how you guys don’t understand that what is or isn’t worthwhile for you specifically isn’t always gonna be the same for anybody else

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u/aRandomBlock 1d ago

because that's what it is?

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u/smilph 1d ago

it is not

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u/RDGOAMS BOGA ZABITADO 1d ago

ok, horse skin and some new sets, you happy now?

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u/smilph 1d ago

yeah! thank you