Paradox Interactive Failing!!

I suspect they were responsible for having Tyranny get released way earlier than it should have and are now gonna attempt to make a million DLCs for it over the years to try to nickel and dime every single person that bought it. They literally just put a DLC that is 7 bucks for fucking random events happening in the overworld.

I'll buy Tyranny when it's the complete edition at a 90% discount five years from now.

>>380752058
>90% off
Sorry anon but that's never going to happen with the way paradox is doing things. 75% at most.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/236850/Europa_Universalis_IV/

http://steamcommunity.com/app/236850/discussions/0/1354868867726020954/

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That explains why Pillars of Eternity suddenly got a shift of negative reviews. Paradox are pretty scummy.

>>380752840
Funny how they've been fucking shitty for years yet everybody gave them a pass for the dlc spam yet companies like EA got roasted alive. It just finally came back to bite them in the ass

anyone have a list of all regions raped by paradox?

I've been pirating DLC since 2015, so the time has come

>>380751781
Nice image, I wouldn't notice if you didnt mention, thx.

>>380752840
that is honestly unwarranted, paradox is not PoEs publisher on steam, they only shifted the physical copies.
And PoEs expansion is great and easily worth the money, so there is no "paradoxical" behavior there either.

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>>380755363
Yeah, they are. They raised the money for the base game, too.

>>380751781
Remember to report and ignore all shitposting

>>380754083
If i remember correctly it was russia, south america, some parts of SEA and eastern europe. There's more but that's all i can remember right now

>>380755546
White and based

>>380751781
Lesson of the day: NEVER EVER PUT YOUR COMPANY IN WALL STREET, NEVER!!!

>>380755546
Fuck off Johan

>>380756194
Call me when the overall rating drops to mixed, now that'd be a punch in the gut.

Anyway, I haven't been playing EU4 since El Durito. It was getting pretty obvious Paradox had no idea what they were doing.

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>>380755546

>>380751781
>>Paradox raised the prices of all their games a week ahead of the steam sale (as much as 50% increase in some cases)
>>Removed features in game and repacked them in a new dlc you had to buy to get the utility back.
>>Charging $10 for a handful of poorly drawn buttons and cheat buffs for an already overpowered nation.
Can I get source on these?

>>380751781
Oh shit, and they can't pull the "muh anti SJW trolls" card anymore with this. What a glorious day!

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Paradox games are probably my favorite in the entire industry but I have never spent one single dime on them. Overpriced and jewish DLC practices.

>>380755546
Hey faggot, when will you use accurate history for your historical accurate games? When will you stop deleting threads and banning people that mention your SJW faggot agenda? When will you stop banning people for wanting a correct and playable Nazi Germany in your historically accurate games? When will you stop rewriting history for your destructive agenda you filthy asshole?

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lmao this faggot got his review marked as abusive by the devs because they didn't like it

>>380751781
>>Removed features in game and repacked them in a new dlc you had to buy to get the utility back.
Examples?

>>380757421
They raised Yurop prices because their currencies are weakening versus the dollar.

American prices didn't go up.

>>380758298
wew

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>>380751781
>2017
>buying paradox games

when you can literally pirate every single paradox game with all the DLCs with working multiplayer cracks

You are just miserable

>>380751781
Here's hoping the Russians finally manage to fuck them up a bit.
Anyone knows how well Third Rome did? I didn't see it in the Steam best seller list, while their DLC usually made it. Wouldn't be surprising, since the DLC is just a couple buffs to Russia

>>380758391
Province development was a core game feature but (I forgot which dlc removed it may have been common sense) it was taken out in an update for their new dlc.

So the only thing you could do was to either conquer land the ai owns (the ai could build the new stuff while you couldn't) or buy the new dlc to enable building on your provinces again.

>>380758449
okay so literally nothing to be upset about then?

>>380758391
Examples: half the DLCs for every single paradox game from CK2

>>380758391
The closest example I can think of was the Common Sense dlc.
It added development, basically allowing you to improve provinces, but without it all provinces had a base development that you could not change.
This made colonizing impossible since your colonies in the Americas could never sustain themselves without development so they either were in a constant state of bankruptcy or a constant drain on you.

PC gaming sure is great ain't it?

>>380751781
>purchasing Paracucks DLC
Let's be real here

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>>380758781
>Not using this chance to kick paradox while their down

>>380758774
No it wasn't, it was just like EU3, each province had a single value, called basetax

>>380758774
>Province development was a core game feature but (I forgot which dlc removed it may have been common sense) it was taken out in an update for their new dlc.

By province Development, do you mean actively developing a province and adding to its existing province development?
I started playing with Common Sense with a group that had been playing since vanilla and beta. It seemed like a new feature to them.
Can you give me a source showing that it existed before common sense?

>>380759046
He can't because he's lying.

>>380758790
>It added development, basically allowing you to improve provinces, but without it all provinces had a base development that you could not change.
So it added a thing that didn't exist before?

aka
>>Removed features in game and repacked them in a new dlc you had to buy to get the utility back.
Nothing like that?

>>380758774
not true, you never had the ability to directly improve your province's development until it was introduced in the DLC
however what people DID rightfully complain about is that the entire game was reworked with the new development feature in mind leaving the base game in a significantly less playable state than it was before

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>>380758298
Top kek

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>mfw I never paid for Paradox shit except for Warband and got 3K hours out of that

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>>Removed features in game and repacked them in a new dlc you had to buy to get the utility back.
What game did they do this for? EU4?

>>380752058
>They literally just put a DLC that is 7 bucks for fucking random events happening in the overworld.

It's like they're begging to be pirated

>>380759225
The thing is how Paradox fucks you over.
See the DLCs add a lot of mechanics and ways to interact with them.
But Paradox also releases a "free" patch that implements the mechanics in the base game but doesn't allow you to interact with them.

Common Sense added Development which replaced Base Tax. Before Common Sense provinces in America had a base tax that was high enough to allow colonies to prosper. When the DLC was released all provinces in the Americas received utter shit development because colonies were supposed to improve those areas. But if you didn't had the DLC you couldn't interact with Development so you were stuck with utter shit development. So you either bought the DLC or colonizing was impossible.

>>380755546
Oy vey, shut it down!

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>>380758614
Like shit. People already fucking hate it. Like 4 or 5 new buttons, some shitty troops and a buff their religion.

>Would have taken a modder like a few days to do this for free they are charging 10 bucks for it

>>380759717
>The thing is how Paradox fucks you over.
Yeah maybe, but the statement in the OP is a confirmed lie anyways.


Some starts get worse/better in some updates.
That's the nature of updates.

>>380759912
A DLC made an important aspect for countries like Spain, France, Portugal, UK and any other country that you want to use to colonize literally unplayable.
To make it playable you had to buy the DLC.

