Stellaris

They have a subscription now. Pay a fee and get all DLC for that period. I read there's a lot of people against it. Those that had spent a lot of money to buy DLC through the years. I only have vanilla, if I decided to play this would be a pretty good deal maybe.

$9.99 1 month
$19.99 3 month
$25.99 6 month

Stellaris sub on steam

Pople had a cow Eve Online inscreased a sub price two years ago. First time in 23 years or something. Also can sub with in game currency if you want and that's an option. I still hear people complain like you would think preople would understand inflation but apparently not. Stellaris I think all the DLC is $150 so it works well for someone that has none of them and can try them out.

Borzak said:

They have a subscription now. Pay a fee and get all DLC for that period. I read there's a lot of people against it. Those that had spent a lot of money to buy DLC through the years. I only have vanilla, if I decided to play this would be a pretty good deal maybe.

$9.99 1 month
$19.99 3 month
$25.99 6 month

Stellaris sub on steam

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I dunno that it would be a good deal, obviously better than buying all of the DLC unless you really got into Stellaris.

Not buying any DLC at all unless you like the game and want more is still totally valid though ( and what I would recommend ), they actually aren't bad at rolling QoL improvements that are part of the DLCs into the base game.

For the sub though, this just seems like an indescribably bad deal for the heavily invested - e.g. the people in from the start who had bought everything. If this had been a monthly sub for 8 years instead of individually bought DLC they would have paid 8x as much and STILL WOULDN'T OWN ANY DLC. The moment they stop paying they lose everything. There's no reason to think future trajectory would be much different, so the sub would be useful really only for the short-term tourist.

Kiroy said:

Anyone still playing this? how is it these days?

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They just released 4.0, which was pretty underwhelming in terms of what it was billed as - a total rework. They definitely fixed/changed some things, but it isn't nearly as dramatic as I had hoped.

I'm honestly waiting for a sale on Sins of a Solar Empire II and it's DLC for my sci-fi grand strategy fix. Stellaris is just kinda played out at this point for me. But I also have like 400+ hours in the game.

I was playing Stellaris recently just prior to 4.0 and it was in a very good state. Some of the recent DLC have been quite good.
I've been keeping an eye on 4.0 - it includes a major change to the way pops and jobs work and it seems like it has some pretty severe balance issues.

I actually really like what they did with the trade rework. The whole trade route thing was super convoluted and lagged the fuck out of games later on. But I haven't been a fan of the rework of population/jobs. Planets don't necessarily have a "niche" anymore and can kind of just be whatever you want. It really cuts down on the specialization of planetary types IMO.

Kiroy said:

paid the 10 subscription to get my caught up and in the middle of a playthrough, forgot how fun this game was

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The game does a REALLY good job with constant little dopamine hits that keeps the hours flying by without you noticing.

Having played with 4.0 more I'm still not a fan of the pop/job changes, but I'm getting more used to them now. It's insane how easy it is to snowball your economy now. If you can just weather the early game or not get turbofucked on the start, you can pump like crazy after a few hundred years.