Paradox Interactive is more greedy than Electronic Arts (EA), MicroSoft, and VALVe I have to say by just selling a monthly subscription service for DLC's.

I seriously hope Paradox Interactive's DLC's monthly subscription service never comes to gog.com.

How would that be Digital Rights Management (DRM) free anyways? You need to log in into the internet and onto the web site and pay with your credit card or debit card or whatever way you pay for products digitally.

4 dollars (USD) per DLC per month , or for the complete DLC vault ?

For all of the DLC's. At least I think it is for all of the DLC's.

I am not sure at all.

That's not much .

Trainz Gold Class Annual Membership ( all DLC access and other extras ) costs $129.49/year . And the game requires continuos internet connection .

I think we need a source on this, as i think it is wrong. Paradox offers subscriptions for some games, such as EU and CK, but not any blanket subscriptions as far as i know. Each game has it's ow subscriptions price.


This is also not new, been going for about a year now.

Subscribe to Hearts of Iron IV
For a low monthly fee, gain access to all Hearts of Iron expansions and country packs, as well as lots of special cosmetic content, music and sound packs. This subscription will update to include future Hearts of Iron add-ons.

Price is £4 / €5 / $5 per month, with -7% for subscribing for 3 months, and -10% for subscribing for 6 months.

Source: Steam store page

That is a gargantuan stretch. EA, MS and Valve are FAR worse for greed.

I don't subscribe and I never will, but I don't see any problem with it being an option. Do I think PDX should release older DLCs for free? Absolutely, but considering how their business model revolves around selling lots of DLCs for their games, I don't see a problem with them offering an option to get all of them for a subscription as long as you can still buy them independently.

The problem I have is that I'm concerned that they may eventually make future games' addon content subscription-only. That is the biggest concern, by far, and it's precisely why I refuse to support things like Game Pass as it's DRM to the extreme.

Also, I'm fairly certain the subscription model will never make its way here, especially since PDX hasn't been releasing most of the newer PDS grand strategy titles here. Stellaris was the newest one they brought here, if I recall correctly.

Don’t some paradox “games” already need a paradox account for extra content/multiplayer? It’s not drm according to GOG who do it with their parent company products.
As for paradox being greedy, yep, that’s no news. They release a broken skeleton of a product full price, then charge for dlc every week to fill it in. Seems to work for them.

Naturally this type of story will be spun as supposedly beneficial to the consumers.

I can already hear the rationalizations rolling in:
"Wow it's so affordable, thanks Paradox"
"I couldn't afford to buy all the DLC's at once but now I can get them!"
"To the complainers: it's only $4, that's like the price of a fast food item"

All of course missing the point that these practices are bad for consumers particularly with the implications they have for ownership going forward.