Paradox always had shitty dlc policy

>>380752058
>I suspect they were responsible for having Tyranny get released way earlier than it should have
Kek, it's literally never Obsidian's fault, is it?

>>380752058
>I'll buy Tyranny when it's the complete edition at a 90% discount five years from now.
This is what I planned on doing for HoI4 but honestly I don't know if that game is ever worth playing.

>>380759624
Taleworlds is self published now too

>>380760108
I'm not forgiving Obsidian nor placing blame on Paradox for how badly written Tyranny is.

>>380760108
Obsidian's fault here is not giving any kind of shit about this game and it's quality.
They put their interns to work on it to see who they keep and only did it because Paradox payed them to do it.

>>380760108
Obsidian mediocrecy has nothing to do with Paradox, PoE and Tyranny hardly have anything salvageable

>>380760508
PoE was a decent game, don't kid yourself

I haven't bought a paradox game in years.
I thought everyone else was pirating as well.

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I guess that prick Johan is finally getting what he deserves. You can only screw over people who love the shit you produce for so long before they wake up and smell the coffee. Though I would love if they actually gave a shit and did something, but they probably won't.

>>380760686
My friends call me a scumbag for pirating and then turn around and call Paradox DLC pricey and stupid.

>>380760616
>PoE was a decent game, don't kid yourself
Back to you, PoE was so forgettable that I dropped at the druid town

>>380752261
Ofcourse 80% or more is going to happen, the joke is that in case of crusader kings 2 for example this practically means a that it drops from almost $300 to a full price triple-A when the sale is running.

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>>380759912
>>380759169
>>380759046
Looks like the paradrones have come out to defend.

>I started playing at common sense

THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! You have no idea what it was like before. Wish i could find some old screenshots of the old mechanic to shove in your face.

>>380760971
But Path of Exile is a great game.

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>>380761157
Here

>>380761187
Path of Exile has nothing to do with Obsidian, we are talking about Pillars of Eternity, the kickstarter scam

>>380751781
>Removed features in game and repacked them in a new dlc you had to buy to get the utility back.

Granted you have given no source for this shit but everything else about their jewy Jewishness is shat that so many other people and corporations in anything and everything do.

Digitally and physically this shit is all around so why are they soley picking on dev/publisher instead of all of them who do such shit?

>Playing vanilla EU when Mayo and texas 2.0 is out

Are you people insane. You can actually play a good game now.

>>380761437
Never heard of it.

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>>380760134
>HOL4
HOl4 is fucking garbage. No amount of dlc is going to fix it. Just pirate it and play it yourself because it sure as hell will NEVER be worth the money.

That is unless they completely change the core gameplay. Which they never will or they'll charge money for it.

>>380761621
Why would I play something the Death & Taxes team worked on, Meiou was alright, but DnT was fucking awful

>>380761386
>>380761157
Yes I see basetax, as it existed in eu3 basically.
So?
I don't see the province development that you could actively improve and add to the current development.
So an old feature wasn't removed, and then sold in a dlc.

>>380761749
2.0 is much better than old M&T

doesn't matter if they raised base prices because it can be seen if you still get a good deal or not with certain sites

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>>380751781
Good, I hope they do fucking crash and burn to the point of bankruptcy where they have to sell their franchises and then a noteworthy company gets their hands on the VTMB IP and something something amazing with it.

Imagine a VTM game under fucking Parajews.

>>380758449
That's not source.

>>380753446
They had a reputation, they traded their reputation in for more money.

Now their jewry is getting them what they deserve. People don't want to pay $90 in DLC for a $60 game. Give people a full game, or get bent.

>>380762521
Go ask DDRJake then, he's streaming right now.

>>380758298
>swedes shooting themselves in the foot

this is just like my pottery class where we made bowls out of clay

I sincerely hope they see a huge drop in sales, but I have a hunch that they won't. Dumb cocksuckers are going to keep buying half-finished DLC and "immersion packs" and they're going to tolerate it.

I used to pirate their DLC, but I turned around and started purchasing it on sale after I stopped pirating altogether. But now I'm changing that stance, because I got fucked over one too many times by them.

>>380758298
#rekt

I'm not against DLC as a form of small but more regular expansions at a much lower price. The problem with Paradox is that they take the 'small' and 'regular' parts very seriously but expect you to pay full expansion pack prices. This isn't new, the price hike is just the catalyst for community anger over it.

Just look at how much they charge for 'content packs', the ones that consist of a few models and retextures that were cut from the expansions and are being sold separately. They've had this backlash coming for a long time, I just hope it's not ineffectual.

>New Hearts of Iron DLC
>$9.99 for 4 new focus trees for literally who nations
>All of them are just the same old shit - do you want to be communist or fascist? Do you want some civilian factories? How about a doctrine discount?
>Somehow they fucked up the AI even more and now you'll have the Soviets running 10 million men into a wall of forts and you'll walk away with about 5000 casualties on your side
This Jew company has gone too far

>>380751781
There's a steam sale?

>>380763703
This. As much as this board likes to bash Bethesda, they've got one of the best DLC policies (horse armor aside). 20 euros for content that provides a complete new experience and gives hours of playtime and yet is different to the main game

>>380751781
Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me.

>>380756407
In all honesty: Has there ever been a company that didn't get ruined utterly by going public?

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>>380759169
>>380759046
>>380759225
>>380759912
>>380761480
>>380761758

Here's province building before Common sense pay walled it off you retards. This was removed and replaced with the new system all you babies know of. The AI could used the new system but you couldn't and had no way to use the old system either since it was removed.

Now stfu while the adults are talking little paradrones.

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>>380763858
Yes, their several-year-old games & all the DLC (except for everything published in the last year) is now 75% off!

You still have to pay $5-$10 more for the game than the last time it was on sale for 75% off, but don't let silly things like numbers get in your way! Make sure to buy all the latest DLC to get the best experience in your grand strategy gaming!

>>380754227
I got a copyright claim so...I'm buying games for the next year if I don't want the jews knocking on my door....

>>380763971
Bethesda has said it before that they were trying multiple models of DLC with Oblivion to see what worked best.

They tried to sell little cosmetic improvements like Horse Armor, and that backfired horribly (why they want to try that again with this Creation Club bullshit is anyone's guess).
Then they sold little quests, and that got some more positive feedback.
Then they did big content packs like Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine, and they realized that had the best positive response, so they stuck with that model for FO3, NV, Skyrim, and FO4.

>>380763971
back in the day we called these expansion packs, not DLC

It used to be that the expansion pack was almost a sequel/new game.

See Starcraft and Starcraft Brood War

> Wanted to buy Pillars and Tyranny during the summer sale
> See the price increase
Guess I'll pirate them now. It's their loss really.

