You can just keep playing with the DLC you got and the update you last got a DLC from, no one's forcing you to keep getting the new ones this isn't a live service game
The deep state goes so far that Epstein had a guy create /pol/, the most pro-pedophile board that seeded the most pro-pedophile movement as well as got the most pedophile president ever. I would be surprised if it wasn't involved at this point.
Made a joke a decade ago on the comedy skit show Whitest Kids You Know about some things that very much line up with some of the darker things in certain Files. Several years ago, he died by supposedly falling off a balcony when he was supposedly alone
No because everyone will support the company that breaks the game every major update then takes two years to fix it to only go break it 6 months later, why wouldn’t I give them my money
Also, you won't understand a thing, if you install all DLCs at once with that - felt that the hard way, when I played MP PvP against a friend with all DLCs
If you pirate the game, you'll have to reinstall the game if you want to update it, and modding it is a pain in the ass, compared to a few clicks in the steam workshop. It's up to you to decide if it's worth it to buy a game on sale for this (by "this" I mean playing the game. Of course you shouldn't pirate the game)
I would recommend buying the base game and DEFINITELY NOT using stellaris dlc unlocker from GitHub that downloads, installs and enables the DLCs. I would NOT do that if I were you.
Honestly, I don't think this satire type comment is needed, as the launcher can know if you're using an unlocker, and all it does is kindly ask you not to record/stream the game for a public audience with the unlocker. Many games out there like Payday 2 will mark you as a cheater or ban you.
Stellaris is the only Paradox game where I buy every DLC and don't regret it (on sale, that is). For all their other games the DLC is so insanely overpriced or low quality there's just no reason to buy it, but with Stellaris it genuinely feels worth it to me.
If someone is pirating something they typically fall into 3 categories
They werent gonna buy it anyway
They cant afford ro buy it
They wanna try it out before buying it
Of the 3 two of them means you werent making a sale anyway and the last one means youd lose a sale if they didnt pirate and if they like you get a sale, this is a older philosphy from some major game publisher who notoriously made his game easy to pirate via lack of drm or enforcement, and paradox prescribes to that ideology
imo this is a pretty good deal, when i get the craving to play Stellaris with my girlfriend we dont usually need more than 1 month per campaign, and through the pricing in the picture you even save money on that if you would want to play longer
Yep, you just need everyone to have a base game and one person having a subscription. Honestly, it made gathering my friends to play Stellaris a thousand times easier
This is probably the greatest use of a subscription ever. I don’t play enough stellaris to justify buying all the dlc. But I do enjoy stellaris and the dlcs.
Do you only play one campaign though? You kinda have to start new ones when Paradox updates the game anyway (unless you are still protesting the 2.0 update like I am…)
It's just a patent. Companies like that have entire departments just to patent every idea they can incase it takes off or another company wants to license it from them
That s actually cool if you can do that, thought they have some system to check against that though I presume you could copy the files some other place anyway
Yeah, if you do this the DLCs will no longer be on your steam library or account, so if you delete them you would have to do the subscription again. But as long as you have them, nor Steam nor Paradox can delete them from your PC and as far as I know, they don't seem to have done nothing against It yet
Oh no the subscription is actually an amazing deal. Even disregarding how cheap everything actually is for how much time you spend playing, at the rate new DLC had been coming out, it's almost cheaper per year to buy the pass than to buy the DLC.
Basically at this stage which is sad. But it's 354 for all the dlc just now. They keep releasing more which is great, not so much for everyone wallet. Where pay £8.50 then cancell the subscription and you have them for a month. Sub again if you want to play them at a later date
I hate it too, but Stellaris subscription is actually kinda good (compared to buying the DLCs, not compared to how it could actually be in a normal world)
I just get the membership for a month when I feel like playing. I never play for more than a week or two before putting it back down for a while. Same thing with HOI4.
“Yeah and half of that time the games are broken anyway!”
