Hi all, new user here.
Just my thoughts/my experience about this situation which is rather unique, I guess, as far as games go.
I'm a gamer since forever but past are the days when I'd wait in trepidation for a new release.... or so I thought up until now?
I buy games on Steam basically only during sales.... gaming time is limited and the backlog is big enough not to feel the pressure to buy brand new stuff.
Yet, sometime ago I read about Long War... intrigued, I dug deeper and looked for more information, ended up reading the Ufopaedia about classes, strategies and so on. I was hooked. I was away from home and, believe it or not, I read most of the wiki as pass-time while in a hotel.
On my phone!
When I got back home, first thing I did was open Steam, buy the complete XCom package (full price, to this day the
ONLY full price game I've ever bought on Steam) and then download Long War.
485 hours (and counting) of playing later, I can say it was a worthy purchase.
Then I saw XCom 2 on sale... not a spectacular sale, but after so much fun with the first (modded) title, I felt even a mild discount was enough. So I bought the game, thinking
"as soon as I'm done with the current campaign, I'll go with LW2".
I didn't know any specifics about the status of the mod, I just bought the game since I knew LW2 was out.
Then the last expansion came, and I honestly now feel a bit stuck. I know that it fixes some glaring issues with the engine (issues people have been complaining about since release), but I also know that LW2 - so far at least - doesn't cover the expansion. So, both are needed (imho), but together they aren't available.
I ended up starting another LW1 campaign (good thing that it's still great!) and I don't know if or when I'll play LW2.
Now I'm certainly not complaining about my purchase of XCom 2: I didn't do any research out of a combination of laziness and excitement about the game, and BTW, even combining the two, I still got
more than my money's worth with LW1 alone. That's honestly true.
So what can I say. XCom 2 for me is on hold for the time being. I still haven't bought the expansion. This is not meant as a provocative statement, it's just what I'll end up doing as a customer/gamer: if and when LW2 will be made compatible with the expansion, I'll buy it immediately even at full price (which would make it my second full price purchase on Steam
). For now at least I'm not interested in the vanilla experience so... I'd buy the expansion (priced as a full game, incidentally) even for the engine fixes alone but I'm just not playing the game at the moment.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to add a perspective that's perhaps shared by other players
Cheers and thanks for all the good work on these titles.