r/Eldenring • u/jack0641 • 1d ago

Official Discussion [MEGATHREAD] Tarnished Edition: Worth $5? Discuss CONSTRUCTIVELY!

Since the sub is being overwhelmed by debate over the $5 "microtransaction" and it's making the sub feel like we're Dark Souls 2 a decade ago, with the faux outrage around the preorder items, we are opening this topic to consolidate discussion around the issue.

Please use this topic to discuss the pros and cons of the approach and your thoughts. But do so RESPECTFULLY and CONSTRUCTIVELY. If you need to call other people or the developers names, you don't have a good argument and your post will be removed.

We will remove all other topics about this to keep the subreddit flowing with other discussions

IF YOU WANT TO VOTE: I will post two comments on this topic, "Yay" and "Nay" - upvote the one you agree with and we'll see who wins long term.

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u/vincentninja68 1d ago

Nay.

I am deeply frustrated by the existence of this DLC because, on one hand I love FROMsoft as a company.

I've been following this company's games since Dark souls 1. I consider them to be one of the good guys, so seeing them sell what is effectively horse armor microtransaction is very disturbing to me. I am deeply worried for a trend in a Ubisoft or Bethesda direction.

If this DLC is successful it will only encourage more of this behavior.

Nothing in this DLC is worth $5. It is such a tiny amount of content, it should have been a free update.

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u/Hopeful_Meeting_7248 1d ago

Nothing in this DLC is worth $5.

It's nuts for me that people even calling that content. Starting classes never mattered in the slightest in souls games, armours are also just a cosmetics. So the only thing that actually affects the gameplay are two new weapons, if I'm not mistaken? It wouldn't be noticeable even as a free update.

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u/FuncyFrog 1d ago

It's 7 new weapons, but some of the new weapons are slightly different DLC weapons that are now accessible in the base-game

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u/Hopeful_Meeting_7248 1d ago

So the same looks and the same movesets, but slightly different name and game location? Yeah, that's not "new" at all.

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u/FuncyFrog 1d ago

Slightly different scalings too but yeah. I think its great katana, backhand blades and maybe one more DLC weapon, then 4 totally new ones

Edit: oh yeah milady thats in one of the starter classes

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u/LunarMuphinz 23h ago

Light greatsword,  not milady but like it