>>380765545
Broodwar was a pretty crappy expansion in terms of content. A campaign that was shorter than vanilla and only two or three new units for every faction. No new factions, no new mechanics, nothing fundamentally changed.

>>380765976
>A campaign that was shorter than vanilla
I don't think you quite understand how expansions work...

>>380751781
>raised the prices of all their games a week ahead of the steam sale
this is legit illegal, please source me famoli so i can report them to ACCC

>>380760225
Why are people shitting on Tyranny last i heard people were sucking it's dick? Was it that bad?

>>380766354
Extremely disappointing. And this is coming from someone that loves PoE.

>>380766354
I did some research myself, apparently the first half of the game is superb, the last half was garbage.

Also the ending is decided by a choice you made in the tutorial, which defeats the purpose of any decisions you make later in the game.

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>>380751781
>specialize in a niche genre most people never even heard of
>"to cope with the low sales we will just rip off the few paying customers we have. these retards are gonna buy it anyways."

I like EU and HoI but Paradox really needs to go bankrupt.

>>380766670
I think the first half is pretty bad too. The ending is the same cliffhanger no matter which choice you made, although they are supposedly adding a patch with one additional one.
There are certain choices in the game that force you onto a path for the rest of the game, where you proceed to lose the ability to make choices.
It's just very lazily written, with tons of poor under-developed characters and a plot that completely betrays how awesome the concept for the actual game is.

>>380751781
Anyone mind telling me what the original prices were? I have PoE but I don't remember how much I bought it for.

>>380766732
They need a competitor.

>>380761719
>blitzkrieg movement was behind a paywall
That was the point i gave up on paradox

>>380751781
God I love piracy.

>>380751781
>Never fell for the Paradox jew meme
Why the fuck did people buy their shit so much?

>>380767113
literally no alternatives

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>paid mods by bethesda
>Take two and R* ban modding tools for singleplayer
>Paradox jewery is through the roof
The fuck is happening? Are they actually retarded?

>>380764737
>Here's province building before Common sense pay walled it off you retards.
Yeah, they changed the building system. So what?
Did they make it so you couldn't build buildings anymore unless you bought the dlc?
No, no they did not.

>>380767174
Key word is BUY.

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>>380759017
>le anarchists
>le revolution xD

>>380757931
>Bless online

How hard is it to bring a game over?

>>380751781
>Paradox raised the prices of all their games a week ahead of the steam sale (as much as 50% increase in some cases)
In Sukastan they raised the prices so much that sale prices are the same as old vanilla prices, if not more. Fuck Paradox.

>>380767316
Actually they did.
The amount of buildings you can build in a province is limited by the development of a province.
And since again, you can't increase development of a province without the DLC you cannot build building in provinces you could before.

>>380767342
fuck off paradox

>>380767536
>The amount of buildings you can build in a province is limited by the development of a province.
So the answer to the question, "did they make it so you couldn't build buildings anymore unless you bought the dlc?", is not

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>>380751781
You can only squeeze your customers and pretend it's all good for so long. I used to support them, but I can see why people have had enough. It's like dumping sludge into a lake, at first it all seems fine since there are no immediate effects but if you keep it up eventually the eco system will collapse and you can't just restore it by reducing or stopping the sludge flow. Once you crossed the line it'll take a lot of time and effort to clean up the mess you created.

>>380767547
>LOL viva la revolution xD
you all niggas are embarrassing

>>380767667
>Before you could X as much as you want
>now you can only do X Y times
>The only way to increase Y is to buy DLC
Can you stop being such an obvious shill?

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>>380767667
>Moving the goalpost this much

Man you fucks are dedicated. How much is paradox paying you guys?

>>380767765
Seriously. They need to hire a better class of shill with all the money they're making off their jacked up prices.

>>380767342
how does bullying translate into anarchy?

>>380751781
They really deserve to take huge losses for all the shit they've done over the last few years. They've been dead to me since they started taking CK2 into a reddit meme lol random direction with retarded £15 dlcs about magic and DUDE INCEST LMAO. They ruined something that had great potential and every one of their games are always bugged to fuck.

>>380767728
>Dude, just eat the shit they serve you, bro.
Not everybody likes it up the ass, you know?

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>>380751781
Even though I play and enjoy their games I seriously hope that they suffer. I'm sick of their terrible shitty DLC model and the long streak of mediocrity they've been running recently. It's obvious that they've stopped trying and stopped caring about making good games, just fucking look at Hearts of Iron 4 in comparison to earlier Hearts of Iron titles. That's the future of Europa Universalis. That's the future of Victoria, if it ever comes back (I hope it doesn't).

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>>380751781
>>EU4 rating has dropping from overwhelmingly positive to mostly negative.
EU4 seemed like a very complex game to me the first 4 hours I played. Then it turned out it was a simple as fuck and very shallow game, just badly presented.

Only worth blobbing once or twice with your favourite nation and that's it.

Good riddance to Paradox Interactive, I hope they go bankrupt and all their good IPs get bought by nu-THQ.

>>380768113
Their games aren't shit, it's the price that's too high.
Do you even know what you are talking about

>>380754083
anything not in America

>>380755546
w&b

>>380767839
No you are moving the goalpost.
First it was development, then it was base tax, then it was buildings,

>>380766931
I doubt there ever will be a competitor to Paradox in the GS market. They have the advantage of already having an engine to work off of as well as money and brand recoginition, any other publisher is either too big to care about a niche market like Grand Strategy or is too small to put in the required funds for a non-shit game. The only publisher that comes close to competing with Paradox is Slitherine, but they've pretty much stated that they will only make and publish wargames and other miscellaneous strategy games.

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Here's the official reason for why they're increasing the prices

Basically they're super jews.

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>>380751781
Paradox reminds me of those Patreon funded hentai games that never get finished because then people have no reason to give the developer money anymore. The DLC model practically rewards mediocrity so there is always something to "improve upon" for $14.99.

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>>380765857
If you can pirate why would you pay in the first place....

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>>380751781
One reason why im not gonna buy Steel Division Normandy 44. Love Eugene but they really fucked up hard working with paradox on that one. I already know it's gonna have a shitty dlc before the year is out.

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>>380758298
Are they fucking serious

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>>380768840

What's with all these mods locked behind paracucks forum anyway?

Are modders good goys?

>>380768840
Extremely convenient to do this just before a sale but probably enough to cover their asses legally.

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>>380767342
more like >le autism

now all he needs is the next hitler who gas gamers and he can form gamer state

>>380769101
see
>>380769038

>>380768840
Also the funniest part is
>increased purchasing power
>in the EU, Russia and Turkey

>>380768840
>literally have buttons for "agree" and "RESPECTFULLY disagree" on their forums

how thin skinned can you be?

