Remove the Cataclysm difficulty's Winds of Magic DLC ownership restriction

[hollerbach]

@Mainman

Asking Cata to be free sounds very much like against Fatshark’s revenue, making it sounds like asking too much and a bit unrealistic.

If they don’t want to remove the paywall entirely, they could just loosen the paywall restriction to be like the one implemented in map DLCs. In map DLCs, the DLC owner can invite anyone to join them in their DLC map lobbies, regardless of DLC ownership. Whereas, WoM Cata has a weird restriction where you can’t invite non-WoM DLC owners to a Cata difficulty match. You can’t even start a Cata match if there’s at least one non-WoM owner in the lobby (if you attempt to do so, you’ll get a reminder to “kick” the player who doesn’t own WoM first).

They could make Cata be like a DLC map, and WoM owners can have people join them in their Cata lobbies regardless of DLC ownership.

@DeLaurec

@hollerbach

What is the advantage to the player who owns WoM on keeping Cata paywall-blocked? Nothing. It just further restricts you from getting players to join your lobby.

The game grants enough content for hundreds and hundreds of hours. Compared to the money it costs thats much more and better than in other games.
To be cata-rdy youll need hundreds hours of playtime on Champion and Legend. WoM costs just a few bucks. I see no problem or unfairness in spending them to FS after such a long playtime.

My question is:

What is the advantage to the player who owns WoM on keeping Cata paywall-blocked?

Your response that “WoM costs just a few bucks” and about “problem or unfairness in spending [money] to FS” does not apply to a player who already owns WoM. They’ve already spent their money.

I repeat: What is the advantage to the player who owns WoM on keeping Cata paywall-blocked? Nothing. It just further restricts the WoM owner from getting players to join their lobby, making their purchase have less value.

@ZinStonehead

@hollerbach

To have fun on Cata, you need other people to play with.

No, just no.

So, you like playing Cata with bots? Interesting. See: No one joining in Cata bots suck, where people complain that no one joins their Cata lobbies, and that bots suck.

@theppekausen

V2 playerbase is a low but stable one for years, its unlikely that many of them havent bought WoM by now.

Based on Cata player and lobby population, it is unlikely that most base game owners have bought WoM. WoM’s Steam reviews are “Mostly Negative” and it is 2/3 the price of the base game, being the most expensive DLC. Potential buyers are gonna be turned off once they see those reviews and the price tag.