I’m actually unclear on this point. The old dlc items that are now build hammer I suppose is now locked, but I’m unsure if that applies to anything else from the armors or artisan bench.
Edit: and too lazy to check myself
Has anyone checked if the old dlc is still able to be used offline / not connected to NoFunAllowedCom servers?
This one has now disconnected from the interwebs to experiment!
The results…
Which may be localized to Sony products, as this one is using a Playstation…
Are that Culture Pack DLC equipment, placeables, and build pieces can be spawned while off line.
Existent Bazaar/BP items are not deleted, but are not at all as usable as before, confirming non connection to Funcom Live services.
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Conan Exiles itself and it’s original DLC monetization which previously allowed us to share everything whether or not other players had the DLC disproves every single one of these points.
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I think it depends on medium. Piracy for a time had impact, But it didnt help pricing for some media killed its own sales. Or cheaper forms of getting media.
Why buy a 25$ blue ray, when it’ll show up on HBO max at some point.
Youtube, you can pretty much download songs for free. “song posted with lyrics” bypasses a copyright rule. XD
You like it enough, you’ll buy it.
I think people calling people “cheap” and being insulted… and not owning up to it. Is uncalled for.
There being Cheap, cause you have money and can totally afford to buy it.
And being Poor, OR having responsible sense of purchases. You’d rather kids have lunch money or ice cream then you having new DLC.
I can’t say I ever meet anyone asking for DLC. (Outside Pre-Order bonus, since bypass cost 30-50$ for new copy of UK game)
Thou, being called “cheap” around here means you buy low end/low quality stuff instead of paying extra $ for better version. You can buy 5$ shirt, that last a month, or pay 12$ and have it last a year or more before threads come on done.
Again, I 100% DOUBT the items being given away was a Reason it was changed. Just someone pointing out, if you do this you’ll gain back 0.1%, do this you’ll get 11%, do this, you weed out those people, but this amount will pay this amount. Making up for it.
Yada yada yada…
My understanding, is its ONLY BAZZAR/PASS Items locked out. (New Format)
As last time I played CE on Ps4 (via my NA PSN with UK Disc + DLC bought) they all worked.
Someone early on claimed the Yamati stuff was unable to be shared, which would imply they have retroactively applied the new format to old gear. I haven’t seen a conclusion yet and haven’t had a chance to test it.
IMO Funcom going back to nickel and dime customers on old content is cheap. Though I’m not satisfied with the current monetization strategy and could just be biased.
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I just found you can share DLC building pieces like before if you can spawn them in or otherwise obtain them like any other item. Building pieces can still be placed via the hotbar without the construction hammer in this way as well.
The only thing you cannot do with DLC items is use them as illusions through the Thaumaturgy Bench. But guess what? You couldn’t do that before 3.0 either.
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Well… I honestly don’t uderstand this sentence, I’m not a native english speaker.
@deklend I said people should not use the items they did not pay for. Just because previous dlc-s were free to share, does not mean now it is the same. And I always found it unfair that some people get stuff for free, while others had to pay for it.
Why? If that stuff was freely given by someone who paid for it, why is it “unfair”?
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For example: given one player, who does not own the nemedian set, with the gate frames (those are the ones, where you can not place bombs from the top, right?), and has no friends who own that set. But, there is a clan, where one member created a ton, and gave to everyone, even other clans, BUT that one person.
And now that one person (or clan who do not own the set) can not raid any base, even the ones, who just got the stuff for free. But they can defeat that person/clan easily. They spent the exact same amount of money to the game, have the exact same time invested in it, roughly same skillset, but still, the others would win in that situation.
Plus, I don’t think it is profitable for Funcom. Like you mentioned, there could be some people who are on the edge on buying or not buying stuff, but I guess (heck, I believe - still could be wrong, but highly doubt) there are way more people, who just got somebody to craft them, and not buying anything.
I did not purchase anything from bazaar, but if I’m correct, they can’t even be shared like previous DLC items?
It is what it is then I say. People are mad/upset, etc. about that, but this is the bazaar. Those were the DLCs. This is the bazaar.
I’ve never were upset even the slightest when I saw someone using a cool stuff which (s)he paid for it, and I can’t have it. Why? Because I did not spend even a cent for it. If I wanted it, I would just buy it.
Probably different countries (or even continents), but in here that’s just absurd, and not normal to cry about digital items that have a price and not available for free (why exactly? Just because? “I’m XY, and played 9999999 hours -nolife- and I deserve it!”?), and call the update terrible just for that (not going into that, because I also think 3.0 and after are terrible updates, but not for this).
Long story short: sorry, NOT sorry if I hurt someone’s feelings over just a single GAME. God, I want to live, where this is the biggest problem, and people have so much time to argue about these kind of things over and over and over again for months. (Not really want to live in such world, but having these kind of “problems” the biggest ones… would be good.)
F… that’s a long wall of text in the morning from me. 
Edit: i still don’t understant that particular sentence! Or was it not that important? 
Digital property has made things rather more ambiguous.
Now, if I buy a toy robot from a toy store, and give it to my nephew as a gift, that’s all fine. The store owner got their money. My nephew has a robot, and I don’t have the robot.
If I buy a digital game from the Steam Store as a gift to my nephew, that’s all fine. The store owner got their money. My nephew has a game, and I don’t have the game.
But if I buy a digital entertainment product and start “gifting” copies of it to people, the seller has sold one copy, and suddenly many people have the product. That’s where we enter the area where property and giving things away get ambiguous. I’m not really giving things away because I still have the product. I’m eating my cake and having it.
I’m not saying what is right or wrong, fair or unfair about this. I’m just trying to explain why people perceive this phenomenon in different ways.
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This however spirals into the fact that the merchant who originally "sold’ you the digital product also still has the product they “sold”. So they both sold a cake and still have that same cake.
Also not making a moral judgement, just savouring the paradox.
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This feels reminiscent of DRM to me.
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There are many reasons that digital resources are almost never “sold” anyone, and instead what one is “buying” is a “license” to use the product.
All of which basically amounts to a mid term rental affair.
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Sometimes people like to try stuff out before they purchase an item. What does X item look like on my character? Will this item from this build set go well with this other build set? Youtube vids can only take you so far.
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Having a developed “dressing room” or even a very short decay rate illusion set would be a very nice feature.
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Happy cake day @Kapoteeni. Have another slice.
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GTA Online gives you 5 minutes to test drive cars before purchase.
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Can you imagine if you weren’t allowed to steal cars you don’t own?
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LOL…yeah right…I mean it’s not like the game encourages just taking whatever car you need or want…by the name alone! Apparently the game designers forgot what “GTA” stands for.
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