>>380768507
Buildings ARE the development of a province. I didn't post that base tax picture shill

Paradox is probably my favorite developer and publisher, but this is getting way out of hand.
They make awesome games and had a great policy about their games and dlc, but now they are just milking everything.

can someone link me to some DLC for EU IV? I can't support this jewish company any longer

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>>380768123
>That's the future of Europa Universalis. That's the future of Victoria
I don't think they can afford any of their future games being HOI4 levels of bad. It was garbage on release, still garbage after patches and has worse DLC practices than EU or CK.

Vicky 3 having the same dumbed down gameplay and dogshit AI as HOI4 would cause such a huge shitstorm that even some of the good Goyim on the Paradox forum would join in.

>>380769350
>great policy about their games and dlc,
>release a game in a barely playable state
>add features in small dribbles for 15 bucks a pop
SO GREAT

>>380768840
>we intentionally changed prices
oh boy I'm glad, I thought the tooth fairy was messing with your pc's again

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>>380754083
Here

>Affected Countries:

Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Eu Countries
Hong Kong
Indıa
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Mexica
New Zealand
Norway
Russia
Peru
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UAE
United Kingdom

Also a example of price increase . Here is prices for Russia http://i.imgur.com/daWq94w.png

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>>380768840
>Implying those prices will ever lower once their "Purchasing power" goes up

Holy shit these guys

>>380769494
https://hastebin.com/raw/moqugasume

>>380769494
The generals on /vg/ used to have links to all the Paradox DLC, look there.

>>380768840
Were do they copy/paste these kind of texts? I swear league of legends published almost the same wall of text when the prices went up.

>>380769515
>release Together for Victory
>publicly apologize on forum for a small amount of content and promise to release only big DLC from now on
>few months later
>release DLC with even less content

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>>380769727
>Most of South America
Goddammit Paradox, our currency is barely able to keep up. The game is literally as expensive as the computer to play it on.

>>380769318
>Buildings ARE the development of a province
Not Development as a name of a specific mechanic of the game.

>>380769845
they don't anymore because redditors reported the pastebins and mega links and kept reporting new ones

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>>380768840
its not a big deal anyway, pillars was already 50% of a few months after release

>>380754418
Thx mate

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>>380769997
I was going to just buy the base game and pirate the DLC's but this shit just made me pirate the whole thing, fucking jews.

>>380769494
https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=63384&hilit=europa+universalis

>>380769557
>Sword of Islam
>Legacy of Rome
>The Old Gods
>Sons of Abraham

>Wealth of Nations
>Art of War
>Common Sense

>A House Divided
>Heart of Darkness

All amazing dlc's that made the games much better. Now they add almost nothing - and are STILL expensive. That is the issue.

>>380751781
I legitimately own a lot of Paradox games.

I ain't buying anymore DLC. I will pirate games I legit own for the DLC.

Sucks too, since they support their games on Linux and cracks don't get released for Linux.

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>tfw one of the few companies you could say you're a fan of is slowly turning into EA

>>380769110
>just before a sale
when was the sale?

>>380770445
if you're a fan of paradox you're a retard they've been ultra jews since CK2 came out if not arguably earlier

>>380760134
You're only going to get fun out of HoI4 by fighting other people. AI is mouthbreathing retarded still.

>>380770451
Steam sale is in around one week

>>380770547
Rolling over the entire planet with your invincible armies of [country] is fun once or twice

>>380770445
>being a "fan" of a corporation

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>>380770105
It's not hard to believe there are paradox shills HERE AT THIS VERY MOMENT. IN THIS VERY THREAD SHILLING!

>>380770692
More fun to fight a player desu
This is assuming said player isn't a minmaxing bastard giving away all his old tanks to other players causing a snowball, but still.

>>380751781
This is what happens when chinks get their hands on shit. Chinks are literally the Jews of asia.

Yeah, can't wait for the company to sink and no more Crusader Kinds or Europa Universalis anymore!

>>380770445
I don't give a shit whether or not a particular company is jewish but I give a shit whether or not they make good games. It just so happens that Paradox kept shitting the bed now with HoI4 and have this kind of problem.
I abandoned Civ because of V and now this is happening to Paradox

>>380758489
is that an infection or is that normal for that insect?

>>380770938
Jews care about other jews
China was one of the countries hit by the biggest price increases.
Chinks are like mega jews that only care for themselves.

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Jesus I'm only now going trough the thread on their forums
>Prices won't change anytime soon
>But we are keeping an eye on this thread and will change prices eventually
They are basically saying they increased the prices only for the fucking sale.

>>380751781
>People are finally waking up to paradox's dlc jewry bullshit and ripping them a new asshole.
>Finally waking up
>FINALLY
Son, did you spend last 4 years under a rock or something?

>>380770389
Arguably Sword of Islam should've been included in the base game anyways because before it you couldn't even play as Muslims. I mean sure it's "Crusader" Kings but theres two sides to a crusade.
>>380770451
There's a weekend deal going on right now for EU4, not sure about the other games.

>>380770535
Nigger CKII is goddamn nothing compared to the crime against humanity that was Sword of the Stars II.
They consistently overcharge for content, but at least it used to be meaningful content. Now the nose is getting too big to ignore, and even their game design is suffering for it due to some really eyebrow-raising internal decisions. Comparing the development diaries between Victoria II and EUIV is a sad, sad thing.

>>380771237
Which is actually illegal in several countries.

>>380771272
I think he's talking about the people on the Paradox forums who have always sucked their dick no matter what they did.
If the forums themselves are shitting on them it's bad

>>380771237
Well dont buy their games then, whatever. 4chan not very smart you people realize you get pulled over the barrel in all fields of life.

>>380770451
The summer sale is next week anon.

>>380755546
White men

>>380770547
>>380770826
>>380760134

Or assuming that they aren't minmaxing divisions too.. are 10 marines and 2 artillery in a division still broken?
Also the only thing worth playing HOI4 for now is Kaiserreich, I'm pretty sure the creators of that mod actually care more about the game than the developers.

>>380770691
So 1½ months before the sale, how many sales are there a year?

Did they seriously charge 10 dollars so you could press one of three buttons every couple of years for a minor benefit

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>>380771118
>Jews care about other jews
They jew eachother all the time. Sure rich jews look out for eachother, but they treat the rest the same as dirty goyim.

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>>380768840
Have they gone insane?

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>>380768840
>Russia
>purchasing power after recent crysis when dollar fucking doubled it's price in rubles
Totally fucking legit reason to ramp up the prices. I can't even fucking buy hardware now. Why would I buy an overpriced paradox shit?

