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Supreme Ruler The Great War as DLC

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The page for the DLC version of SRGW is now accessible on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/70023 ... t_War_DLC/
Just to repeat, the price for the DLC will be the same as the standalone and if you buy/own either you get the other version for free. Those who bought the standalone will get the DLC added to their library for free. If you buy the DLC, you'll get the standalone for free.
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It shows up as having a price for me still on the DLC page even though I have both games. Is there something i'm missing or has it not all been set up yet?
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Same for me. My SRU game updated just minutes ago, but i have no SRGW dlc when i own both games on steam (btw it is alreay 1st of september where i live, should be activated?). The Great War dlc is still shown with price, and not in my library.
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@Chris Latour
This is my first post ever here though I've been playing Supreme Ruler for almost a decade now.
I must say I'm very very and very disappointed and disgusted by the performance of BattleGoat Studios. We waited for over 3 years and were hoping to see some REAL improvements in the game rather than going back in the pre-WW1 era with every thing absolutely the same. The reason I've always preferred SR over Europa Univ, HOI, Real politika and GPS was because SR had more detailed war stuff like we can actually see the units engaged in war Tanks, Jets, Gunships, Frigates, arti's, SAM's etc destroying and getting destroyed. But as someone who absolutely loves Geo-politics, I want to see more!!

I want to see more in economy rather than the same centrally planned economies produce consumer goods, export and you're rich. I want to see private enterprises. I want to see some important products with efficiency levels like cars, passenger jets, electronics, cement, steel. I want to see the efficiency going down if you don't do research and ultimately your economic competitiveness on the world stage. For eg. No one would buy your cement or cars or anything else if your product is not efficient enough compared to the other countries no matter how much excess you have in the inventory. That would result in you not being able to generate enough cash via export.
I want to see more on internal politics, security and stability. I want to see the real affects of increasing taxes, decreasing social spending like the rise of provincialism, ethnic nationalism, rebellions. insurgencies and I want to see rival countries actually taking advantage of that rather than a couple of stupid buttons to fund insurgencies resulting in absolutely nothing.
I need powers in the game to be able to do anything with the rival countries, do proxy wars, buy political parties, create political factions, create insurgencies, make new borders, claim regions, create new countries out of the existing ones.
To be honest I've lost hope in Supreme ruler and am sick, tired and hell bored playing and conquering. I'll pay crisis in the Kremlin rather than the Great War!
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Asifqumber wrote:This is my first post ever here though I've been playing Supreme Ruler for almost a decade now...
I want to see ... I want to see ... I want to see ... I want to see...I want to see...I want to see...
So let me get this straight. You signed up to post to attack me personally for our studio not delivering the things you wanted for ten years and never bothered asking for...

Wow. Okay.

The decision to make The Great War came out of the community asking for more content. Players came here and to the Steam forums to ask for a WW1 game among other requests. We evaluated the requests, determined what was possible with the resources we had available and set a scope for the project that could be achieved. We have been nothing but up front about what the game contains. While it may not be for everyone, the reaction from many in the community was that we have added some new, good content to the series. I'm sorry to hear that it's not the type of game you're looking for.
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@Chris. I didn't register to "attack" you or to "attack" BattleGoat studios. I came here to share my disappointment with you. Being an admirer and more importantly a consumer of your company's product for so many years now, I've every right to expect a lot more than what we are seeing.
I'm not the only one and I still remember many similar posts at the time of the release of the cold war about what many of us would like to see in the futue SR releases. But unfortunately we don't see a single request being worked upon.
Chris, I didn't intend to raise any doubts about your work, commitment or dedication. I know and I've seen you replying to almost each and every single post trying to assist, guide and update everyone about ongoing changes and stuff and I appreciate that and thank you for that from the bottom of my heart.
But there has to be some improvements.
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words like "disappointed and disgusted" do set a tone. Thank you for your recognition of my dedication.
Asifqumber wrote:...But there has to be some improvements.
Well the other option is to stop development on the series. When I left in 2014 to go to other projects, I thought we had finished what we would create with this engine, possibly with this series. But community demand was strong, and I really missed working with the team and on the series. But we now find ourselves facing similar questions as three years ago. SRGW was designed to fund itself plus the performance improvements and matchmaking upgrades for SRU. If we're going to pursue more development, how will we fund that? The focus for now is a solid launch for SRGW with support for immediate issues. The rest will be decided as we review the business plans we come up with.
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To go back on the topic of DLC ;)

Seems to be working fine now, the DLC is marked as installed with my SRU game.

But when i go to SRU steam store page under "DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT FOR THIS GAME" section, the dlc is still not marked as in my library and i still see the price. When i go to the DLC store page it is marked in my library. I guess steam need to update something.
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Thank you for the DLC! The base SRU game was also updated to 9.1.38. I suppose it is simply an update to support the DLC and not an actual update?

Also I agree with most of what Asifqumber said and actually many of us, SR players, have expressed similar concerns with how SR is being developed in the last few years as well, just in different words. The developers were clear they do NOT intend to make the game ANY more difficult/complex. This leads to the game being in a limbo - it is still too difficult for the pleb commoners YET not complex/difficult enough for hardcore strategy players and people who CHOSE the game for it's complexity and pretension to real world geopolitical simulation. I've expressed my opinion several times that I am strongly in favor of making the game more complex adding many more features and things to manipulate with and adhere to in the game such as religion, culture, whatever - lots of different things could be added and I wouldn't mind if it's even something I'm not particularly excited about. So I can only share the disappointment with Asifqumber even though I can't say I'm disgusted. It's simply that my opinion differs with that of the developers. They think they will get more sales by going pop, I think they only risk losing their current clientele. Already many 2020 players have decided not to purchase SRU because they are so similar (which I don't particularly agree with). I am still very thankful to the developers for supporting the game so long and all the bugfixes and engine improvements that have recently been added. The game is great for what it is even if it's full of unfulfilled potential.


The only criticism to Asifqumber's suggestions would be:

"I want to see some important products with efficiency levels like cars, passenger jets, electronics, cement, steel."

I don't think we need such specifics as resources. If anything, rubber should become an industrial good again.
Product quality level is already reflected in that the lower your efficiency is (due to tech, infrastructure, etc) the less goods you will make so you will get less money. Same result without having to introduce weird balance-killing product levels in my opinion.


"buy political parties, create political factions"

Lack of ANY politics in SR series is a huge draw for me and I believe many other players. That other geopolitical simulator game does internal politics very well already (which is why I don't play it as I like to play a supreme ruler and not a puppet). I did like your other suggestions though some of them are already in the game such as proxy wars to some extent.
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8) 8) 8) And there was me just hoping SUT would finally make an appearance
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SGTscuba wrote:SUT
Society of Underwater Technology? I agree. Sounds like a grand idea for the next SR game!
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Yes, underwater technology.... For a scuba yes indeed :)
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I don't seem to have the DLC transferred over. I have both games though.
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Try restarting Steam and see if it auto updates. You'll know it's loaded when your Single Player - Campaigns screen shows all the eras.
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