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just woke up with nothing in my head but ache...
well i know i'm a princess so that will do as a name!

Losing experience for loading a game is an extremely absurd idea.

Basically you would promote never loading the game, so you promote playing 24/7.

No gaming company should even attempt to promote this. Its bad enough that too many players are already doing this anyway.

Ideally you should take a pause after 2, at most 4 hours of gaming, and not game more than 8 hours on any given day, and thats assuming you are on vacation and dont have to do work or school.

Gaming companies are of course not in the business of educating gamers, but they should not introduce motivations for unhealthy gaming habits.

DLC covers a wide array of things these days.

From your cash shop cosmetics, to full blown expansions.

Which honestly hasn't changed at all since pre-"Downloadable" days either.

Before then you had bunches of low effort stuff like how Sims had you buy entire expansion disks to get like 1 new feature (A practice that continues to this day. With Sims games still having thousands of dollars worth of DLC each adding 1 new feature and/or a handful of new items). Just as you had expansion disks that would provide large amounts of content (Including stand-alone games, such as Black & White Creature Isle)

DLC and "Expansions" are essentially the same thing. The only difference is the way they're shipped. DLC's can be downloaded from a server, while expansion packs often required you to acquire the physical disk to install from (With a code in the box to prevent piracy)

This of course, opened up the way for "Cash Shops" with DLC, as it's much easier to sell people a $20 skin when they preview and purchase it in game rather than having to go to a store and pick up a disk and then go home and install it. Even more so when children can have their parents credit cards attached to their account allowing them to easily shell out tens of thousands of dollars on gacha garbage because they can access the funds without their parents knowing.

DLC vs "Expansions" is a moot argument as they are the same thing. It's entirely down to the scope of what they provide than the means of their distribution.

06.06.2026. A few years later it's still bugged.

Ironically, when she's an NPC in camp, she can be buffed but the moment she's recruited as an active companions, she's suddenly not an ally.

A new clip from Aurora Winterstar. You may not like the music or her Bard Tav, but I find the depiction of the companions and monsters amazing.



And hah, using the adamantine forge to maka a guitar plectrum instead of weapons or armour. I think Larian would approve.

Have you tried rolling back the driver to the previous version (596.49)?