>>380768952
dumb maki poster

>>380756613
I played it vanilla, then get back at Common Sense, then Rights of Man.
The game is finally playable at this stage, but the fact it takes 9 DLCs (basically trippling the game price) AND now they are literally shitting out country packs, one country at a time, for DLC, makes me simply stay at pirated version. The last Paradox game I bought blind (knowing it will be good) was Victoria 2. I didn't bought EU4 until RoM and it's still just a vanilla game, because I couldn't care less about paying triple for the DLCs.

>>380771589
I can't figure out which DLC you're talking about, it could be a few different ones.

>>380771734
Funny thing is that Russia was hit the hardest after China.
The prices in Russia literally doubled.

>>380771415
Oh, if this happend then indeed shit hit the fan.

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Good.

>>380769727
On one hand, that's really fucking shitty.

On the other, fuck everyone not America

Good, now I won't feel guilty pirating their games.

>>380766863
They increased prices by $6/Euro/Bongbucks on average for all their games, PoE included.

You can check the price changes yourselves.
https://www.steamprices.com/

PI really upped them.

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>There are people who have actually bought all the dlc in EU4
Holy shit you have to be a massive fucking cuck to give a single penny to the those swedish jews.
I've been pirating the games of paradox and have never looked back. The combined price of their dlc is fucking insane.

>>380772139
good goy

>>380771820
Not him, but it sounds like Mare Nostrum. All it did was adding corruption, changed one of the mods into in-game espionage system and added few buttons to make army/fleet management easier. Literally the worst DLC to EU4. Not evem Mandate of Heaven and the new Tsardom one are this bad, because they at least add new game mechanics that can be used in mods, unlike Mare Nostrum, which added nothing to the game itself, just made the interface slightly less fucked up

>>380758449
FUCKING HORSE SHIT WE JUST GAVE 85MILJARDS EUROS TO GREECE AGAIN AND NOW WE GET THIS SHIT WHY CANT WE LEAVE THE EU ALL IT DOES IS DESTROY OUR ECOMONY YES IM 100% MAD AND BUTT HURT

>>380772139
>implying they're not going to increase the price for Clappers

>>380752840
People here were talking about the sequel and went to check out the first and maybe buy it..

Fuck em.

>>380771049
It's normal - those are eggs.

>>380772312
And they say that pirates aren't the true master race

>>380771920
Not just their company forums either it's on the steam forms and ALL of those shitty reddit pages dedicated to their games.

>>380751781
Should've made EU5 and CK3 already instead of shitload of stuff that adds nothing fun, to be honest.

>>380768840
*Respectfully disagrees*

Try to explain any of this shit on reddit and you just get down voted to oblivion.

>>380769297
It's better, used to be just Disagree

>>380772312
I've got a standard policy for each new Paradox game:
>Game comes out
I wait for at least 3 months until community feedback allows to fix all the shit-tier bugs and patch things out
>3 months passed
I pirate it and play. If it looks good, I note it. If it's boring shit, I note it. After single playthrough I get rid of it
>At least 3 DLCs are churmed up already
I check the game at this stage again via pirate. I compare how did it improved/downproved from the first impression. After single playthrough I get rid of it. Unless it was really good (still didn't happen), so I would buy the vanilla
>The game is on for at least 2 years/8 DLCs
I check it out again. If it's good at this stage, I buy vanilla. If in 30 months it has less than 5 DLCs - Paradox doesn't care about it and neither should I. If it's still shit, it will never be good, so no point giving a fuck anymore.
>Assuming the game was good at this stage
I have legal vanilla and pirate all DLCs, both already released and future ones.

I miss times when they were making expansions. At least you had the feeling there was some sense of real direction and they were releasing something that really was changing the game, rather than adding few minor bits and new interface button.

>>380772459
Can't increase the price on piratebay

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Damn shame, I really enjoyed Stellaris but a lot of these fixes for dire problems in the game seem to be coming from 20$ DLC packs.

I didn't buy the 10$ .gif pack, but I did get Leviathans and Utopia. I won't be buying others.

>>380751781
Hopefully Bethesda burns next, the cunts

>>380772909
Even Reddit is mad right now, though as expected, they're calling them shekel-grabbing kikes
The real Paradrones are at the Paradox forums, and even there they're evenly matched with angry Russians

>>380772909
Plenty of reasons to dislike paradox, but sadly this thread is filled with disinfo, which I can see being downvoted.

>>380771396
Isn't that the case in Sweden as well?

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>>380772687
This would be the only acceptable reason.

Why does every company that buys White Wolf go down the shitter shortly after? First CCP, now this.

>>380772909
As a guy who is a regular on Paradox's reddit - it's in flames too. The only place that still holds out (barely) is the official Paradox forum, simply because they can delete whatever they want to delete.

Paradox failed me when the closed down the Putin mod for DH and banned novapaddy from the forums

>>380771049
Some other insect laid eggs on/in it. There's a type of wasp that does the same thing to tarantulas.

Stings the tarantula to paralyze but not kill it. Then stabs it and lays eggs inside the tarantula, then carried the tarantula to a nest and buries it inside a dirt ball. The tarantula is alive, but eventually stops being paralyzed. Eventually the eggs hatch and the larvae eat the tarantula alive before gestating into adult wasps and digging out of the dirt ball and flying away.

Sometimes you can find these dirt balls laying around, and if you crack them open you'll free a bunch of trapped spiders and/or wasps.

>he thinks I'm joking

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Oh yeah, you can't download mods for their games with steamworkshopdownloader either.

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>>380773302
>>380771396
It's illegal in the entire EU. I already reported them to my country's consumer protection agency. It will take many months but PI will pay for breaking the law.

>>380772887
What for, so they can go the Kalypso route of releasing the exact same game with a couple new features and be functionally exactly the same as just releasing a new DLC? Or strip the game down to a few core features so they can sell DLC adding them back all over again, like Firaxis?

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>>380772687
>You did a shit thing that I didn't like, so now I'm going to jack up the prices to my game even though you're all probably pirating it already

Man, I wish I could make people I don't like pay more for my product.

>>380773217
not calling them shekel-grabbing kikes*, of course
It's still at the very restrained Reddit style, the "friendly pointing out" that Paradox content has sharply decreased in quality, and loyal fans aren't getting a fair deal
In reality, Paradox is one of the most disgusting companies right now when it comes to DLC. Imagine if the Oblivion Horse Armor costed $10 for the HP bonis alone, had a trailer talking about knights and cataphracts. The actual armor model is another $5 "content pack".

>>380773585
I just downloaded that mod just fine.

>>380773427
>Some other insect laid eggs on/in it
Yeah, a female of his species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae#Breeding

>>380773072
Is there a way to play multiplayer with a cracked version of Stellaris?

