Stellaris

I used to love this game but unfortunately, the devs have resorted to using AI slop. Even before that, they made alot of weird decisions with this game and kept reworking core gameplay features seemingly every year, usually for the worse and making it more bland or too rigid, giving it less customizable playstyles, experiences or roleplay which was the main draw for me that made me overlook it's flaws initially. The overpriced DLC spam also feels like an actual scam. Do not support these devs or this game, it's not worth your money.

I actually would recommend the game it's really good, but paradox's newer DLC expansions use generative AI so like nah

Downvoting for the aggressively greedy DLC practises. Downvoting for the menu screen DLC advertisements. Downvoting for the FOMO race creation screen DLC advertisements. Finally, downvoting for filling the game with AI slop - from "generating ideas" to generating assets, to the voice work. Lazy garbage. Lazy -expensive- garbage.

I am at the point where i cant recommend this, it was fun, real fun, but the blatant greed, horrible ai, bad mechanics and devs who seemingly want to pump out more dlcs rather than fix existing ones, and with dlcs that SHOULD be in the base game but just exist to feed the greed of paradox costing a total of like 375 bucks. its just not worth it

With Stellaris now showing that it is using generative AI in it's development for the core game and DLC, I can no longer recommend this title. AI steals from other people from all levels of talent and it's data centres use costly amount of resources, damages nature and people living nearby. I will not tolerate this in my hobby and will cut other titles that use AI.

Unfortunately, because of the constant updating that breaks mods, along with the AI-generated DLCs and AI code, Stellaris used to be good but has become absolute trash, sadly. Multiplayer is just completely broken it just keeps desyncing and cant even play modded multiplayer.

Time passes, paid DLCs are churned out, systems are reworked into being completely foreign, content is left in a broken and bugged state in favor of the next cash grab. I adored this game when I started and I hardly even recognize it now. I genuinely wish I could recommend it, in the past I would have even, but now I really can't say enough that you should stay away, and be wary of the general Paradox profit model.

stellaris is a cash cow that's threatening to burst. i've reached a point where i can't recommend this to anyone. [b]tldr; Paradox gave us something that was really good for a while and then bogged it down with incomplete releases at high prices for downloadable content that should have been in the base game.[/b] look, i LOVED this game. i played so much of it nonstop for hours and hours and hours- hours spent mainly in single player with a handful of private lobbies as well. it was [i]fun[/i], plain and simple; immersive, vast, and full of unknowns and with so, so much replayability. but if you look at it nowadays, there are DLCs left, right, and center with [i]season passes[/i] for future releases, AND [i]subscription services[/i] for if you don't want to spend, as of the time writing this, [b]$375 USD[/b] to own your own copies of. don't get me wrong, a majority of the DLCs' added some really fun stuff that, in my opinion, [i]should have been in the base game already[/i], but instead of pushing it out as a patch, it's just another chance to milk consumers dry. so why is it that Paradox can't be bothered to finish their products before release date just to sell it to us at ridiculous prices for what's less than the bare minimum? the rampant greed lives on as a significant problem that's additionally punctuated by Paradox [i]using gen AI on multiple assets and content[/i]. Paradox is a significant studio full of many talented people. why are things being relegated to AI at all? there are people that can be paid to do better work with better longevity, but that's what feeds back into the overall greed of the company. AI doesn't need to be paid. Paradox isn't footing the bills for the data centers (which is a whole other issue of ethics that isn't the topic here). [b]if Paradox cannot be assed to make their own games, then i cannot be assed to purchase [i]any[/i] of their products.[/b]