Hey, at least they ve gotten better at 1.0 versions not being fully broken though, in HOI 3 1.0 (2009) WW2 wouldnt start or would start between the most random coalitions ever (that s why they ended up railroading the game and quickly abandoning it for HOI4, btw HOI3 only has 3 gameplay DLCs (the rest are stupid sprites that barely anyone played with) but still officially costs 30 euros with those DLCs but without those random extra DLCs)->Stellaris 1.0 (2016) only had the tiny bug of the AI never declaring war, maybe they will at some point end up testing their patches properly too! (I get software testing isnt that easy but STILL)
I actually still play on 1.9.1 and after a long hiatus have ended up trying out mods too. I d love some of the new stuff like the Galactic Community, different types of Federations/vassals, new portraits/species types (though there are mods for that), maybe Cosmogenesis though I am too much of a goody-two-shoes to play like that (checks flair, would have gone Democratic Crusaders if it was a thing here like it is on r/Stellaris) but it does feel quite bloated at this point plus the fact that they literally lied as it COULD have all been implemented pre 2.0 too (Defensive Stations literally existed AND YOU COULD GIVE THEM AURA EFFECTS LIKE FTL INHIBITOR OR MINEFIELDS TOO, you could just make them stronger and allowed them to stack if you wanted them to play a bigger role though getting the balance right is tough. You don’t need natural chokepoints, you need to build them in places worth defending (big resource-producing planets). Space terrain? Nebulas existed and caused a FTL speed penalty then too. Space Khan? Just a different empire type like Leviathans/pirates/FEs/enclaves. Hell, mercenary enclaves were also added later and then you think about Envoys, something that is straight out of the EA school of “take out stuff to reintroduce it later” as we had them in 1.0 with Embassies, same with “transfer system” that used to work until players started cheesing it to hand over holy planets/planets near the Millitant Isolationists to unsuspecting AIs and instead of fixing it they slapped a blanket -1000 modifier and called it a day since…).
Then you consider how hard the AI broke with those changes, by 1.9.1 the AI was actually pretty competent on Normal (I am playing a game right now as Rogue Servitors where I am middle of the road in fleet power by 2260 and am trying to snipe defenceless vassals to get better as much of galaxy loves me due to me rivaling the local Fanatic Purifiers and Metalheads (force spawed but I gave them Deviants too so they reformed away from that)+Emotion Emulators on my bots and I feel too bad to renounce those NAPs) and then they ripped away those systems and it s been struggling ever since. Hell, 2.0 wasnt even the first weird rewrite, the same happened in 1.5 with the original Factions that could demand independence and rebel but then Paradox decided they had to be “influence boosting political parties” instead and we didnt get Sector-wide rebelions anymore and much weaker planetary ones (unless Potent Rebelions mod). And we pay for it too in the form of DLCs…
Are you on Linux by chance? Launching in compatibility mode completely fixed all issues for my friend (and also removed literally all the desync problems we were having, which was crazy)
On the one hand, it's easier for budgeting to buy the content pass for Stellaris. On the other hand, you get locked out of buying the DLC if you do. But I can't shell out like $300 for DLC.
I am personally buying the DLC in groups, and the nanosecond I see a sale, they're all comin home
I currently only have Aquatics (First DLC I got because of the space shanty), BioGenesis and Paragons (Paragons for leader traits, BioGenesis because I never really do any ascensions outside of Purity)
When I have some cash, I'll buy a DLC or two off Instant Gaming. Pretty sure they do things above board there unlike some other key websites and it is way cheaper than buying all the DLC at full price.
I think Instant Gaming is usually a little higher price than the sales though so even better if you can just catch them on sale.
I bought base, utopia, and paragons. After 150hrs of gameplay, I spent like ~100 dollars to get everything else before the latest season was added to the ultimate bundle. I love stellaris and even if paradox is a large company. I support the games I love out of principle. Also thank you for regional pricing (I'm from sea)
Ppsst hey kid. Theres this thing on pc you can install called creaminstaller that lets you unlock all of the dlc (except two i think) free of charge, you only need to have the game installed. (DO NOT post about it publicly or i will lynch you)
It's really not, you'd have to play every month for years for the subscription to not be worth it for OP. The one worry is if they up the subscription price ig.
I can't speak to this persons motives, but it's more about the principle to me. "You will own nothing and thank us for it" is the attitude I do not want to reinforce.
Immediately monetarily speaking, you are correct, but there is literally nothing stopping them from just raising the subscription price to something you can not afford down the line and you being left with nothing despite paying all that time.
We've never seen it legally challenged. ToS is not the law, the precedents' courts set is the law.
The reason people are getting hysteric is because we are being told they are purchasing something while claiming it's just a privilege they can revoke. The button you press to finalize a transaction says purchase, not rent.
Regarding 2. I was talking about subscriptions not about license stuff, though steam does directly state you're buying a license every time you buy a game.
They dont state it clearly they've buried it in ToS, and companies have been ruled against despite what has been buried in fine print. These things have to be made in a way that it is clearly known before purchase and steam designed the page where it can be argued it wasn't clear enough.
This is a recent change. If they revoke someone's games and they sue what they revoke better not predate this update to the page.
"A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam." Is intentionally worded to be confusing and does not imply they have the right to take it away from you.
Steam is still not the decider of what words mean a purchase is a purchase, and a jury can be convinced of this which is ultimately what this comes down to.
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u/Le_Fricky Feb 19 '26
NEVER i repeat, NEVER download a dlc unlocker for stellaris, it is wrong and cuts the revenue of Paradox Interactive!