>>380772887
This. It took them all those years to finally make EU4 playable (I say the Rights of Man DLC is the turning point), which means when (and if) EU5 will came out, it won't be for next 4-5 years, because they are too busy capitalising on EU4 and with CK2 and Stellaris it basically takes away all their manpower. The HoI team is so understaffed they can barely do ANYTHING, and at this point it looks like HoI might get canned after the next DLC, unless it will truly fix the AI and make the game playable, because with sales like this and such small staff, it's going to the bin.

>>380773882
Daily reminder East vs West was cancelled, because they had to choose if they want to shit out a DLC for CK2 or support EvW

>>380773645
I'm sure they will.

>>380773845
I think my friend pirated it and we've played together, but I'm not sure if she ended up getting it for real or not.

Offline atm so I can't ask sorry :/

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>>380751781
>that pic

and yeah, paracuck went to shit after eu4.
GOY4 and the price hike were just the nail in the coffin.

Hopefully this means we'll see an alternative studio rising up to the task of making some more gsg

>>380774043
No worries anon that's all I needed to know thanks.

>>380771518
what exactly is kaiserreich? been hearing alot about it, but don't really know what it is and the mod page doesn't tell me much.

>>380773882
Going by the qualoty of their DLCs and HoI4, Paradox will never make a good game again.
If any team stills has any talent at all, it might be Stellaris, since the first real DLC was just fanpandering, by adding features which are very requested, but make for poor gameplay, such as superstructures and hiveminds.

>>380751781
lol good, I don't own any Paradox games because they're gay as fuck but nice to see them getting rekt lmao gg

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>>380774024
I know that to Americans the idea of citizens having rights and government agencies protecting those rights sounds absurd but that's really how things work in the civilized world. Why the fuck do you think Steam started offering refunds? Hint: it wasn't because the Fatman is your friend.

>>380774198
It's an alt-history mod, if Germany won WW1. Played the DH mod a lot, never played the HoI4 one

Swedes need all the extra money from DLC to house their mandatory, state-issued (((migrant)))

>>380774257
Superstructers were some of the most disappointing things I have ever seen.
I don't even fucking know how it was possible to fuck it up so badly.

>>380774198
Alternate universe where the central powers win the first world war and Germany becomes the pre-eminent world power.

>>380755363
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/Nor hell a fury like a gamer scorned

>>380773882
CK2's Monks and mystics was and still is a fucking travesty

Not a lot to it, what's there is completely unfinished AND made the game broken as fuck

>>380774395
I know that, but apparently its supposed to "be a complete overhaul", but then the page doesn't say how it does that.

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>>380774012
How do you know that? NDA get lifted? Has it been that long already?

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>>380773585

>>380774464
How so I haven't bought that dlc for the game?

>>380774567
It includes events and national focuses for all countries, adds more political parties, and adds more stuff to the government tab. Also most major wars are ended by events that trigger when you occupy some land and give you options of how you want to end the war rather than a peace conference where the AI just takes whatever.

>>380773882
>The HoI team is so understaffed they can barely do ANYTHING, and at this point it looks like HoI might get canned after the next DLC,

HOI4 is an absolute mess, and this is from someone who actually likes the game. From the rate progress is made, it literally feels like there's 2 guys and their dog working on it in their spare time.

But this may have been theoretically workable anyway, if only they fucking focused on stuff that needed to be fixed instead of tweaking random meaningless shit all over the place. It seems like the only competent manager at Paradox is Wiz, and everyone else is a buffoon who drives the games into the ground.

>>380751781
>Removed features in game and repacked them in a new dlc you had to buy to get the utility back.
you mean in general, or did they do it now in particular?

>EU4 rating has dropping from overwhelmingly positive to mostly negative.
you mean the recent reviews, and they were very positive i believe, not overwhelmingly

>>380774557
I've dropped CK2 at Conclave. The game was never really fun for me, jsut a time burner, but at Conclave it reached new heights of unfun, so I stopped following it.
What does this DLC do? If it does anything at all or just asks for money for some trival shit?

>>380774557
You can actually copy illegal dlc files in your original ck2 game without the game noticing it is illegal have been doing this for a while

>>380774429
Epic

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>they are jewing us!

Whats with this victim complex? Guys, stop being niggers.

>>380761621
>>380761749
>>380762195
>playing bloat and talex

Let's be honest here, HOI4 is literally the shittiest game that Paradox has ever produced, even shittier than release stellaris.

>retarded resource system (tanks need fuel to be built, but not to drive around)
>shallow air zone system (way too big)
>so much mana (Militarymana, Führermana)
>shitty Naval system
>the entire combat aspect of the game is "dude draw a line to moscow lmao". If your combat system sucks so bad, that you spend most of the development on an automation process, then why have this combat system in the first place?
>no espionage
>politics are total shit
>Even HOI2 had a better OOB system
>too lazy to make good leader portraits for most countries

And then they have the audacity to release DLC that adds minuscule mechanics and mostly consists of stuff that modders have been shitting out on a daily basis. And what's even worse is that the DLC is a buggy mess, with missing strings and a fucking national focus that causes your country's leader to resign for no fucking reason.

>>380774791
It's all very mild and barely game changing.
Ringworld give you the equivalent of 4 25 tiles gaia worlds, which is huge by the early and mid game, but measly by the time you do build them. Dyson Spheres and the science thing are worse, it's just straightforward production, and quite small by the late game.
Habitats are pretty cool though

>>380774791
They are useless and irrelevant.
One of them is a supper satellite that reveals the entire map.
Here's how you build it.
>You make sure you have enough resources
>you start building it
>you wait 5 years where nothing happens and 20% is done
>you then pay more resources and wait another 5 years till another 20% is done
>Repeat till 100%
It's basically the canals from EU4 but without the constant events that ask for more resources.

Theo only cool thing is the habitat.

>>380774947
>What does this DLC do?

Add artifacts and societies

Artifacts are mostly fine but societies are completely barebones, and religious societies completely fuck the game up to the point where every game you have retarded shit like Charlemagne converting to Islam, or have a Zunist britain

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>>380774429

>>380775138
Agree with everything but you aren't forced to use the AI, you can still micromanage divisions if you want to. The AI is just for people who were tired of playing HoI3 as if it were a turn based game.

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>>380775124

>>380775124
They said they increased the prices because of the sale

>>380769251
You don't seem to understand, they mean that the Euro/Ruble/etc. has weakened versus the dollar so you need more to buy the same amount of stuff as the dollar.

As a result, prices in those regions have gone up to better compare against the dollar.

>>380774859
Technically the incoming DLC is mainly focused on fixing AI, so the gameplay changes are very minor. But the first reaction was "wait, why the fuck you want to make a DLC about 3rd rate powers that some are not ever present anymore at '39 start".

