That’s basically a critique of capitalism. I work a creative job - everything I create is owned by the company. In this instance, I assume the scenarios won’t be purely the work of the one designer - there will hopefully be outside input and quality control, plus professional voice acting.
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It’s a critic of capitalism from a libertarian pov if you wish. When capitalism creates big oligarchies that prevents real competition then it’s just market socialism in the worst sense of the word. It completely betrays the premises of liberalism and it’s more like a passive consumer-corporate symbiosis, so more akin to a very twisted form of technological feudalism, which strange enough socialists often seem to be ok with…
I think this is the way of the world right now but I can’t speak cause they’re gonna ban me again.
“Professional” in the world of AI (lack of novel ideas from humans) doesn’t mean much to me, yes I know it matters but it’s like a nice dress you put on something and if there isn’t anything underneath it’s just a way to hide the lack of ideas and passion, it’s a replica.
Yep, you got it 100% right.
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I think you misunderstand the POV of socialists, but there’s no point turning this into a political debate. I don’t disagree that there is a problem with Microsoft making most of the money from one of their employee’s work, but that’s the system we’re currently living in, and since he works for the company (and great for him that he turned his hobby into a career), he can’t sell this content privately. A number of people are complaining about having to pay for this at all, but he’s spent time improving the work and so deserves to be paid. It’s more than just a repackaging of old content - the announcement video tells us that some of the scenarios are brand new. For anyone who wants to play the old versions for free, no one is stopping them. Personally, I would rather pay for the better quality product.
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I couldn’t agree more when you say that he should be retributed for his work, my question rather is: what is the role of Microsoft in this? Yes, they offered the platform from which to work on but the bigger share should be given to the person who’s pushing with ideas imho.
Also, as a campaign creator who worked the last two years of my free time almost non stop to release my own campaigns, I should be payed as well I guess. But unlike philtydelphia the only thing I can do is to set up a patreon and hope someone generously support me which is kind of a precarious way of surviving 
And I think I can speak for all modders, artists and deeply passionate people of this world, in front of the harsh laws of the market we look almost hopeless and desperate lol.
I think sooner or later given how good and involved certain mods are, Microsoft should think of a way to give them a share since we all are spending time doing a job. I’m gonna release soon a new big scenario with more than 600 triggers I’ve been working on for three months and I project an overhaul of my old mods based on feedback I received so this “hobby” is clearly bordering on a job.
I know I may sound entitled but since I’m currently studying and unemployed I would be glad to earn the bare minimum I need to survive just to continue to do what I’m doing cause I have really many other ideas for this game, only obstacles being time and money.
I can invite you a hot dog. I can transfer enough USDT for you to buy a big hot dog, if you have binance.
Do you know about aoe2scenarioparser? If you don’t, it may be easier for you to add triggers with it.
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On one hand, it’s good that Ramsey is being remunerated for his work.
On the other hand… These are all scenarios that he willingly made FOR FREE, for the community, expecting nothing in return, and uploaded them years ago.
Yes, they are high quality. Yes, he worked hard and spent hours making them. But… You can go play them right now, free of charge. Why buy the DLC? Why preorder it? It’s simply not worth buying.
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Just have a patreon for now but it’s not going well. Thank you anyway, I like hot dogs lol.
No I don’t, what is it?
I have looked at patreon and I haven’t found out how to make a one time subscription, ha!
Is a Python library to modify aoe2 DE scenarios. If you don’t know Python, learn a little bit and the time you ‘lost’ learning Python you will ‘win’ back by being able to do stuff really fast. What I like to do, for example, is to give hybrid techtrees to civs, like Byzantine+Roman or Hun+Mongol and I spent like half a day making a function that I can use with a few keystrokes
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Yeah that’s the problem, you could subscribe a month and then unsubscribe at the end of it I guess. Thank you very much anyway, I’m really grateful to you even when you just reply to technical issues I have in scenario editor!
It sounds very useful, if it’s a shortcut I’ll definitely try it because yeah some trigger sections become very repetitive as my scenarios become more complex. As I said thank you again for the advice, I’m gonna take a look at it 
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Of course, I know… but the thing is that they are selling you a DLC with their maps that were already free in the workshop, be careful, the scenarios are spectacular there and they can shut us up, but until then, it leaves you with an “ok” “I can accept it for the moment, but they could have made other, more original scenarios”… for me this is nothing more than a simple Historical Battles 2.0…
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Everyone saying they would rather donate to filthy directly…
Well have you donated so far? Many people complain about these campaigns already being playable…so i assume you played them already but my guess is pretty much nobody has donated anything, right?
That is hypocrisy.
I mean don’t get me wrong. I am not a fan of this dlc either but you shouldn’t write about donating directly, if you never would.
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They didn’t even made official coop mode for the scenarios which should be something completely new. Or add 2 new official campaigns together… This release is a slap to the community’s face.
Personally I pre-ordered the DLC already, just to support the game development as I always do. And because I enjoyed Filthy’s work for years on both HD and DE editions workshop/mods. But I am completely dissatisfied they treated us this way…
They will slowly kill the game if they continue this cash grabbing policy…
I will insist on suggesting to add at least 2 more official campaigns with this DLC or I afraid that the game community will completely turn away from this DLC and many of them completely from the game in the future…
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how?
a) to the best of my knowledge he hasn’t asked for donations, nor provided away to receive them
b) even if he did that doesn’t make it ok to try to sell existing scenarios for eur 13
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There are always ways. Probably nobody asked him, because nobody was willing to begin with.
My guess would be that not even 10% wouldve donated 1 dollar, even if he shared a link. People always say they would or could but if they get it for free anyway, they don’t care anymore.
Again. I’m not defending this dlc. It’s overpriced and the content is not, what i was hoping for. I also have some doubts about him getting a fair share as well. Doesn’t change the fact about above tho
I even think this dlc would be fine if they announced it correctly, made a fair price(5dollars?) and give this dude a “fair” share(can’t say what is fair, because i would need to know how much outside work was done and giving him everything is not realistic).
Then filthy would get a fair compensation for his work and more recognition.
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In any other community, bad overpriced DLC with little content would be an outrage. See for example, the Shadows of Change for Warhammer 3.
But here, somehow people accept free community scenarios being sold for 13$ because “they wanna support the devs”. Listen, if the devs wanted to recieve support, they would make good DLC with new content like they used to. Not this garbage.
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I thought the last DLC was a big cash grab
But I underestimated the improvement when I see this DLC. 
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What do you mean with “here somehow people accept free community scenarios being sold for 13 $”?
I haven’t read all responses but most comments i see are people saying they won’t buy it for these exact reasons, lol.
We will see if these guys keep their word but if they do, it’s gonna flop even harder than RoR
You’re not the only one, the price for the new DLC is too much for what it offers
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