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Control Season Pass is 35% off and none of the content has even come out yet
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This is actually common. It's what killed episodic games because almost all of them went on sale before the final episode was out so people waited.
I mean, they said early on that they weren't even thinking about what the DLC would be until after they finished the game, and "early 2020" could be anywhere from Jan-Mar and mid around May-Jul. Remedy has a pretty great track record, and Control was excellent IMO, so I'm feeling confident about the expansions, whether they're on sale or not. So much doom and gloom here. It's kinda tiring. And don't buy season passes if it bothers you so much.
Off base a bit I think.. episodic games are dead? Tell that to FF VII.
I mean to people who are saying it's a shitty move, I am sure Remedy or 505 certainly doesn't wants to put their Pass on sale, they're doing out of necessity by their finances.
It's unfortunate but not shitty.
It's unfortunate but not shitty.
If anything the norm is the SP going on sale before the half the content is out yet from what I've seen.
I paid full price for the season pass by buying it on the same day as I got the full game, and I was glad to. I loved Control, I rated it as the best game of 2019, and I was very happy to support Remedy with my purchase. It deserved way more sales, it's amazing.
Nope, it's actually pretty common to put the pass on sale when all the contents haven't released yet. MK11's pass was on sale just a few days ago for $16 and they haven't released Spawn yet.
Kind of a big difference with FF7. It may as well not even be episodic because I'm sure there will be another 3+ year wait for the second episode. So it's basically just gonna be a sequel.
They took every deal they could get it seems. EGS exclusive, the game was part of an Nvidia promo and the deal with Sony.
I don't blame them. For whatever reason Remedy games struggle to sell and I'm sure with all that extra cash from those deals the game was a success.
March 26th. They confirmed it at the end of the Expeditions trailer in december.
Really want that AWE dlc first but I'll take any Control story dlc I can get. Great game.
That's not really my point I was just saying episodic games aren't/haven't died because of a discount before the last episodes, that's a leap.
Final Fantasy 7 is not an episodic release as we know it. There is no "FF7 season pass" because it will come out as separate games. At this point the only big episodic games recently have been Life is Strange 2 that just finished (and seems to have sold worse than previous games), and Kentucky Route Zero that started ages ago.
Telltale died. Hitman changed from an episodic style to a full game release with DLC expansions.
My original point was that season passes getting discounts before full DLC release is way too common now. Sometimes it happens before ANY of it is out (Control as seen in this thread, and also Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus), and most often it happens before most of the DLC is out. Most common case seems to be after the first DLC release when the publisher wants to sell some more passes.