I hope they are going to fix the fucking AI, because the game is still perfectly salvagable, if only AI knows how to play it.
Jesus, how could they fuck up so bad from HoI3? They've "fixed" all the things that were good into a complete mess and in turn added fuckload of retarded features. Seriously, the only good things in HoI4 right now is the way how production of gear is handled (I fucking love the concept of making all the stuff separately and outfitting units with it) and that you no longer build ships using IC, but shipyards (so you no longer can shit-out 50 BBs as Germany after taking over France). But that's it. The sole fact they've removed supplies and fuel from the equation is a fucking joke.

>>380774012
EvW was canceled, because the external studio that worked on it were a bunch of idiots that couldn't manage their own project. At some point PDX had to cut the cord, the delays had become too much.

Just have a look at the leaked version, it's a buggy mess. But at least we got a great OST out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQIzpGgK-jg

>>380775309
Societies are garbage for the actual CK2 setting but really good for mods like the Warhammer mod.

>>380775518
t. Wesker

>>380775138
You forgot about the worst problem, that makes the rest of issues literally dwarf:
FUCKING BRAIN-DEAD AI!

>>380775395
If I wanted to mircomanage all this stuff, then why not play HOI3? At least that game had a fucking terrain mapmode!

>>380775518
You've confused EvW with Magna Mundi issues, mate. EvW was simply canned due to financial and manpower issues. And that was (yes, I'm prepared for lynch) a GOOD choice. The last good choice Paradox made. Because soon after they've still run out of manpower while managing all the DLCs, so there was literally nobody left to handle HoI. Adding EvW to the equation would literally fired in their faces

>>380775005
Do you still get steam achievements for that?

>>380774557
Honestly im just waiting for them to fill in the rest of the map for ck2. They're filling in the tibet region and maybe more of africa next. After i get that they can fuck off and go bankrupt

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>>380769727
>United Kingdom
>After the pound's value has fallen to the fucking Yen

At least make up a proper excuse paradox.

>>380775138
Nah, I agree with most of the changes and I see why they would pick a simplified resource and supply systems.
The problem is the AI some mods have almost fixed by giving it good builds.

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>>380775309
>religious societies completely fuck the game up to the point where every game you have retarded shit like Charlemagne converting to Islam, or have a Zunist britain

Yeah, well that was already happening since Reapers Due because of those doctors you can hire.

I'll just wait until they iron stuff out. It's not THAT big of a deal since the game is constantly getting patched. They give us so much free content and updates along with the DLCs. If it was any other company you would just get the middle finger and end up with products like 'Total War 2 : Rome'.

So hopefully they learn their lesson, lower the prices, and get back to doing stuffwithout this drama, like giving the Manicheanism religion new mechanics.

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>>380775138
>focus trees vary between hot garbage and close to op
>literally industrial development out of the ass, wait 70 days to magically get 4-6 factories out of nowhere
>also, memes
The newest DLC gives you the ability to reform Austria-Hungary through NFs alone, for fuck's sake

>>380774557
And the previous one was Conclave which also fucked the game completely and after 100 years transformed every fucking country in Europe into an Elective Monarchy.

>>380775309
This has never happened to me but what I've seen is that converting religion is hard as fuck now. When you conquer heathen lands now you have to specially keep an eye on who you assign those land to or he may secretly convert to the local religion and start trying to invite your other vassals into it.

If you see your new lands never converting even when using the council priest then you now know why.

>>380775582
I had a major hardon for EvW, don't give me that shit. I even researched 30+ leaders when those guys crowdsourced parts of their research work.

The game had good ideas, but was ultimately held back by being based on an old version of the HOI3 framework. Essentially it was a really ambitious mod for a WW2 wargame, when it should have been its completely own thing, fusing Vicky2 with HOI3 military gameplay.

>>380775890
Yeah as long as you own the base game on steam you can still get achievements. It literally treats it as if you legitimately own the DLC, so it works for multiplayer too where if you host a game everyone can use your DLC.

>>380775460
What annoys me in the production system is the autistic approach from the one side (you need all things separately made) combined with abstract numbers. I mean if you need rifles, trucks and tanks to make a tank division, why not REALISTIC numbers of them, instead of abstraction? Especially since your manpower is counted from actual, realistic number, but the gear is still handled in abstraction. WHY?!

>>380775890
I dont know I always play modded

>>380776053
>I'll just wait until they iron stuff out
Not him, but how many years we are waiting already for CK2 to be fully functional game?

>>380768840
>respectfully disagree
Absolutely fucking pathetic

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>>380776053
The sad part is that your post probably isn't ironic

>>380776292
>we are waiting already for CK2 to be fully functional game?
It was a fully functional game before Way of Life. Thank Jesus, I can revert to that patch.

>>380776179
It's still a step up from the IC system. If you want to go full autism, then I recommend you check out Gary Grigsby's War in the East, which does handle equipment like you describe it.

>>380776292

Reapers due fixed a lot of the issues with the game, its just that since then new issues have popped up.
>ib4 nit-picking

>>380774859
>wiz
>competent

"Hey guys I know war, diplomacy, economy and basically everything important is broken or bland but we're going to redo habitability for the nth time!"

>>380776098
That's not too hard to accept.
France was an elective monarchy and they just about conquered every fucking country in Europe.

>>380776409
Pre Monks+Mystics CK2 is probably the latest version of a Paradox game that's genuinely good and not horribly broken in some way.

>>380763784
I bought the core game (discounted) so I could download the mods on the workshop. Mods can still partially save this game.

>>380776179
There is a mod for this. It's a bit wonky about the hardware and details, but at least it handles rifles and trucks (you need a FUCKLOAD of them) properly.

But like I said, the overall concept for the production is good. It's the details that need serious work, but they have zero manpower to work on HoI. I just wish they've fucking stop meddling with CK2 for a while, redirect resources on making HoI semi-playable and just fucking improve their own fucking management. How fucking hard it could be to have a fucking team rotation?! It's not like those people aren't working on 3 games at the same time anyway, so why not just rotate them around, instead of semi-rigid positions and then running out of employees when making another game?

>>380769297
Yeah it's crazy how much it can trigger people that it says respectfully disagree
people must be fucking flayed

>>380776053
You're going to be called a shill for saying that, but honestly I agree, buying Paradox is like making a deal with the devil. You're almost always buying overpriced nonsense that eventually turns into a good game. Which is, again, totally something reasonable to be mad about as a consumer, but it has always, ALWAYS been the case.

Honestly at this point CK2 is only playable with CK+ or with HIP
M&T for EU4 is great but it slows the game a bit and also right now it's still unfinished and filled with errors. Also it can cause a shitton of crashes.

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Reminder that Johan is intentionally trying to drive Paradox deeper into crisis and rile up their customers against them, only so that in their darkest hour, he can coup the entire management and finally drive out the jews.

