“Thanks to our community for the frank feedback on Bloodlines 2 and the Premium Edition. That feedback made it clear: Lasombra and Toreador belong in the base game, so that is what we are doing,” said Marco Behrmann, White Wolf Executive Vice President and Bloodlines 2 Executive Producer.

“Sorry we couldn’t get away with it” vibes

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    “After backlash,” of course.

    You heard it here first, folks. Businesses will try to fuck you over if they can get away with it.

    It has nothing to do about keeping the lights on.

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    I’ll wait. Experience shows that the next dick move will come soon after.

    I have no problem at this point to wait another two or three years.

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    Very much so sorry we couldn’t get away with it. This time.

    They and other publishers will inevitably try this Capcom crap again so don’t reward them with sales for “apologizing” for behavior that they shouldn’t have done in the first place.

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      If the game is good I’ll buy it, if it isn’t I won’t. Fuck everyone who had a say in the original dlc decision but I’m not gonna pass up on a decent title if they manage to deliver.

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    “Sorry we couldn’t get away with it” vibes

    The publisher is paradox isn’t it? They’ve done this with nearly all of their recent games.

    The only difference is that the games they published are left to die after the backlash and the games developed in house continue to be developed but with a slightly less invasive dlc policy for a few months.

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      Mind elaborating/telling me the problems? Ive been wanting to try the game but the dlc crap made me wait at least until the clans were added to base lol

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        If you’ve played the first game, watch their video demo of some gameplay. They’re just not even similar. It’s bold to call this a sequel for how little they have in common.

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        From the gameplay footage, it looks like a studio that’s only ever made walking simulators before is making their take on Dishonored. Maybe that’ll be pretty good, but I’d be surprised. What it certainly isn’t is an RPG that’s anything like Bloodlines 1, lol.

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          That’s largely what the pre release reviewers said, too. It’s light on RPG elements but feels like Dishonored. They didn’t say it was bad, just unexpected and a different kind of game than the first.

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            I was expecting an (action-oriented) RPG and it’s a stealth game instead 🫤 I’m gonna “wish-unlist” it 😞

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    Okay the barest minimum possible has been achieved, now bring back hardsuit and make a game worthy of its sire.