Tropico 3 Absolute Power
 

The expansion came out the other day, I'm surprised no one on here has mentioned it. From the reviews I've seen it's gotten 4/5 stars, and it's only $19.99 on steam. I'm definitely purchasing next paycheck.

I definetly mentioned it somewhere, maybe the "bit of news" thread. Probably went unnoticed. :hmmm:

Well I downloaded it, I have to say it definitely fixes and makes the game better. But I can't say whether or not it's worth the 20 dollars I paid. That part is still up in the air.

Eh? More Tropico for 20 bucks; of course it's worth it. :O:

Nah, can't say really, haven't gotten it yet.

I mean there are definite little touches that greatly improve the game, it's just the fact you're paying 20 dollars for 4-5 new buildings, 6 new edicts, a new campaign and a patch.


Although the one thing I do like is the fact you place road and if there's not any major buildings nearby it becomes dirt road.


I guess another good thing is that it has multiplayer, but I've yet to try it.

In general the game seems easier. It's funny I started my current Island as a communist paradise, I ended up going Capitalist in 1964 and I went from 20K exports to 90k Exports. :haha: Plus even though I was closer with Russia, the US was paying 6,700K compared to the 5,400K the USSR paid yearly.

IIRC it has 10 new maps to play, same number as in the original. Doesn't seem like a bad price. :hmmm:

Even though I haven't played through them, from what I've read the new campaigns are pretty neat though.

The goals range from setting up a secret agency to find aliens, to trying to convince your populace that La chupacabra is real.

I guess it's worth the price compared to the MW2 DLC which was 15 dollars for four maps.

Dragging this off topic for a tit, but I've never understood why big titles take so much money from the DLC's/expansions. They'd prolly make much more profit by keeping reasonable prices as every fan would get it then. Greedy wankers. :nope:

It's because Activision is evil, at least that Kotick is.
http://images.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/1680...-the-devil.jpg
See? Evil.

Looks like photoshop to me. No shadows on the two guys in the background. :hmmm:

There are no shadows in hell; it's to bright with all the infernos all around. :roll:

I believe they do it because:
1. They know there are people that don't care and will buy it either way.
2. I think it nets them the biggest money return in the long run.

I mean think about it, let's say it costs hypothetically 2 dollars per person to download the file from there server. If it's priced at $5 and 100 people download they make 500 dollars, but lose 200 dollars. So it's only a 300 dollar profit. Now if 50 people buy it at 15 dollars they make 750, pay 100 servers and see a profit of $650 dollars.

and 3. They are just greedy bastards. Think about it, if you buy a Rockstar DLC at 30 dollars(which is only 15 more dollars) you get five to six times the content.