>>380762521
If you actually bought their games, you would know.
CK2 was 29.99€ before, it's now 39.99€.

>>380776568
This is bait, right? Warfare and logistics in the Napoleonic era we're much different from the Middle Ages, and France was not an elective monarchy.

>>380776717
>M&T for EU4 is great but it slows the game a bit and also right now it's still unfinished and filled with errors.
Yeah. There is some promise there, but they obviously need the time to polish.

>>380769297
>>380772920
If you're not respectful you get banned.
It's a simple warning kiddos.

>>380752840
PoE should have gotten the shitty reviews up front when it deserved it.

>Caring about other countries
Since when is /v/ full of globalists? Who cares if they charge Russia more?

>>380776445
Does it fix the AI? So I won't steam-roll Soviets/Germans/anyone else with 2 brigades of light tanks?

Because the game is so broken right now I can win Spanish Civil war by sending all the starting motorised units from Japan there and fight on the Repulican side and still win. Hell, I've managed to bog down Italians in Ethiopia by sending single Japanese unit there to keep gaining me experience.

>>380776568
Countries becoming elective monarchy is not bad in itself. It's the fact that you as a player have to stay in power so you can do stuff around. If you are particularly screwed you can easily get a game over if the new king decides to revoke all your stuff out of nowhere.

>>380776568
>France
>elective monarchy
You fucking what?

>>380776812
Did you just assume my nationality?

>>380776812
stop playing Swedish games

>>380776721
I would have said you're just memeing poorly, but this is the man that said that the Holocaust will never be mentioned in HoI because he's "aiming for plausible history".

>>380763971

kill yourself and stop enabling Beth's shitty DLCs. Shivering Isles was the last decent shit they put out, and even that was overrated. Now Bloodmoon was some tight shit

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It's a shame since all my favourite games are made by Paradox. I was hoping they would last until the Islamic conquest of Sweden in a few years but I guess we won't even get that long.

>>380776996
Johan being an antisemite and staunch NatSoc is an open secret at this point

>>380766956
>>blitzkrieg movement was behind a paywall
the fucking irony

>>380776996
wtf i love swedes now

>>380776790
Honestly their best fix is moving away from Mana doing everything in the game.
Just not being retarded will allow you to be constantly at the mana cap nonstop after 100-150 years.

>>380776178
Nice good thing i at least own the base game

>>380776504
Stellaris gets practically overhauled from the grounds-up every patch now. If there's anything to complain about, is how it's glitchy as shit, precisely because they change so much.

>>380776445
>>380776602
I actually didn't mind HoI3 autism of managing supplies. At least it forced you to make tactical decisions. Invading other country? Great, but can you manage supplies? Making amphibious assault? Tough luck, because AI guards all ports really well, can you provide air supply drops to your units in other provices? Or can you take the port head-on? And that system could be easily streamlined, while also combiend with the current "you need to make all weapons and hardware seprately"
A fucking logistician wet dream game.
And while I know this is autism and very niche, I think this would improve the game greatly. Because it would force you to THINK how to run your war.
Instead you can't even make strategic stockpile of resources before war, so you can entirely ignore the convoy raiding, production and most importantly running your army, because you never going to run out of materials, while supplies and fuel is a non-issue now.

Also ,I think the air combat was changed in right direction, but each air region is WAAAY too big and the mechanics for air combat need an overhaul. But it was good decision to change planes from autistically sending support to single, specific province. But replacing single province with a region covering half of a country is literally the other end of the same problem and goes from "too focused" to "not focused at all". What difference does it make if I assign 1k of CAS to the air region, if I can't sum up more than 10 to a single combat?

>>380776721
He's been stockpiling fuhrer mana for more than 70 years now
you have no idea what he is capable of

>>380777068
>I was in the thread when the guy on /int/ drew that pic

great times

>>380776782
None of that tech was needed for the revolution that lead to Napoleon and The Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth was an elective monarchy in the 1500s.

But yeah, not every country should have powerful election demanding factions.

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>>380752840
Recent
> 155 reviews (mostly negative)
Overall
> 5,923 reviews (very positive)
Literally a vocal minority of whining man children

>>380777412
Did they ever fix it so you can actually declare war in the game now?

>>380777827
The game sucks because the games cost money for russians now.

>>380777786
I was referring to the conquering Europe part. I know Poland was an elective monarchy.

>>380751781
If you're going to make a thread like this, at least get the facts straight.
>>Paradox raised the prices of all their games a week ahead of the steam sale (as much as 50% increase in some cases)
They've doubled the price in some regions.
>>Removed features in game and repacked them in a new dlc you had to buy to get the utility back.
They never did that. They still release patches for 4 year old game, with balance changed and new mechanics, increasing the width and depth of the game. The problem is that they put most important changes behind a paywall, which results in a lesser game than you had before the patch.
>>Charging $10 for a handful of poorly drawn buttons and cheat buffs for an already overpowered nation.
If you're talking about Third Rome, then Russia was definitely not overpowered. The exact opposite actually, they were way too weak.
>>They refuse to bundle their dlc so your forced to buy it separately at full price.
True. Currently EU4 + all of the DLC is almost €300
>>Paradox went public in the stock market a while back and now their dlc quality is dropping like a brick.
True.
>>People are angry and taking it too paradox in the steam forums causing them to lock some of the threads as "off topic".
I don't go there, so I don't actually know.
>>EU4 rating has dropping from overwhelmingly positive to mostly negative.
The best part in all of this.
>>All their other games have dropped to mixed as of now.
Good.

>>380777827
The negative reviews are because of what OP is talking about. The price for the game got ridiculously increased in a ton of regions.

>>380777827
>>380778012
Stop samefagging, Wesker you homo

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funny, trump takes office, everyone's currency gets destroyed compared to the all mighty american dollar, and you are upset with the swedes because your countries currency has gone to shit? stop being poor third world countries.

besides
>buying any game ever

>>380777436
Like anything old paradox did it was a good system in theory but they shat all over it in practice. Don't like the new system much at all.

>>380778035
Not him, but the deal is simple - the game in current state uses single, extemely abstract "faction" system that is simply retarded. On paper it adds variety to the game and some additional choices to be made, but in reality is one of the most abstract elements that makes zero sense in most countries where factions simply didn't exist. Why the FUCK I need to deal with aristocrats in China? Why do I have issues with managing Church as Protestant country and bowing down to it? Why Russian even has burghers as a faction?
In the end all those factions do is removing player's agency and artificially making the game harder, since you need to land them to avoid annoying penalties from disloyalty AND in doing so you decrease your manpower and income, because faction-owned province can't have autonomy below 25%.
Also, the sole concept of "let's handle Orleans to Burghers faction!" is the abstraction in its finest.